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‘I Was Just So Naïve’: Inside Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Break With Trump​

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/...e_code=1.AVA.gFPv.tQFIJdq6Eq2z&smid=url-share
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.”
 
Trump on the ballroom: "It's bigger than I told you. It's, you know -- after realizing we're gonna do the inauguration in that building, it's got all bulletproof glass, it's got all drone, they call it drone-free roof. It's dronessss -- won't touch it. It's a big beautiful safe building."

“He said, ‘Jesse, it’s a monument. I’m building a monument to myself because no one else will.’”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jess...room-and-its-gross_n_69499f17e4b099a75cbdb57f

So, I sadly say, it's just another sign how it's really about Trump First, not America First.
 
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.”

................

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.”
I read most of it (was VERY long), and came away kind of impressed with MTG. If (and that's a big if) she is genuine, it's exactly what we need in politics.

She kind of embodies the average republican turned MAGA in my eyes - scared and angry because of years of propaganda from Fox. She fell right into the outrage and used her power to try and combat it.

I still don't agree with a lot of her views, but I can respect her self reflection and turn around (if that's what this really is)
 
I read most of it (was VERY long), and came away kind of impressed with MTG. If (and that's a big if) she is genuine, it's exactly what we need in politics.

She kind of embodies the average republican turned MAGA in my eyes - scared and angry because of years of propaganda from Fox. She fell right into the outrage and used her power to try and combat it.

I still don't agree with a lot of her views, but I can respect her self reflection and turn around (if that's what this really is)
It's a weird feeling, I used to think she was bat spit crazy, now she seems like one of the most sane republicans left in Congress. Like you, I just hope it is genuine.
 
Trump posted a clip to his Truth Social account Wednesday that suggested the Kennedy name be removed entirely from the Kennedy Center. The clip complained that Kennedy had been “elevated to obscene levels.”

 
But by damn we are going to build the largest and most expensive arch in the history of the world for America's 250 birthday and name it after Trump




It was devastating for military family members like Courtney Deady and her husband, a member of the Ohio Air National Guard, who have been trying to have a baby for a decade.

“It honestly feels, for lack of better terms, more of a slap in the face to a lot of our community when our Congress is receiving a lot of those benefits that we so desperately would love to have on our end,” she told CNN.

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But by damn we are going to build the largest and most expensive arch in the history of the world for America's 250 birthday and name it after Trump




It was devastating for military family members like Courtney Deady and her husband, a member of the Ohio Air National Guard, who have been trying to have a baby for a decade.

“It honestly feels, for lack of better terms, more of a slap in the face to a lot of our community when our Congress is receiving a lot of those benefits that we so desperately would love to have on our end,” she told CNN.

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I remember when Trump said he was going to be the most pro-IVF President we've ever seen.

Like most everything he has said.....just another lie.

 
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