Robert Draper

Now she was getting attacks from what she often described as her favorite president.

Her favorite president was unleashing, in her view, these threats.

And it's not just that the threats were levied against her.

They were levied against her own children, and her children were named.

I know this because Green told me that and said she was terrified.

So it was really, really alarming and scary for her.

And so this was, I was getting all these texts, by the way, you know, from friends of mine in the political world saying, she's rebranding herself.

What is this about?

Yes, the former, tinged also with the belief of, what the hell?

I've got nothing to lose.

Since when has my unflagging loyalty paid off for me?

It hasn't.

So she felt somewhat liberated from her allegiances to President Trump.

But I think alongside that, she truly believed what she was saying.

She truly had heard what her constituents had been telling her, that they were, like her, taking the president's principle of America first.

not just seriously, but literally.

You know, they were saying, hang on, how is it America first to be not just supporting Ukraine, but also Israel?

Do we not care about women who have been victimized by the rich and powerful?

And meanwhile, things are still expensive.

Why isn't the president out there every day doing something about this?