As Marjorie Taylor Greene exits DC, the New York Times is out with a lengthy profile and interview of the outgoing Georgia congresswoman and former MAGA star. Greene tells Robert Draper that her split with Trump began to clarify at a memorial for Charlie Kirk, where widow Erika Kirk said she forgave her husband's killer. President Trump later took the stage and said he disagreed: 'I hate my opponent, and I don't want the best for them." The moment, says Greene, led her to realize "that I'm part of this toxic culture. I really started looking at my faith. I wanted to be more like Christ."
- "Our side has been trained by Donald Trump to never apologize and to never admit when you're wrong. You just keep pummeling your enemies, no matter what. And as a Christian, I don't believe in doing that. I agree with Erika Kirk, who did the hardest thing possible and said it out loud."
- Epstein: She called the Jeffrey Epstein case "everything wrong with Washington" because it's a tale of "rich, powerful elites doing horrible things and getting away with it. And the women are the victims." She recalled how Trump berated her for her push to release all the files, quoting him as saying, "My friends will get hurt."
- 'Naive:' Greene had been a steadfast Trump defender prior to 2025 before her split with him on multiple policy issues. "Was there ever a point before 2025 where you thought: You know what? Trump acts like a man of the people, and he talks about the forgotten men and women of this country, but I'm not so sure," asks Draper. She responds: "I was just so naive and outside of politics that it was easy for me to naïvely believe."
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full profile, in which Greene doesn't tip her hand on a possible next move in politics and pronounces herself "radioactive" to both parties. But she does see a problem for the GOP: "There's a significant reason why women overwhelmingly don't vote Republican," she says in the context of the Epstein controversy and the accompanying White House pressure on female lawmakers. "I think there's a very big message here."
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