President Donald Trump welcomed the weekend with a Reality Social tirade in opposition to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), after publicly pulling his help from the MAGA firebrand the night time earlier than.
In a Saturday morning publish, the president referred to Greene as “Lightweight Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Brown,” instantly explaining that he known as her that as a result of “Green grass turns Brown when it begins to ROT!”
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He claimed that Greene had “turned Left” and “betrayed the entire Republican Party,” accusing her of being a “Fake politician.”
In one other publish round an hour later, he referred to her as “Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Green [sic].”
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Trump’s posts got here on the heels of his Friday night time diatribe in opposition to Greene, wherein he stated he was “withdrawing” his help and endorsement of ”‘Wacky’ Marjorie,” claiming that she incessantly known as him after which complained he wouldn’t take her calls.
Greene responded that night time, saying, “President Trump just attacked me and lied about me.”
She added that she had in reality not known as him, however as an alternative despatched textual content messages in regards to the potential launch of information associated to infamous intercourse trafficker and former Trump pal Jeffrey Epstein.
“Apparently this is what sent him over the edge,” she wrote on X. “The Epstein files.”
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On Saturday morning, Greene posted a follow-up message of her personal.
“I never thought that fighting to release the Epstein files, defending women who were victims of rape, and fighting to expose the web of rich powerful elites would have caused this, but here we are,” she wrote. “And it truly speaks for itself. There needs to be a new way forward.”
She didn’t point out Trump by title, however went on to sentence the “poisonous political industrial complicated,” which she stated “thrives on ripping us all apart but never delivers anything good for the American people, whom I love.”
