Usually, the resignation of a House representative wouldn’t be bombshell news – but Marjorie Taylor Greene has become one of the most famous politicians in the US.
If “Make America Great Again” was in the dictionary, it would be her picture next to it – wearing a baseball cap bearing that slogan.
She had been an integral part of the MAGA movement since day one, the female version of Donald Trump.
That’s why her split from the president on several issues – most recently the Epstein files – has been so stunning.
Trump was once a mentor to her, and she a devoted and formidable campaigner for him and his politics.
Greene’s resignation video – in which she talks of feeling like a “battered wife” – shows that MAGA is fraying at the seams.
The Georgia representative claimed that if she had been cast aside by “MAGA Inc”, it is also the case “many common Americans have been cast aside and replaced as well”.
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Could she be laying the groundwork for a run at higher office in 2028 by depicting herself as a champion of ordinary Americans?
Perhaps. Her path forward after prematurely ending her term in January is unclear. She could also be considering a career in the media, being so comfortable in front of the cameras.
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We don’t know the exact reason behind this very public political divorce, but it has been fascinating to witness.
Trump and Greene were once aligned across the board, but their relationship has ruptured in multiple ways.
She suggested the president had abandoned his “America First” platform by having a turnstile of foreign leaders through the Oval Office – but it is over the Epstein files that their schism exploded.
Greene, once reviled by Democrats for her outrage politics, joined colleagues across the aisle to support the bill to release the files.
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A woman who claimed that wildfires in California were caused by space lasers operated by Jewish people – and called Muslim-American members of Congress “the jihad squad” – was now soberly standing alongside Epstein survivors.
It prompted Trump to nickname her Marjorie “Traitor” Greene – her defiance had clearly got under his skin.
She says she is stepping down because she doesn’t want her congressional district in Georgia to have to endure “a hurtful and hateful primary”.
But it is also true she would have faced an uphill battle to be re-elected, especially without the president’s support.
