President Donald Trump on Saturday reacted to the sudden resignation of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), per week after he publicly pulled help from the longtime MAGA ally.
Greene introduced her official departure from Congress in a video Friday. Trump first reacted to her exit by cellphone on that very same night time, telling ABC News White House correspondent Rachel Scott, “I think it’s great news for the country. It’s great.” The president began posting on social media sooner than ordinary Saturday, doubling down on his pleasure.
“Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Brown, because of PLUMMETING Poll Numbers, and not wanting to face a Primary Challenger with a strong Trump Endorsement (where she would have no chance of winning!), has decided to call it ‘quits,’” he wrote on Truth Social at 6:45 a.m.
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Greene has accused the president of turning on her due to her continued name to launch labeled paperwork associated to late intercourse trafficker and Trump buddy Jeffrey Epstein. He has in the meantime accused her of going “Far Left” and claimed that she calls him an excessive amount of.
“For some reason, primarily that I refused to return her never ending barrage of phone calls, Marjorie went BAD,” he wrote in his Saturday screed.
He additionally took purpose at two Kentucky Republicans, Rep. Thomas Massie and Sen. Rand Paul. Massie filed the discharge petition to a pressure a vote on the discharge of the Epstein information, whereas Paul has mentioned he was “on the side of transparency” within the matter.
Greene’s “relationship with the WORST Republican Congressman in decades, Tom Massie of Kentucky, also known as Rand Paul Jr. because he votes against the Republican Party (and really good legislation!), did not help her,” Trump wrote.
The Georgia congresswoman had damaged with Trump not solely over his dismissal of the Epstein “hoax,” but additionally over his dealing with of the current authorities shutdown and lack of a Republican plan to assist people who find themselves shedding subsidies to afford medical insurance insurance policies.
Trump wrote final week that he would endorse a challenger towards her within the midterms.
“For some reason, primarily that I refused to return her never ending barrage of phone calls, Marjorie went BAD,” he wrote Saturday. “Nevertheless, I will always appreciate Marjorie, and thank her for her service to our Country! President DJT.”
Greene argued in an announcement Friday that Trump has deserted the American folks.
She wrote, “If I am cast aside by MAGA Inc and replaced by Neocons, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Military Industrial Complex, foreign leaders, and the elite donor class that can’t even relate to real Americans, then many common Americans have been cast aside and replaced as well.”
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