ACWORTH, Ga. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene got here to a city corridor in suburban Atlanta on Tuesday night time to ship full-throated assist of President Donald Trump, and he or she wasn’t letting the protesters faze her — not even the one who was wrestled to the bottom by police and subdued with a Taser.
Three folks had been arrested on the occasion, and others had been escorted out as a result of Greene and police stated they had been being disruptive. However a majority of the gang of greater than 150 was supportive of the Republican, who represents a closely GOP district stretching from Atlanta’s northwest suburbs to the Tennessee border.
“What am I going to do? I am going to stand by my president,” Greene stated in response to a important query as many viewers members whooped in approval. She added that she would “fight for his agenda with everything I have in Congress.”
Whereas Republican congressional leaders have suggested their members to not maintain city corridor conferences, Greene has at all times courted the highlight. After giving a speech and taking part in video clips of her supporting Trump, she answered questions that had been submitted prematurely and printed on slides.
Most had been supportive, like one asking when officers may start arresting politicians accused of treason. Greene was dismissive of a lot of the hostile questions, twice suggesting that these behind them had been Democrats “brainwashed” by their information consumption.
Answering a number of questions on tariffs, Greene argued that the “real economy” is flourishing beneath Trump and that individuals shouldn’t fear about turmoil within the inventory and bond markets. In doing so Greene flatly denied the financial consensus that tariffs will result in increased costs.
“The reality is tariffs are not a massive tax on the American people,” Greene stated. “The tax on the American people that you’ve been suffering with is the inflation that Biden and the Democrats put on the American people and their absolute reckless spending for the past four years.”
Greene additionally stated she believes her supporters have the persistence to attend out destructive results of Trump’s tariff coverage and strikes to slash federal spending, saying it may take a very long time to indicate outcomes.
“Don’t be a ‘panican.’ That’s a new word President Trump came up with,” Greene stated, utilizing an insult he coined on-line. “You see, look, it took us decades to get here — decades to get the $36 trillion in debt. It took decades for our factories to get shut down and our jobs sent overseas. It took decades for us to all fall into this terrible — it’s basically a grave that America has been put in and dug by our federal government.”
Greene, lengthy considered one of Trump’s most loyal allies, has stated she’s contemplating operating for U.S. Senate or Georgia governor in 2026, however has but to make any public strikes towards what could be a bruising race within the politically aggressive state.
She repeatedly stated “Bye” to folks being escorted from the room and praised officers’ response, saying the suitable place for these ejected was with greater than 100 protesters lining a avenue outdoors the group middle.
“This is a town hall; this is not a political rally; this is not a protest,” Greene stated.
One protester held up an indication alluding to claims that Greene improperly profited from shopping for shares when Trump partially paused tariffs in opposition to many international locations final week. In questions from reporters afterward, Greene didn’t particularly deny having advance data of the pause however repeated {that a} monetary adviser manages her inventory holdings with out enter from her.
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“He did a great job. He bought the dip,” Greene stated. “And that’s what anybody with any financial sense does when they know the market is going to be going down.”
Acworth Police Sgt. Eric Mistretta stated he didn’t but have the names of the folks arrested or the costs filed in opposition to them after the assembly. He stated he believed officers responded with applicable pressure to individuals who yelled at Greene after which resisted removing, though none approached her.
About 30 officers supplied safety together with Cobb County police and sheriff’s deputies, Mistretta stated.
