US President Donald Trump withdrew his endorsement of Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene on Wednesday, citing her recent criticism of his agenda, in what marks a significant rift between Trump and one of his most vocal allies in Congress.
"I am withdrawing my endorsement of Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene from the great state of Georgia," Trump announced late Friday on the Truth Social network.
Green, a member of the House of Representatives, has long been a fierce defender of Trump, but in recent weeks she has taken positions that are at odds with the White House and some of her Republican colleagues.
Green claims Trump lied about her
Trump wrote that he "sees nothing but complaints, complaints, and more complaints" from Greene. He said the conflict between them began after he showed her a poll that indicated she had little chance of winning the Senate or governorship without his endorsement — which he had no intention of giving her.
The president added that conservative voters in her district might consider a challenger in an intraparty election and that he would support the "right candidate" against her in next year's election.
Green, who has generally avoided directly criticizing Trump, responded with a post on the X network in which she wrote that Trump "just attacked and lied about me."
She suggested that he may have been reacting to her attempts to encourage his administration to release all the documents it has on the case of the late Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender.
Trump dismissed the uproar over the Epstein affair as a "hoax" pushed by Democrats.
Green accused Trump of trying to intimidate other Republicans ahead of next week's vote on releasing the Epstein documents, calling it "truly astonishing how hard he's trying to prevent the Epstein files from being released, to the point of going this far."
On Wednesday, Green was one of only four Republican lawmakers to join Democrats in signing a petition to force a vote on releasing the Department of Justice's full dossier on Epstein.
In recent weeks, she has also called Trump's trade tariffs "uneven" and criticized his foreign policy, saying he wants to prioritize domestic issues. Green also disagreed with Trump's claim that inflation is under control and said Republicans need to have a plan to address health care costs.
Earlier this year, she became the first Republican lawmaker to label the humanitarian crisis in Gaza a genocide.
Greene dismissed speculation that she is positioning herself for a presidential run in 2028, saying she is focused on her district in the northwest part of the state.
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