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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) says that Republicans should take her vocal criticisms of the GOP — which she insists are not criticisms of President Trump — as a warning about coming troubles with their base.

“I’m an early indicator, and my complaints are felt and being said far and wide among your average American people who voted for the President and Republicans in 2024,” Greene told me in a phone interview on Monday. “The Republican Party is the one drifting away from what we campaigned on.”

Greene also expanded to me on being the only Republican in Congress to call Israel’s actions in Gaza a “genocide.” Far from backing away from the term, Greene said: “It’s easy to call it a genocide.” More on that in a moment.

I had reached out to the firebrand Georgia congresswoman in wake of her comments to the Daily Mail that the GOP had “turned its back on America First” and that she was unsure of whether “the Republican Party is leaving me, or if I’m kind of not relating to Republican Party as much anymore.”

The comments surprised some, given Greene’s ardent support of Trump, who is the leader of the GOP. She told me it is “ridiculous” to suggest she does not support the president.

But they are part of a pattern of Greene breaking with leaders in the GOP, including Trump.

In recent weeks, she called the crisis in Gaza a genocide; raised the alarm about U.S. strikes in Iran; critiqued the U.S. continuing to sell weapons to help Ukraine; and pushed for more Jeffrey Epstein disclosures despite resistance from Trump, among other gripes.

Just on Monday, Greene in a post lamented that there have been zero arrests in a number of MAGA-amplified scandals like the “Russian Collusion Hoax,” “COVID,” “Mar-A-Lago Raid,” and “Epstein Pedophile Arrest,” among others. She posted: “Don’t talk about it if you aren’t going to do it.”

Who was she talking about in that post, and who needs to change? Greene declined to name specific names.

“That criticism is to everyone, literally everyone, and no one’s left out of that,” Greene said.

“If you're going to go on television — and this is for everybody — and point their fingers at all these people and call them criminals, say they committed treason, then do something about it,” Greene said. “If they make these accusations, but yet hold no one accountable, they're going to lose everybody. They're going to lose a vast majority of people who really were told they had to care about this, and they cared about it, but yet nothing got done.”

After Greene and I spoke on Monday, CNN reported that Attorney General Pam Bondi was directing federal prosecutors to start a grand jury........

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