Marjorie Taylor Greene says she was ‘naive’ for believing Trump is man of the people | Marjorie Taylor Greene
Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is just days away from leaving office as Georgia’s congresswoman, said in her latest mea culpa interview that she was “very naive” for believing Donald Trump was a man of the people.
In a long interview with the New York Times Examining her rift with the president after years of loyalty, Greene explained that a series of minor ruptures with the president culminated in a full-blown breach after the killing of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk in September.
Georgia’s third-term congressman said he watched Kirk’s memorial service on television and heard his widow, Erika, say she forgave her husband’s killer. But then Trump took the stage and said that unlike Kirk, a “noble-spirited missionary” who “didn’t hate” his opponents, Trump disagreed.
“I hate my opponents and I don’t want what’s best for them,” Trump said.
Greenes said: “That was the absolute worst statement. It just shows where his heart is. That’s the difference, he has a sincere Christian faith and it proves he doesn’t have any faith.”
Green said he gave up on the unrepentant Maga acolyte at that exact moment, abandoning his training to “never apologize and never admit when you’re wrong.”
“As a Christian, I don’t believe in doing that,” he said. “I agree with Erika Kirk, who did the hardest thing possible and said it out loud.” Greene later told a friend that after Kirk’s death, “I realized I was part of this toxic culture. I started to really look at my faith. I wanted to be more like Jesus.”
The post-Kirk Maga landscape is showing signs of breaking, and Greene has found herself at odds with the administration and Republican positions, declaring the war in Gaza a “genocide” as well as casting doubt on economic, health care and foreign policy positions that she says fail to prioritize working-class Americans.
“I was very naive and out of politics,” Greene said, adding: “It was easy for me to believe naively.”
His break with Trump and the Republican leadership in Congress was consummated by the vote to release investigative files on sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, he told the Times.
Greene said the Epstein files represented “everything that’s wrong with Washington” and said it was “a story about rich, powerful elites doing terrible things and getting away with it, and the victims were women.”
He claimed that after meeting with the victims, Trump called him and shouted “my friends will be hurt” if the files were released.
In the interview, Greene said it was wrong to accuse Democrats of treason. He now acknowledged that he was an outsider from both sides of the political divide.
“I am radioactive,” he admitted.
“Everybody says, ‘He’s changed,'” Greene added. “I didn’t change my views. But I matured. I developed depth. I learned about Washington and began to understand the fragility of this place.”
