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The Guardian - US
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Diana Ramirez-Simon

Trump calls Marjorie Taylor Greene resignation ‘great news for the country’

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Marjorie Taylor Greene at a campaign event in Atlanta in October 2024. Photograph: John Bazemore/AP

Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican Georgia congresswoman who had a dramatic blow-up with Donald Trump despite being his longtime ally, announced on Friday she would be resigning – which the president called “great news”.

“Loyalty should be a two-way street,” Greene said in a lengthy resignation statement shared on social media, adding that it was “unfair and wrong” that Trump turned on her for disagreeing with him.

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