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by MARK POWELL
The news rocked the political world Friday night like a bolt of lightning out of the blue. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the outspoken congresswoman and arguably the loudest MAGA voice on Capitol Hill, is calling it quits. She’s resigning her Georgia House seat effective January 5, 2026.
The ink wasn’t even dry on her resignation letter when the guessing game surrounding her decision shifted into high gear.
“Something’s clearly going on,” a former cable news channel anchor shared with us shortly after the news broke. “She’s not the type to walk away from a fight. There’s more to this than we’re being told.”
Was she going to take a host spot on TV’s daily gabfest, ‘The View?’
Was president Donald Trump using blackmail to leverage her out of Congress?
Was she going over to the Dems, who would showcase her as a MAGA defector?
There’s a seemingly endless supply of speculation, chiefly because nobody saw her resignation coming.
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True, Taylor Greene had been drifting out of Trump World’s orbit much of this year. A rift that was unimaginable 12 months ago grew more acrimonious with each passing month.
Never a shrinking violet, she kept turning up the volume on her differences with Trump, prompting Washington insiders to speculate that she was risking the wrath of presidential retribution.
The point of no return came earlier this month when she defied Trump and pushed for a transparent release of the Epstein files. Trump called her a “ranting lunatic” and withdrew his endorsement of her in a Truth Social post. He even mused about supporting another candidate to run against her in the 2026 primary election. With that, he effectively pulled the political rug out from underneath her feet.
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If that was intended to bring Taylor Greene back into the fold, it didn’t work. She acknowledged having participated in toxic partisanship in a CNN interview last Sunday, but it didn’t score her any points with the base back home. While she said she still supported the MAGA agenda, she was clearly distancing herself from MAGA’s bandleader.
However, the congresswoman had one card left up her sleeve, and she played on Friday night. She savaged Trump in a blistering video released alongside her resignation announcement.
“I have too much self-respect and dignity, love my family way too much, and so 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,” she said. “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.”
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My message to Georgia’s 14th district and America.
— Marjorie Taylor Greene ?? (@mtgreenee) November 22, 2025
Thank you. pic.twitter.com/tSoHCeAjn1
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There was no love lost on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. Calling her “Marjorie Taylor Brown” on his Truth Social platform Saturday, Trump heaped on even more invective.
“For some reason, primarily that I refused to return her never-ending barrage of phone calls, Marjorie went BAD,” Trump wrote.
Later in the day, a reporter asked Trump if he could forgive Taylor Greene.
“Forgive her for what?” he asked. “We just — I just disagreed with her philosophy. She started backing perhaps the worst congressman in our history, you know, a stupid person named (Thomas) Massie. And, I said, ‘Go your own way.’ And once I left her, she resigned because she would never have survived a primary.”
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And that, it would seem, was that.
However, fallout from the resignation will likely linger on Capitol Hill for months to come. For one thing, it will turn House Speaker Mike Johnson’s majority headaches into a migraine. The GOP currently has a razor-thin 218–213 advantage over Democrats. Once Taylor Green is gone early next year, it will drop to a four-seat edge. While the Georgia district is solidly ruby red, governor Brian Kemp will have to schedule a special election, meaning the seat will remain empty till then.
The abrupt departure of one of MAGA’s most vocal acolytes is roiling some in Republican ranks, coming as it did on the heels of Trump’s surprisingly warm welcome for New York City’s socialist mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani at the White House earlier Friday.
“A world turned upside down,” as Trump insider Steven Bannon told reporters.
As for Taylor Greene herself, many Republicans are quietly expressing pleasure at her resignation.
“Thank God we’ve finally got that piano off our back!” one GOP strategist told us.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR…
J. Mark Powell is an award-winning former TV journalist, government communications veteran, and a political consultant. He is also an author and an avid Civil War enthusiast. Got a tip or a story idea for Mark? Email him at mark@fitsnews.com.
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12 comments
Maybe she’s just nuts?
Or maybe she was a nut, and suddenly realized she was in a cult where the leader was a lying, corrupt POS who would sit back and watch his cult members threaten her and her family for daring to vote for the release of files damaging to him. Of course, she should have known that from the fact that he did nothing to discourage his cult from trying to hang his former VP. Giving her the most credit I can muster, maybe she saw a way to get the hell out of a life of bending over and kissing Trump’s ass every day with a lifetime pension and lifetime health care; so she took it.
Maybe she was nuts before and nuts after, just shifter from “fancy mixed nuts” to “mixed fancy nuts”?
and I’m sure in your opinion Trump is indeed the “very stable genius” he declared himself to be
No, he’s nuts too – at least he’s awake most of the day, unlike his predecessor
Biden was a better President asleep than Trump ever will be awake. From your posts over the years it looks like you work for USC, when Trump tears a hole thru education funding and you lose your job will you be like the other Trump supporters yelling “he’s not hurting the right people!”?
Colonel, I once told you that you would know I was right about Trump when he formed his own paramilitary, loyal only to him. Now we have armed, masked thugs going around the country yanking people off the streets and throwing them into unmarked vans, shipping them to torture camps in foreign countries; zip-tying children as they drag away their parents, smashing windows and pulling mothers and grandmother out of cars with their children screaming in terror in the background, taking US citizens and legal aliens into custody and denying them access to counsel, demanding US citizens and legal aliens provide proof of their citizenship because they are brown; kicking down doors without proper identification or warrants, pointing loaded guns at unarmed civilians, gassing and shooting protesters with pepper balls; and generally harassing and threatening anyone who opposes their third-world goon-squad BS. And they are loyal only to Trump because they are a combination of Proud Boys, J6ers, other sundry racist groups, former and current criminals, and MAGA cult members, many (maybe most) of whom could never get a legitimate law enforcement job because of their background.
Colonel, I once told you that you would know I was right about Trump when he established his own paramilitary force loyal only to him. Now we have a bunch of armed, masked thugs running around the country, grabbing people off the street and throwing them into unmarked vans, shipping people who have never been convicted of a crime to foreign torture camps, smashing car windows and dragging out mothers and grandmothers while their terrified children scream in the back seat; assaulting and beating people, pointing loaded guns at unarmed civilians and threatening them, detaining US Citizens and legal residents and denying them access to counsel, gassing and shooting protesters with pepper bullets, breaking down doors without proper identifications or warrants, demanding identification and proof of citizenship from citizens and lawful immigrants because they are brown, zip-tying children as they drag their parents away, ramming cars with children in them, arresting people when they show up for their immigration hearings and when they are picking up their children at grammer schools; tresspassing on the property of private citizens without their consent, holding their captives in overcroweded and unsantitary conditions and denying access to relief agencies, and generally harrassing anyone who disagrees with their third world Nazi tactics.
And they are all loyal only to Trump because they are composed people, most of whom could never get a real law enforcement job because of their violent past, criminal background, and lack of education. They were hired because they hate the people they are hunting down and treating like animals.
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence but she resigns a day after she qualifies for that sweet congressional pension. I mean, we all have jobs where we qualify for pensions after 5 years, amirite.
She also came into Congress worth around $700,000 and leaves worth around $25,000,000. Swampy!
But the main reason is I’m sure she’s tired of being out-crazied by Nancy Mace.
Much like Nancy Mace, and most other female, elected, Republicans, she’s nothing more than an over-emotional Liberal. She better have her next grift already in play, as 6 months from now, no one will remember her.
Anyone want to take or make bets that Trump attacks Venezuela tomorrow? Is it any wonder the rest of the world hates us?
The date of her resignation – January 5, 2026 – just gets her over the limit to qualify for the Congressional Pension. How convenient.