ATLANTA — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene criticized President Donald Trump in a televised interview Sunday, saying he had abandoned his MAGA followers to help “major industries” and “big donors.”
During her nearly 14-minute interview on the CBS News program “60 Minutes,” the Rome Republican criticized Trump and gave one reason why she had decided to step down next month, a year before her term expires: safety.
After she had broken with the president over several political issues — the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files chief among them — Trump had publicly called her a traitor. Then, both she and her son had experienced threats of violence, a pipe bomb against her home and death for her son.
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