Marjorie Taylor Greene

• 1. Introduction

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  Marjorie Taylor Greene walked onto the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives on her first day in office wearing a face mask that read “Trump Won.” Donald Trump had lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden. The mask told colleagues, the press and the country what kind of congresswoman Greene meant to be. She is an American politician and businesswoman, known by her initials MTG, who represented a Georgia district from 2021 until she resigned in 2026. Much of the controversy around her traces back to things she said, posted and shared. This documentary follows three questions. How did someone from a career in small business reach the House? What had she said online before anyone in Washington was paying attention? And why did one of Trump's most visible defenders eventually turn on him?

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• 2. From Contracting to CrossFit

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  Marjorie Taylor was born in Milledgeville, Georgia, on the 27th of May 1974, the daughter of Robert Taylor. She graduated from South Forsyth High School in Cumming, Georgia, in 1992. Two years before she finished, in September 1990, an armed student at the school held 53 students hostage for more than five hours. Greene later alluded to being affected by that day when she explained her views on gun rights and school shootings, in statements in 2019 and in a House floor speech on the 4th of February 2021. She earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Georgia in 1996.

  In 2002, Greene's father sold Taylor Commercial, an Alpharetta, Georgia, general-contracting company he had founded, to Greene and her then-husband, Perry Greene. By 2019, Perry was the company's president and she was its vice president. She was listed as chief financial officer from 2007 to 2011. A 2021 investigation by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, however, concluded that she had no significant presence at the firm.

  In 2011, Greene stepped down from that post and began CrossFit training. By 2012 she was a part-time coach at an Alpharetta gym. In August 2013 she opened CrossFit Passion in Alpharetta with Travis Mayer, a CrossFit athlete. She left the business in early 2017. In a 2015 interview, she admitted that she and Mayer knew little about running a business when they started.

  Greene says her political engagement began during the 2016 Republican presidential primaries. In 2017 she traveled to Washington, D.C., to protest a Republican gun control compromise. That same year she began writing for American Truth Seekers, a conspiracy news website that has since closed, and it published 59 of her articles. In January 2018 she started writing for Law Enforcement Today, a pro-police fake news website, which featured 27 more.

  The Family America Project, a conservative group, was founded in January 2018, and Greene became one of its top officials and a moderator of its Facebook group. Members of that group posted death threats against Democrats and bigotry aimed at the family of Barack Obama. They also backed conspiracy theories, including John Birch Society claims that communists had infiltrated the U.S. government.

  In February 2019, Greene visited the U.S. Capitol and livestreamed her tour on Facebook. Outside Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's office, she called through the mail slot for the congresswoman to unlock the door and “face the American citizens that you serve.” She mocked Ocasio-Cortez with a remark about a diaper and called the office a day care center. At the offices of Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, Greene falsely claimed the two were not official representatives because they had been sworn in on the Quran. Within months, Greene was running for Congress herself.

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• 3. Winning Georgia's 14th District

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  Greene's first campaign for Congress began in the 6th district, where she lived, on the 4th of June 2019. She promised to balance the federal budget, telling voters: “If we look at our country as our household, we're going to go under foreclosure because we're overspending.” She also attacked her expected primary opponent, former U.S. representative Karen Handel, saying: “She's lost seven races in her entire political career.” Then the map shifted. On the 13th of December 2019, Greene announced she was moving her campaign to the 14th district, after incumbent Tom Graves said he would not run again.

  The 14th covers much of Northwest Georgia, from the Georgia side of the Chattanooga area to the exurbs of Atlanta. The Constitution requires House members to live in the state they represent, not in a particular district. Greene had long lived in Milton, in the 6th, so nothing barred her from running in the 14th. She said she would move anyway, bought a home in Paulding County, and by her swearing-in in January 2021 reported living in Rome.

  On the 29th of February 2020, Greene spoke at a gun rights rally in Villanow, hosted by Silent No Longer, a group campaigning to make Walker County a Second Amendment sanctuary. There she held a banner for American Patriots USA, a far-right group trying to gain influence among Georgia Republicans. She posed for photos with its founder, Chester Doles. The source describes Doles as a fifth-generation Ku Klux Klansman and Grand Klaliff leader with nearly a dozen assault arrests and two prison sentences in Maryland.

