Q&A with U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

Republican U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia spoke briefly by phone to reporter Trevor Ballantyne from The Bulletin on Tuesday following her appearance at the "America First" rally in Plainfield over the weekend.

How was your visit to Connecticut? 

I truly had a great time in Connecticut – I thought it was a blue state but apparently, it’s not totally blue!

What does America First mean to you and has it changed since you have been elected?

I don’t think America First changed – America First are policies that I believe our entire government, every elected official, should be working on and that's serving the American people and focusing Americans' hard-earned tax dollars on American issues – not sending money overseas; not trying to pass policies and laws that help other countries and other countries’ businesses over Americans'.

And for example decades ago with NAFTA how our jobs, great jobs were sent overseas and, you know, all the way to the policies that we are working on today and are actually trying to stop with the infrastructure bill and the reconciliation budget that is going to be over I think $5.5 trillion in spending will truly only help China and put America last.

And [the] full passage of the Green New Deal will make China the strongest country in the world because they will supply America with energy and these are policies that we shouldn’t be looking at and these are terrible ideas because we should be doing everything we can to put America First.

Kind of a long explanation but I guess that sums up what I think about it.

…to your point about not sending money overseas, was the pullout from Afghanistan a good thing?

I think everyone is agreed that we needed to pull out – but not like that. That was a purposeful failure. There was intel well ahead of time, as a matter of fact, months ahead of time that the Taliban was rapidly taking over and destabilizing Afghanistan so no we don’t want to demoralize our military like what happened in Afghanistan, we certainly don’t want to arm a radical Islamic nation like the Taliban in Afghanistan and we definitely don’t want to see failed leadership that causes 13 of our great military men and women to be murdered by a suicide bomber.

So, of course, everyone wants to see an end  – well not everyone, actually – but people like me want to see an end the never-ending wars like the wars that we have seen over the past 20 years in the Middle East but we don’t want to end on failure and we never should end on failure, especially when it is known ahead of time that that’s exactly what we are headed into.

If Donald Trump doesn’t win the primary, would you support a more mainstream Republican?

No, I don’t support RINOs – RINO means Republican in Name Only – these are the Republicans that have been elected for a long time that have failed their donors and failed our party.

These are the kinds of Republicans that I am working very hard to remove because I am tired of them. I don’t like Republicans that claim that they are pro-life for example but turn around and fund Planned Parenthood.

I don’t like Republicans that claim they are against high taxes but turn around and vote for high taxes, so these are the problems that are in our party so I won’t be supporting anyone other than Donald J. Trump because I am excited that he is very likely to run in 2024 and just for your knowledge, I would say easily over 75%, perhaps as high as 85% of Republican voters all across the country support President Trump running for president in 2024 and we reject just all the nonsense and the perpetual lies.

I call it ‘blue-annon’—because of the amount of conspiracy theories like I have never seen before that the Democrat activists and the media are constantly providing so…if the media were ever to really tell the truth about actual policies and peoples’ real statements, our country wouldn’t be divided like this and they wouldn’t think someone like me is a bad person or has done things that I never have even done or said and they would believe terrible things about President Trump, who it is so easy to see that not even a year with [President] Joe Biden, how rapidly our country is going downhill and that we had a great president for four years that was demonized and you know, by the media, and in the public sphere.

So, I think that I would love to see – I just would love to see our media do a better job instead of wearing their political cards so proudly and loudly on their sleeve – try journalism again because it seems to be a really, a lost art, and it’s kind of sad these days.