The Washington Post published an article on Saturday profiling the man who threatened to harm Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and why he chose to do so.
Joseph Morelli called Greene’s office multiple times in March 2022 and left a series of threats on his voicemail saying, “If you stop taking your medication, you might go crazy,” before 2023. He was sentenced to three months in prison later this year. They included a threat to show her “what violence really is” and “have to hurt her”. [Greene] “Physically,” he said, “and you can pay someone $500 to pick up a baseball bat and break it.” [Greene’s] skull,” according to Go to the Department of Justice press release for August 2023. The FBI investigated the incident after it was turned into a threat, and Morelli was subsequently arrested and convicted.
post was interviewed Morelli, now out of prison, painted a picture of a man who acted this way due to discouraging living conditions and negative perceptions of Green. (Related: Exclusive: WaPo harasses veteran’s wife who refuses to get involved in blockbuster allegations against Republican candidate)
COLUMBUS, GA – JUNE 10: Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) at the Georgia Republican Party Convention held at the Columbus Convention and Trade Center on June 10, 2023 in Columbus. ) Former President Donald Trump looks on at the speech. Georgia. On Friday, former President Trump was indicted by a federal grand jury on 37 felonies in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s classified documents investigation.
“Why did we make March 3, 2022 a different day?” Read the Post article. “Maybe that’s [electroconvulsive therapy]. Perhaps it was the timing, as mania and depression went together in his brain. Greene was probably “the worst person to cross my path at the worst time,” he says. Perhaps he needed to be “heard” and the threat was an expression of his loneliness and regret, he says. If he was still telling his children, if his mother was still alive, if he was still working full time, if he wasn’t watching as much TV news, if that news would have been more If it wasn’t about the country where it is. Maybe that night might have been different if there had been more threats. ”
Morelli said he was “manic” but “lucid and focused” on the day he called Greene’s office and threatened her in March 2022, according to the Post article. . Morelli felt “unruly, like you could jump off a building and land on those feet.”
Morelli made threats to Greene after seeing the campaign advertisement According to the paper, the television footage showed her firing a .50 caliber sniper rifle at a Toyota Prius with the word “Socialist” plastered on the side of the car, and saying, “I want to support the Democratic Party’s socialist policies.” I’m going to blow it away,” he said. This infuriated Morelli, who was suffering from her mania and depression.
“There are a few things Morelli didn’t like about that ad. Ever since he saw a video of her heckling survivors of the 2019 Parkland, Florida, school shooting outside the Capitol, he said, “He especially hated Greene,” the Post article said. “He also hated guns, like the gun she pointed at the word ‘socialism.’ Then there was a time when Morelli loathed his association with the word. Because he was dependent on disability benefits. Because he considered it a form of socialism, which he believed in, but also a source of some kind of shame. ”
Morelli is currently on parole and lives alone in New York, the newspaper said. He no longer feels “angry,” and he doesn’t see himself as someone who “makes a fuss about little things,” the Post article claims.
“To 99 percent, 99 percent of people, I’m a very polite, kind guy,” Morelli told the Post. “In a normal life, it takes a lot of time to get angry.”
“He takes a sip of coffee. He gets up from the couch and opens the back door, but at least for now he doesn’t feel angry as he leaves the apartment. He’s a stone in a lake, gently “It’s slowly floating,” the story ends.
The newspaper and Mr. Green’s office did not respond to requests for comment.
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