  Greene ran under the slogan “Save America, Stop Socialism!” and presented herself as a staunch supporter of Trump, though he had not endorsed her. Days before the primary, Facebook removed a video in which she held an AR-15 style rifle and told antifa groups to “stay the hell out of Northwest Georgia.” She finished first in the primary on the 9th of June, and Trump tweeted the words “A big winner.” No candidate won a majority, so she faced John Cowan, a neurosurgeon, in a runoff. Cowan also backed Trump, but Greene branded him a RINO, short for “Republican in name only.”

  At a runoff debate on the 14th of July, Cowan raised an awkward point. Greene's company, Taylor Commercial, had accepted $182,300 in Paycheck Protection Program money during the pandemic, even as she opposed relief spending in Congress. Filings said the company expected to save 12 jobs. About two months after the loan arrived, Greene donated $450,000 to her own campaign. Cowan also questioned the company's donations to that campaign. Greene won the runoff on the 11th of August, and the next day Trump tweeted his support and called her a future Republican star.

  Her backers in 2020 included representatives Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs and Matt Gaetz, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, and Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows. RightWomen PAC, whose executive director is Meadows's wife Debbie, contributed $17,500 to her runoff campaign. Donors included Barb Van Andel-Gaby, chair of the board of the Heritage Foundation, and attorney L. Lin Wood. The House Freedom Fund also supported her, and the Georgia Republican Party gave $5,220 on the 2nd of March 2020.

  The general election was never much of a contest. In 2017, the Cook Political Report ranked the district the 10th-most Republican in the country. On the 3rd of September 2020, Greene shared a meme of herself holding an AR-15 style rifle beside pictures of Ocasio-Cortez, Omar and Tlaib. She wrote that it was time for “strong conservative Christians to go on the offense against these socialists who want to rip our country apart.” The caption read “Squad's worst nightmare.” Pelosi called the meme a threat of violence, and Omar demanded its deletion, saying it had triggered death threats. A Greene spokesperson dismissed the idea of a threat when Forbes asked. Facebook deleted the meme the next day, and Greene claimed that Democrats were trying to “cancel” her.

  Greene's expected Democratic opponent, IT specialist Kevin Van Ausdal, withdrew on the 11th of September, leaving her unopposed in practice. On the 19th of September, she appeared at a gun rights rally in Ringgold, Georgia, where she had Chester Doles ejected. Security there came from the Georgia III% Martyrs, who wore camouflage, body armor and radios, and in one case carried a battle ax. Senator Kelly Loeffler made a brief appearance. Greene won in November with 74 percent of the vote, while Van Ausdal, whose name stayed on the ballot, took 25 percent.

  Her victory speech made news for its insults aimed at Pelosi. A reporter from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution was ousted from the venue after tweeting quotes from it. In the days after the election, Greene suggested her husband's Floyd County voting record revealed fraud, saying he was told he had received an absentee ballot he never requested. Chief elections clerk Robert Brady told the newspaper that the ballot was canceled according to procedure. He added that Perry Greene “signed an affidavit on October 23rd and he was allowed to vote.... He only voted one time.”

  In September 2021, the Federal Election Commission asked her 2022 campaign treasurer, her then-husband, about $3.5 million in unitemized contributions from undisclosed donors. Federal law allows only individual contributions under $200 to go unitemized. Greene had raised more than any other House Republican in the first three months of 2021. In April of that year she faced a legal challenge under the Fourteenth Amendment, which bars people who engaged in insurrection from serving in Congress. The challenge rested on her alleged role in organizing and promoting the Capitol attack.

  She defeated Jennifer Strahan in the 2022 Republican primary and beat Democrat Marcus Flowers in November with 65.9 percent of the vote. In 2024 her Democratic opponent was Shawn Harris, a retired Army brigadier general, cattle rancher and 40-year military veteran. Greene won reelection with 64.4 percent.

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• 4. Conspiracy Theories

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  In a 2017 video, Greene told viewers that “many of the things” posted on 4chan by the anonymous figure Q, whom she called a “patriot,” “have really proven to be true.” She added: “There's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take this global cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles out, and I think we have the president to do it.” Greene discovered QAnon through the columnist Liz Crokin. One of her pieces for American Truth Seekers linked the Democratic Party to “Child Sex, Satanism, and the Occult.” When she ran in 2020, she distanced herself from QAnon, said she had not mentioned Q during her campaign, and said she had found misinformation. In a November 2025 appearance on The View, she said: “I was a victim, just like you were, of social media lies and stuff you read on social media.”

