'They called me an idiot!' MTG fumes over bad press from Fox News
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Friday fumed at the negative press she's been receiving from Fox News.
During an appearance on Steve Bannon's "War Room" podcast, the Georgia congresswoman claimed vindication in her efforts to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on the grounds that she had supposedly exposed the Republican establishment for being in cahoots with Democrats.
"Because of your efforts... Politico's reporting that [Democrats and Republicans] are going to have a formal power-sharing agreement!" Bannon exclaimed during the interview. "Now that you've smoked them out, they've had to come forward!"
The Democrats and Republicans have not announced a "formal power-sharing agreement." Democratic Party leaders did, however, say they would vote to table Greene's motion to oust Johnson.
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Greene said that recent events have shown that Fox News and other Rupert Murdoch-owned media outlets have been misplaced in their criticism of her work.
"Fox News called me an idiot!" Greene said. "That was literally their headline — they called me an idiot! But what I've done is expose what was already happening in the dark. And I think the beautiful thing about it is that I think Democrats have to come clean. They were controlling Mike Johnson anyways. He was giving them everything — wide-open border policy, fully funded."
Johnson helped kill a bipartisan Senate deal that would have enacted the toughest new immigration restrictions that the United States has seen in decades.
Greene then complained that Johnson, "Fully funded" the Department of Justice and FBI, which appears to be an odd complaint coming from a member of a party whose biggest criticism of Democrats four years ago was over their purported desire to "defund the police."
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