The eldest daughter of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is talking out amid her mom’s headline-making fallout with President Donald Trump and her subsequent resignation from Congress.
On Friday, Lauren Greene Sanders mentioned she “forever will be so proud” of Greene whereas sharing her mother’s video saying her plan to step down from her publish in January.
“One of a kind Congresswoman,” Greene Sanders wrote on X. “110% on America First, American Only.”
A day later, Greene Sanders shrugged off hypothesis that Greene’s resignation was pushed, a minimum of partially, by a want to run for president in 2028.
“This is a lie,” she wrote on X in response to a Time article that cited sources near the Georgia lawmaker who instructed she’d set her sights on the White Home.
On Sunday, Greene herself additionally reacted to Time’s reporting with related sentiments.
“That’s not journalism, it’s called lying,” she wrote in a prolonged publish on X alongside a screenshot of the article. “I’m not running for President and never said I wanted to and have only laughed about it when anyone would mention it.”
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Greene rose to nationwide prominence in 2020 as an outspoken supporter of Trump and his Make America Nice Once more motion. In current weeks, nonetheless, she’s surprised her constituents by breaking with the president over his dealing with of this 12 months’s authorities shutdown, which ended Nov. 12 after 43 days, and his reluctance to launch categorised paperwork associated to late intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
In her resignation assertion, Greene alluded to the battle over the Epstein recordsdata and in addition referred to as out various GOP lawmakers, together with Home Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana.
“Standing up for American women who were raped at 14, trafficked and used by rich powerful men, should not result in me being called a traitor and threatened by the President of the United States, whom I fought for,” she wrote.
Elsewhere in her assertion, Greene claimed many institution Republicans embraced by the Trump administration since his 2024 reelection “secretly hate him.”
Not surprisingly, Trump publicly pulled his assist of Greene after she started criticizing him publicly and responded to her resignation by once more deeming her a “traitor.”
Although Greene’s spat with the president and disillusionment with MAGA have gained reward from some Democrats, Greene has denied that she’s “suddenly changed.”
“I’m doubling down on how much I love this country and its people,” she instructed Vainness Truthful this month. “I’m radically doubling down, to the point where it doesn’t matter who I disagree with. I’m disagreeing with my own side.”