  Between the first round of the 2020 primary and the runoff, Politico rereleased videos in which Greene expressed racist, antisemitic and Islamophobic views. Conservatives including Kevin McCarthy and Steve Scalise condemned them, but took no action against her. McCarthy stayed neutral in the runoff. Some of her posts stayed online through the campaign, and she deleted them only after they drew attention in January 2021.

  Hillary Clinton figured heavily in her claims. In 2017 Greene speculated that Pizzagate, the theory of a child abuse ring tied to Democrats, was real. She also said Clinton murdered political enemies. In a 2018 YouTube video, she suggested that the 1999 plane crash that killed John F. Kennedy Jr. was a “Clinton murder,” because he might have been a rival to Clinton in a New York Senate race. A 2018 Facebook post found by Media Matters showed Greene agreeing with Frazzledrip, a theory that a video exists of Clinton and her assistant Huma Abedin murdering a child in a satanic ritual. Greene dismissed the findings as the work of “Communists bloggers.”

  She also doubted official accounts of attacks. In a 2017 video, she questioned whether the Las Vegas shooter acted alone. She called the 2017 Charlottesville white nationalist rally an “inside job,” and said the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings in New Zealand were a false flag. In a 2018 interview, she referred to “the so-called plane that crashed into the Pentagon” on the 11th of September 2001 and said it was “odd there's never any evidence shown for a plane in the Pentagon.” After Media Matters reported on those remarks, she wrote: “Some people claimed a missile hit the Pentagon. I now know that is not correct.” She suggested that Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich was killed by the MS-13 gang on Obama's behalf, and claimed Obama was secretly a Muslim, which he is not. In February 2019 she hinted that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had been replaced by a body double. Ginsburg died on the 18th of September 2020, and Trump named Amy Coney Barrett as her successor.

  School shootings drew some of her most criticized claims. Media Matters found 2018 Facebook posts in which Greene called the Parkland shooting an organized false flag and said the same of the Sandy Hook shooting. She also wrote that she had been told Pelosi tells Clinton several times a month that “we need another school shooting” to build support for gun control. Parkland survivors David Hogg and Cameron Kasky, along with Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter died there, demanded her resignation. Greene called Hogg “#littleHitler” and denounced him as an “idiot” trained “like a dog.” On the 25th of March 2019, she followed and taunted Hogg in two incidents, calling him a “coward” and falsely claiming that George Soros funded him. In January 2021, a Greene staffer threatened to have WRCB-TV reporter Meredith Aldis arrested after Aldis asked about the harassment at a town hall. Jahana Hayes, whose district includes Sandy Hook, urged Republican leaders not to seat Greene on the Education Committee.

  The pattern continued after she reached Congress. After the May 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting, Greene said the shooter had engaged in cross-dressing, echoing claims that the shooter was transgender. She added, without evidence, that the shooter shared a Discord server with the teen accused in the Buffalo shooting and that a third party had “groomed” both. In July 2022 she said the Highland Park parade shooting was designed to make Republicans accept more gun control because it happened in a rich, white neighborhood. She conceded this might sound “like a conspiracy theory,” but said that the definition of a right-wing conspiracy theory is “just the news a month early.”

  Antisemitic theories form another strand. In 2018, Greene shared With Open Gates: The Forced Collective Suicide of European Nations, a video repeating the white genocide conspiracy theory, which claims Zionists are flooding Europe with migrants to replace white populations. She wrote that this was what the UN wants all over the world. She also falsely called George Soros, a Jewish businessman and Holocaust survivor, a Nazi. In 2018 her Facebook account shared a theory that the deadly Camp Fire in California might have been caused by “what looked like lasers or beams of blue light” from “space solar generators.” The scheme allegedly involved Governor Jerry Brown, PG&E, Rothschild & Co and a company called Solaren. The Republican Jewish Coalition, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and Christians United for Israel condemned the post. Solaren noted that its system did not use lasers or visible light, that its PG&E contract ended in 2015, and that it had launched no solar power satellites by 2021.

