Marjorie Taylor Greene resigned from Congress in January, called Trump a traitor, demanded his removal via the 25th Amendment and has since been spending her time on Tucker Carlson’s podcast exposing Republicans she says were never who they claimed to be.
On Wednesday, she named Mike Lawler, a New York congressman currently presenting himself as one of Trump’s most reliable House allies, as a man who privately despised the president for years before deciding loyalty was more convenient.
Greene’s argument opened on familiar ground.
Donor money, she told Carlson, is the mechanism that produces fake Republicans. “They’re bought and paid for. They do not represent the American people or the American people’s interest, and it’s because they’re funded by that way,” she said.
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The observation wasn’t new, but the target was.
Lawler arrived in Congress in 2022 with an unusual level of institutional support for a freshman, drawing funding from across the Republican establishment. Greene says she noticed right away.
“He instantly had more support from pretty much every fundraising mechanism that there is in Washington, D.C. that supports Republicans. He had more help than I could have ever dreamed of having, ever in my entire political career,” she said. The fundraising advantage did not, in her telling, come with MAGA loyalties attached.
What followed, according to Greene, was a four-year private performance of contempt.
“He hated Donald Trump, made fun of him constantly, mimicked him, making fun of his voice. He used to attack me, make fun of me, come and find me on the House floor, and make fun of me for supporting Donald Trump, and this was in the four years before Trump got elected as president again in 2024.”
She says she concluded at one point that Lawler was essentially operating as a Democrat in Republican clothing. “I was like, he’s literally a Democrat. He’s so against all the things that Republican voters care about, and he clearly hates Donald Trump.”
Then Trump won the 2024 primary and something shifted.
“I saw this unbelievable change in him, and of course it happened after Trump won his primary in 2024. All of a sudden, Mike Lawler, I started joking. I started calling him MAGA Mike Lawler because he was all of a sudden becoming Trump’s biggest supporter.”
Greene also claimed Lawler bragged to her about a MAGA hat Trump had signed for him, a moment she found particularly galling given that the people who had backed Trump before it was politically advantageous had by that point been pushed out of his orbit entirely.
Lawler has a documented history of criticizing Greene, having previously called her actions “pathetic,” “embarrassing,” and suggesting she had “gone off the deep end.”
His office did not respond to a request for comment on Wednesday’s allegations.
Lawler notably broke with the administration over Trump’s Truth Social post threatening to destroy Iranian civilization, telling reporters: “I don’t support the rhetoric or words that were used in that Truth Social statement.”
Why do neocons consistently act against the interests of the United States? It’s more than neglect. It’s hate. Marjorie Taylor Greene saw it firsthand. pic.twitter.com/HGJlRfJ3bo
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) April 30, 2026
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