Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene has resigned from the House of Representatives following a dispute with US President Donald Trump US Congress announced. His last day in office will be January 5, he announced in a lengthy statement at X on Friday.
Greene is considered one of the most famous faces of Trump’s MAGA movement (Make America Great Again). The 51-year-old congressman from Georgia has been a staunch Trump supporter for years. However, in recent months, he has strayed from Trump’s line several times.
Most recently, he criticized the president for his weeks-long refusal to make public the investigative files of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Trump later called him a “raging lunatic” and announced he would no longer support him in next year’s midterm elections. Last Saturday, the US President followed up and called Greene a “traitor”.
Greene settled accounts with MAGA via video
In her video statement and four-page letter announcing her resignation, Greene said: “If I stood up for American women who were raped, kidnapped, and abused by rich and powerful men at the age of 14, I should not be called a traitor and threatened by the President of the United States I fought for.” Trump described Greene’s resignation announcement to reporters as “good news for the country.”
Regarding his withdrawal, the MAGA hardliner said he “respects himself too much” to endure a more “painful and hateful” primary. That republic “probably going to lose the midterm elections,” Greene speculated in her video. Greene also touched on the possibility of impeachment proceedings against Trump.
The lawmaker, known for spreading conspiracy narratives, claims that the US President and his MAGA movement have dumped him and replaced him with neoconservatives, Big Pharma, Big Tech, foreign leaders and wealthy elites. They can’t do anything about the concerns of ordinary Americans, Greene said. He asked the public to realize that only “the people” have real power in Washington.