  In May 2022, using a malapropism, she claimed that Bill Gates and the government planned to force Americans to eat fake meat grown in a “peach tree dish.” Her most striking timing came on the 7th of July 2022. That day she appeared on Alex Jones's InfoWars and criticized the Georgia Guidestones, a 19-foot granite monument installed in Elberton in 1982 that drew 20,000 visitors a year. Unknown saboteurs dynamited it that same day. She told Jones that its inscribed texts pointed to “population control” as envisioned by the “hard left,” adding: “There is a war of good and evil going on, and people are done with globalism.”

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• 5. Words About Violence

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  In a January 2019 Facebook video, Greene said that Nancy Pelosi was guilty of treason, a crime she noted is punishable by death. The video promoted a We the People petition she started to impeach Pelosi for treason, a remedy the Constitution does not provide. More than 140,000 people signed it. In livestreams the next month, Greene visited Pelosi's office and suggested that Pelosi would either be killed or imprisoned. She then suggested that Representative Maxine Waters had also committed treason.

  Older posts surfaced later. In 2018 and 2019, Greene's Facebook account expressed support for executing leading Democrats, including Pelosi, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, along with FBI agents. In April 2018, a post asked: “Now do we get to hang them?? Meaning H & O???” The account answered: “Stage is being set. Players are being put in place. We must be patient. This must be done perfectly or liberal judges would let them off.” Greene did not deny the content was authentic. She said CNN's reporting focused on her time before holding office, that teams of people manage her pages, and that the content did not represent her views.

  On the 27th of October 2020, a week before election day, Greene told gun activist Chris Dorr's viewers: “the only way you get your freedoms back is it's earned with the price of blood.” On the 29th of January 2021, The New York Times detailed her past ties to extremist militia groups, including the Three Percenters and the Oath Keepers. Members of both groups took part in the Capitol attack.

  The reaction in the House came quickly. On the 27th of January 2021, Representative Jimmy Gomez announced a draft resolution to expel Greene, and Jake Auchincloss called for her resignation or expulsion. The next day, Pelosi spoke of an “enemy within the House of Representatives,” pointing to members who wanted to bring guns onto the floor and had threatened colleagues. She also faulted Republican leaders for placing Greene on the Education Committee after Greene questioned deadly school shootings. On the 29th of January, Nikema Williams and Sara Jacobs introduced a censure resolution. It went to the Ethics Committee and never received a vote. Gomez formally introduced his expulsion resolution on the 19th of March, backed by 72 Democrats and no Republicans, and it met the same fate.

  Then came the vote that did pass. On the 4th of February 2021, the House removed Greene from all committee assignments in response to her endorsements of political violence and incendiary remarks made before her election. She had served only briefly on the Budget Committee and the Education and Labor Committee. Eleven Republicans joined every Democrat in the vote. In January 2023 she was appointed to new roles on the Homeland Security Committee and the Oversight and Accountability Committee, including its select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic. By then her caucus memberships included the Election Integrity Caucus, the Republican Study Committee and the Second Amendment Caucus.

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• 6. Battles in the House

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  On the 4th of January 2021, Greene called for Georgia's 2020 presidential results to be decertified. Days later, during the counting of electoral votes, she objected to counting Michigan's. No senator signed the objection, so it was rejected. She was part of a group of Republican legislators who challenged votes for Biden, though federal agencies and courts found no evidence of electoral fraud. During the Capitol attack, she called for an end to violence and support for Trump, and she refused to wear a face mask while sheltering in place. During the impeachment debate she tweeted: “Democrats must be held accountable for the political violence inspired by their rhetoric.” Representative Jason Crow called her “morally bankrupt,” “depraved” and “frankly dangerous.”

  In tweets after the attack, Greene falsely suggested that the rioters were antifa members dressed as Trump supporters. Her close associate Anthony Aguero, a conservative activist, was among those who stormed the building. She also retweeted a clip of Tucker Carlson, who cited Revolver News in claiming that FBI agents might have organized and joined the attack. Later that month she asked Trump to pardon her for her efforts to overturn the election.

  On the 21st of January 2021, the second day of Biden's presidency, Greene filed articles of impeachment against him, citing alleged abuse of power. No one co-sponsored it. In an interview with Greg Kelly of Newsmax, she repeated the Biden-Ukraine conspiracy theory that Biden had been bought off by foreign interests. By September 2022 she had introduced five resolutions to impeach him.

