The Marjorie Taylor Greene case

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Fixed my Times subscription, so I'm sharing the article.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/...e_code=1.pU8.oKw0.SqOjRabzAIvP&smid=url-share

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, the right-wing Republican from Georgia, did not appreciate being threatened by the White House over her backing for a bill ordering the release of the Epstein files.

So after a Trump official put out word that doing so would be viewed as a “very hostile act,” she called a top West Wing aide to push back.

“I told them, ‘You didn’t get me elected. I do not work for you; I work for my district,’” she recounted recently during a wide-ranging interview in her office on Capitol Hill. “We aren’t supposed to just be whipped on our votes because they’re telling us what to do with this scary threat, or saying ‘We’ll primary you,’ or that we won’t get invited to the White House events.”

“Me personally? I don’t care,” Ms. Greene went on. These days, when she encounters tactics like that from Mr. Trump’s team, she added, “I’m like, ‘[Expletive] you.’”

She is now operating as a powerful free agent with considerable self-regard and a big chip on her shoulder. She appears to feel no obligation to anyone in Washington — certainly not to Speaker Mike Johnson, whom she tried to oust last year for allowing a vote on continued U.S. aid to Ukraine, and increasingly not even to Mr. Trump.

On a variety of topics including the release of documents related to the case against the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the war in Gaza, artificial intelligence and America’s involvement in Iran and Ukraine, Ms. Greene has broken sharply with the man she still calls “my favorite president.”
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But recently Ms. Greene has been willing to point out when Mr. Trump has strayed from the MAGA messages and positions that got him — and her — elected, leading to high-profile breaks with a president to whom she has displayed loyalty that has not always been returned.

“I didn’t get elected with a President Trump endorsement,” she said, noting that she had won her 2020 primary “on my own.” Mr. Trump eventually endorsed her in the general election, but by that time, Ms. Greene was already coasting to victory.

“It felt really bad at the time, but honestly it’s been the best thing for me,” she said. “I get to be very independent.”

Of course, she has a long way to go, but I never thought I would have some respect for MTG. Hoping more Republicans will grow some courage and not always go along with their idiot ruler. There is a lot more in the article if anyone has the time or interest in reading it.