Marjorie Taylor Greene

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Marjorie Taylor Greene was born May 27, 1974, in Milledgeville, Georgia, and earned a BBA from the University of Georgia in 1996. Before politics she ran a commercial contracting company bought from her father with her then-husband, Perry Greene, and opened a CrossFit gym in suburban Atlanta. She became politically active during Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and was drawn into the QAnon movement, which she promoted online — calling Q a “patriot” in a 2017 video and writing dozens of articles for a conspiracy site, including pieces tying the Democratic Party to satanism and child abuse. She also advanced the 2018 claim, often summarized as “Jewish space lasers,” that California wildfires were ignited by a space-based laser tied to the Rothschild family, an antisemitic trope. She distanced herself from QAnon during her 2020 House campaign.

Elected in 2020 in heavily Republican GA-14, Greene was stripped of her committee assignments by a House vote in February 2021 over her conspiracy promotion and past statements, then spent the next several years as one of Trump’s most aggressive congressional defenders. In February 2022 she appeared as a surprise speaker at AFPAC III, the America First Political Action Conference organized by white nationalist Nick Fuentes — an appearance Fuentes credited Milo Yiannopoulos with arranging. Yiannopoulos went on to work as an unpaid intern in her congressional office in the summer of 2022 (Washington Post, June 2022; Daily Beast, 2022). Kevin McCarthy and other Republicans criticized the AFPAC appearance; Greene initially said she did not know Fuentes or his views.

Greene broke sharply with Trump in 2025. In July she became the first Republican to describe Israel’s conduct in Gaza as “genocide” and introduced a failed amendment to strip funding from Israel’s missile defense (Al Jazeera, July 29, 2025), drawing a rebuke from AIPAC, which she countered by demanding the group register as a foreign lobbyist. She signed the House discharge petition to force release of the Jeffrey Epstein files; she later said Trump told her privately that his “friends will get hurt” if the files came out (MSNBC, 2025). Trump publicly branded her “Marjorie Traitor Greene,” withdrew his endorsement, and called her a “ranting lunatic.”

On November 21, 2025, Greene announced her resignation, effective January 5, 2026, framing it around “standing up for American women who were raped at 14, trafficked and used by rich powerful men” (NPR, Nov. 22, 2025). In the same statement she repudiated QAnon directly, writing that “there is no ‘plan to save the world’ or insane 4D chess game being played,” and called her earlier “unblinking support of Trump” naive.

Sources

• “Marjorie Taylor Greene,” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Taylor_Greene
• “Marjorie Taylor Greene | Biography, Politician, Controversy, & Facts,” Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marjorie-Taylor-Greene
• “How Marjorie Taylor Greene went from a top Trump ally to choosing to resign,” NPR, Nov. 22, 2025. https://www.npr.org/2025/11/22/g-s1-98793/marjorie-taylor-greene-resignation
• “Trump ally Marjorie Taylor Greene decries ‘genocide’ in Gaza,” Al Jazeera, July 29, 2025. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/29/trump-ally-marjorie-taylor-greene-decries-genocide-in-gaza
• “Greene says Trump told her his ‘friends will get hurt’ by Epstein files,” MSNBC, 2025. https://www.ms.now/news/greene-says-trump-told-her-his-friends-would-get-hurt-by-epstein-files
• “Marjorie Taylor Greene downplays speaking at a conference founded by white nationalist Nick Fuentes,” CBS News, Feb. 2022. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/marjorie-taylor-greene-cpac-nick-fuentes-afpac-white-nationalist/