This Friday, just one week after Donald Trump called her a “traitor” and “crazy” for supporting the declassification of the Epstein papers and for criticizing the president’s excessive interest in foreign policy issues, Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene surprisingly announced that she was leaving him. That will be effective January 5, when he resigns his seat for the Northwest Georgia District (GA-14), which he has represented since 2020.
A member of the party’s most hardline wing, the actress — a MAGA authority on Capitol Hill, who fell into disgrace among her own people over her confrontation with the leader — announced her decision on Friday night, when Washington had already packed her bags to leave for the weekend. He did so in a video on his message, and he also insulted his party by being willing to cut off part of the health coverage included in Obamacare.
In Friday’s video, in which she affirms her loyalty to Trump except on some issues, such as support for Israel in its brutal massacre in Gaza or the dangers of artificial intelligence to American workers, she says she considers it “unfair and wrong” for the president to criticize her for her public opposition. “Loyalty must be mutual and we must be able to vote according to our conscience and represent the interests of our region, because our position is, literally, that of ‘representative,’” he said in the recording, which lasted about 10 minutes.
Greene was facing re-election next year, like the rest of the House of Representatives, and Trump had threatened to support anyone who wanted to run against her in the primaries. At the last date with the opinion polls, the Republican was about 30 points ahead of her Democratic competitor, and it was not clear that her district would stop supporting her despite the change in opinion of Trump, who in recent days has accumulated worrying signs about how his iron control over the Republican Party in the Capitol has disappeared.
“I have so much self-love and dignity, I love my family so much and I don’t want my beloved district to endure a painful, hate-filled primary against me from the president we all fought for. In short, winning the election that Republicans are most likely to lose in the midterms,” Greene said in her statement. “This is all so ridiculous and completely unrealistic. I refuse to be a ‘battered woman’ hoping that everything will go away and get better.”
With her arrival in Washington, the congresswoman five years ago became a symbol of a new generation of MAGA politicians, who came straight from extremism to the heart of the Capitol. He quickly became a figure in D.C. and its media because of his defense of wild QAnon conspiracy theories, because of his skepticism about public policies to contain the coronavirus and his unwavering belief in Trump, whose big lie is that he did not lose the election to Joe Biden. In his farewell, on Friday, he lamented that he had never been able to “get along” with the city and its rules.
Shortly after its first presentation, the House of Representatives removed her from her duties on parliamentary committees, in what was considered a low-precedent punishment imposed by the Democratic majority because of the lawmaker’s record. He has only been in Washington a month, but he has already had plenty of time to espouse conspiracy theories or express support for violence against his political rivals. Last weekend, Greene said in an interview with CNN, a network on which she had not been accustomed until her recent transformation into a quiet critic of Trump’s policies, that she regretted her past tense rhetoric.
In recent weeks, she has become one of the faces on Capitol Hill for victims of millionaire child rapist Jeffrey Epstein, whose papers she fought to declassify. The Georgia representative, along with three other Republicans, managed to twist the president’s arm, forcing him to compromise with his own people who voted in favor of releasing the Epstein files. After almost unanimous support in both chambers, the rule reached Trump’s desk, who had no choice but to sign it, after months of opposing the publication of materials related to the case of the financier who had been his friend for 15 years.
In a phone interview with ABC, the US President described his former ally’s farewell as “great news for the country.”
Greene’s resignation forces the Republican governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, to call a special election within ten days after bidding farewell to the congresswoman. Whoever wins it will represent the region until January 2027. However, he does not have to be the candidate for the legislative elections in November of next year. On the other hand, the slim conservative majority in the House will be upset until the defective heroin is replaced by MAGA.
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