Greene gives lengthy interview with New York Times days before stepping down as congresswoman for Georgia

Marjorie Taylor Greene, now just days away from stepping down as a congresswoman for Georgia, has said in her latest mea culpa interview that she “was just so naive” for believing that Donald Trump was a man of the people.

In a lengthy interview with the New York Times that examines her break with the president after years of devotion, Greene explained that a series of minor ruptures with the president culminated in a total breach after conservative influencer Charlie Kirk was killed in September.

The third-term Georgia congresswoman said she was watching Kirk’s memorial service on TV when his widow Erika said she forgave her husband’s killer. But then Trump took the stage to say that unlike Kirk – “a missionary with a noble spirit” who did not “hate” his opponents, Trump said he disagreed.

“I hate my opponent, and I don’t want the best for them,” Trump said.

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    9 hours ago

    They’ll run a Clinton/Occasio-Cortez ticket for the bulk of the year and then change it to Newsom/Cuomo in the last three weeks. If anyone can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory it’s the opposition party we call the Democrats.

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      9 hours ago

      Don’t you think Cuomo would be just a bit too obvious, even assuming your conspiracy theory of Democrats trying to lose is true?