In a stunning political reversal, Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has announced she will resign from office, just days after a bitter public feud with former President Donald Trump.
Greene, once a “Maga superstar” and one of Trump’s most staunch defenders, stated in a social media video that she will leave Congress on January 5, 2026. The decision follows a rift sparked by her relentless demands to release documents related to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein—a stance that led Trump to label her a “traitor” and threaten to endorse a primary challenger.
“I refuse to be a ‘battered wife’ hoping it all goes away and gets better,” Greene said in her video announcement. She expressed reluctance to force her district into a “hurtful and hateful primary against me by the president we all fought for.”
The rupture culminated last week when Trump launched a series of social media attacks, calling Greene “wacky” and vowing to unseat her. Notably, days after their feud boiled over, Trump reversed his position and signed a bill forcing the Justice Department to release the Epstein documents within 30 days.
Despite their recent alliance championing the “America First” agenda and Trump’s false claims of winning the 2020 election, Greene had recently criticized the former president on several fronts. She took issue with his economic policies and, most prominently, his administration’s failure to release the Epstein files.
“Standing up for American women who were raped at 14, trafficked and used by rich powerful men, should not result in me being called a traitor and threatened by the President of the United States, whom I fought for,” Greene stated in her resignation letter.
Trump responded to her announcement by calling it “great news for the country” in an interview with ABC News. He had previously attempted to quash her political ambitions, telling her she should not run for Georgia governor or Senate due to poor polling—ambitions Greene has since disavowed.
First elected in 2020 amid controversy over her past promotion of QAnon conspiracy theories, Greene’s departure will narrow the Republican majority in the House of Representatives, setting the stage for a highly consequential battle for control of the chamber in the 2026 midterm elections.
By James Kisoo
