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Where Did Marjorie Taylor Greene Come From?
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Both were simply dead wrong.
Trump is a brilliant communicator, maybe even more so than Ronald Reagan; and played the media like a fiddle.
There was no secret sauce surrounding Trump’s candidacy in 2016 nor was there anything magical about his presidency. He was simply a fighter.
Even if he lost a few battles, at least the winner walked away with a few teeth missing.
That is why the American people voted for Trump in 2016 and most continue to support him to this day, including me.
I was once told by an Olympic track world record holder who I used to work out with, “If you can’t win the race, make the one ahead of you break the record.”
‘Nobody Listened To Me’: The Quest to Be MTG
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February 25, 2021, 11:55 AM·35 min read
ALPHARETTA, Ga. Marjorie Taylor Greene smacked her gum as she pretended to listen to a man in a dress read a book about a unicorn.
It was late April of 2019. She sat in the rear of a room at the public library here near her home in this suburb north of Atlanta. Greene at the time identified as a mother, a business owner, a fitness trainer, a “supporter of the 2nd amendment,” “a patriot” and a “conservative blogger on social media,” and she had come to mount what she described as an “undercover” protest of something called “Drag Queen Story Hour” an event she saw as “insane” put on by a person she considered “an abomination.” Using her iPhone to surreptitiously record, Greene flipped back and forth between a shot of the stage and a close-up of her own face, creating a kind of herky-jerky show on Facebook Live.