Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) struggled on Monday to back away from one of her most widely derided conspiracy theories suggesting that the Rothschilds, a Jewish banking family, were connected to the wildfires in California in 2018. A reporter in Georgia questioned Greene about the theory after she voted early in the Republican primary . The lawmaker indicated she couldn’t clearly remember her 2018 Facebook post floating the idea, and also said she was largely ignorant about such issues then. Advertisement She said she wasn’t aware that attacks on the Rothschilds are often coded anti-Semitism .