Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Fires Back At Fox News Columnist Who Called Her An ‘Idiot’ In An Op-Ed

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) shot back at Fox News after columnist Liz Peek wrote an op-ed in which she called the Georgia representative an “idiot.”

“It’s high time someone in the Republican Party told Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to turn all that bombastic self-serving showmanship and drama queen energy on Democrats and stop trying to defeat her own party,” Peek wrote in her op-ed, which was titled, “Marjorie Taylor Greene is an idiot. She is trying to wreck the GOP.”

Peek noted that the representative “would rather burn down the House, metaphorically speaking, than work towards the greater good.”

She added, “The greater good, unless she and her fellow discontents in Congress have forgotten, is defeating Joe Biden in November.”

She later mentioned in her op-ed that “the internal squabbles of the party” must end.

“If Marjorie Taylor Greene and others want to oppose aid to Ukraine or the FISA bill, they can vote against it,” Peek declared. “That’s how democracy works.”

She ended her op-ed by offering a message to Greene. “Borrowing from Hillary Clinton: Get over yourself,” the columnist stated. “The mission today is to elect Donald Trump.”

Greene slammed Peek for calling her an “idiot” while speaking to the former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon during his War Room podcast.

“Fox News called me an idiot,” she told Bannon. “That was literally their headline. They called me an idiot.”

“But what I’ve done is expose what was already happening in the dark,” she declared. “And I think – I think the beautiful thing about it is – is that Democrats have to come clean.”

“They were controlling [House Speaker] Mike Johnson anyways,” Greene claimed. “He was giving them everything.”

In early April, former GOP Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colorado) slammed Greene for receiving talking points from Russian President Vladimir Putin while threatening to remove Johnson.

During an appearance on CNN’s Erin Burnett Outfront, Buck called her “Moscow Marjorie” and said she “is focused now on this Ukraine issue, getting her talking points from the Kremlin, making sure she is popular, and getting a lot of coverage.”

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina) had also criticized the representative in late April during a clip played by Burnett.

Tillis said that “she’s uninformed.” He then stated that “she is a total waste of time” and “a horrible leader” who is bringing down the brand of the GOP. 

For good measure, Tillis added that Greene is “one of the biggest risks to the Republican party getting back to a majority.”