Once a loyal foot soldier for Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene is increasingly bucking her part
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Reporting from the U.S. Capitol
When the White House discouraged Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from launching a Senate bid in Georgia this spring, Greene — a longtime loyal ally of Trump — agreed to back off her statewide ambitions.
But that didn’t mean the firebrand Republican was going to back down from other fights she felt were worth waging — including, or perhaps especially, with her own party.
Over the past six months, Greene has made waves in Washington for publicly breaking with Trump and the GOP on a number of high-profile issues and lobbing some pointed attacks at her fellow Republicans in the process. She was critical of the Trump administration’s strikes on Iran, referred to the situation in Gaza as a “genocide,” signed her name to an effort to force a House vote to require the Justice Department to release its files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case and, most recently, sided with Democrats in calling for an extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies amid the government shutdown fight.
Ex-FBI Director James Comey to be arraigned after Trump called for his prosecution
Reporting from Washington
Former FBI Director James Comey will appear in a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, today for his arraignment on charges brought after a public campaign by Trump to prosecute him.
A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia indicted Comey, whom Trump fired during his first term in office, on two charges last month: making a false statement and obstruction of a congressional proceeding.
Trump had posted just days earlier on his social media platform, calling on Attorney General Pam Bondi to charge Comey. “We can’t delay any longer,” he wrote.
Comey, who was a registered Republican and served in the Justice Department during the George W. Bush administration, became the subject of Trump’s ire after he helped spark Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
