'She doesn't understand': Pro-Trump senator goes on rant about Marjorie Taylor Greene

17 June

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on March 22, 2024 (Image: Shutterstock)

A recent spat between a longtime Senate Republican and far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is exposing a growing rift in the MAGA coalition — particularly as tensions between Israel and Iran increase by the day.

Earlier this week, Greene tweeted her disapproval of hawkish voices within the Republican Party that she said were "slobbering" at the opportunity to get the United States involved in another war in the Middle East. The Georgia Republican insisted that Americans were "sick and tired of foreign wars" and that the MAGA movement "wants world peace for all people and doesn’t want our military killed and forever injured physically and mentally."

"We have spent TRILLIONS in the Middle East and we have dealt with the aftermath of death, blown apart bodies, never ending suicides, and disabling PTSD," she tweeted. "All because they told us propaganda as to why we must sacrifice our own to defend some other country’s borders and some other country’s borders."

Newsweek reported Tuesday that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) took offense at Greene's argument that Republicans who wanted to help Israel fight Iran were insufficiently MAGA. Graham lamented to Fox News host John Roberts that Greene wasn't approaching the threat of a potential nuclear-armed seriously as a geopolitical threat.

"I like Marjorie, but to be honest with you, she doesn't understand the threat, in my view," Graham told Roberts. "If you don't understand that Iran, a religious theocracy, religious Nazis, would use a nuclear weapon to kill all the Jews, you don't listen to what they say."

"They're a threat to us, they're a threat to the state of Israel," Graham continued. "It is not in the world's interest to give this religious fanatic a nuclear weapon."

The intensifying Israel-Iran conflict has resulted in President Donald Trump posting to his Truth Social platform that while he could "take out" Iran's supreme leader, he was refraining from doing so for now and instead calling for his "unconditional surrender." Meanwhile, Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) have introduced bipartisan legislation that invokes the War Powers Act, in which Congress can prevent a president from unilaterally declaring war for 60-90 days provided the U.S. isn't directly attacked.

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