President Trump stated he’ll now 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 get together’s management in current weeks.
In an virtually 300-word missive on Reality Social Friday evening, the president stated Greene “has gone Far Left,” and wrote that “all I see ‘Wacky’ Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN!”
“She has advised many individuals that she is upset that I do not return her telephone calls anymore, however with 219 Congressmen/ladies, 53 U.S. Senators, 24 Cupboard Members, virtually 200 Nations, and an in any other case regular life to guide, I am unable to take a ranting Lunatic’s name day by day,” he wrote.
The president stated he is withdrawing his endorsement of Greene and can help a major problem in opposition to her “if the suitable particular person runs” in her deep-red northern Georgia district.
Greene, on Saturday, stated in a put up on X that she by no means thought that “combating to launch the Epstein information, defending ladies who had been victims of rape, and combating to show the net of wealthy highly effective elites would have prompted this, however right here we’re.”
“And it actually speaks for itself,” she wrote, partially. “There must be a brand new approach ahead. The poisonous political industrial complicated thrives on ripping us all aside however by no means delivers something good for the American individuals, whom I like.”
The congresswoman additionally stated later Saturday that she has been receiving threats since Mr. Trump started brazenly 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 kind rhetoric being directed at me proper now,” Greene stated. “This time by the President of the USA.”
In her back-and-forth with Mr. Trump which started Friday, Greene stated that she “will proceed to wish this administration might be respectful” although the president “simply attacked me and lied about me.”
“I’ve supported President Trump with an excessive amount of of my treasured time, an excessive amount of of my very own cash, and fought more durable for him even when virtually 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 individuals.”
Mr. Trump escalated his assaults on Greene on Saturday, saying in a Reality Social put up: “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 your complete Republican Get together when she turned Left, carried out poorly on the pathetic View, and have become the RINO that everyone knows she all the time was,” the president stated partially in one other put up on Saturday.
A bunch of greater than two dozen people who establish as Epstein survivors, or members of the family of survivors, launched a joint assertion Saturday in help of Greene.
“Thanks for standing up in opposition to the intimidation, silencing, and abuse that Epstein survivors have endured for many years,” the assertion learn. “…You’ve our full help.”
A spokesperson for the group added that lots of them have gotten loss of life threats, including it is “a part of the worth of talking out.”
First arriving in Congress in 2021, Greene aligned herself carefully with Mr. Trump for years, defending the then-former president as he confronted a slew of prison investigations.
“I did not deliberately type myself after President Trump, however I can see how individuals draw these similarities,” the customarily pugnacious and sharp-elbowed congresswoman advised “60 Minutes” in a 2023 interview. “We each come from the identical business, development. I even have just about a plain talking type, and so does he.”
In current weeks, nonetheless, Greene has frequently criticized Republican congressional leaders. She’s accused them of not paying sufficient consideration to the price of residing and failing to grapple with rising medical insurance premiums — drawing uncommon 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 in all 4 Home Republicans to signal a petition that may pressure a vote on a invoice to launch Justice Division information 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 put up 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 information that’s anticipated to happen 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 not too long ago accused the president of spending an excessive amount of time on international coverage, main Mr. Trump to say Monday that she’s “misplaced her approach.” In her “CBS Mornings” interview, she responded: “I have not misplaced my approach — I am for the American individuals solely.”
“I’m America first and I make no apologies about that to anybody,” she stated.
In Friday’s Reality Social put up breaking with the congresswoman, the president instructed subsequent 12 months’s Georgia Senate race may be one other sore level between him and Greene.
She introduced in Could that she is not going to 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 (until, after all, she had my Endorsement — which she wasn’t about to get!),” Mr. Trump wrote.
