Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has expressed in an interview that ‘weak’ Republican men are hindering the progress of their female colleagues, particularly pointing towards House Speaker Mike Johnson.
During a conversation with the Washington Post published Tuesday, Greene praised former President Donald Trump for his ‘very strong, dominant style,’ highlighting that ‘he’s not weak at all.’
She then added, ‘a lot of the men here in the House are weak.’
‘Many Republican men lack strength and are intimidated by assertive Republican women. As a result, they attempt to sideline those women who are eager to take action and achieve goals,’ Greene remarked.
‘Stronger Republican women often intimidate them because we are determined, capable, and can potentially outshine them,’ the Georgia representative added, refraining from naming specific individuals.
Interestingly, the only Republicans backing libertarian GOP Rep. Thomas Massie’s petition to disclose the Epstein files are women, such as Greene, alongside Reps. Nancy Mace and Lauren Boebert.
‘For some of us, like myself, Nancy Mace, and Lauren Boebert, this issue is so revolting that we are undeterred by potential backlash,’ Greene stated.
As for her male colleagues, she suggested that they might not be able to ‘relate’ to the female lawmakers’ concerns.
Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene criticized ‘weak’ Republican men in the House of Representatives and said they were responsible for holding their female counterparts back
Jeffrey Epstein was a serial pedophile who victimized droves of underage women.
During the president’s 2024 campaign, he said he would release the remainder of the Epstein files, but has since gotten cold feet.
In turn, the White House has labeled support for Massie’s discharge petition a ‘hostile act.’
Greene said her male colleagues ‘don’t want to get yelled at by the president.’
‘They don’t want to get yelled at by Johnson,’ she said, referencing the speaker.
Johnson also ruffled Greene’s feathers earlier this year when he gave Rep. Elise Stefanik, who previously served as the House’s No. 3 GOP leader, ‘some honorary bulls*** role’ after the New York Republican’s nomination was pulled to be the ambassador to the United Nations.
‘It was unbelievably insulting,’ Greene said. ‘I thought it was horrible.’
She told the paper that she sees a ‘night and day’ difference between how Johnson and former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have treated women in the GOP conference.
Greene pointed a finger at House Speaker Mike Johnson, pushing that the GOP women in the House were treated better under former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who carefully elevated female leaders
McCarthy carefully curated female talent, while women under Johnson have been pushed aside, she noted.
Currently just one woman, Rep. Lisa C. McClain, serves in the top rung of GOP leadership and there’s only one female committee chair, Rep. Virginia Foxx, of the Rules Committee.
In the previous Congress, three Republican women were chairs.
Greene expressed anger that Stefanik was told by Trump that she needed to stay in the House due to the slim Republican majority, while former Rep. Michael Waltz, who lost his job as Trump’s national security adviser for the role he played in Signal-gate – when a journalist was accidentally added to a group chat – got a promotion.
Waltz was given the job of UN ambassador, which Stefanik was pressured to give up.
‘She gets shafted, he gets rewarded,’ Greene fumed. ‘She’s a woman so it was OK to do that to her somehow.’
Greene saw shades of that when members of Trump’s inner circle presented the president with polling that showed she would not have been able to win a general election in Georgia against Democratic incumbent Sen. Jon Ossoff.
She’s since declined to run.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (second from right) attends a memorial service for Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk last month. Greene has publicly bucked her party on a number of recent occasions including over Jeffrey Epstein, Obamacare and immigration
‘The same people telling Trump I can’t win a general are the same people that get filthy rich off consulting on as many campaigns they can get the president to endorse,’ Greene said in a statement to the Post.
Greene has broken from her party in a number of major ways in recent weeks, beyond pushing for the release of the Epstein files, she’s found herself on the side of the Democrats wanting to see Obamacare subsidies extended – which is what the current government shutdown is over.
‘Here goes another a hundred billion dollars to Ukraine, or $30 billion to Israel, but yet nobody can afford health insurance premiums. And then I’m getting yelled at by Republican colleagues for saying that out loud,’ she complained on the Tim Dillon Show over the weekend. ‘I’m like, this is insane.’
Over the weekend, she also expressed misgivings over the Trump administration’s mass deportation plan, saying on the same podcast that there ‘needs to be a smarter plan than just rounding up every single person and deporting them.’
While some critics have floated primarying the Georgia Republican, Greene told the Post that she didn’t expect to pay a price politically for stepping out of line.
‘My district knows I ran for Congress trashing Republicans,’ she said. ‘They voted for me because they agreed with that. My district’s not surprised.’