  The Washington Post reported in May 2021 that two of its reporters watched Greene aggressively confront Ocasio-Cortez outside the House chamber. She loudly asked why Ocasio-Cortez supported antifa and Black Lives Matter, which Greene falsely called terrorists. Ocasio-Cortez did not respond and asked House leaders to keep Congress “a safe, civil place for all Members and staff.” Later that month Greene voted against a commission to investigate the January 6 attack. In her speech she called for justice for Ashli Babbitt, a Trump supporter who was fatally shot by a Capitol police officer as she tried to break into the House chamber.

  Also in May 2021, Greene and Matt Gaetz launched a nationwide “America First Tour,” beginning in The Villages, Florida. The two repeated unsubstantiated claims of fraud in the 2020 election. A July rally in Laguna Hills, California, was canceled after the venue withdrew. In June 2021, Greene was one of 21 House Republicans who voted against giving the Congressional Gold Medal to police officers who defended the Capitol. In August, after the House committee investigating the attack asked over 30 telecommunications companies to preserve phone records, including hers, she promised that companies that complied would be “shut down.”

  In April 2021, reports said Greene, Gaetz, Louie Gohmert and Paul Gosar wanted to launch an America First Caucus. A leaked seven-page document spoke of “uniquely Anglo-Saxon political traditions,” and McCarthy indirectly criticized the caucus for “nativist dog whistles.” Greene's office first said it would launch soon, then called it an early planning stage. Greene finally disavowed it as a “staff level draft proposal from an outside group that she hadn't read.” In February 2022 she spoke at a conference hosted by the white supremacist Nick Fuentes, who called the Capitol attack “awesome” and praised Putin and Hitler. When she was criticized, Greene called the criticism “identity politics” and labeled her critics “Pharisees.” Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell said the party had no place for “white supremacists or anti-Semitism.”

  In June 2023, the House Freedom Caucus voted to expel her, the first time it had ever expelled a member. The stated cause was an argument on the House floor in which Greene insulted fellow member Lauren Boebert. Boebert was accused in turn of copying articles of impeachment served against Biden. Greene had also broken with some caucus positions and sided with Speaker Kevin McCarthy, whom many in the caucus opposed. On the 22nd of June 2023, Greene and Elise Stefanik introduced resolutions to expunge both of Trump's impeachments, and McCarthy backed them the next day. In May 2024, Greene tried and failed to oust Republican Mike Johnson as Speaker. In January 2025 she introduced the expungement resolutions again.

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• 7. Policy Fights

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  At the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference, Greene argued that tax dollars should go only to America, “not for... China, Russia, the Middle East, Guam , whatever, wherever.” Guam is a U.S. territory whose residents are citizens. Delegate Michael San Nicolas answered by offering her Chamorro chip cookies in what he called “cookie diplomacy.” Governor Lou Leon Guerrero said her office would gladly send Greene a copy of Destiny's Landfall: A History of Guam.

  Ukraine produced harsher exchanges. Throughout the Russo-Ukrainian War, Greene promoted Russian propaganda, including claims that Ukraine is a Nazi state, and praised Vladimir Putin. She argued against sending weapons and suggested Ukraine provoked the invasion. In 2024 she proposed an amendment requiring House members who voted for a Ukraine aid bill to enlist in the Ukrainian military. Former Republican congressman Ken Buck called her “Moscow Marjorie,” saying she got her talking points from the Kremlin. She was one of 18 Republicans who voted against admitting Sweden and Finland to NATO.

  COVID-19 drew some of her sharpest rhetoric. In September 2020, Greene wrote that “children should not wear masks,” calling official guidance “unhealthy for their psychological, emotional, and educational growth.” She refused a vaccine, saying she was “perfectly healthy,” and suggested on social media that vaccine passports might be “Biden's mark of the beast.” She introduced the We Will Not Comply Bill to ban vaccine passports and the Fire Fauci Bill to eliminate Anthony Fauci's salary. August 2021 disclosures showed she owned stock in three vaccine makers in 2020, including at least $15,000 each in Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson.

  On the 18th of May 2021, Greene was fined $500, the first of many penalties for entering the House floor without a mask. Two days later, on a podcast hosted by evangelical commentator David Brody, she called Pelosi “mentally ill.” She compared the mask rule to Jews being “put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany.” Republican leaders and the Jewish community criticized her widely. On the 14th of June she apologized after a private visit to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. Three weeks later she compared door-to-door vaccination to “medical brownshirts.” By the end of October 2021 she had been fined 20 times, for a total of $48,000. In June 2024 she questioned Fauci at a hearing, repeatedly refused to call him Doctor, and accused him of covering up the origins of COVID-19.

