MAGA 'Was All A Lie': Marjorie Taylor Greene Torches Trump In Scathing New Interview

[Mr. Sparkle]

Source: Huff Post

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) called out one-time ally President Donald Trump for abandoning the core promises behind his “Make America Great Again” movement. “MAGA is, I think, people are realizing, it was all a lie,” she told YouTube host Kim Iversen. “It was a big lie for the people.”

The Trump administration, she said, is all about serving “big, big donors,” including foreign countries and large corporations, with many funneling cash to Trump’s PACs and pet projects such as his White House ballroom to win favor.

“And if they’re donating to all these things, those are the people that get the special favors, they get the government contracts, they get the pardons or somebody they love or one of their friends gets a pardon,” she said. Greene wasn’t willing to give Trump a pass by blaming advisors or others in his inner circle.

“People always think, ‘Oh, it’s his staff.’ They want to blame everyone around him,” she said. “There may be a point where people have to come to grips with this is Donald Trump.” Greene said she was once a “true believer” in Trump’s MAGA movement. Indeed, she was not only a vocal supporter but was frequently by his side at campaign rallies and other events.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/marjorie-taylor-greene-trump-maga-was-a-lie_n_69804dabe4b00b8d44e7de3d

[BlueKota]

1. Wow!

Did she accidentally hit her head, and it reactivated her formerly dormant brain?

Still don't trust her, but if she is able to turn some more magats against tsf, at least that might help.

[sabbat hunter]

4. She must have an angle

She isn't doing this for no reason. She is working on an angle.

[Scrivener7]

9. Definitely. But for the moment, it helps us.

[Omnipresent]

22. She will have a book, she can easily sell to the left.

No one on the right, reads much.

[Moostache]

36. MSNOW - weekend host role?

She is seeing the list over there - Joe Scar, Nicole, Steve Schmidt (contributor) and more - and sees a path to a lengthy TV gig that would not involve Fox News.

I expect to see her start appearing regularly in the run up to the mid-terms...book it!

[Quanto Magnus]

51. Yeah she's definitely going for the political glow-up

for something...

I was thinking Georgia state office something, but TV makes a lot of sense too... maybe moreso since she loves the cameras so much.

[mpcamb]

58. I had a very different take on this.

She was a rising star in his momentum; spoke out about an issue and was sumarily dump on the roadside.
She had enough dignity and sense of self worth to say this guy is a phony, unprinicipaled, and won't tolerate any
dissention, cause it's all about HIM and nobody else. Aside from the bruised ego, I applaud her take on it. It's all tranactional with that avericious floating excretment. 'You're done when I no longer need you.."

I don't like her positions. Unlikely we'd agree on anything except that trump is a fraud and a distructive one.
But, because she 1) gets it. 2) expeienced it. 3) now sees thru it. She's going to convert people to reason.
"Had Enough" is an effective slogan. People are going to get there on different issues- guns, ICE, deportaion cruelties, pedophilia, the list goes on.

The point is ANTI trump, and the march has begun very publicly and I'll take the maga crowd with limited sensibilities as trump opposition when we need them.. Welcome onboard..

[sop]

3. "The Trump administration is all about serving big, big donors, including foreign countries and large corporations."

Wow! I could almost forgive Marge.

[WmChris]

5. Well

Anybody who hadn't swallowed the kool-aid knew that from the first time the orange tyrant was in office. This time he's surrounded by sniveling ass kissing sycophants so yes the grifters are running wild.

[riversedge]

8. So TRUE---"so yes the grifters are running wild."

[Beartracks]

6. "... funneling cash to Trump's PACs and pet projects... to win favor."

I'm glad she sees this now, and isn't afraid to speak out about it. But, frankly, what took her so long to see that which has been so obvious from the beginning? If people think MAGA isn't a cult, this is just more evidence. When true believers can shake off the blinders, people should listen.

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[LiberalArkie]

7. I always thought of MTG as the typical Southern white racist soccer mom who hated the government taking her

money for those kind of people. Being anyone but those like herself. I think that a lot of people with those viewpoints are seeing where those actions are leading to.

People did mind paying taxes when they could see some benefit. Look at the EU's health care and social services. But when normal Americans pay and can not see any benefit you get "Tea Party" and Tea Party naturally progresses to MAGA and worse.

I really feel all this could have been prevented (or cured) with National health care and worker benefits like EU. Day care, longer vacations longer maternal leave, better wages and higher taxes on the wealthy. Less spending on military.

