Robert Draper

And that is...

so remarkable given how unflagging a supporter Greene was of Trump.

She arrived in Washington in early January of 2021, freshly elected with an unapologetically pro-Trump campaign platform.

expecting that she would be part of facilitating President Trump's second term.

Instead, she arrived just a couple of days before January the 6th, with Trump having been defeated.

And at a time on the heels of the Capitol riot, when a lot of Republicans wanted to distance themselves from the defeated former president, Marjorie Taylor Greene was the most vociferous defender of Trump, really, in Washington.

Right.

And continued to be so throughout his campaign in 2024 when he was at the Republican National Convention.

She sat by his side on the second day in the presidential booth and was pledging that Trump was a gift from God and that she viewed him in kind of these theological proportions as someone who would be saving America.

Right.

The beginning of Trump's second term saw Marjorie Taylor Greene unflaggingly by his side.

But then alongside her own arc regarding Trump was her own experience in Congress when she became increasingly disillusioned with her own party.

that once it had power, didn't really do anything with it.

And she began to think maybe of running for something else, perhaps senator, perhaps governor of Georgia.

And far from getting any encouragement, the Trump White House basically threw a wet blanket over that.

She told me that she felt like all of her loyalty to Trump was amounting to a one-way street.

That's correct, yes.

And so that sets the stage then, I think, for what began to happen over the last two or three months, where she began to be increasingly disillusioned, not just with the Republican Party, but with President Trump himself.

And I think that one real flashpoint was Trump's refusal to release the Epstein files.

This had become an article of faith amongst the right.