Marjorie Taylor Greene To Resign From Congress | EUROtoday

In a surprising transfer, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) introduced Friday she’s resigning from Congress in January amid a public falling out with President Donald Trump and GOP management.

Greene introduced her resolution to step down on Jan. 5, 2026, in a video and assertion posted to X. The prolonged assertion particulars her disillusionment with Trump, his Make America Great Again motion and the Republican Party.

“My only goal and desire has ever been to hold the Republican Party accountable for the promises it makes to the American people and put America First,” Greene stated in her assertion. “With that has brought years of nonstop, never-ending personal attacks, death threats, lawfare, ridiculous slander and lies about me, that most people could never withstand even for a day.”

She continued, “It’s all so absurd and completely unserious. I refuse to be a ‘battered wife’ hoping it all goes away and gets better.”

Trump, in a quick cellphone interview with ABC News’ Rachel Scott on Friday, referred to as Greene’s resignation “great news for the country.”

He famous that Greene didn’t give him a head ups in regards to the transfer.

“Nah, it doesn’t matter, you know? But I think it’s great,” the president stated. “I think she should be happy.”

Greene, who was first elected to Congress in 2020 after campaigning as a stalwart supporter of Trump, has had a serious fallout with the president over the trouble to launch the Jeffrey Epstein information. Last week, Trump slammed her as a “traitor” when she joined three different Republicans in supporting holding a vote on releasing your complete trove of information on the late intercourse offender, a one-time good friend of Trump’s.

Greene alluded to the battle over the Epstein information in her resignation assertion.

“Standing up for American women who were raped at 14, trafficked and used by rich powerful men, should not result in me being called a traitor and threatened by the President of the United States, whom I fought for,” she wrote.

Greene additionally used her assertion to tear into her House colleagues, together with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), for his or her dealing with of the current authorities shutdown, the longest in U.S. historical past.

“The House should have been in session working every day to fix this disaster, but instead America was force-fed disgusting political drama once again from both sides of the aisle,” she stated.

Greene alleged that many institution Republicans embraced by the Trump administration since his reelection “secretly hate him.”

Despite her current spat with the president, the Georgia congresswoman was an embodiment of the Republican MAGA period. She’s embraced and unfold a litany of conspiracy theories, dabbling in every part from Pizzagate and QAnon to hypothesis that 9/11 was an inside job, that Barack Obama is a secret Muslim and that a number of mass shootings had been false flags.

When her embrace of extra racist and antisemitic conspiracy theories got here to mild shortly after she took workplace in 2021, the House of Representatives took the uncommon step of voting to strip her of her committee assignments.

The flames of concern Greene stoked weren’t restricted to her embrace of these theories. In 2022, she spoke at a convention hosted by white nationalist livestreamer Nick Fuentes, who’s famously praised Adolf Hitler and, extra just lately, Joseph Stalin. In 2023, she referred to as Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) a “little bitch” on the House flooring, partially resulting in her expulsion from the chamber’s Freedom Caucus. She additionally in contrast COVID-19 security measures to the Holocaust and mused that straight folks would quickly go extinct due to “trans terrorists” and LGBTQ-inclusive instruction in faculties.

Despite all that, Greene handily gained reelection in 2022 and 2024, receiving round 65% of the vote in each elections.

While Trump raged in opposition to Greene and pulled his endorsement for her reelection, her constituents appeared able to again her once more, based on reporting by NBC News and Bloomberg.

“She should not be seen as a traitor. She’s trying to do the best for the American people and I think Donald Trump should accommodate her and work for America,” one voter instructed NBC.

Greene, in her assertion, stated she believed she’d win her district once more, however that the combat can be too troublesome on her family members. She additionally predicted that Republicans will lose the House, opening the door for Democrats to question Trump once more.

“I have too much self-respect and dignity, love my family way too much, and do not want my sweet district to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the president we all fought for, only to fight and win my election while Republicans will likely lose the midterms,” she stated. “And in turn, be expected to defend the president against impeachment after he hatefully dumped tens of millions of dollars against me and tried to destroy me.”

Greene’s resolution drew reward from Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who Trump has additionally focused after pushing for the discharge of the Epstein information.

“I’m very sad for our country but so happy for my friend Marjorie. I’ll miss her tremendously,” Massie wrote on X. “She embodies what a true Representative should be. Everyone should read her statement; there’s more honesty expressed in these four pages than most politicians will speak in a lifetime.”