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 stated she “ceaselessly might be so proud” of Greene whereas sharing her mother’s video asserting her plan to step down from her submit in January.
“One in all a form Congresswoman,” Greene Sanders wrote on X. “110% on America First, American Solely.”
A day later, Greene Sanders shrugged off hypothesis that Greene’s resignation was pushed, no less than partially, by a need to run for president in 2028.
“It is a lie,” she wrote on X in response to a Time article that cited sources near the Georgia lawmaker who advised 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 referred to as mendacity,” she wrote in a prolonged submit on X alongside a screenshot of the article. “I’m not working for President and by no means stated I needed to and have solely laughed about it when anybody would point out 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 latest weeks, nevertheless, she’s surprised her constituents by breaking with the president over his dealing with of this yr’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 information and likewise referred to as out numerous GOP lawmakers, together with Home Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana.
“Standing up for American girls who had been raped at 14, trafficked and utilized by wealthy highly effective males, mustn’t end in me being referred to as a traitor and threatened by the President of america, 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 “instantly modified.”
“I’m doubling down on how a lot I like this nation and its individuals,” she informed Vainness Truthful this month. “I’m radically doubling down, to the purpose the place it doesn’t matter who I disagree with. I’m disagreeing with my very own facet.”