Over the past five years,
as Trump’s most notorious acolyte in Congress,
#MTG had adopted his unrepentant pugilism as her own.

⭐️“Our side has been trained by Donald Trump to never apologize and to never admit when you’re wrong,”
she told me in her Capitol Hill office one afternoon in early December.

“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.”

Greene — who for years took a back seat to no one when it came to reactionary rhetoric,
going so far, before she was in office, as to accuse Democrats, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi, of treasonous conduct and adding that #treason was punishable by imprisonment or #death
— realized that she had suddenly lost all appetite for vengeance.

She later told a friend, who confirmed the exchange:
“After Charlie [Kirk] died, I realized that I’m part of this toxic culture.
I really started looking at my faith. I wanted to be more like Christ.”

She has increasingly taken stands apart from the president and the Republican Party:

declaring the war in Gaza a “genocide”;

objecting to cryptocurrency and artificial-intelligence policies that, from her perspective, prioritized billionaire donors over working-class Americans;

criticizing the Trump administration for approving foreign student visas,
enacting tariffs that hurt businesses in her district
and allowing Obamacare
subsidies to expire.

Significantly, she defied Trump and compliant House Republican leaders as she argued that
all investigative material pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein should be released.

“The Epstein files represent everything wrong with Washington,”
Greene told me in December.

“Rich, powerful elites doing horrible things and getting away with it.
And the women are the victims.”
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