[mopinko]

15. nothing natural about it.

it was funded by oligarchs, and by putin, esp via the nra.
taking down america w/o firing a shot.

[LiberalArkie]

20. Khrushchev said they would do it way back... They never changed their goal.. I am sure that they are still very pissed

off that they did not get to keep all the old German conquests from WW2.

[flvegan]

10. She made her money. n/t

[Mysterian]

11. Well gee, ain't she the bright one!

Now that she's figured that out, let's get her started on nuclear fusion.

[BlueKota]

14. 🤣

[ck4829]

48. Haha!

[travelingthrulife]

12. Those Duh Burgers go down hard.

[Bayard]

13. My jaw is dropping,

But a little bit of right thinking now doesn't make up for all the harm she did. I'll be more forgiving if she hits the campaign trail for Dems.

[PatSeg]

16. I take into consideration

that Margie isn't really all that bright. It took her awhile to catchup with the rest of us. Meanwhile, she is also getting the attention she tends to crave. It is like dealing with an erratic, willful child.

[ck4829]

49. Yep, but at the end of the day she will revert to chasing after school shooting survivors

[ChicagoTeamster]

17. She didn't see this in 2016? It took the Epstein Files? Not the fact he was friends with Epstein for years?

Or the prior accusations of sexual assault?
Or E Jean Carroll? Or all Trump's contacts and communication with the Russians? Including Vladimir Putin himself?
Or all the donor money he took for his transition team and pocketed like he also did with the first inauguration?
Or all the people who joined his golf clubs at hugely inflated membership prices while he was president?
Or all the foreign dignitaries who changed their travel accommodations to the Trump hotel in the old DC Post Office?

[Miguelito Loveless]

18. Of course it was a lie

The question is, did you help perpetuate the lie knowingly, or were you that stupid?

[DEbluedude]

19. She didn't have a stroke, did she?

Asking for a friend.

[SpankMe]

23. Lol!

If MAGAts have to have strokes to come to their senses, I'd say it's worth it.

[Mblaze]

21. It's tough to be a true believer of lies.

That's why MAGAs are so stubborn.

[ck4829]

50. Indeed

[Tom Rinaldo]

24. I'll say this for her...

Unlike Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and J.D. Vance, etc., who all clearly saw Trump for what he really was and then became his willing lap dogs anyway, Greene (whatever her motives) has publicly moved in the exact opposite direction, something a shitload of other Republicans remain too fearful of doing.

[tavernier]

39. Perhaps the willing lap dogs have a reason to worry about the Epstein files.

I’m thinking you won’t see MTG‘s name written there. I suppose that makes it much easier for her to start questioning all the bullshit. Lindsay switched his very vocal and damning opinion on Trump so quickly and completely with such speed that had a bus been coming he would’ve been flattened on the highway.

[Trueblue Texan]

25. She's a little slow to catch on, but by George, I think she's finally got it! nt

[mwmisses4289]

26. Gee, what was your first clue?!?

A little late to the party, aren't you?

[Dave Bowman]

27. She helped propagate the lies so screw her.

[Trueblue Texan]

28. I suspect that prior to TSF actively campaigning, most of these MAGAt morons...

...had very little interest or experience in politics. When TSF engage with their anger in the context of politics, they all felt like they'd just discovered gravity. Dang smart, they suddenly felt in all matters political! They were ready to elect Dunning-Kruger if they couldn't elect TSF! They couldn't bear to let go of that feeling of superiority he sold them, no matter what they learned about him...they are a true cult following now. Good luck bringing them to their senses, Marge. They just never had a whole lot of that stuff to start with, which is why they were such rabid supporters of the most evil person on earth.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

29. Just like he was in his first term

Some folks are so dense.

[Jacson6]

30. The poor soul has just woken up! n/t

[617Blue]

31. Gotta hand it to. It's not just superficial observations she's making.

[elduge]

32. the day trump snubbed her

I remember that day when she went to an airport to greet trump, and she looked all excited, almost like a wife waiting for her returning husband, and trump didn't go over to say hi or anything just walked on and ignored her. she looked pretty devastated standing there alone on the tarmac. I think that day stands as at least a symbolic point in her shift from rump fanatic to trump critic. and it may well have actually been a pivotal moment when she realized she was being used and could be discarded at any point if trump tired of her. there is a whole bunch of trump fans that had better have that realization soon or they too will get to see what the undercarriage of a bus looks like.

