Marjorie Taylor Greene has become the most aggressive spokesperson for the “Make America Great Again” movement.
It’s perhaps no surprise, then, that she would read straight from a fraying playbook when confronted about the Signal group chat fiasco.
Team Trump has adopted a crisis management strategy of attack, discredit, and distract, a dark art of which Taylor Greene is emerging as a master.
Marjorie Taylor Greene deflected Sky News’ questions – and instead went on the attack. Pic: Associated Press.
When questioned about whether the texts on the group chat, detailing timings and weapons to be used on strikes on Houthis in Yemen, amount to classified information, she refused to answer the question.
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The representative from Georgia attempted to deflect attention on to the Biden administration, then on to the US’s border problem and finally, in a remarkable act of contortion, on to “all the women that are raped by migrants” in the UK.
Refusing to answer a question from Sky News, she then turned to a question from a US reporter, who also asked for clarification on her views about the Signal scandal and its national security ramifications.
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Eventually, Taylor Greene did respond to The Atlantic magazine’s revelation of texts on the signal group chat, fully backing defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, who is facing calls for his resignation.
In MAGA world, the villain of this scandal is Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic, who was inadvertently invited on to the group chat.
Some of the messages shared in the leaked war plans group chat on Signal messaging app.
Despite the fact that Goldberg took care over his reporting and potentially exposing major failings in the way senior government communicate, he has been repeatedly smeared by the White House.
Donald Trump calls him a “sleazebag”, national security advisor Michael Waltz equates him to “journalists trying to make a name for themselves”, and press secretary Karoline Leavitt calls him an “anti-Trump hater.”
Discrediting the messenger, rather than focusing on the message and what lessons can be learned, is the order of the day for the Trump White House.
