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Trump Says He Would Love It if Marjorie Taylor Greene Returned to Politics

&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Despite what appears to be the biggest rift in MAGA world thus far&comma; President Trump divulged over the weekend that he would &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;love” to see Marjorie Taylor Greene return to politics at some point&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The President’s comments came the day after Greene&comma; one of the best-known faces in the Republican arena&comma; made the stunning announcement that she will resign in January&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">In a brief phone interview with NBC News&comma; the president said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s not going to be easy for her” to revive her career in politics&comma; though he added&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I’d love to see that&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Long a stalwart ally of the president&comma; Greene has become&nbsp&semi;more vocal&nbsp&semi;in recent weeks about her differences with some of his policies and priorities&period; She has faulted Trump for devoting what she sees as excessive attention to foreign leaders as opposed to the pocketbook concerns of everyday Americans&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">She was also an early advocate for the release of the Jeffrey&nbsp&semi;Epstein files&nbsp&semi;and said that Trump had been blocking their disclosure&period; After calling the effort to release the files a &&num;8220&semi;hoax&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Trump changed course and said he supported making them public&period; Congress quickly voted to compel the Justice Department to do just that&comma; and Trump signed the bill&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Trump has&nbsp&semi;lashed out at Greene&comma; calling her a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;traitor&period;” He withdrew his support for her re-election&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Early Saturday morning&comma; before his interview with NBC News&comma; Trump&nbsp&semi;posted on his social media site&nbsp&semi;that Greene chose to quit rather than face a Republican primary challenger in the midterm elections next year&period; He reiterated that she was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;a traitor&comma;” while also thanking her for her &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;service to our country&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">A person close to Greene said in an interview that the congresswoman remained convinced she would win re-election had she decided to run&period; The issue was not so much the competition as&nbsp&semi;the threats&nbsp&semi;and scorn that Greene and her children have endured&comma; the person said&comma; speaking on condition of anonymity&period; Greene has two daughters and a son&comma; all in their 20s&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;She very much looks forward to one day go out in public and not be harassed in restaurants and airports and be on the face of every TV channel&comma;” the person added&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s safe to say she’ll probably take a step back and be a private&comma; normal person again&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">As for Trump’s denunciations&comma; the person said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;She was one of his biggest allies in Congress and she never really turned her back on him&period; She stood up for him when no one else in the House would&period; It was disappointing to her to see that&comma; but she’s not someone who&comma; when she sees things she disagrees with&comma; would turn a blind eye to that&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Asked if he believed he could overcome his differences with Greene&comma; Trump said in the interview&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I can patch up differences with anyone&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">He may be right as evidenced by his recent chummy meeting with newly elected socialist mayor of NYC&comma; Zohran Mamdani&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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