Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) mentioned Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) “can’t take the warmth” from President Donald Trump as Greene introduced her plans to resign from Congress in January.
“Truthfully, I used to be like, ‘You bought to be kidding me,’” Crockett said Sunday on “State of the Union” about Greene’s resignation announcement. “You’re on the opposite aspect of the president for one week and you’ll’t take the warmth? Think about what it’s to take a seat in my sneakers to not solely be on the other aspect of him however to have folks like her who’re consistently fanning the flames of hate.”
On Friday, amid a public fallout from the president over the hassle to launch the Epstein information, Greene announced she would resign from Congress.
“My solely purpose and need has ever been to carry the Republican Party accountable for the guarantees it makes to the American folks and put America First,” Greene mentioned in a press release. “With that has introduced years of nonstop, endless private assaults, loss of life threats, lawfare, ridiculous slander and lies about me, that most individuals might by no means stand up to even for a day.”
Crockett mentioned Greene has been an “instigator” to “quite a lot of the hate” from the Make America Nice Once more motion.
“I don’t know if she actually absolutely understood how unhealthy she was making it for different folks, and now that they’re doing it to her, I simply gotta say, why is it that everybody else is ready to stand and you’ll’t,” Crockett mentioned on “State of the Union.”
Greene and Crockett have had a longstanding and public feud. At a 2024 House hearing, Greene made a unfavorable remark about Crockett’s false eyelashes, and as recently as August, Greene claimed Crockett didn’t perceive “the Black American battle.”
However final week, after Trump publicly pulled his endorsement for Greene, Crockett offered her support for Greene on social media, writing, “I’m right here for you woman… I instructed you to not belief him… all he cares about is HIMself (and defending pedos) he by no means cherished you.”
Despite the fact that Greene introduced her time in Congress will quickly come to an finish, according to TIME, Greene has thought-about working for president in 2028.
Crockett, whom together with Greene is on the Home Oversight Committee, which launched greater than 20,000 paperwork earlier this month associated to the Epstein case, mentioned she isn’t certain if Trump is talked about within the different information which have but to be launched.
