{"id":73888,"date":"2025-12-17T22:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T22:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/73888\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T22:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T22:52:07","slug":"maga-bellwether-drops-hammer-dam-is-breaking-against-trump-with-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/73888\/","title":{"rendered":"MAGA \u2018bellwether\u2019 drops hammer: \u2018Dam is breaking\u2019 against Trump with GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"WDYGSM5REZCLBENWPWUKLM4POU\">A top MAGA voice who was once closely allied with President Donald Trump told CNN that the \u201cdam is breaking\u201d with Trump and the Republican Party. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"YGSTD5RPJRAJPDWUYBGLYYUXEY\">GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia said Trump has \u201creal problems\u201d with the GOP right now and that the \u201cdam is breaking\u201d in terms of the president\u2019s ability to hold onto Republican support. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"HGSDDMGGDFG43L5C3NT35GIGSY\">She said that things are so dire that she doesn\u2019t think that the Republican Party will win the 2026 midterm elections, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/20FC7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/20FC7\">per the Washington Post. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"O6WOSSQQZ5CTHIC3HPTPNRJKGE\">\u201cI think the midterms are going to be very hard for Republicans,\u201d Greene told Kaitlin Collins on \u201cThe Source.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"HK7JRJWWA5BUBJ22LMX7GRLKNE\">Greene said, \u201cI\u2019m one of the people that\u2019s willing to admit the truth and say I don\u2019t see Republicans winning the midterms right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"QR3T5E35PNHQXPNFO4KF65TTJU\">Greene had been a close ally of Trump but the two fell out after Greene broke with Republicans on a number of issues, including the Jeffrey Epstein files. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"OJHL2PWE7VGNPBOKI7DY3STJQQ\">Trump called Greene a \u201ctraitor\u201d and withdrew his endorsement of her. Green has announced that she will resign from Congress as of Jan. 5, 2026. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"M2COIB4J7NDAZFSQIYCMCI6DA4\">Greene, who described herself as a \u201cbellwether\u201d of feelings in the MAGA movement, said of Trump: \u201cHe\u2019s got real problems with Republicans within the House and the Senate that will be breaking with him on more things to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"OSJURRHMCBGFNPZVXBNZKFI4DE\">She said that Trump supporters \u201cdidn\u2019t appreciate\u201d the president\u2019s reaction to the death of director Rob Reiner, who was found <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/o\/20FC7\/https:\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/movies\/2025\/12\/14\/reiner-singer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">stabbed to death<\/a> with his wife, photographer Michele Singer Reiner, in their Los Angeles home Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"PU4II52UPRE5DKGTW6OTHLYAMA\">Trump said that Reiner\u2019s \u201cTrump Derangement Syndrome\u201d was at the root of Reiner\u2019s killing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ZPL6ACMQCBHLFCTVFFES64NTTI\">The Reiners\u2019 son, Nick, has been arrested in the murders. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"UHDUOTMBBNGRLM5N724GTJAYDY\">Reiner had been an outspoken critic of Trump. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"63R2U6PUP5BUFFGIMM747ORKN4\">\u201cI thought that statement was absolutely, completely below the office of the President of the United States,\u201d Greene told CNN. \u201cClassless and it was just wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A top MAGA voice who was once closely allied with President Donald Trump told CNN that the \u201cdam&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-73888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}