On a day of political curveballs, Friday ends with Marjorie Taylor Greene announcing that she is resigning her seat in Congress, effective Jan. 5.
“I have too much self-respect and dignity, love my family way too much, and do not want my sweet district to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the President we all fought for, only to fight and win my election while Republicans will likely lose the midterms, and in turn, be expected to defend the President against impeachment after he hatefully dumped tens of millions of dollars against me and tried to destroy me” Taylor Greene said in a video posted online.
Wow; so, she expects the MAGAs to lose the midterms, and for Donald Trump, then, to be impeached.
OK, OK.
And doesn’t want to have to be in a position to have to defend him after he spends millions dragging her name in the mud.
Huh, I guess that just happened.
This one is almost as much a shocker as the lovefest that Trump hosted in the Oval Office earlier in the day on Friday for the incoming New York mayor, Zohran Mamdani, who Trump had been rallying folks against with repeated claims that Mamdani, a self-styled Democratic Socialist, is a “communist.”
Seriously, that one was so eerily chummy that you have to wonder if Mamdani has kompromat on Trump, who is, for the moment, for those keeping score at home, best friends with the Democratic Socialist, and very much on the outs with MTG, for years a staunch MAGA ally, to the point of ranting and raving about Jewish space lasers controlling the weather, and the rest.
The split between the increasingly politically sober Taylor Greene and Trump dates to their very public spat from the summer over the summer over the Epstein files.
ICYMI
Taylor Greene was among a group of four House Republicans who signed a discharge petition aimed at getting legislation forcing the release of the Epstein files to the House floor.
It took three months, but the House would eventually vote, this week, to pass the bill, which was then quickly also passed by the Senate, and signed into law, begrudgingly, by Trump on Wednesday night.
That was two days ago, at this writing; we’re still waiting to hear the next step on the fate of the files collected by the Justice Department from its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire financier and best friend of Trump who died in federal custody after being arrested on child sex-trafficking charges in 2019.
I’m still waiting to be roused from my slumber to find out that the hamburgers I had for dinner just didn’t agree with me.
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