President Trump stated he’ll not help Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, calling her “wacky” and a “traitor” to the GOP, making a dramatic break with a longtime loyalist who has more and more criticized the president and her occasion’s management in latest weeks.
In an nearly 300-word missive on Truth Social Friday night time, the president stated Greene “has gone Far Left,” and wrote that “all I see ‘Wacky’ Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN!”
“She has instructed many individuals that she is upset that I do not return her cellphone calls anymore, however with 219 Congressmen/ladies, 53 U.S. Senators, 24 Cupboard Members, nearly 200 Nations, and an in any other case regular life to steer, I can not take a ranting Lunatic’s name daily,” he wrote.
The president stated he is withdrawing his endorsement of Greene and can help a major problem towards her “if the appropriate individual runs” in her deep-red northern Georgia district.
Greene, on Saturday, stated in a post on X that she by no means thought that “preventing to launch the Epstein information, defending ladies who had been victims of rape, and preventing to show the online of wealthy highly effective elites would have brought on this, however right here we’re.”
“And it really speaks for itself,” she wrote, partly. “There must be a brand new manner ahead. The poisonous political industrial advanced thrives on ripping us all aside however by no means delivers something good for the American folks, whom I really like.”
The congresswoman additionally stated later Saturday that she has been receiving threats since Mr. Trump started overtly criticizing her.
“Aggressive rhetoric attacking me has traditionally led to loss of life threats and a number of convictions of males who had been radicalized by the identical sort rhetoric being directed at me proper now,” Greene stated. “This time by the President of the US.”
In her back-and-forth with Mr. Trump which started Friday, Greene stated that she “will proceed to hope this administration shall be respectful” although the president “just attacked me and lied about me.”
“I’ve supported President Trump with an excessive amount of of my valuable time, an excessive amount of of my very own cash, and fought more durable for him even when nearly all different Republicans turned their again and denounced him,” she wrote on X. “However I do not worship or serve Donald Trump. I worship God, Jesus is my savior, and I serve my district GA14 and the American folks.”
Mr. Trump escalated his assaults on Greene on Saturday, saying in a Truth Social post: “Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Greene is a shame to our GREAT REPUBLICAN PARTY!”
“Light-weight Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Brown (Inexperienced grass turns Brown when it begins to ROT!), betrayed all the Republican Occasion when she turned Left, carried out poorly on the pathetic View, and have become the RINO that everyone knows she at all times was,” the president stated partly in another post on Saturday.
A gaggle of greater than two dozen people who determine as Epstein survivors, or relations of survivors, launched a joint assertion Saturday in help of Greene.
“Thanks for standing up towards the intimidation, silencing, and abuse that Epstein survivors have endured for many years,” the assertion learn. “…You’ve got our full help.”
A spokesperson for the group added that a lot of them have gotten loss of life threats, including it is “a part of the value of talking out.”
First arriving in Congress in 2021, Greene aligned herself intently with Mr. Trump for years, defending the then-former president as he confronted a slew of criminal investigations.
“I did not deliberately fashion myself after President Trump, however I can see how folks draw these similarities,” the customarily pugnacious and sharp-elbowed congresswoman told “60 Minutes” in a 2023 interview. “We each come from the identical trade, development. I even have just about a plain talking fashion, and so does he.”
In latest weeks, nonetheless, Greene has often criticized Republican congressional leaders. She’s accused them of not paying sufficient consideration to the price of dwelling and failing to grapple with rising health insurance premiums — drawing rare plaudits from Democrats, who made well being care a core a part of their message within the authorities shutdown battle that ended this week.
And he or she’s clashed with Mr. Trump. She was one of four Home Republicans to signal a petition that can power a vote on a invoice to launch Justice Division data on the late intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein, serving to to breathe new life into a difficulty that Mr. Trump has repeatedly urged Republicans to drop.
In an interview Friday with “CBS Mornings,” Greene known as the president’s opposition to releasing the information a “large miscalculation,” arguing he has nothing to cover.
In her post on X after the president withdrew his help for her, Greene accused Mr. Trump of attempting to “make an instance” out of her and “scare all the opposite Republicans” forward of a vote on releasing the Epstein data that is expected to take place subsequent week. She posted a screenshot of a textual content that she stated she despatched Mr. Trump earlier Friday, encouraging him to “lean into” the Epstein controversy.
She additionally lately accused the president of spending an excessive amount of time on overseas coverage, main Mr. Trump to say Monday that she’s “misplaced her manner.” In her “CBS Mornings” interview, she responded: “I have not misplaced my manner — I am for the American folks solely.”
“I’m America first and I make no apologies about that to anybody,” she stated.
In Friday’s Fact Social publish breaking with the congresswoman, the president instructed subsequent yr’s Georgia Senate race may be one other sore level between him and Greene.
She announced in May that she won’t run for Senate as a result of the chamber’s Republican caucus “refuses to win.” On Friday, Mr. Trump claimed that he performed a task in discouraging her from becoming a member of the fray and attempting to unseat Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff, in what’s anticipated to be one of the hotly contested races of the 2026 midterms.
“It appeared to all start after I despatched her a Ballot stating that she mustn’t run for Senator, or Governor, she was at 12%, and did not have an opportunity (except, after all, she had my Endorsement — which she wasn’t about to get!),” Mr. Trump wrote.
