No, really.

 

U.S. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene speaking with attendees at the 2023 AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. December 17, 2023. (Photo: Gage Skidmore)

Marjorie Taylor Greene, nee Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), has long given House Republicans — and, yes, even Donald Trump — headaches.

She could be grandstanding at times, even unnecessarily provocative. Like Donald Trump, Greene has long appeared to thrive on media criticism and social media flame wars.

But unlike Trump, Greene seems to have had enough. Or has she?

Her abrupt resignation from Congress, announced just a week after Trump yanked his endorsement, felt less like a surprise than the natural collapse of a political star built largely out of provocation.

And while she is abandoning her fellow Republicans in Congress at a time when every single Republican vote is needed to pass legislation along razor thin party margins, Greene isn’t abandoning her megaphone.

On the contrary.

She took to social media this week to post a lengthy screed on why she publicly broke with Donald Trump:

“I’m going to give you a glimpse of what it’s been like since I joined Congress on Jan 3, 2021 leading the fight on key Republican issues and for President Trump.
My office has reported 773 death threats to Capitol Police, but those were just the threats that came directly into my office via call or email, and don’t include the countless threats online to myself and my family members. We just didn’t have enough people to constantly monitor that.
These 773 death threats do not include all of the dozens of swatting calls to myself and my family members and pizza doxxings.
And through all of this, I was never given a security detail, like the secret service details the President, VP, Cabinet, Speaker, Majority Leader, Whip, Minority Leader and others have.
Not once.
Rome City Police and Floyd County Sheriff Dept have always voluntarily watched over me when I’m at home, and for that I will be forever grateful and it shows what good people they are.
I’m also thankful to Capitol Police who’ve pursued investigations, recommended prosecutions, and provided assistance to our office.
Although dozens have been prosecuted and cases are still ongoing, any security detail I have had, I’ve had to hire.
As an American woman, I’m a big believer in the 2nd amendment and own multiple firearms, practice frequently, carry, never want to be defenseless, and my self, my team, and my family have had to independently be prepared to protect ourselves.
That is a high bar to ask of anyone as it should not be this way and has always grieved me for my family and my staff.
All of the death threats came from the “left” until I stood with the Epstein Survivors, woman who were raped as teenagers, abused, and trafficked by rich powerful men, and that’s when President Trump turned on me and called me a “traitor” and then new death threats and harassments came from the “right” or somewhere.
We received pizza doxxing deliveries, pipe bomb threats at my home and construction company office, and assassination threats directly on my son, Derek.
The police and local FBI and GBI, promptly responded.
I sent these assassination threats on my son to President Trump in which he responded with harsh accusatory replies and zero sympathy.
I also sent these threats to Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Deputy Chief James Blair and received no response, nothing.
It was shocking to be treated this way by top Republican Party leaders considering everything I did to help elect their boss and the fact that I have paid all of my dues ($350K+) to the NRCC every single Congress including this one, and have a 98% voting record with President Trump and a 100% rating by Conservative Review.
I also sent these threats to Director Kash Patel and thankfully he responded with “on it” and I sent these threats to Vice President JD Vance who responded promptly with kindness and sympathy.Even opening my mail has been potentially deadly just as it has been for other politicians at times.
On this particular occasion on June 24, 2024, this package contained a syringe in the smaller envelope with an unknown liquid.
Once I opened the main envelope and read the words scribbled inside that said “infect Marg Greene” I opened no further and promptly called the police. They responded with a special unit of the bomb squad team with hazmat suits.
The FBI identified the suspect over a year later through DNA on the package, and told me the suspect had died of natural causes and there would be no prosecution even though my security cameras identified two people in the vehicle that dropped off this package in my mailbox.
My voting and legislation has always been conservative and unapologetically America First.
Fighting to stop foreign aid, stop funding foreign wars, stop AI state moratoriums, legislating against H1Bs stealing American jobs, and standing up for rape victims should never lead to death threats.
What is required of me to be an America First Representative?
Must I stay until I am Charlie Kirk’ed?
Or my children are murdered?
And Republicans need to take a hard look in the mirror and ask themselves, are you a mindless pawn taking orders or an elected Representative serving your district and their views and needs?
A Congressional Republican majority who takes orders from the WH and relinquishes all control to the executive branch, is not serving the will of their voters. And an admin that only provides results through executive orders only provides temporary policies to the American people.
And the American people who voted for you know it. They can’t be fooled any longer.
Lastly, regardless of left or right, death threats and political violence is out of control.
And the Political Industrial Complex will only further the divide between the two sides.
The American People are the only ones who can find a way to come together and save our country.”

Of course, death threats against politicians — of any description — is totally beyond the pale. The number of Americans who now believe violence is sometimes justified for political reasons is frightening. The assassination of Charlie Kirk was appalling, as were both attempts on Donald Trump’s life.

Plenty of politicians and public figures pay for their own security detail, however. Marjorie Taylor Greene could have chosen a dozen more proactive ways to deal with her grievances without abandoning her fellow House members and the voters in her district who trusted her to represent them.

She undoubtably deserves our sympathy. But while Republicans like Greene are bickering, there are plenty of people waiting for the GOP to fail. Now is the time for conservatives to hang together. Else 2026 is likely to be an unfortunate turn of events for House Republicans and Republican Party leadership.

Goodbye, conservative agenda. Hello, daily, unending barrage of Democrat-led House impeachments against Donald Trump.

(Contributing writer, Brooke Bell)