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In the fantastical mind of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jack Teixeira<\/strong>\u2014the 21-year-old Air National Guardsman who was arrested Thursday for allegedly sharing intelligence documents to an online gaming chat\u2014is not a victim of his own malice or stupidity. Rather, he is yet another \u201cWhite, male, Christian\u201d being persecuted by the Biden administration. The Republican lawmaker ginned up the narrative shortly after authorities identified Teixeira as the suspect behind a leak of classified materials\u2014which ranged<\/a> from intelligence on South Korea and Israel, to the Russia-Ukraine war and China-Russia relations\u2014that wound up on a Discord server.<\/p>\n \u201cJake Teixeira is white, male, Christian, and antiwar. That makes him an enemy to the Biden regime,\u201d tweeted<\/a> Greene, a member<\/a> of the House Homeland Security Committee.\u00a0She then claimed that the real threat to US national security is \u201cthe administration that is waging war in Ukraine, a non-NATO nation, against nuclear Russia without war powers.\u201d<\/p>\n The comment was reproved by Representative Eric Swalwell,<\/strong> who accused<\/a> Greene of siding with \u201cone of the biggest traitors in America\u2019s history.\u201d He also called out<\/a> House Speaker Kevin McCarthy<\/strong> for not denouncing the leaker and described<\/a> Greene, who was stripped<\/a> of her committee assignments in the last congressional session but awarded new ones in January, as McCarthy\u2019s \u201ctop lieutenant.\u201d Former GOP congresswoman Liz Cheney<\/strong> tweeted<\/a> that Greene has made it clear \u201cshe cannot be trusted with America\u2019s national security information and should not have a security clearance of any kind.\u201d<\/p>\n Greene\u2019s theory of oppression, in this case, has not been adopted by her Republican colleagues. However, she did find a friend in Tucker Carlson,<\/strong> who shared a similar view during his Thursday night Fox News broadcast. \u201cTonight, the news media are celebrating the capture of the kid who told Americans what\u2019s actually happening in Ukraine,\u201d Carlson told his viewers, before lashing out at news outlets for reporting on the reportedly<\/a> racist and antisemitic content shared in Teixeira\u2019s Discord server. \u201cThey are treating him like Osama bin Laden, maybe a little worse actually, because, unlike al-Qaida, apparently, this kid is a racist.\u201d<\/p>\n This content can also be viewed on the site it originates<\/a> from.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Like Greene, Carlson cited leaked files on the presence of 14 American troops in Ukraine to claim that Washington has become \u201ca direct combatant in a war against Russia. As we speak, American soldiers are fighting Russian soldiers.\u201d US officials have denied this characterization, according to<\/a> Fox News correspondent Jacqui Heinrich,<\/strong> stating instead that a small detachment of US special forces are stationed at the US embassy in Kyiv and have not seen combat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nTwitter content<\/h4>\n