Marjorie Taylor Greene Resigns as of January 5; Trump Celebrates

GOP Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is quitting Congress, largely because she is fed up with the Deep State uniparty establishment.

But that isn’t the only reason, she said last night in a video and written statement published on X at 8 p.m. President Donald Trump, whom she supported faithfully for years, turned on her. He withdrew his endorsement should she face a primary challenger, because she sided with Democrats to pass a bill releasing government files on deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Greene said she would spare her constituents the spectacle of a fight against Trump.

As is his wont, Trump cheered her impending departure.

Greene’s Resignation Letter

The gist of Greene’s statement is that nothing ever changes because, again, of the uniparty axis of power. 

“Americans are used by the Political Industrial Complex of both Political Parties, election cycle after election cycle, in order to elect whichever side can convince Americans to hate the other side more,” she wrote:

And the results are always the same.

No matter which way the political pendulum swings, Republican or Democrat, nothing ever gets better for the common American man or woman.

The debt goes higher.

Corporate and global interests remain Washington’s sweethearts.

American jobs continue to be replaced whether it’s by illegal labor or legal labor by visas or just shipped overseas.

As well, she continued, nationwide and sometimes globe-straddling corporations gobble up small businesses, and, as Americans struggle to pay their bills, their hard-earned tax dollars are wasted on foreign aid, wars, and interests.

“The average American family can no longer survive on a single bread winner’s income as both parents must work in order to simply survive,” she said. “And today, many in my children’s generation feel hopeless for their future and don’t think they will ever realize the American dream, which breaks my heart.”

Noting her strong support for Trump’s MAGA coalition, Greene said she has “one of the most conservative voting records in Congress defending the 1st amendment, 2nd amendment, unborn babies,” and “strong safe borders.”

Yet despite a GOP majority in the House, “the legislature has been mostly sidelined.”

Support for Trump

Denouncing the recent eight-week government shutdown, the congresswoman segued into her support for Trump, and that he was, in turn, disloyal to her.

“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, and showing up in places like outside the New York Courthouse in Collect Pond Park against a raging leftist mob as Trump faced Democrat lawfare,” she said:

Meanwhile most of the Establishment Republicans, who secretly hate him and who stabbed him in the back and never defended him against anything, have all been welcomed in after the election.

And I will never forget the day I had to leave my mother’s side as my father had brain surgery to remove cancerous tumors in order to fly to Washington DC to defend President Trump and vote NO against the [Democrats’] second impeachment in 2021. My poor father and my poor mother, it was way too much.

Greene — who has a Freedom Index lifetime score of 97 percent — said she disagreed with Trump on just a few issues: H-1B visas that put Americans out of work, Trump’s “debt for life” 50-year mortgage plan, “involvement in foreign wars,” and, most notably, “the release of the Epstein files.”

Otherwise, she has stood strongly behind him.

“Loyalty should be a two way street and we should be able to vote our conscience and represent our district’s interest because our job title is literally, ‘Representative,’” she wrote:

America First should mean America First and only Americans First, with no other foreign country ever being attached to America First in our halls of government.

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. …

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. And in turn, be expected to defend the President against impeachment after he hatefully dumped tens of millions of dollars against me and tried to destroy me.

It’s all so absurd and completely unserious. I refuse to be a “battered wife” hoping it all goes away and gets better. If I am cast aside by MAGA Inc and replaced by Neocons, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Military Industrial War Complex, foreign leaders, and the elite donor class that can’t even relate to real Americans, then many common Americans have been cast aside and replaced as well.

There is no “plan to save the world” or insane 4D chess game being played.

When the common American people finally realize and understand that the Political Industrial Complex of both parties is ripping this country apart, that not one elected leader like me is able to stop Washington’s machine from gradually destroying our country, and instead the reality is that they, common Americans, The People, possess the real power over Washington, then I’ll be here by their side to rebuild it.

Trump’s Attacks

For his part, Trump gloated about Greene’s coming departure. 

“Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Brown, because of PLUMMETING Poll Numbers, and not wanting to face a Primary Challenger with a strong Trump Endorsement (where she would have no chance of winning!), has decided to call it ‘quits,’” he wrote on Truth Social:

Her relationship with the WORST Republican Congressman in decades, Tom Massie of Kentucky, also known as Rand Paul Jr. because he votes against the Republican Party (and really good legislation!), did not help her. For some reason, primarily that I refused to return her never ending barrage of phone calls, Marjorie went BAD. Nevertheless, I will always appreciate Marjorie, and thank her for her service to our Country! President DJT

“I think it’s great news for the country,” he told Rachel Scott of ABC News.

 As Politico reported, a main bone of contention between the two was the Epstein bill. Greene supported it. Trump didn’t, but eventually conceded. The website noted:

This has been one of the most destructive things to MAGA … watching the man that we supported early on, three elections,” oppose the bill, she told reporters. “Watching this actually turn into a fight has ripped MAGA apart.”

But Trump didn’t help matters when he called her a “traitor” and withdrew his endorsement.

“I am withdrawing my support and Endorsement of ‘Congresswoman’ Marjorie Taylor Greene, of the Great State of Georgia,” he wrote on Truth Social:

Over the past few weeks, despite my creating Record Achievements for our Country including, a Total and Complete Victory on the Shutdown, Closed Borders, Low Taxes, No Men in Women’s Sports or Transgender for Everyone, ending DEI, stopping Biden’s Record Setting Inflation, Biggest Regulation Cuts in History, stopping EIGHT WARS, rebuilding our Military, being RESPECTED by every Country in the World (as opposed to being the laughingstock that we were just 12 months ago!), having Trillions of Dollars (Record Setting!) INVESTED in the U.S.A., and having created the “HOTTEST” Country anywhere in the World from being a DEAD Country just 12 months ago (and so much more!), all I see “Wacky” Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN!

Trump also called her a “ranting lunatic,” noting that “wonderful, Conservative people are thinking about primarying Marjorie in her District of Georgia.” He said that “they will have my Complete and Unyielding Support.”

“She has gone Far Left, even doing The View, with their Low IQ Republican hating Anchors,” he wrote.

Greene replied on X that Trump lied. 

“I haven’t called him at all, but I did send these text messages today,” she wrote on X:

Apparently this is what sent him over the edge. 

The Epstein files.

And of course he’s coming after me hard to make an example to scare all the other Republicans before next week’s vote to release the Epstein files.

Reaction

Congressman Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) importuned followers to read Greene’s statement.

“I’m very sad for our country but so happy for my friend Marjorie,” Massie wrote last night:

I’ll miss her tremendously. She embodies what a true Representative should be. Everyone should read her statement; there’s more honesty expressed in these four pages than most politicians will speak in a lifetime.

“No, this is not great news for our country,” he wrote over Scott’s X post of Trump’s remarks.

“Republicans in her district should refuse to run against her,” Ann Coulter wrote.

Said Greene this morning, “I believe in the American people”:

You are stronger and more resilient than you know.

There are no leaders that will save this country, but YOU, the American people can.

Greene’s despair at the state of Congress is not surprising. She has learned what the late Carroll Quigley — who strongly influenced former President Bill Clinton at Georgetown University — wrote in Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time:

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can “throw the rascals out” at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party, which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies.

Editor’s note: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s X post today and resignation statement mirror what Robert Welch, founder of The John Birch Society, said many years ago in his Blue Book: “Put not your faith in politicians. … We cannot count on politicians, political leadership, or even political action except as a part of something much deeper and broader to save us.”

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