Marjorie Taylor Greene tells UK reporter ‘to go back to your country’ when quizzed over Signal leak | EUROtoday

Marjorie Taylor Greene snapped at a British journalist questioning her over leaked Signal messages, telling her in an offended outburst: “Why don’t you go back to your country?”

Martha Kelner, working for the UK’s Sky News, approached the MAGA loyalist at a press convention on Wednesday to ask in regards to the main safety blunder through which particulars of U.S. navy operations in Yemen had been shared with a journalist.

But as she began to ask a query, the Republican consultant for Georgia demanded to know: “What country are you from?”

When the journalist instructed her she was from the UK, Taylor Greene launched a verbal assault.

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“We don’t give a crap about your opinion and your reporting,” she stated. “Why don’t you go back to your country, where you have a major migrant problem? You should care about your own borders.”

As Kelner tried once more to ask a query, Taylor Greene instructed her: “Do you care about people from your country? What about all the women that are raped by migrants? Do you care? OK, you’re done.”

When Kelner requested her in regards to the lives of U.S. troopers being probably put at elevated threat following the leak to The AtlanticGreene replied: “I don’t care about your fake news.”

Turning away from Sky’s U.S. correspondent, she pointed at a male journalist who then stated: “I’m an American and I’d like to hear your answer to what she’s asking.”

Greene fired again: “I’m not answering her question because I don’t care about her network. If you would like to ask, I can answer.”

The American reporter went on to grill her on “the complete disregard for operational security from the top level of this administration”.

In her response, she blamed the previous Biden administration for “ripping our borders open to terrorists, cartels, child sex traffickers, people and drug traffickers”.

She hailed Donald Trump for attempting to finish the struggle in Ukraine and tried to vary matter to federal funding earlier than holding her hand as much as the British reporter and saying: “That’s what this is about today, not journalists from the UK”.

She then walked off, refusing to take extra questions. The trade shortly went viral on social media.

British TV author Mick Collins defended Kelner in a publish on X: “Having worked with Martha Kelner and watched Marjorie Taylor-Greene, the calmness of the former, and the lunacy of the latter comes as absolutely no surprise here.

“More power to Martha for asking the right questions the right way. As ever.”

Trump’s administration has sought to include the fallout after the March 15 Yemen bombing chat was shared with The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg on the encrypted messaging app.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has repeatedly denied texting struggle plans, and Trump and his high advisers are saying no categorised info was shared, bewildering Democrats and former U.S. officers, who regard timing and focusing on particulars as a few of the most intently held materials forward of a U.S. navy marketing campaign.