Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘is not acting in President Trump’s best interests’

Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) on Sunday criticized Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) for continuing to push for a vote to remove House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) from his position, saying that she is “not acting in President Trump’s best interests.”

“I don’t want to predict what she will or won’t do. She’s pretty much operating alone, with one or two other people who have expressed support for what she’s doing. She doesn’t lead anyone,” Good, chair of the House Freedom Caucus, said in an interview with NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday.”

“She is not acting in President Trump’s best interests. I don’t think this is a good measure six months before the elections. She was always mostly with herself. And she harbors, you know, a personal animosity toward anyone she holds responsible for the former president’s absence, other than the former president, and she harbors resentment toward those in the Freedom Caucus who removed her from the Freedom Caucus.

Good repeated his criticism of Johnson, saying he does not support his actions as speaker of the House but does not think now is the time to fight a battle for speaker.

“I think we should have a speaking contest in November. I don’t think President Johnson can win this. I don’t support the work he’s done over the past six months, but we need to do the right thing to re-elect President Trump, expand the majority in the House and win back the Senate,” Good added.

Greene has long been critical of Good, who supported the impeachment of former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and initially backed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) over Trump in this year’s GOP presidential primary. Good has since supported Trump.

Greene introduced her motion to vacate her seat a month ago to protest the House speaker’s handling of aid to Ukraine, government spending and the reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Republicans fear the moment she forces a vote on the resolution. The Georgia Republican announced Wednesday that she would take steps this week to bring the issue to the floor.

Only two House Republicans have publicly supported her effort, and she no longer finds support among the ranks of Senate conservatives, many of whom believe Johnson is the right person to run the conference and that a leadership change today would be political malpractice. .

Good cast doubt on whether Greene would actually move forward this week with the motion to remove Johnson.

“I have no idea what she can or cannot do,” he said, adding “I doubt” she will move forward with the motion “because I think she has heard, as have we all in our districts, that the time has come for a battle of speakers it will be in November, after the election.”

“We will focus on expanding the majority in the House, winning back the Senate and re-electing President Trump,” he said.

The Hill reached out to Greene for a response.