Republican U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was the target of a swatting attempt at her Georgia residence on Christmas morning, according to the police.
Someone made a fake emergency call to try and draw the armed forces to her house but the police quickly deduced that it was fake.
“I was just swatted. This is like the 8th time. On Christmas with my family here. My local police are the GREATEST and shouldn’t have to deal with this,” Greene wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
A man in New York called the Georgia suicide hotline just before 11 a.m. Monday, claiming that he had shot his girlfriend at Greene’s home and was going to kill himself next, Madden said.
But the police contacted Greene’s private security detail to confirm she was safe and that there was no emergency at her residence. They canceled their response after knowing that she was safe.
“We determined before our personnel could get to her location that there was no emergency and there was no reason to respond,” she said. “Her security detail had it all under control, and there actually was nothing going on.”
Greene’s statement that she has been the target of roughly eight swatting attempts is accurate, Madden said.
Past calls claimed that dead bodies had been found in the bathtub and in other areas of her home, which is located about 70 miles (113 kilometers) northwest of Atlanta.
