Departing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) emphatically denied a report Sunday that she is considering a run for the White House in 2028, writing on social media Sunday: “I’m not running for President and never said I wanted to and have only laughed about it when anyone would mention it.”
Greene, 51, who shockingly announced her resignation Friday night, was responding to a Saturday Time magazine report that she “has privately told allies that she has considered running for president in 2028,” which cited “two people who have spoken with her directly about the prospect and three others familiar with her thinking. “
“[T]his is a complete lie and they made it up because they can’t even quote the names of the people who they claim said it,” Greene insisted. “That’s not journalism, it’s called lying.”
Greene announced her resignation, effective Jan. 5, after repeatedly butting heads with President Trump, most recently over the release of Justice Department files related to the case of late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. After the congresswoman called for the full release of the files, Trump withdrew his endorsement of Greene for another House term, calling her “wacky” and a “lunatic.”
A House GOP aide described Greene’s resignation announcement Friday night as a “vindictive” move to deliberately “f—k” over the Republican House majority, which currently stands at 219-213 with three vacancies.
“MTG left before Pelosi did,” this person noted, referring to the Democratic former House speaker who announced earlier this month she would not seek another term.
“If you fell for those headlines, you’re still being lulled everyday [sic] into psychosis by the Political Industrial Complex that always has an agenda when it does something like this,” Greene said later in her post.
“Running for President requires traveling all over the country, begging for donations all day everyday to raise hundreds of millions of dollars, arguing political talking points everyday [sic] to the point of exhaustion, destroying your health and having no personal life in order to attempt to get enough votes to become President all to go to work into a system that refuses to fix any of America’s problems.
“The fact that I’d have to go through all that but would be totally blocked from truly fixing anything is exactly why I would never do it.”
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