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By Jasmine Laws and Amanda Greenwood
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Marjorie Taylor Greene has said she thinks the Republican Party needs to be "burned to the ground," in an interview with Alex Jones, the founder and host of Infowars.
The former Republican representative for Georgia added that the GOP was "completely controlled," and said that "much of Congress is controlled by AIPAC and Zionists," noting this was a "serious problem."
AIPAC, or the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, is an American pro-Israel lobbying group.
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Greene has become a vocal critic of President Donald's Trump administration, particularly on issues relating to foreign policy, health care and the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, despite previously being one of Trump’s most vocal allies.
Last year, she had a public falling out with Trump, breaking her significant ties within the Republican base; she then resigned from Congress earlier this year. During the interview with Jones, she said, “You may have supported President Trump for 10 years, like I did…but this is not the same man,” adding that “The American people have to open their eyes and deal with reality and deal with truth. This is not the same man that we supported.”
"You don't have to be in a cult…It's turned into a cult where the Trump administration, the president himself, and everyone around him, demands cult-like worship."
"That means that you, the American people, don't control your own government and those you elect. They're controlled by donors that have one specific interest and that is Israel," she said.
She added that she was referring to the "secular government of Israel, not Jewish people, so I don't want to hear any of the antisemitism stuff, we're over that."
Greene is concerned that “we will see a nuclear bomb used on Iran," and “that would probably be the worst thing we could see in our lifetimes.”
" The biggest betrayal to the entire country is Trump said no more foreign wars. And he led us into this war. The United States and Israel together went into an unprovoked war in Iran. You save American troops lives by getting the hell out of the Middle East. We had no business there to begin with.”
She added that "we should support candidates, and fight hard for candidates, that will not take money from AIPAC or AIPAC-adjacent donors."
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