After a long week of bitter infighting among House Republicans — with the rabid Marjorie Taylor Greene nipping at Speaker Mike Johnson's heels — Johnson flew to Mar-a-Lago today to hide behind Donald Trump. And amusingly, after the speaker and Trump met in private, Trump played the part of peacemaker. — Read the rest
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Former President Donald Trump gave House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) a vote of confidence when they held a joint press conference at Mar-a-Lago last week, implicitly rebuking Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) for her threats to oust him from power.But Greene is not deterred from her war with the speaker, CNN congressional correspondent Manu Raju reports."On way into GOP meeting, [Greene] told me that Trump’s comments that he 'stands by' Mike Johnson doesn’t change her push to oust him," Raju...
Rep. Marc Molinaro (R-NY) went off on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) in an interview with CNN's John King on Wednesday evening, pinning much of the congressional dysfunction on her and demanding she move on from her threats to call a vote to remove House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).Greene has turned on Johnson as he faces pressure to bring a vote in the House on defense aid to Ukraine — something she adamantly opposes despite Johnson having loaded the proposed legislation with compromises to...
Greene also said he upcoming eclipse was a sign from God. 'I pray that our country listens,' she wrote. Greene has urged Republicans to embrace the 'Christian Nationalism' label
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene welcomed Republicans back to work Tuesday with a five-page broadside attack on Speaker Mike Johnson, making sure everyone knows that she’s serious about her threat to try to oust him. Greene’s trying to foment more anger and division, and in one sense it’s working. The problem for her is that she’s made herself the target, as House members are sick of her constant political stunts. Johnson has presided over “a complete and total surrender to, if not complete and...
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Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has denounced critics who she says mocked her "faith" by ridiculing her claim that this week's total solar eclipse was a sign from God to "repent."Greene claimed on Friday in a post to X, formerly Twitter, that the eclipse, which traversed a large swath of the U.S. on Monday, showed that "God is sending America strong signs to tell us to repent," including "earthquakes and eclipses and many more things to come."Her comment quickly went viral,...
It’s high time someone in the Republican Party told Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to turn all that bombastic self-serving showmanship and drama queen energy on Democrats, and stop trying to defeat her own party. The Georgia Republican, who famously displayed sexually explicit photos of Hunter Biden during a committee hearing and called fellow Rep. Lauren Boebert a bitch on the House floor, is known for wild antics and equally harebrained conspiracy theories. Currently, she is threatening to...
Former President Donald Trump on Friday said that he gets along well with both Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and House Speaker Mike Johnson amid Greene's push to oust the Republican leader.The Georgia congresswoman has publicly criticized Johnson for working across the aisle with Democrats to put forth legislation on issues like foreign aid, and she recently filed a motion to remove him from his position as speaker.During a joint press conference with Johnson at Mar-a-Lago, Trump was...
CNN’s Sunlen Serfaty reports on the controversial comments made by Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, and details her campaign to get rid of House Speaker Mike Johnson.
The Georgia Republican also said Monday’s eclipse is a sign of things to come