[czarjak]

33. Litterally!

Thanks4Nuttin'

[Ol Janx Spirit]

34. If someone with such readily apparent gaps in their intellect...

...can manage to escape the event horizon of the MAGA stupidity quasar, then it is possible for many more to follow that path out.

You have to wonder how different her attitude would be if she had gotten that VP nod or Cabinet position she so desperately wanted? She wanted to be ICE Barbie, but despite being a brunette, Noem got it instead.

"It's important to realize who stood with President Trump from the beginning, never backed down, never stabbed him in the back, never tried to beat him. And there's those of us that have been very loyal. We understand his policies, we support them through and through. And I'd like to see people like us that have done that very much involved."

https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-wants-trump-cabinet-position-been-very-loyal-1982012

But SHE was the one that got stabbed in the back--and it seems to have opened her eyes. But there is little doubt that sans that she would be on the front lines of shoveling more fuel into the MAGA stupidity quasar.

But we do see one thing in malAdministration 2.0: the pretense of caring about people like MTG is gone. She is likely a bellwether for many MAGAs. We can only hope they decide to make their voices heard by not showing up to support the MAGA candidates in the midterms--because they are never going to vote D--and then fracture once Agent Orange is no longer a candidate.

It's very small hope, but this newfound enlightenment by MTG at least gives us some....

[SergeStorms]

40. "The event horizon of the MAGA stupidity quasar"......

Very well written!

[SamKnause]

35. Proof that she is not intelligent enough to govern anyone.

It shouldn't take over a decade to figure out what is going on.

She will remain untrustworthy because of her poor critical thinking skills. (or lack there of)

She will remain untrustworthy because I don't believe she could have been that ignorant.

She is working on her next grift.

[patphil]

37. OMG, is she "woke"!

There's an old Pennsylvania Dutch saying, "We get too soon old and too late smart".
If MTG can wake up; see and hear all the shit that's going down, and have the nerve to stand up, then there's a possibility our Constitutional Democratic Republic will survive the attack of the Magats.

I'm not saying she's one of us, but I'll accept her as an ally for now...we'll see.

[SergeStorms]

38. Gee, I wish we'd have known that.....

We shouted it from the rooftops, but of course we all had "Trump Derangement Syndrome."

How is it some people just can't recognize a con man when they see one? That old poker adage - If you're sitting at the table and can't recognize the patsy, it's you, - comes to mind.

Maybe the MAGAts should have "done their own research," ya think?

[RussBLib]

52. I wonder what she thinks of the "libtards" now

I don’t really care, but I wonder.

[SergeStorms]

54. Hypocrisy doesn't even register...

on a republican's moral compass. Come to think of it, I think they've completely rid themselves of the "moral compass" thing.

[SergeStorms]

57. Yeah, me too.

Maybe she's good at reading the handwriting on the wall. Maybe she sees the MAGA kingdom about to fall, and she wants to be first in line for a "citizens pardon."
I really can't figure out what her angle is here.

[sakabatou]

41. Too late, Greene! You drank the kool-aid, now live with yourself!

[ret5hd]

42. always remember the old fable...

“you knew who i was…”

IDGAF what she says…i know who she is.

[mathematic]

43. Pretty classic white supremacist arguments. Why are people praising her for this?

I'd call it baffling but I guess I don't find it baffling these days.

[NNadir]

44. She's not eligible for forgiveness but to the extent she reflects less...

...well known cult members it's an encouraging sign.

[mike_c]

45. she's lamenting the glory days of MAGA, fer cryin out loud

Granted, she's trashing Trump, but she's grieving for MAGA. She's still a true believer. Worse, I think much of her anger comes from realizing that she was never really in the same club he's pretending to lead.

[purr-rat beauty]

46. Goes to show

What an idiot she is

[ck4829]

47. Better late than never realizing it I guess

[awesomerwb1]

53. Nice summary there actually. Hope the Dems are taking notes

On how to explain , gloves off, the insane corruption that's been happening for over a year now.

[Torchlight]

55. Gazpacho Barbie is still hungry for relevance

and trying to figure out how to best exploit her new fan-base. Good move tacking to the podcast demo-- might actually renew her hatred for the nation and its people.

[MaineBlueBear]

56. It's all a ruse

She still blames the Democratic party for the worlds' ills like most brainwashed Republicants