{"id":1623075,"date":"2022-08-26T11:34:53","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T15:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1623075"},"modified":"2022-08-26T11:35:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T15:35:00","slug":"someone-wanted-to-get-me-killed-rep-greene-responds-to-being-swatted-2-nights-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/someone-wanted-to-get-me-killed-rep-greene-responds-to-being-swatted-2-nights-in-a-row\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Someone Wanted to Get Me Killed\u2019: Rep. Greene Responds to Being \u2018Swatted\u2019 2 Nights in a Row"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsomeone-wanted-to-get-me-killed-rep-greene-responds-to-being-swatted-2-nights-in-a-row%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1623075&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-marjorie-taylor-greene\">Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/a> (R-Ga.) was sound asleep in her Floyd County home when the doorbell and knocks on her front door woke her up. There were flashlights and people outside her bedroom window.<\/p>\n<p>Quickly, she jumped out of bed, got dressed, and walked to the front door. By instinct, she reached for her gun, although something told her to put it down.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to not take her gun may have saved her life.<\/p>\n<p>At her front porch were five police officers with their guns ready. They told the confused congresswoman that they were responding to a report of a fatal shooting at her house\u2014a man shot five times in a bathtub, with a woman and children still in the residence\u2014indicating violence could escalate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you got swatted,\u201d the police told Greene after they realized what was happening. Swatting, the act of using prank calls to send tactical police to the victim\u2019s home, is a federal crime and has previously led to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/family-of-man-killed-in-swatting-incident-want-25-million-from-lawsuit_3143409.html\">serious consequences.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo what that is is someone wanted to get me killed,\u201d Greene said on \u201cCapitol Report,\u201d a program on The Epoch Times\u2019 sister outlet NTD. \u201cThey wanted to send the police to my house, into a situation where they thought there was murder happening, in hopes the police would kill me or someone else in my home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The incident, which occurred in the early hours of Aug. 24, would mark <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/police-investigating-fake-shooting-report-that-prompted-armed-response-to-rep-greenes-home_4686383.html\">the first<\/a> of two successive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-swatting\">swatting<\/a> attempts in 26 hours targeting Greene over her stance on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-transgender\">transgender<\/a> issues.<\/p>\n<p>In the first prank call, the caller claimed to be from a Virginia crisis line. After the police responded to the report, the suspect called back using a computer-generated voice, saying they were connected with a website called \u201ckiwifarm.net,\u201d a site that supports cyberstalking, according to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was sound asleep in her Floyd County home when the doorbell and knocks on her front door woke her up. There were flashlights and people outside her bedroom window. Quickly, she jumped out of bed, got dressed, and walked to the front door. 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