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David Smith in Washington

Marjorie Taylor Greene could have led the anti-Trump resistance but the mob boss got his way

Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks alongside Donald Trump at a campaign event in Georgia in 2024.
Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks alongside Donald Trump at a campaign event in Georgia in 2024. A very public falling-out has seen her decide to resign in January. Photograph: Elijah Nouvelage/AFP/Getty Images

It has been a head-spinning 48 hours in Washington. Liberal TV host Rachel Maddow showed up at the funeral of conservative vice-president Dick Cheney. Donald Trump embraced Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist set to be the first Muslim mayor of New York, like a brother.

And then Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Trump acolyte-turned-nemesis who bested him over the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, stunned the political establishment again. In what should have been her hour of triumph, the Maga star abruptly announced that she was quitting the House of Representatives.

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