Former GOP congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has turned on Fox News, accusing the channel of “brainwashing boomers” and peddling “fake news” amid President Donald Trump’s conflict in Iran.
Greene, a former Trump loyalist, has been an everyday visitor on the MAGA-leaning community through the years however lashed out at its protection of the battle within the Middle East.
“Fox News is now the fake news,” Greene stated Sunday X submit, following information that hundreds of U.S. troops have arrived within the Middle East, which she opposes. “Brainwashing boomers to support what we voted against.”
The MAGA firebrand was replying to a remark made by fellow conservative commentator Ann Coulter.
“Watching Fox News assure viewers the Iran war is going SUPER well and Trump is a total stud is like watching the same network assure viewers that Dominion Voting Systems rigged the 2020 election and Trump was the winner,” Coulter, who has additionally appeared on the community through the years, wrote on X Sunday.
Coulter was referring to the scandal that noticed Rupert Murdoch’s community pay a settlement $787 million after hosts and friends repeatedly and falsely claimed on air that Dominion voting machines rigged the 2020 presidential election by recording Trump’s votes for former President Joe Biden.
The Independent has contacted Fox News for remark.
Trump appeared on Fox News’ The Five final week to defend the conflict, the place he argued that the Iranian regime has been weakened due to Operation Epic Fury. The community additionally aired a phase by host Mark Levin over the weekend the place he stated there are “a lot of reasons” for sending troops into Iran.
Fox News additionally printed an unfavorable ballot that discovered 59 p.c of Americans disapprove of Trump’s efficiency as commander in chief, whereas 58 p.c stated they opposed the battle with Iran, versus 42 p.c in favor.
Trump lashed out on the ballot Friday throughout his interview on the community. “I hate Fox polls. Honestly, whoever does your polls are terrible,” he fumed. “Rupert Murdoch has promised me for years he’s going to get rid of your pollster, but he doesn’t do it. I don’t get it, but your Fox polls are terrible.”
Greene, the previous Georgia consultant, has criticized Trump for coming into into the battle and argued that it goes in opposition to “America First.”
“It’s a cruel irony that the American troops soon to be sent into Iran will be Gen Z and millennials (again), by the very President and admin that promised no more foreign wars, to make life affordable for Americans, and a strong American economy producing good American jobs,” Greene stated Monday.
Greene dramatically fell out with Trump final yr after she persistently referred to as for the discharge of the Jeffrey Epstein information and has since develop into certainly one of his loudest critics.
The White House hit again on the MAGA firebrand in an announcement to Fox News Digital final week. “There is nothing more ‘America Last’ than quitting on your constituents and the MAGA movement in the middle of your term,” stated spokesperson Davis Ingle. “President Trump is fighting every single day to Make America Great Again – we don’t have time for quitters.”
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