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Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/strong><\/a> has long been known for her rabid loyalty to Donald Trump<\/strong><\/a> and his MAGA agenda, to the extent that it would not be surprising if she were to throw a drink in someone\u2019s face for, say, expressing skepticism over the president\u2019s long-promised border wall. During her nearly five years in Congress, the Georgia representative has \u201cjoke[d]\u201d that January 6 would have been successful<\/a>\u00a0had she organized it; demonized transgender people<\/a>; lobbed<\/a> Islamophobic attacks<\/a>; and embraced the most batshit of conspiracy theories<\/a>, a.k.a. Trump\u2019s bread and butter. If Politico<\/em> were to report that she was planning to show up to Trump\u2019s State of the Union address with an American flag painted on her face and the words \u201cBiological Ladies for Trump\u201d written across her chest, people would be like, Yeah, that checks out.<\/p>\n Yet lately, Greene has been engaging in some extremely unexpected behavior: She\u2019s broken with Trump and Team MAGA on numerous issues, and quite vocally at that. In early June, for example, she took to X to criticize<\/a> the \u201cbig, beautiful\u201d bill, writing that if she had actually read the full text of Trump\u2019s signature legislation, she \u201cwould have voted NO.\u201d (Like all but two House Republicans, she ultimately voted<\/a> to pass the version that became law.)<\/p>\n A couple of weeks later, she went to bat<\/a> for Tucker Carlson<\/strong> after Trump lashed out at the former Fox News host for saying the US should not support Israel\u2019s attacks on Iran. Following a Truth Social post in which the president\u00a0called<\/a> Carlson \u201ckooky\u201d and said someone should tell him \u201cIRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON,\u201d Greene took to X to\u00a0tell<\/a>\u00a0her followers: \u201cTucker Carlson\u2026unapologetically believes the same things I do. That if we don\u2019t fight for our own country and our own people then we will no longer have a country for our children and our grandchildren. And foreign wars\/intervention\/regime change put America last, kill innocent people, are making us broke, and will ultimately lead to our destruction. That\u2019s not kooky. That\u2019s what millions of Americans voted for. It\u2019s what we believe is America First.\u201d<\/p>\n Greene\u2019s defense of Carlson came one day after she loudly\u00a0declared<\/a>\u00a0that \u201ceveryone is finding out who are real America First\/MAGA and who were fake,\u201d adding that \u201canyone slobbering for the U.S. to become fully involved in the Israel\/Iran war is not America First\/MAGA,\u201d a claim appearing to suggest that Trump himself, given his take on the situation<\/a>, was not a real MAGA guy.<\/p>\n After Trump\u2019s Justice Department announced no further information about disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein would be released, and that there was no evidence to charge anyone else in connection with his crimes, Greene said<\/a> in an interview, \u201cIt\u2019s a full reversal on what was all said beforehand, and people are just not willing to accept it.\u201d Later, without mentioning Epstein by name, she wrote<\/a> on X: \u201cIf you tell the base of people, who support you, of deep state treasonous crimes, election interference, blackmail, and rich powerful elite evil cabals, then you must take down every enemy of The People. If not. The base will turn and there\u2019s no going back. Dangling bits of red meat no longer satisfies. They want the whole steak dinner and will accept nothing else.\u201d (To be clear, it does not appear that the congresswoman, who is a huge<\/em> fan<\/a> of conspiracy theories<\/a>, was suggesting that Trump and company should stop fanning the flames of such things, but rather that they should follow through on their pledges to expose them.)<\/p>\n More recently, Greene has said that Israel is committing genocide, that the situation in Gaza is \u201cabsolutely unacceptable,\u201d and that America should stop providing military aid to Israel. She also insisted that \u201cno American should face persecution of any kind because of their identity,\u201d including \u201cMuslim American[s],\u201d a pretty shocking statement from a woman who once claimed<\/a> practicing Muslims who believe in sharia law should not be allowed to serve in government. (Speaking of Muslim Americans, Greene praised<\/a>* Zohran Mamdani<\/strong>\u2019s mayoral primary campaign, calling it \u201cunique and very smart,\u201d whereas Trump has focused on threats to arrest<\/a> the Democratic nominee to lead New York City.)<\/p>\n This content can also be viewed on the site it originates<\/a> from.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Then, in an interview published by the Daily Mail<\/em> over the weekend, Greene went so far as to suggest that there could be a world in which she leaves<\/a> the Republican Party, saying, \u201cI don\u2019t know if the Republican Party is leaving me, or if I\u2019m kind of not relating to [the] Republican Party as much anymore. I don\u2019t know which one it is.\u201d<\/p>\n While reiterating her full loyalty to Trump, she declared, \u201cThe Republican Party has turned its back on America First and the workers and just regular Americans,\u201d adding of the GOP: \u201cThe course that it\u2019s on, I don\u2019t want to have anything to do with it, and I\u2014I just don\u2019t care anymore.\u201d In the same interview, Greene said she believes Republican women are in touch with what conservative voters want, while the \u201cgood ole boys\u201d of the party are not. \u201cI think there\u2019s other women in our party that are really sick and tired of the way men treat Republican women,\u201d she said, adding that she thinks Representative Elise Stefanik<\/strong>\u2014who was nominated by Trump to serve as UN ambassador, and then had her nomination pulled by the White House to protect the GOP majority in the House\u2014\u201cgot shafted.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\nX content<\/h4>\n