Donald Trump has come under fire from Republican Congresswoman Taylor Greene following the recent split in the Epstein case. The leader of the Maga movement, who has gone from staunch ally to fierce critic of the tycoon, surprisingly announced that he would leave Congress effective January 5. And he did it in a polemical way, after a week ago the tycoon defined him as a “traitor” who “lost his way” and “went very far to the left”, dropping his support for the primaries and promising it to one of his challengers.
“I have too much respect for myself and too much dignity” to “endure insults and hatred towards me from the president we all fought for,” explained MTG (an acronym by which he is known) in an 11-minute video published on social media. “I refuse to be the battered wife who hopes things will pass and get better,” she continued, an image that will remain, especially in light of Trump’s recent misogynistic insults. The Maga star spared no criticism of the president and the hypocrisy of his party colleagues, recalling that he “fought harder than almost any other Republican to elect Donald Trump and the ruling Republican Party”, while “meanwhile most of the establishment Republicans, who secretly hated him, who stabbed him in the back and never defended him against anything, all accepted after the election”.
“Good news for the country,” commented the tycoon. Later in Truth he wrote that “Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Brown — the new nickname he gave her — withdrew due to declining polls and the risk of defeat in the primary against her presidential-backed rival.” He later denounced him for having “gone evil” and for collaborating with “the worst Republican congressman in decades, Tom Massie,” one of the promoters of the Epstein files disclosure bill, which the president initially opposed. A split occurred precisely on this issue, after Greene publicly sided with the victims of the late pedophile financier, accusing Trump of betraying one of his election promises. But first he accused Obama of distancing himself from Maga’s world as well because of his increasingly interventionist foreign policy and his opposition to extending Obamacare subsidies that hurt the poorest.
Greene’s exit comes at a time when she could be enjoying a victory over the Epstein case and leading a front against a tycoon who, low in the polls, is also starting to be challenged by other Republicans. Instead, even after multiple death threats (also received by Epstein’s victims), he followed the lead of dissidents like Liz Cheney, Bob Corker, Jeff Flake and Adam Kinzinger, succumbing to The Donald’s cruel logic: You’re either loyal or out.
The 51-year-old congressman from Georgia has not said what he will do, but more than one (including Steve Bannon) thinks that his political career is not over here and that he could run for the White House in 2028. Perhaps by cleaning up his image as a “crazy conspiracy theorist”, follower of the QAnon conspiracy theory and supporter of the death penalty against his opponents: recently, on CNN, which made his repentance on a trip to Damascus, he apologized “for taking part in toxic, extremely negative politics for our country.”
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