MTG speaks out on rift with Trump White House and pushing back on its tactics
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‘I’m like, “[Expletive] you,”’ Marjorie Taylor Greene said about receiving threats from White House officials

‘I’m like, “[Expletive] you,”’ Marjorie Taylor Greene said about receiving threats from White House officials

Marjorie Taylor Greene has come out swinging at the White House over the Trump administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case.

The rift between the MAGA firebrand and White House deepened after a Trump official apparently told her that her support of bipartisan legislation ordering the release of the so-called Epstein files would be viewed as a “very hostile act.”

Greene is one of four Republicans, alongside Reps. Thomas Massie, Nancy Mace and Lauren Boebert to have signed on to a discharge petition to force the release of files related to Epstein. If a discharge petition receives the signature of a majority of members, they can force a vote without the consent of leadership.

  • oddlyqueer@lemmy.ml
    801·
    11 days ago

    I wonder if MTG is the Republican Party experiencing the 4chan effect: if you build your community around pretending to be batshit insane, you’ll eventually attract genuinely batshit insane people who aren’t in on the joke. It could be that she doesn’t realize most of the elected GOP is just pretending to go along with the right-wing outrage du jour to support their cult, and she’s genuinely confused about why they’re no longer interested in the epstein affair.

    That, or she just sees the writing on the wall and is trying to distance herself from it. Either way, fuck her and the shitbags she made a bed with.

    • chosensilence@pawb.social
      44·
      11 days ago

      MTG the person can go fuck herself. MTG the politician has the opportunity to do something good on behalf of everyone. boy, it’d be great if she stuck to her principles here and refused to compromise. unfortunately, we need resistance from every group opposed to our fascist administration. she ain’t welcome to the party but i have to begrudgingly wish her well on this alone.

    • bigfondue@lemmy.world
      20·
      10 days ago

      Yea in the 90s proper Republicans knew things like Rush Limbaugh were just to get the rubes riled up, but now the rubes are running the show. Even the president sits around watching Fox News for hours a day.

    • Avicenna@lemmy.world
      11·
      11 days ago

      Or maybe she is using Epstein as some sort of leverage and has taken it too far by gambling big. Or maybe she thinks she can get the majority of the republican base support behind her if she pushes this hard enough, maybe even eventually dethrone Trump.