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President Donald Trump said that he would like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to get back into politics at some point, even though they had a fight recently. The day after Greene, one of the most well-known Republicans, said she would leave in January, Trump made his statements.
In a brief interview with NBC News, the president said, “It’s not going to be easy for her” to revive her career in politics, though he added, “I’d love to see that.” In the meantime, Trump said, “She’s got to take a little rest.”
Greene has been a strong supporter of the president for a long time, but in the past few weeks she has been increasingly vocal about how she disagrees with certain of his policies and objectives. She has criticized Trump for spending too much time with foreign leaders instead of focusing on the money problems of regular Americans.
She was also one of the first people to call for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, saying that Trump had been stopping them from being made public. Last Sunday, Trump changed his mind about the campaign to make the data public, calling it a “hoax.” Congress promptly pushed to make the Justice Department do precisely that, and Trump signed the law.
Trump has lashed out at Greene, labeling her a “traitor.” He withdrew his support for her re-election.
Early Saturday morning, before his interview with NBC News, Trump stated on his social media site that Greene chose to quit rather than face a Republican primary challenger in the midterm elections next year. He called her “a traitor” again and thanked her for “serving our country.”
A person close to Greene said in an interview that the congresswoman believed she would have won re-election had she opted to run. The issue was not so much the competition as the threats and insults that Greene and her children have received, the individual added, speaking on condition of anonymity. Greene has two daughters and a son, all in their 20s.
“She very much looks forward to one day go out in public and not be harassed in restaurants and airports and be on the face of every TV channel,” the person added. “It’s safe to say she’ll probably take a step back and be a private, normal person again.”
As for Trump’s denunciations, the person said, “She was one of his biggest allies in Congress and she never really turned her back on him. She stood up for him when no one else in the House would. It was disappointing to her to see that, but she’s not someone who, when she sees things she disagrees with, would turn a blind eye to that.”
Asked if he believed he could overcome his differences with Greene, Trump said in the interview, “I can patch up differences with anyone.”
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Greene announced Friday evening that she is resigning from Congress, following a contentious split with Trump. She represented Georgia’s 14th Congressional District for five years.
Her departure follows weeks of escalating tensions with the president after she repeatedly called for the immediate public release of the Jeffrey Epstein client list and related files.
The dispute prompted Trump to criticize her and withdraw his endorsement in several posts on Truth Social.
“I have too much self-respect and dignity, love my family way too much, and do not want my sweet district to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the President we all fought for, only to fight and win my election while Republicans will likely lose the midterms,” Greene said in the video.
“If I am cast aside by the president and the MAGA political machine and replaced by Neocons, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Military Industrial War Complex, foreign leaders and the elite donor class that can never, ever relate to real Americans, then many common Americans have been cast aside and replaced as well,” she added.
“I have fought harder than almost any other elected Republican to elect Donald Trump and Republicans to power, traveling the country for years, spending millions of my own money, missing precious time with my family that I can never get back,” Greene wrote in her resignation letter.
