There is a complete and official split between Marjorie Taylor Greene and Donald Trump who in a long post announced that he had withdrawn his support for the Georgia congresswoman.defined as a “rambling lunatic,” and therefore urges us to challenge him in the next Republican primary. “The crazy thing Marjorie does is just bitch and moan,” Trump wrote, then summarizing the past few months in which his former loyalists have taken increasingly critical positions on his foreign and domestic policies, from Ukraine to military support for Israel.
Definite tears
The latest break came after Greene took a clear position supporting the publication of the Epstein filessaid Trump made a “major miscalculation” by opposing their release. Trump, who continues to publish posts defining the congressman, has now been nicknamed Brown “because green grass turns brown when it rots”, “a disgrace to the great Republican party”. The president suggested that the congressman turned against him because he failed to talk to him. “I can’t take phone calls from raving lunatics every day,” he said.
Greene’s response came immediately, again via social media: “President Trump just attacked me and lied about me, I support President Trump with too much of my precious personal time and funds.” “But I do not serve or honor Trump – he added – I honor God, Jesus is my savior and I serve my constituency and the American people”.
Roots of conflict
Greene is one of four Republicans who put firm signatures on a petition to force House Republican leadership to vote on legislation to publish other files related to Epsteon, a pedophile financier who committed suicide in prison in 2019. Before the latest clashes, Trump said last Monday that the Republican Party “has lost its way” in response to a post in which Greene criticized the president’s excessive attention to foreign policy to the detriment of solving domestic problems, such as the high cost of living or the end of federal subsidies for health insurance.
The words that may have sounded harshest and most unacceptable to Trump were those the congressman uttered in the president’s opposition to the release of the documents on Epstein: “It’s astonishing how hard he fought to stop the publication of the Epstein files – he said – but what the American people really want is for him to also fight hard to help the forgotten people of America, fed up with wars and foreign lawsuits, who went bankrupt trying to feed their families and lost hope of realizing the American dream.”
