Marjorie Taylor Greene went from MAGA fan to Trump ‘traitor’

On a cold morning last week, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene stood in front of the Capitol. Next to her were women who say they were abused by Jeffrey Epstein. For months, the right-wing radical politician has been one of the most prominent Republican representatives calling for the disclosure of all Epstein documents.

The conspiracy theorist from the state of Georgia criticized President Donald Trump for withholding information about Epstein’s actions. In doing so, she publicly broke with the president, while Greene was once one of the most ardent followers of Trump’s MAGA ideology.

And she was not grateful for that criticism. Trump called Greene “crazy Marjorie,” who just “complains, complains, complains.” This is how Greene changed from ally to “traitor” in Trump’s world. Although the House of Representatives approved the release of the Epstein criminal file on Tuesday, Greene announced her departure from Congress on Friday. “Great news for the country,” Trump said.

Conspiracy correspondent

Taylor Greene became a household name in the Republican Party during the 2020 election for her polarizing rhetoric and support for conspiracy theories. She was a “correspondent” for American Truth Seekers, a now defunct conspiracy website. In her articles she suggested, among other things, that Hillary Clinton had murdered her political enemies. Greene called the death of John F. Kennedy Jr., who died in a plane crash in 1999, “another Clinton assassination.” writes The New York Times.

In a forty minute video she also cast doubt on the plane that flew into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, and declared that President Barack Obama was secretly Muslim. Within months of 2021, her first year in the House of Representatives, she came under fire for her beliefs and was eventually removed from her committee positions.

That did not stop Greene from continuing to spread falsehoods. For example, according to Greene, the 2020 elections would have been fraudulent: Trump would actually have won. In 2022 she became suspended from the then Twitter for repeatedly spreading misinformation about the Covid vaccine. Later that year defended the politician in a conservative radio program President Vladimir Putin and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

MAGA split

Greene became interested in politics during the 2016 Republican primaries. At the time, she owned a Crossfit gym in suburban Atlanta. Just under five years later, she was elected as a representative for the fourteenth district of the state of Georgia.

For years, Greene was considered a big MAGA fan. However, her praise for the president waned over the course of this year. Greene increasingly made it clear in which areas she believed the president was falling short. The war in Gaza called them a genocideshe criticized Trump’s decision to bomb Iranian nuclear power plants and pushed for the extension of expiring health care subsidies.

The breaking point came in September, when she presented herself as a Republican advocate for transparency about the Epstein case. Trump saw her support for a Western proposal to make the documents public as a “very hostile act.” However, the politician stood his ground: “I don’t work for you; I work for my district,” thus The New York Times.

“What happened to Marjorie?”

Her turn from conspiracy theorist to advocate for women who have been abused came as a surprise to many. In recent weeks, Trump publicly asked the question: “What happened to Marjorie?”

Brian Robinson told radio station NPRa Republican strategist in Georgia, that Greene may have had “a conversion.” He suggested she wants to boost her popularity as she considers a run for higher office — perhaps even the presidency.

Greene himself said two weeks ago against ABC that she had not changed. A week later she bid an interview with CNN apologizes for the “toxic rhetoric” she has used in the past.

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