MTG Has Had Enough Of The Republican Party: ‘I Don’t Want To Have Anything To Do With It’

Marjorie Taylor Greene hinted that she's breaking with the Republican Party.


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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) was once considered one of Donald Trump’s most loyal supporters. But now, with Trump back as president and seemingly delivering on most of Greene’s biggest political goals, it appears Greene is losing faith in the GOP project.

The Georgia Congresswoman unloaded on today’s GOP in a phone call with The Daily Mail.

“I don’t know if the Republican Party is leaving me, or if I’m kind of not relating to the Republican Party as much anymore,” Greene told the British newspaper. “I don’t know which one it is.”

Greene’s argument is less with Trump himself than with the party, she made clear, as she doesn’t feel the GOP is in tune with its base.

“I think the Republican Party has turned its back on America First and the workers and just regular Americans,” Greene said, making clear that she isn’t thrilled with the Republican leadership in the House.

“I’m not afraid of Mike Johnson at all,” Greene said of the Republican House Speaker. Greene had been a supporter of Kevin McCarthy, the previous House speaker, even as other arch-conservatives instigated his ouster after only a few months in 2023.

Greene appears to be upset about continuing foreign aid, and a rising national debt.

“Like what happened all those issues? You know that I don’t know what the hell happened with the Republican Party. I really don’t,” Greene said. “But I’ll tell you one thing, the course that it’s on, I don’t want to have anything to do with it, and I, I just don’t care anymore.”

She also teed off on the Republican leadership in her home state of Georgia, where she opted not to run for the Senate.

“Georgia is very much controlled,” Greene told the Daily Mail. “I call it the good ole boys network. It’s the donors of the state, they’re good hearted people, but they are very low risk takers, so they end up always being talked into … really very weak moderate candidates…. It’s a very lukewarm, not exciting Republican ballot, you’re just not going to get the turnout there that’s needed, especially when we came off the last election and only won the state by 115,000 votes.”

Greene, last month, had warned Trump on social media that the base would turn if he didn’t release the Epstein files.

Photo courtesy of the Political Tribune media library. 


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