  On abortion, Greene calls the procedure “the worst scar a woman can carry for the rest of her life.” In 2021 she falsely claimed the Plan B contraceptive “kills a baby in the womb,” though it prevents ovulation. On gun rights, she told the September 2020 Ringgold rally: “The government will never tell me how many guns I can own, and how many bullets I am allowed to fire if someone were to attack me or my kids.” In June 2021 she introduced a bill to abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.

  On LGBT issues, Greene co-sponsored the Old Glory Only Bill in February 2021 to ban U.S. embassies from flying pride flags. When Representative Marie Newman hung a transgender pride flag outside her office, Greene responded with a poster outside hers reading “There are TWO genders: Male & Female. Trust The Science!” Newman has a transgender daughter. In August 2022 Greene introduced the Protect Children's Innocence Act, which would make gender-affirming care for transgender youth a felony punishable by up to 25 years in prison. An updated version passed the House 216-211 on the 17th of December 2025.

  On climate, Greene said in 2021 that “maybe our climate just changes,” and in April 2023 she called climate change a “scam.” After Hurricane Helene struck several states in October 2024, she wrote: “Yes they can control the weather.” She has also said: “I don't believe in evolution. I believe in God.” On the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, she called Republican supporters “traitors.” Fred Upton, one of 13 who voted for it, said he received over 1,000 calls, including death threats, after Greene publicized his office phone numbers on Twitter.

  In late 2021, Greene advocated a “national divorce” between red states and blue states and suggested that red states disenfranchise newcomers from blue states for five years. She repeated the idea in February 2023, and Democrats and Republicans including Spencer Cox, Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney condemned it. The next day she explained that she wanted “a legal agreement” separating the states more “while maintaining our legal union.”

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• 8. The Break With Trump

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  On the 22nd of October 2021, Greene bought shares in Digital World Acquisition Corp., the company that had just merged with Trump Media & Technology Group to fund Truth Social. Three years later she told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that, if Trump won the 2024 election, she would be “certainly particularly interested” in serving as secretary of homeland security. The loyalty was plain. The reversal that followed took only months.

  The first cracks were over Iran and Israel. In June 2025, Greene criticized Trump's support for Israeli strikes on Iran and opposed possible American involvement in that war. She doubted that Iran was building nuclear weapons, noting “We've been told that for the past 20 years.” After American strikes on Iranian nuclear sites she said: “this is not our fight.” In July 2025 she became the first Republican to call the situation in Gaza a “genocide.” On the 18th of July she proposed an amendment to end U.S. funding of Israel's Iron Dome, and six House members voted for it. She also condemned her colleague Randy Fine for openly celebrating the starvation and bombing of Palestinians.

  Health care and money followed. In October 2025, Greene broke with her party over the federal government shutdown, which centered on a proposed extension of Obamacare subsidies. She voiced strong opposition to the Affordable Care Act itself and to high insurance premiums. She also criticized Trump's push to increase deportations and backed protections for the affordability of health care and basic needs.

  The decisive issue was Jeffrey Epstein. In November 2025, Greene began supporting a House discharge petition that would release government files from the Epstein case, and she criticized Trump for actively opposing their release. She questioned whether he was “still America First.” Trump berated her on Truth Social and in the press, revoked his endorsement, and opened the door to a primary challenge. He later signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act into law. BBC News summarized the feud in mid-December as starting with her backing of a full release of the files and widening into a critique of his Middle East policy and his handling of cost-of-living and health care concerns.

  On the 21st of November 2025, Greene announced she would resign from the House, effective the 5th of January 2026. She said Trump had attacked her over her support for Track AIPAC, an anti-AIPAC organization, and for releasing the Epstein files. She told supporters she did not want her district to endure a “hurtful and hateful primary.”

  The break only widened. Greene argued that Trump started the 2026 Iran war as a distraction from continuing disclosures about the Epstein network. In April 2026, amid that war, she called for Trump to be removed from office under the Twenty-fifth Amendment. She also said she wanted the Republican Party “to be burned to the ground.”

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