"Greene fell out of favor with Trump slowly this past year-and then all at once. I'd been tracking the surprising fissures in their relationship for a while when, in mid-November, the President called her a "traitor" on Truth Social. This followed a dizzying number of deviations by Greene from the party line, dating back to early summer-foremost were her very public calls for the Justice Department to release the Epstein files."
"She'd even had the chutzpah to embark upon a kind of "What's Wrong with Republicans?" media tour during the shutdown that yielded compliments from as far left as the lips of Senator Bernie Sanders. And this past Saturday, as most prominent members of the G.O.P. were swiftly falling in line behind Trump's shocking Venezuela operation, Greene called bullshit. "Why is it ok for America to militarily invade, bomb, and arrest a foreign leader but Russia is evil for invading Ukraine"
Marjorie Taylor Greene abruptly left Congress after a period of growing estrangement from Donald Trump and repeated public departures from Republican orthodoxy. She pushed for release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, ran a provocative 'What's Wrong with Republicans?' media tour, and earned unlikely praise from figures across the spectrum. Greene publicly criticized a Trump-backed Venezuela operation and questioned U.S. military interventions compared with those of other countries. She announced her resignation shortly after becoming eligible for a congressional pension and plans to continue influencing politics via an active social-media presence and media campaigning.
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