The political revolt of Marjorie Taylor Greene in opposition to Donald Trump

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When Marjorie Taylor Greene first got here to Congress, it's truthful to say, she was seen as one thing of a kook.

She indulged in conspiracy theories and repeated Q’Anon quackery, which she later acknowledged was a mistake.

However now MTG has advanced into President Trump’s most vociferous critic – which is particularly noticeable in a celebration that follows their chief at nearly each flip.

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The Georgia congresswoman , an ultra-conservative, nonetheless says she likes Trump, however she’s largely within the enterprise of denouncing him on varied points. And that hasn’t precisely gone unnoticed.

If you spend a little bit time with Marjorie, you shortly understand that she’s smarter than her media picture and a shrewd practitioner of the political recreation.

After she was elected, Greene confronted a censure vote for having "repeatedly fanned the flames of racism, antisemitism, LGBTQ hate speech, Islamophobia, anti-Asian hate, xenophobia, and different types of hatred." She additionally "mocked the Holocaust" and mentioned "Joe Biden is Hitler."

Consultant Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) speaks alongside former US President and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump at a marketing campaign occasion in Rome, Georgia, on March 9, 2024. (ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/AFP through Getty Photos)

However the Democratic member pushing the decision withdrew it on the final minute. Greene, although, was not placed on any committees.

The media and political neighborhood began taking her extra critically when she turned a key ally of Kevin McCarthy and helped get him elected Home speaker, regardless of rumors that he may stop the race.

"That was one thing that the media saved spinning round," she advised me on "Media Buzz." "They had been attempting to say that Kevin McCarthy would drop out or that the convention was going to tug away. Completely not. And President Trump actually helped with that."

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She held up the telephone when Trump mentioned he needed to speak with one other Republican, Matt Rosedale, who refused to take the decision.

Trump "was indignant," Greene advised me. "He yelled at me on the Home flooring, telling me, do not you ever do that. I used to be so shocked. I could not perceive. I used to be holding out my telephone, saying, it is President Trump, he desires to talk with you."

Greene couldn’t save McCarthy when he was deposed, and she or he was on her personal once more.

Now the New York Times is portraying her as a part of a rising MAGA divide.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) gestures whereas talking as United States Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testifies earlier than the Home Oversight and Accountability Committee throughout a listening to on the Rayburn Home Workplace Constructing on July 22, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Photos)

Greene has been pushing for the discharge of the Jeffrey Epstein recordsdata. And a Trump official made it identified that will be seen as a hostile act.

MTG advised the Times that she known as a prime White Home aide.

"I advised them, ‘You didn’t get me elected. I don't be just right for you; I work for my district.’ We aren’t supposed to only be whipped on our votes as a result of they’re telling us what to do with this scary menace, or saying ‘We’ll main you,’ or that we received’t get invited to the White Home occasions."

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Her angle: "[Expletive] you."

Greene has additionally challenged the president on international coverage, saying she nonetheless believes within the idea of America First. Proudly proclaiming herself to be a Christian nationalist , she was the primary Hill Republican to accuse Israel of genocide: "You possibly can’t un-see useless youngsters. That’s not pretend. It’s not warfare propaganda."

She can also be an ardent critic of federal funding for Ukraine and voted in opposition to help packages, regardless of Trump’s new help for the sovereign nation invaded by Russia. Greene not solely says taxpayer {dollars} shouldn’t be used to fund international wars, however she has clashed with Speaker Mike Johnson, trying to oust him for relying on Democratic votes to move Ukrainian help.

Greene, who has additionally opposed the White House on synthetic intelligence, is clearly having fun with her newfound independence. She posted this: "In case you inform the bottom of individuals, who help you, of deep state treasonous crimes, and wealthy highly effective elite evil cabals, then you should take down each enemy of The Folks."

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., talks as President Joe Biden delivers his first State of the Union handle on March 1, 2022. (J. Scott Applewhite, Pool, File/AP Photograph)

In any other case, "the bottom will flip and there’s no going again."

It’s not that MTG nonetheless doesn’t say wacky issues. After the homicide of Charlie Kirk , she known as for a "nationwide divorce" during which the nation’s pink states would secede from the blue states. How precisely would that work?

"There's nothing left to speak about with the left. They hate us," she mentioned.

MTG’s boyfriend is Brian Glenn, chief White Home correspondent for Actual America’s Voice, who normally asks the president pleasant questions (and chided Volodymyr Zelensky for not carrying a swimsuit). She was married to her ex-husband for 27 years earlier than he filed for divorce.

No matter her ambitions, she lately handed up potential runs for governor and the Senate .

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"Someday," she says, "I would simply run with out the blessing from the great ole boys membership or the out-of-state consulting leeches and even with out the blessing of my favourite president."

Within the meantime, a decrease profile just isn't precisely within the playing cards.

Howard Kurtz is a media and political analyst and the previous host of FOX Information Channel's MediaBuzz . Based mostly in Washington, D.C., he joined the community in 2013 and frequently seems on Particular Report with Bret Baier and The Story with Martha MacCallum amongst different packages.