Republicans in Congress privately made enjoyable of Donald Trump solely to return round to assist him when he gained their occasion’s 2024 White Home nomination, outgoing GOP Home member Marjorie Taylor Greene mentioned on Sunday.
“I watched lots of my colleagues go from making enjoyable of him, making enjoyable of how he talks, making enjoyable of me always for supporting him, to when he gained the first in 2024, all of them began – excuse my language, Lesley – kissing his ass,” Greene, a Georgia Republican, mentioned in a clip of an interview that’s set to air on Sunday on CBS’s 60 Minutes program.
Referring to Trump’s “Make America nice once more” slogan, Greene advised Lesley Stahl, the 60 Minutes correspondent, that these Republicans at that time “determined to placed on a Maga hat for the primary time”.
Greene was as soon as a staunch Trump ally who has cut up with the president and is leaving Congress in January. Trump has known as her a “traitor” and attacked her on-line, prompting what she says is a wave of threats in opposition to her.
In posts on Sunday on X, Greene mentioned she has reported lots of of threats to the US Capitol police. She added that first these threats got here from those that opposed Trump on the US’s political left. However then, she mentioned, threats have been aimed toward her and her son when she opposed Trump on his dealing with of information pertaining to the prosecution of the president’s former buddy Jeffrey Epstein, the late convicted intercourse offender and disgraced financier.
Epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor and died by suicide whereas jailed on federal sex-trafficking expenses in 2019, throughout Trump’s first presidency.
“All the demise threats got here from the ‘left’ till I stood with the Epstein Survivors, lady who have been raped as youngsters, abused, and trafficked by wealthy highly effective males – and that’s when President Trump turned on me and known as me a ‘traitor’ after which new demise threats and harassments got here from the ‘proper’ or someplace,” Greene wrote on X. “I despatched these assassination threats on my son to President Trump during which he responded with harsh accusatory replies and 0 sympathy.”
In her 60 Minutes interview, Greene mentioned Republicans don’t criticize Trump in public as a result of they worry being focused by him.
“I believe they’re terrified to step out of line and get a nasty Reality Social publish on them,” she mentioned.
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