Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) fired back at Fox News on Friday after the outlet published an op-ed calling her an “idiot.”
“Fox News called me an idiot. That was literally their headline. They called me an idiot,” Greene complained to Steve Bannon on his podcast. “But what I’ve done is expose what was already happening in the dark.”
Greene announced earlier this week that she will force a vote to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson next week, a move that angered some on the right.
“The beautiful thing about it is Democrats have to come clean; they were controlling Mike Johnson anyway,” Greene told Bannon about her effort to remove Johnson.
In an op-ed published on Fox News’ website last month titled ‘Marjorie Taylor Greene is an idiot. She is trying to wreck the GOP,’ columnist Liz Peek argued that Greene is bad for the Republican party.
“It’s high time someone in the Republican Party told Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to turn all that bombastic self-serving showmanship and drama queen energy on Democrats, and stop trying to defeat her own party,” Peek wrote.
“The internal squabbles of the party need to stop. If Marjorie Taylor Greene and others want to oppose aid to Ukraine or the FISA bill, they can vote against it. That’s how democracy works,” Peek added. “My message for MTG? Borrowing from Hillary Clinton: Get over yourself. The mission today is to elect Donald Trump.”
