Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia Representative once considered a leading figurehead of the MAGA movement, has announced she will resign from Congress in January 2026 amid a dramatic fallout with President Donald Trump over the Epstein files and other issues.
In a blistering resignation letter released late on Friday evening, accompanied by a video, Greene laments the failures of the Make America Great Again movement and paints a grim picture of the “Political Industrial Complex” she claims grips Washington, D.C.
“No matter which way the political pendulum swings, Republican or Democrat, nothing ever gets better for the common American man or woman. The debt goes higher. Corporate and global interests remain Washington’s sweethearts,” she writes in her letter.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump repeated the “traitor” insult he had directed at Greene earlier this week and suggested her resignation was due to “plummeting poll numbers” and “not wanting to face a Primary Challenger with a strong Trump Endorsement (where she would have no chance of winning!)”
“Nevertheless, I will always appreciate Marjorie, and thank her for her service to our Country!” he added.
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Greene details her years of loyalty to Trump in the letter, “traveling the country for years, spending millions of my own money, missing precious time with my family that I can never get back,” only for it to be forgotten in response to her campaigning to release the files relating to the investigations into the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“Standing up for American women who were raped at 14, trafficked and used by rich powerful men, should not result in me being called a traitor and threatened by the President of the United States, whom I fought for,” she writes, adding that she refuses to be a “battered wife” and suffer a primary challenge against her.
Greene’s decision to…
