Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican congressional candidate endorsed by Trump, claimed there isn't 'any evidence' a plane crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11

• Marjorie Taylor Greene, a GOP congressional candidate virtually assured to win a Georgia congressional seat, promoted a 9/11 conspiracy theory, the liberal watchdog group Media Matters first reported Thursday.

• Greene, who also supports the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory, falsely claimed at the American Priority Conference in 2018 that "there's never any evidence shown for a plane in the Pentagon."

• Later on Thursday, Greene conceded in a series of tweets that the 9/11 conspiracy theory was "not correct." She also initially falsely said three planes, rather than four, were hijacked on 9/11.

• President Donald Trump celebrated Greene's primary win in a tweet on Wednesday, calling her a "future Republican Star" who's "strong on everything."

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Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican congressional candidate virtually assured to win a Georgia congressional seat, promoted a 9/11 conspiracy theory in 2018, the liberal watchdog group Media Matters first reported Thursday.

On Thursday afternoon, Greene conceded in a series of tweets that the conspiracy theory was "not correct." She also initially falsely said three planes, rather than four, were hijacked on 9/11.

"Some people claimed a missile hit the Pentagon. I now know that is not correct," she tweeted. "The problem is our government lies to us so much to protect the Deep State, it's hard sometimes to know what is real and what is not."

In an address to the American Priority Conference in November 2018, Greene, who also supports the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory, referred to "the so-called plane that crashed into the Pentagon."

"It's odd there's never any evidence shown for a plane in the Pentagon," she said, apparently referring to a 9/11 conspiracy theory trafficked on fringe forums.

In reality, the hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, killing 125 people in the building and all 64 people on the plane. The crash and its aftermath were documented in videos and photos.

President Donald Trump celebrated Greene's primary win in a tweet on Wednesday, calling her a "future Republican Star" who's "strong on everything."

Greene, who owns a construction company with her husband and largely self-funded her House campaign, won the Republican primary runoff in Georgia's deep-red 14th District on Tuesday. She's all but certain to win the general election this fall.

She has repeatedly expressed support for the QAnon conspiracy theory, which falsely claims that a network of pedophile Satanists in the "deep state" are working to oust Trump. She's called "Q," the anonymous leader of the conspiracy theory, "a patriot" who's "worth listening to and paying attention to."

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