Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has filed articles of impeachment against Joe Biden the day after he was inaugurated as president.
The lawmaker, who has ties to the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory, took to Twitter to announce the filing against the new president.
“I’ve just filed articles of impeachment on president Joe Biden, we will see how this goes,” she said.
Ms Greene, who is a pro-Trump election fraud conspiracy theorist, was able to use the social media platform after being banned from it for 12 hours last weekend.
Twitter blocked her use of her account for violating the rules it put in place following the violence that unfolded at the 6 January Capitol riot.
“The account referenced has been temporarily locked out for multiple violations of our civic integrity policy,” said a Twitter spokeperson.
Her stunt comes less than a month into her first term in Congress and is destined for quick failure as the Democrats now control the House and Senate in addition to the White House.
The congresswoman filed the articles over thoroughly debunked and false claims of corruption against Mr Biden and his family in Ukraine, Russia and China.
“President Joe Biden is unfit to hold the office of the presidency. His pattern of abuse of power as President Obama’s vice president is lengthy and disturbing,” she said in a statement.
Earlier in the day Ms Greene wrote on Twitter to attack Mr Biden’s inauguration celebration.
“Yesterday’s inauguration looked like a one party military state takeover with 30K troops,” she tweeted.
“People were told not to go and flags were planted to show the fake support.
“Biden calls for unity after the Dem party has attacked & continues to attack anyone that disagrees with them.”
She was also among the 139 representatives and eight senators who opposed Electoral College results from Arizona and Pennsylvania confirming Mr Biden’s win over Donald Trump.
Ms Greene also alleged that there was voter fraud in her home state that resulted in Mr Biden’s close win in Georgia , but that her win was totally legitimate and that her vote count was accurate.
Republican officials who oversaw the election in Georgia have repeatedly debunked her false claims of voter fraud and Mr Biden’s win was confirmed after a string of checks and hand recounts.
Greene won her house seat in November and represents Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, which includes almost all of the northwestern part of the state.
Donald Trump campaigned on her behalf and even called her a “future Republican star.”
She spoke out against Mr Trump’s historic second impeachment, for inciting insurrection over the Capitol violence.
“Democrats’ impeachment of President Trump today has now set the standard that they should be removed for their support of violence against the American people,” she said during the House hearing.
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