Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) referred to as out one-time ally President Donald Trump for abandoning the core guarantees behind his “Make America Great Again” motion.
“MAGA is, I think, people are realizing, it was all a lie,” she instructed YouTube host Kim Iversen. “It was a big lie for the people.”
The Trump administration, she mentioned, is all about serving “big, big donors,” together with overseas nations and enormous companies, with many funneling money to Trump’s PACs and pet tasks akin to his White House ballroom to win favor.
“And if they’re donating to all these things, those are the people that get the special favors, they get the government contracts, they get the pardons or somebody they love or one of their friends gets a pardon,” she mentioned.
Greene wasn’t keen to present Trump a move by blaming advisors or others in his inside circle.
“People always think, ‘Oh, it’s his staff.’ They want to blame everyone around him,” she mentioned. “There may be a point where people have to come to grips with this is Donald Trump.”
Greene mentioned she was as soon as a “true believer” in Trump’s MAGA motion. Indeed, she was not solely a vocal supporter however was continuously by his aspect at marketing campaign rallies and different occasions.
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“America first? I was like, ‘Heck yeah!’” Greene mentioned. “Our tax dollars shouldn’t go to any other foreign country.”
She mentioned she opposes regime change efforts and different navy interventions within the Middle East, Venezuela, Ukraine and elsewhere.
“I don’t care about any of ’em,” she mentioned. “I care about America. I care about our problems.”
“I care about the fact that my kids, who are Gen Z, will never be able to afford life. That whole generation, they probably won’t be able to buy a house. They can’t afford health insurance. They can’t afford car insurance. Most of their jobs are going to be replaced by AI. Like, that’s the stuff I care about.”
After Trump gained the election, nevertheless, MAGA was “whatever country Donald Trump said it was about” relatively than America.
She pointed to Trump now threatening Iran as one other instance.
“We’ve got civil war practically breaking out in Minnesota,” she mentioned. “Can we not care about that?”
Greene additionally had some harsh phrases for Fox News, the right-wing cable community the place she was as soon as an everyday visitor, in addition to its viewers:
“People watching Fox News, every day, 24/7 with their volume turned all the way up in their living room and it’s so loud that you can’t hear anything else? Those are the baby boomers and God bless them, those are my parents’ generation. I love so many of the baby boomers, but they are the most brainwashed generation because they eat that crap, like, they just eat it up all day long. They’re spoon-fed the propaganda on TV.”
But she mentioned the boomer era doesn’t have for much longer.
“And so I don’t know how the political-industrial complex is going to continue to brainwash Americans ’cuz we’re just not brainwashed anymore,” she mentioned.
Greene was, for years, a far-right flamethrower and conspiracy theorist and shut with Trump. The two appeared to have a falling out over Greene’s repeated requires the discharge of recordsdata associated to late intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein, who was previously an in depth buddy of Trump.
Trump, who as soon as promised to launch these recordsdata, as a substitute reportedly labored behind the scenes to attempt to block them from the general public, even dismissing them as a “Democrat hoax.”
See extra of her dialog with Iversen beneath:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/marjorie-taylor-greene-trump-maga-was-a-lie_n_69804dabe4b00b8d44e7de3d