For years, Marjorie Taylor Greene supported Donald Trump by showing off “Free Trump” merchandise and attending his rallies. It was thus unexpected when MTG began questioning why the president isn’t making more of an effort to look into his near-death experience.
Trisha Hope, a January 6 activist who describes herself as “as MAGA as it gets”, shared a post on X that Greene reshared over the weekend. In it, she asks about the assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024. It is “extremely important… worth the read and consideration,” wrote Greene. However, the latter also clarified that she did not believe the post’s claim that the shooting itself was planned, and that she only shared it because she agreed with the other questions it raised.
Greene had a point, though. On Sunday, she asked on X, “Did he actually act alone? If not, who is behind him and who helped him? Why the cover-up?” Twenty-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks fired shots after climbing a rooftop with a clear view of the stage. He killed Corey Comperatore, a former fire chief who used his body to protect his family, and grazed Trump in the ear.
Minutes later, a Secret Service counter-sniper shot and killed Crooks.
Since then, investigations have found a series of security lapses before the assassination attempt faded away from the news cycle. Greene, who left Congress earlier this year and is now a private citizen, is curious as to why. She added, “Corey Comperatore’s wife and daughters deserve to know why Corey, a true American patriot and hero, was murdered in Butler.”
“Trump said repeatedly, ‘I am your retribution.’ Where is the retribution?”
Soon, Trump defender Laura Loomer accused Greene and Tucker Carlson’s son, Buckley Carlson, of “pushing the deranged conspiracy theory that President Trump staged his attempted assassination.” Loomer referred to them as the “woke right.” In response, Carlson said that all Americans “deserve a real investigation” and thanked Loomer for “spreading the word.”
In the meantime, MTG told Piers Morgan that Trump warned her that it would be her fault if her son was killed due to her death threats, which consisted of threats against her children. To that, a White House spokesperson said she is a “quitter who is pathetically trying to stay relevant” and added that “Trump Derangement Syndrome has rotted [her] peanut-sized brain.”
Greene’s separation from Trump began to worsen late last year over disagreements about military operations in Iran, healthcare costs, and the administration’s general course with the Epstein files. She invoked the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office now. Republicans, according to her, “serve Donald Trump as if he is some sort of cult leader.”
She has even called for the Republican Party to be “burned to the ground.”