QAnon GOP Primary Winner Hit With Defamation Lawsuit For Rayshard Brooks Comments

Equity Prime Mortgage’s (EPM) lawsuit claims Greene created a smear campaign against their company with  Melissa Rolfe, the stepmother of former Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe, who was charged in the death of Rayshard Brooks.

Rolfe was let go from her job at EPM days after her stepson fatally shot Brooks, telling Fox’s Tucker Carlson that she believed the incident was “the primary motive behind my being terminated.” 

Greene then posted on Twitter that she was “praying for my friend Melissa Rolfe and her family,” defending Garrett as “acting in self defense” and bashing EPM for firing Rolfe: “Melissa’s employer caved to the mob and wrongfully fired her!”

EPM wrote in the lawsuit that Greene and Rolfe’s combined “smear campaign” prompted death threats, a boycott and “enormous reputational and financial harm for EPM.” 

Contradicting Rolfe’s public comments that she was fired out of nowhere, EPM said the former employee had started stirring up issues a month after joining on March 19, 2020, including making inappropriate jokes via text about “conducting rectal temperature checks in the office,” and that a meeting about the complaints happened one day before Garrett Rolfe shot Brooks. 

Greene is a proponent of the QAnon conspiracy theory, whose supporters believe that a “deep state” of federal bureaucrats, Democrats and celebrities are plotting against President Trump and his supporters, while running an international sex-trafficking ring, and has been recorded expressing “racist, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic views.” 

Greene did not immediately respond to Forbes’s request for comment.