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MTG claims people ‘high up’ in the Trump White House are against president’s war with Iran
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Former MAGA Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene said on Monday that she’d spoken to senior White House officials whom she claimed in some cases privately opposed Donald Trump’s war with Iran.
The revelation comes as Greene, formerly one of Trump’s biggest backers in Congress, has issued withering criticsm of the president over his decision to launch military strikes in Iran. A member of the GOP’s isolationist wing, Greene has consistently opposed U.S. commitments in foreign conflicts including the war in Ukraine.
Greene told The Situation Room co-anchors Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown that a generational divide increasingly exists within the president’s MAGA base, with younger voters and Gen X Republicans like herself viewing the conflict as being waged on Israel’s behalf.
Trump, Greene said, had “perverted” the MAGA brand into something that “no one wants.”
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