Marjorie Taylor Greene Warns Of ‘INSANE’ Trump Election Fear | EUROtoday

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is warning that President Donald Trump might try and disrupt this 12 months’s midterm elections.

Greene, a one-time MAGA firebrand who has since changed into a vocal critic of the president, responded to a put up on X from conservative podcaster Shannon Joy, who mentioned that Trump might attempt to use a “national emergency” to cancel the midterms:

Greene shared that concern.

“Yeah I could see it,” she wrote, including: “INSANE.”

Last 12 months, former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) additionally mentioned he feared Trump was as much as one thing.

“He tried to overthrow an American election four years ago,” Walsh mentioned on MS NOW, then referred to as MSNBC. “I have no doubt that he could try to stop the midterm elections.”

The Washington Post not too long ago reported {that a} core group of MAGA allies was drafting an government order to nationalize elections ― a transfer critics mentioned can be flatly unlawful.

Earlier this 12 months, Trump informed Reuters: “we shouldn’t even have an election.”

The occasion in energy often loses seats within the midterms, and up to now, polls recommend this 12 months is not going to be an exception. With the GOP guarding the slimmest of majorities within the House, flipping even a handful of seats might swap management to the Democrats. And that might trigger the Trump agenda to come back crashing to a halt.

“If we lost the midterms — heaven forbid — if we lost the majority in the House, it would be the end of the Trump presidency in real effect,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) mentioned final week.

Trump’s strikes over the weekend might complicate that much more, with early polls exhibiting his choice to assault Iran is broadly unpopular. The incursion can also be inflicting additional cracks within the MAGA base, provided that Trump campaigned closely on ending U.S. involvement in overseas conflicts.

Greene was a robust ally of the president in the course of the marketing campaign and sometimes appeared alongside him at occasions. That ended final 12 months when she joined an effort in Congress to push for the discharge of recordsdata associated to the late convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein, who was as soon as shut pals with Trump.

Trump responded by attacking Greene and calling her a “traitor.”

Greene finally resigned from Congress and apologized for her position in what she referred to as “toxic politics.” She additionally mentioned that MAGA “was all a lie,” a place solely bolstered by Trump’s assault on Iran.

Greene posted a tweet on Saturday that described the U.S. army motion as “an utter betrayal of his base” and, in a separate message, wrote: