{"id":299792,"date":"2025-11-22T14:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T14:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/299792\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T14:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T14:37:10","slug":"trump-loyalist-turned-critic-marjorie-taylor-greene-resigning-from-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/299792\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump loyalist-turned-critic Marjorie Taylor Greene resigning from Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"

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U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, a once-loyal supporter of Donald Trump who has become a critic of the president, said Friday she is resigning from Congress in January.<\/p>\n

Greene, in a more than 10-minute video posted online, explained her decision and said she’s “always been despised in Washington, D.C., and just never fit in.”<\/p>\n

Greene’s resignation followed a public fallout with Trump in recent months, as the congresswoman criticized him for his stance on files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>, along with foreign policy and health care.<\/p>\n

Trump branded her a “traitor” and “wacky”<\/a> and said he would endorse a challenger against her when she ran for re-election next year.<\/p>\n

Greene had been closely tied to the Republican president since she launched her political career in 2020.<\/p>\n

\"TwoRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and U.S. President Donald Trump embrace in the U.S. Capitol on March 4. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson\/The Associated Press)<\/p>\n

In her video, she underscored her longtime loyalty to Trump, except on a few issues, and said it was “unfair and wrong” that he attacked her for disagreeing.<\/p>\n

“Loyalty should be a two-way street and we should be able to vote our conscience and represent our district’s interest, because our job title is literally ‘representative,'” she said.<\/p>\n

Greene swept to office at the forefront of Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement and swiftly became a lightning rod on Capitol Hill for her often beyond-mainstream views.<\/p>\n

As she embraced the QAnon conspiracy theory and appeared with white supremacists, Greene was opposed by party leaders but welcomed by Trump. He called her “a real WINNER!”<\/p>\n

Yet over time she proved a deft legislator, having aligned herself with then-GOP leader Kevin McCarthy, who would go on to become House Speaker. She was a trusted voice on the right flank, until McCarthy was ousted in 2023.<\/p>\n

‘Great news,’ says Trump<\/p>\n

Interviewed by ABC News, Trump said Greene’s resignation, to take effect on January 5, was “great news for the country. It’s great.”<\/p>\n

Greene’s ally in the House, Representative Thomas Massie, posted on X that she “embodies what a true representative should be.”<\/p>\n

Barbara Comstock, a former Republican House member and a Trump critic, lauded Greene’s decision on social media.<\/p>\n

Comstock wrote that Greene doesn’t want to be “taking Trump’s abuse and getting death threats and pretending it’s all ok only to end up in the minority. Good for her.”<\/p>\n

On the other side of the aisle, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticized Greene’s public transformation from Trump loyalist to critic.<\/p>\n

“She is saying a lot but her ACTIONS have not backed up the rhetoric. For all her talk, she’s STILL voting with them to gut healthcare and advance self-dealing corruption schemes,” the Congresswoman wrote on her Instagram story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-299792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}