I ran out of gifted articles, but this one is incredible and should be read. If anyone is interested, let me know after the new year.
Lot's of wow in the article:
Three days after Greene was sworn into office in January 2021, the Capitol fell siege to rioters trying to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s victory. According to Greene, she found herself sequestered with other House members in a conference room and arguing with another Republican freshman, Kat Cammack of Florida.
“B.L.M. and antifa have broken into the Capitol!” Greene insisted.
Grabbing Greene’s shoulders, Cammack replied firmly: “Marjorie. They’re wearing MAGA hats.”
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After the hearing, Greene held a news conference at which she threatened to identify some of the men who had abused the women. (Greene says that she didn’t know those names herself but that she could have gotten them from the victims.) Trump called Greene to voice his displeasure. Greene was in her Capitol Hill office, and according to a staff member, everyone in the suite of rooms could hear him yelling at her as she listened to him on speakerphone. Greene says she expressed her perplexity over his intransigence. According to Greene, Trump replied, “My friends will get hurt.”
When she urged Trump to invite some of Epstein’s female victims to the Oval Office, she says, he angrily informed her that they had done nothing to merit the honor. It would be the last conversation Greene and Trump would ever have.
Rather than back down, Greene did something she had never done before as a congresswoman: She teamed up with a Democrat, Representative Ro Khanna of California, as well as the Republican maverick Thomas Massie, on a legislative maneuver that would compel the Justice Department to release all documents pertaining to Epstein. To say that Khanna — a progressive Democrat who had joined his colleagues four years earlier in voting to strip Greene of her committee assignments — did not regard Greene as a natural ally was an understatement.
“I had the same caricatured opinion of her as everyone,” Khanna told me. “I saw her heckling President Biden at the State of the Union address. I thought she was a person on the fringes. But my view of her completely changed. At our press conferences, she didn’t even seek to speak. She was genuinely moved by the survivors, so much so that we hugged each other during one woman’s testimony. I found her to be a person of integrity and courage, considering the pressure she faced from the White House.”
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That same day, Nov. 16, Greene appeared on the CNN program “State of the Union,” co-hosted by Dana Bash. The congresswoman was uncharacteristically somber, describing the threats she received. Bash referred to a recent post by Greene on X saying that Trump had unleashed a “hotbed of threats” against her. The CNN host then pointed out the long history of Trump’s attacks on others. “And with respect,” Bash said, “I haven’t heard you speak out about it until it was directed at you.”
“Dana, I think that’s fair criticism,” Greene replied. “And I would like to say, humbly, I’m sorry for taking part in the toxic politics.”
