President Donald Trump responded to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s public resignation from Congress, calling her announcement “nice information for the nation.”
In accordance with ABC Information’ Senior Political Correspondent Rachel Scott, the president applauded Greene’s resolution throughout their name Friday night. “I feel it’s nice information for the nation,” Trump informed Scott. “It’s nice.”
Whereas Trump shared that Greene didn’t give him a heads up earlier than releasing her assertion on social media, he indicated he was unbothered by the transfer. “It doesn’t matter, , however I feel it’s nice,” he added. “I feel she must be comfortable.”
Trump then famous he didn’t have any plans to talk with Greene straight following her resolution to give up Congress, however mentioned he did want her effectively.
Per Scott, the president pivoted the subject to his assembly with New York Metropolis’s Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, who he mentioned “couldn’t be nicer.”
“It was good chemistry,” he continued. “It’s all the time good to have good chemistry with folks.”
Greene, a consultant for Georgia’s 14th congressional district, introduced she’s going to resign from Congress this January. In her assertion, she defined the choice got here after the federal government shutdown and subsequent falling out with Trump, stating “loyalty must be a two means avenue.”
“We must always have the ability to vote our conscience and characterize our district’s curiosity as a result of our job is actually, ‘Consultant,’” Greene went on. “America First ought to imply America First and solely Individuals First, with no different international nation ever being connected to America First in our halls of presidency.”
President Trump beforehand rescinded his endorsement of Greene, after the congresswoman repeatedly known as out Republican management throughout the shutdown. Trump additionally acknowledged he’d assist a major opponent in opposition to Greene, who he known as “a ranting lunatic.”
In her Friday assertion, Greene shared she had “an excessive amount of self-respect and dignity” for herself and her district to endure that. She added that she wouldn’t be “a ‘battered spouse’ hoping all of it goes away and will get higher.”
