President Trump demanded an apology from “60 Minutes” over its deceptive Hunter Biden laptop computer protection and fumed about outgoing GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s combative interview with CBS’ Lesley Stahl through which she hinted Republican colleagues mock him behind his again, calling her a “traitor” in an epic Reality Social rant.
“The one purpose Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Brown (Inexperienced turns Brown underneath stress!) went BAD is that she was JILTED by the President of the USA (Definitely not the primary time she has been jilted!),” Trump wrote Monday morning after the “60 Minutes” interview aired.
The primetime interview got here simply weeks after the firebrand Georgia rep — and onetime die-hard Trump loyalist — introduced she could be resigning from Congress after breaking with the president on points like the discharge of the Epstein information and voicing assist for extending Inexpensive Care Act subsidies.
She additionally blamed Trump’s rhetoric for fueling demise threats towards her and her household.
Greene mentioned it might “shock folks” to learn the way GOPers discuss in regards to the president out of his earshot.
“Properly, let’s shock folks,” Stahl egged her on.
“Okay. I watched lots of my colleagues go from making enjoyable of him, making enjoyable of how he talks, making enjoyable of me consistently for supporting him, to when he received the first in 2024 all of them began — excuse my language, Lesley — kissing his ass and determined to placed on a MAGA hat for the primary time,” Greene shared.
She claimed that Republicans chunk their tongue when talking about Trump, even once they disagree with him, as a result of they’re “terrified” of ending up in his sights.
“I believe they’re terrified to step out of line and get a nasty Reality Social submit on them,” she mentioned.
Proper on cue, Trump uncorked with a prolonged submit on his social media platform slamming Greene.
“An excessive amount of work, not sufficient time, and her concepts are, NOW, actually BAD — She kind of jogs my memory of a Rotten Apple!” Trump wrote.
“Marjorie shouldn’t be AMERICA FIRST or MAGA, as a result of no one may have modified her views so quick, and her new views are these of a really dumb particular person,” he added, sparing some ire for Stahl, “60 Minutes” and CBS’ mother or father firm Paramount — which in October paid Trump $16 million to settle a lawsuit he introduced over a deceptively edited interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris throughout the 2024 marketing campaign.
“This was confirmed final evening when washed up, Trump hating, 60 Minutes ‘correspondent,” Lesley Stahl … interviewed a really poorly ready Traitor, who in her confusion made many actually silly statements,” he mentioned.
“My actual downside with the present, nonetheless, wasn’t the low IQ traitor, it was that the brand new possession of 60 Minutes, Paramount, would enable a present like this to air.
“I hereby demand a whole and complete APOLOGY, although far too late to be significant, from Lesley Stahl and 60 Minutes for her incorrect and Libelous statements about Hunter’s Laptop computer,” Trump wrote. Stahl famously mentioned in an interview with Trump in 2020 that Hunter Biden’s emails “can’t be verified” after the Publish broke the story about Biden’s deserted laptop computer.
Greene later hit again at Trump with an X submit proclaiming herself “AMERICA FIRST,” juxtaposed with a pair of photographs exhibiting she obtained no marketing campaign money from the American Israeli Political Motion Committee (AIPAC) whereas claiming the president obtained greater than $230 million.
“Thanks on your consideration to this matter. -MTG,” she wrote in a parody of his signature social media sign-off.
Trump returned to this system for an interview final month, through which he bragged in regards to the eight-figure settlement with Paramount, however his feedback had been edited from the TV broadcast.
