Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) doesn’t believe the Trump administration’s explanation for Friday’s nationwide flight grounding.
“Plus they are lying. Of course it was a cyber attack,” Greene posted on X. “F---ing liars. But build the big ballroom and more weapons that’s the only funding they really care about.”
Greene offered no evidence for the claim. Administration officials have said the outage was not a cyberattack.
The FAA halted flights across the country Friday. Greene described the explanation given at a White House press conference as “old antiquated systems and old hardware” that went down, “causing a communication crisis that forced FAA to ground all airplanes in America.”
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and DHS' Markwayne Mullin appeared at the briefing. According to Greene, they pressed for $50 billion to fix the system.
“This press conference is unreal bulls---. It’s literally like a shakedown for more money,” Greene wrote in a post viewed more than 1.6 million times.
“They are claiming it’s not a cyber attack, even though there’s been plenty of cyber attacks happening like freezers in Europe, blood banks, Microsoft literally yesterday and more,” she continued.
The former Trump ally also tied the request to the president’s military spending.
“These guys are perfectly fine with their boss, President Trump, demanding another $350 billion for the military so he can have more weapons to go bomb Iran,” she wrote. “This is the biggest f--- you to the American people. I’ve never seen anything so pathetic in my life!”
In another post, Greene accused Duffy and Mullin, both former members of Congress, of using “a crisis like public blackmail” to win money ahead of the Dec. 11 government funding deadline.
“And no one believes them or feels safer!!” she wrote.
She saved her harshest words for Trump himself. She said he stayed quiet while travelers were stuck and posted about Hollywood instead.
“For a man that constantly tells us how he is the only one capable of fixing things, while Americans were stranded at airports and in planes, he instead chose to post about saving Hollywood and the motion picture and television by giving them money in the form of tax incentives,” Greene wrote.
“While everyone was freaking out thinking we are under some sort of attack, Trump didn’t even bother to address the nation.”
She also mocked Trump for using the last day before Republicans “massively” lost the midterms to give a speech at the Reflecting Pool “bragging about he fixed the reflection pool.”
Greene, once one of Trump’s most loyal allies in Congress, broke with him and resigned her House seat in January.