Mike Johnson Was Pressed On Trump’s Assaults On MTG — And He Provided A Telling Response

Home Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Monday addressed the rift between President Donald Trump and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) after Greene stated the president’s assaults relating to her stance on recordsdata associated to late little one intercourse predator Jeffrey Epstein put her life at risk.

“The president has called Marjorie Taylor Greene a traitor. She says it’s impacting her security and safety. Would you advise the president to stop calling her a traitor?” CNN correspondent Manu Raju requested Johnson on Monday within the U.S. Capitol.

“I don’t — look, it’s not surprising the president is frustrated because of some of the criticisms that Marjorie had been out stating to the media,” Johnson replied.

Noting that “[Greene] criticizes me all the time,” the speaker added, “but I work on unity in the party, and my encouragement of everybody is to get together.”

Trump has downplayed Greene’s issues, telling reporters Sunday that he doesn’t “think anybody cares about her.”

Greene and Trump’s feud hit a brand new degree of rivalry after the president withdrew his help for her in a heated Reality Social submit on Friday, then adopted with a submit calling her a “traitor” on Saturday.

Greene slammed Trump’s name-calling and argued that “those are the types of words used that can radicalize people against me and put my life in danger.” She additionally referred to as Trump’s repeated assaults in opposition to her “a dog whistle to dangerous radicals that could lead to serious attacks on me and my family.”

Talking at a press convention on the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, Greene responded to Trump’s use of the phrase “traitor.”

“Let me tell you what a traitor is. A traitor is an American that serves foreign countries and themselves,” she stated. “A patriot is an American that serves the United States of America and Americans like the women standing behind me now.”

Greene beforehand decried that Trump’s international insurance policies are “not America first positions” — a reference to Trump’s go-to political and international coverage slogan.

Elsewhere in her speech, Greene additionally stated Trump “called me a traitor for standing with these women and [for] refusing to take my name off the discharge petition,” noting that the Epstein drama “has ripped MAGA aside.”