Marjorie Taylor Greene Claims She Called the Cops on Jimmy Kimmel Over a Will Smith Joke
thewrap.comher arguably slanderous accusation that three of her fellow Republicans are “pro-pedophile” for supporting Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson. (Jackson has also been baselessly accused of being pro-pedophilia by an alarmingly high number of Republicans, but so far those other Republicans haven’t also turned this gross line of attack on their own side.)So in his monologue, Kimmel quoted her baseless accusations verbatim, then joked, “Wow.
Where is Will Smith when you really need him, huh?”Now, Kimmel’s joke was obviously a reference to Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars, apparently in retaliation for a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.
Obviously Kimmel wasn’t literally suggesting that Smith travel to Washington, D.C. to assault Greene, though the tastefulness of the joke can be debated.
But Greene claims she considered this a threat, and tweeted this:.@ABC, this threat of violence against me by @jimmykimmel has been filed with the @CapitolPolice.
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