Marjorie Taylor Greene can’t get out of her own way
The IndependentThe best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In truth, her closeness with House GOP leadership was always transactional; Ms Greene saw supporting House Speaker Kevin McCarthy as a means to eventually subpoena figures in President Joe Biden’s orbit and hopefully have a vote to impeach the president as a means of revenge against Democrats for impeaching Donald Trump twice. During a hearing of the House Oversight & Accountability Committee, Ms Greene displayed images of Hunter Biden engaging in sexual acts. Ms Greene ostensibly did so to demonstrate that the younger Mr Biden recorded tapes with a sex worker and that he paid the woman with money out of his law firm’s bank and to see if Hunter Biden violated federal law by taking a woman across state lines for sex. This is part of Mr Biden’s larger push selling “Bidenomics” and Ms Greene’s latest actions allow him to offer a choice between a focus on the economy or lewd photos in the People’s House.