Was it something she said?
The end of a beautiful friendship.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, a longtime Republican ally who previously fiercely defended Donald Trump and his Maga movement, said on Saturday she had been contacted by private security firms “with warnings for my safety” after Trump announced on Friday he was withdrawing his support for and endorsement of the Georgia representative.
In a post on X, Greene said that “a hot bed of threats against me are being fueled and egged on by the most powerful man in the world”, without referring to Trump by name, adding it was “the man I supported and helped get elected”.
Yes you did. Do we now get to watch you and Trump destroy each other? That would be awesome.
Greene said that “aggressive rhetoric attacking me has historically led to death threats and multiple convictions of men who were radicalized by the same type rhetoric being directed at me right now. This time by the President of the United States.”
Greene did not specify any threats against her that had been received by security firms, but said that “as a woman I take threats from men seriously. I now have a small understanding of the fear and pressure the women, who are victims of Jeffrey Epstein and his cabal, must feel.”
Greene also said that as a Republican who votes “overwhelmingly” in favor of party legislation, “his aggression against me also fuels the venomous nature of his radical internet trolls (many of whom are paid), this is completely shocking to everyone”.
Well it shouldn’t be. It’s been blindingly obvious all along that that’s what Trump does, because that’s what Trump is. He has literally zero conscience. Loyalty, friendship, gratitude – none of that plays any part in what he does.
The post is the latest in an increasingly bitter war of words with Trump, primarily over the release of government-held documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein, which Greene supports. The House speaker, Mike Johnson, is expected to hold a vote next week to decide whether to release the entirety of unclassified communications and documents.
“Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Green is a disgrace to our GREAT REPUBLICAN PARTY!” Trump fumed on social media, a day after ending his support for Greene, calling her “Wacky Marjorie” and saying he would endorse a challenger against her in the next midterm election “if the right person runs”.
Earlier on Saturday, Greene posted on X that she never thought she would be in the position of “fighting to release the Epstein files, defending women who were victims of rape, and fighting to expose the web of rich powerful elites would have caused this, but here we are.”
Lie down with rats get up with fleas.
Another sycophant wakes up and finds out why people have hated Donald Trump all along.
Not to mention “Play stupid games, win stupid prizes”!
It’s a pity that Bill Shakespeare is no longer around. He would have had a great time with Trump. I reckon he would likely substitute a character based on him for Iago in Othello and then take the bulk of his Statford players on a world tour performing it. The whole shebang.
Then on to Hollywood, Netflix, etc, etc.
Omar, the problem with that is that Iago is intelligent and charming. I’m not sure who would be an appropriate Trumpian character…maybe Macbeth? Except he seemed to be intelligent and a capable soldier. Petruchio maybe, if only because of the rank misogyny.
How about Bottom?
Mostly the head of an ass business.
Well, see, there won’t be a Trump-equivalent in the Shakespeare canon because Trump is among other things extremely BORING. Shakesey wrote for the stage; he wasn’t looking for boring.
#5: I take it you mean the head of a donkey business. Trump has described himself as a ‘stable genius,’ by which I take it he means being a manager of a horse and donkey house. I cannot see any other way to take it. And given the way the US economy is performing on his watch, he may be on the money there.
No. On second thoughts, more likely off it; and big time.
The leppards weren’t supposed to eat my face!
Maybe King Lear? I mean, the narcissism and obvious senility kind of fits.
MTG says “she never thought she would be in the position of ‘fighting to release the Epstein files, defending women who were victims of rape, and fighting to expose the web of rich powerful elites would have caused this, but here we are.’ ”
Why would you “never think that”? Do you mean that you previously refused to “defend the women who were victims of rape”? That you didn’t care about “releasing the Epstein files”? That you didn’t care about and were not interested in “exposing the web of rich powerful elites [mostly men]” who perpetrated these crimes? You were formerly in favor of ignoring the scandal, ignoring the girls (not yet women) who were trafficked, and covering everything up? It’s only now that men have started to threaten you that you have an inkling how vulnerable rape victims might feel? I think your inner moral compass is defective.
@10 based on her previous speech and actions I didn’t read the statement that way. I read it as ‘I never thought I’d have to FIGHT for these things’, ie these are things I would expect my compatriots to support me rather than oppose me over.
Omar #7
I used the word “ass” because that is the word Shakespeare used.
The word “donkey” does not appear anywhere in the play.
guest @11: Of course, MTG, like literally every other Republican who supported Trump, had to ignore some 40-odd women who came forward with stories of sexual assault and rape by the bloated orange toad.
Still, it’s very bizarre to be in a world where I find myself hoping she wins a victory, here, simply because she managed to finally reach the right time of day to be correct.
I may be confusing her with some other MAGA woman in government, but I could have sworn she’s made statements supporting abused women (due, as is so commonly the case among conservatives, to having had the experience herself rather than any general sense of justice), and thus supporting women’s rights and opposing the abuse of women. I’m sure even if this were true she’d have the same weird myopia about Trump being guilty of all the things MAGAs say they oppose – though I suspect in this particular case they’d claim ‘well Bill Clinton was also a serial rapist (not to mention murderer along with his evil wife) so there’s nothing to choose between them’.
You cannot make the main villain of a work of fiction a Trump-like character for the simple reason that it wouldn’t work. You need the main villain to be, in some sense, a worthy opponent to the hero(in) in order to not diminish his/her victory (or even heroic death) in the end. Even when the main villain is also the protagonist (Macbeth, Michael Corleone, Tony Montana…) at the very least we shouldn’t be left shaking our heads in disbelief at the idea that the village idiot, the loudest drunken asshole in the bar at closing time, the emptiest barrel on the shelf, would ever be able to bungle his way to such power and control. Michael Corleone works as a villain. Fredo (“I’m smart! I can handle things!”) does not.
TL;DR: Reality makes for very bad fiction.
That exactly. The most nagging infuriating (which is not the same as the worst) thing about the Trumptatorship is how utterly and obviously inferior he is by every possible measure. He’s dumm, he’s vulgar, he’s boring, he’s trashy, he’s clueless, he’s empty – yet there he squats.
She didn’t ‘wake up’ to what Trump is, she didn’t get what she wanted (support from Trump for a run for the Senate) so she retaliates – just like he would.
Where is the quote from?
You mean a plague upon both their houses?
Also, didn’t Trump say, during the campaign, that he would release the files?