Marjorie Taylor Greene has accused conservative CNN commentator Scott Jennings of lying about her when he said she “became a lib” and “went off the deep end” this year.
The retiring Georgia Republican, who acrimoniously split from Donald Trump last month over a host of issues like the Epstein files, disapproved of Jennings’ analysis Sunday on ABC’s This Week.
“MTG becomes a lib—I mean, that’s what happened this year,“ Jennings, 48, said. ”She got a little bit bent out of shape because the president wouldn’t support her for a statewide office in Georgia, which she was going to lose if she had gotten into it, by the way. So she goes off the deep end.”
Greene, whose potential Senate bid was reportedly discouraged by Trump, used Jennings’ background against him.
“Oh look I’m being lied about again by Bush neocon and Mitch McConnell consultant Scott Jennings,” Greene, 51, wrote on X, along with a Wikipedia summary of Jennings’ time in the Bush White House and as an adviser to the Kentucky senator. “I have a 98% voting record with Trump so I guess Scott is calling Trump liberal too.”
Jennings “is everything America First voted against,” Greene said of the frequent Trump defender, adding that he “just fools people with hot takes.”
Jennings did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Beast.
On CNN Monday night, Jennings seemed to allude to Greene’s post when he reiterated how it had been reported that Trump did not support her Senate bid.
“And ever since that moment, she turned against him on a number of issues, some domestic, some foreign policy. And Trump finally had enough of it, and they cut ties and she left Congress,” he said. “She didn‘t have to quit, by the way. If she really wanted to go against Donald Trump or change the culture in Washington or whatever, she could have held on to her seat and done it from inside the institution.”
Greene, now in her last week in Congress, broke with Trump on foreign policy, health insurance, and the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, which has dogged Trump throughout his second term.
One of the few congressional Republicans who pushed early on for the Department of Justice to release its files on the dead sex offender, Greene recently explained to The New York Times why Trump was so hesitant to do so.
“My friends will get hurt,” Greene said Trump told her during one angry phone call in September after she had heard from some of Epstein’s victims during closed-door testimony.
That was the final time the two spoke, Greene said.
Even before she announced her retirement around Thanksgiving, Trump publicly called Greene a “traitor.” Death threats followed. Greene, according to the Times, felt that Trump had endangered her and her family. Trump, however, refused to take any responsibility.
