'Trump said no': Ocasio-Cortez flags source of Marjorie Taylor Greene's GOP 'revenge tour'
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) offered an explanation for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) speaking out against the Republican Party.
The Georgia Republican has spoken out against GOP leadership – and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), in particular – and continued to press for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, which have plagued President Donald Trump for months, and Ocasio-Cortez told her Instagram followers why Greene is speaking out, according to Fox News.
"Here’s some tea for you," Ocasio-Cortez said Monday in a livestream video. "MTG, people are like, 'Oh my God, she’s saying all these things, like, what’s gotten into her lately?' ‘Oh, like, she's bucking against Trump, she's bucking against the administration."
"Marjorie Taylor Greene wanted to run for Senate in Georgia," the New York Democrat continued. "She wanted to run for Senate earlier this year in the state of Georgia, she wanted to be the Republican nominee for Senate, so she was gearing up for that statewide race, and Trump told her no."
"Trump said no, and the White House and Trumpland shut down Marjorie Taylor Greene’s personal ambitions to run for Senate — and she has been on a revenge tour ever since," Ocasio-Cortez added.
Greene announced in May that she would not challenge Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) in her state's Senate race, which Republicans see as one of the best pickup opportunities in next year's midterms.
"Even with a few good Republicans in the Senate, nothing changes," Greene wrote on X at the time. "So no, Jon Ossoff isn’t the real problem. He’s just a vote. A pawn. No different than the Uniparty Republicans who skip key votes to attend fundraisers and let our agenda fail."
In addition to her criticism of Johnson, especially over his stance on Affordable Care Act subsidies and the government shutdown, Greene has broken with Republicans on Israel's war in Gaza, which she has called a "genocide" and "humanitarian crisis," but she told ABC's "The View" that she still supported the president.
"I do love him," she said. "When I ran for Congress in 2020, I ran criticizing Republicans and Democrats equally, because I come from a working-class family."