Marjorie Taylor Greene went to Washington this week with only one thing on her mind: how to save face. After being told by former President Donald Trump to “stand down” on her threat to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson, the Georgia Republican was able to extract two meetings with Johnson, R-La.
After her first meeting with the speaker, Greene outlined her four demands on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast. They included a pledge to forgo any further aid to Kyiv and to cut Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s funding. The inflammatory lawmaker has always talked a big game, but did she have the leverage, and the savvy, to extract serious concessions? Following her second meeting with Johnson on Tuesday afternoon, the answer seems clear.
She got bupkis.
“This is not a negotiation,” Johnson demurred. But if it were, it sure seems like he’d be winning.
Greene outlined her four demands on Steve Bannon’s ‘War Room’ podcast.
Desperation is never a good look for a politician, and nothing screams desperation like Greene’s ongoing threats against Johnson. She knows her influence in the House is waning and that ally Trump simply doesn’t seem interested in backing her chaotic play.
Since being elected to the House in 2020, Greene has been one of Trump’s most rabid fans and defenders. Because Trump loves the flattery, he has mostly responded in kind. This dynamic has provided Greene with outsize — and totally undeserved — influence in the Republican conference, in the way a child threatens to tattle on a sibling. Which is why she thought she could probably get
