Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to White House: "F*ck You!"
"I do not work for you": MTG speaks out on growing rift with Trump’s White House over Epstein files.
‘I’m like, “[Expletive] you,”’ Marjorie Taylor Greene said about receiving threats from White House officials.
Marjorie Taylor Greene has come out swinging at the White House over the Trump administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case.
The rift between the MAGA firebrand and White House deepened after a Trump official apparently told her that her support of bipartisan legislation ordering the release of the so-called Epstein files would be viewed as a “very hostile act.”
Greene is one of four Republicans, alongside Reps. Thomas Massie, Nancy Mace and Lauren Boebert to have signed on to a discharge petition to force the release of files related to Epstein. If a discharge petition receives the signature of a majority of members, they can force a vote without the consent of leadership.
“I told them, ‘You didn’t get me elected. I do not work for you; I work for my district,’” the Georgia Republican representative recently told The New York Times.
The right-wing representative says she called a top West Wing aide to push back against that threat, telling the Times, “We aren’t supposed to just be whipping 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,” Greene continued, noting when she encounters similar tactics from Trump’s team, “I’m like, ‘[Expletive] you’”
That vote is expected as soon as the newest member of Congress, Adelita Grijalva, of Arizona, is sworn in. The vote could come as soon as Monday, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) told The Independent Friday.
So far, every Democratic member of Congress has signed the petition along with the four Republican representatives, leaving it with 216 votes.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/mtg-trump-rift-epstein-files-b2835279.html
‘I’m like, “[Expletive] you,”’ Marjorie Taylor Greene said about receiving threats from White House officials.
Marjorie Taylor Greene has come out swinging at the White House over the Trump administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case.
The rift between the MAGA firebrand and White House deepened after a Trump official apparently told her that her support of bipartisan legislation ordering the release of the so-called Epstein files would be viewed as a “very hostile act.”
Greene is one of four Republicans, alongside Reps. Thomas Massie, Nancy Mace and Lauren Boebert to have signed on to a discharge petition to force the release of files related to Epstein. If a discharge petition receives the signature of a majority of members, they can force a vote without the consent of leadership.
“I told them, ‘You didn’t get me elected. I do not work for you; I work for my district,’” the Georgia Republican representative recently told The New York Times.
The right-wing representative says she called a top West Wing aide to push back against that threat, telling the Times, “We aren’t supposed to just be whipping 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,” Greene continued, noting when she encounters similar tactics from Trump’s team, “I’m like, ‘[Expletive] you’”
That vote is expected as soon as the newest member of Congress, Adelita Grijalva, of Arizona, is sworn in. The vote could come as soon as Monday, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) told The Independent Friday.
So far, every Democratic member of Congress has signed the petition along with the four Republican representatives, leaving it with 216 votes.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/mtg-trump-rift-epstein-files-b2835279.html
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