前众议员马乔里·泰勒·格林。周三，她在美国广播公司(ABC)的“观点”节目中接受采访时表示，她不同意特朗普政府逮捕委内瑞拉总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗(Nicolás Maduro)的做法，也不同意将重点放在委内瑞拉而不是其他促成毒品流入美国的国家。
格林说，虽然她在众议院国土安全委员会任职，但在贩毒问题上，“我们谈论的不是委内瑞拉”，“你不能让马杜罗负责，也不能让墨西哥卡特尔负责，他们是头号人物”。
特朗普政府表示，正在采取行动阻止毒品从包括墨西哥在内的各国流出。在星期天特朗普表示，哥伦比亚可能面临与委内瑞拉类似的命运，他说古巴即将“准备倒下”。他还说，墨西哥可能是下一个，因为政府寻求继续打击贩毒集团。
这位前国会女议员此前曾反对美国的其他外交政策努力，她也坚称自己仍然是“美国第一”，她说这与美国对委内瑞拉的军事干预不一致。
“我们竞选，我参加了无数次特朗普的集会，和总统一起站在台上，和其他共和党候选人一起站在台上，说‘美国第一’。不再有政权更迭，不再有外国战争，不再有外国干涉。够了。这就是美国第一的含义，”她说。
“军事入侵一个国家，在此过程中杀害人民，逮捕他们的领导人并把他们带走，然后声称这是为了委内瑞拉人民，并说所有的指控都与毒品有关，但然后转过身来，字面上，每一个声明都是关于委内瑞拉的石油以及它如何属于美国...没用。”
格林还表示，对于美国对委内瑞拉的行动，她认为一个“更深层次的问题”是，“如果可以进入委内瑞拉逮捕马杜罗，那么我们为什么告诉中国你不能去占领台湾?为什么我们告诉俄罗斯你不能去占领乌克兰?”
格林于2020年首次当选众议院议员，她已成为唐纳德·特朗普总统最亲密的盟友之一，也是他所倡导的MAGA运动的坚定支持者。格林来定义国会山的MAGA运动，在1月6日国会大厦袭击事件后对抗特朗普的第二次弹劾，并在时任总统乔·拜登2024年的国情咨文中戴上“让美国再次伟大”的帽子。
但是她和特朗普决裂了最近，在诸如以色列-哈马斯战争和公布与性侵犯者杰弗里·爱泼斯坦有关的文件等问题上。特朗普撤回了他对格林11月，她批评了他和他的政府对爱泼斯坦的调查以及其他问题的处理。
格林当月宣布她将从众议院辞职，在她成为少数几个签署解雇请愿书的共和党人之一后不久，她投下了一个令人惊讶的重磅炸弹，迫使投票命令司法部公布文件。她的任期结束前辞职使众议院共和党人的多数席位更加狭窄——截至周三，218名共和党人对213名民主党人，之后格林的辞职和共和党众议员道格·拉马法去世周二在加州。
格林周三表示，当特朗普称她为“叛徒”时，她做出了离开国会的最终决定，不久后，她的儿子开始面临死亡威胁。她说她自己以前也面临过威胁，并且已经习惯了。
“MAGA竞选时的一个重要承诺就是公开Epstein的档案。然后不得不说‘我会成为下一个查理·柯克吗?我的儿子会因为我想继续做这份工作而被谋杀吗?”她说，指的是9月份在犹他州被暗杀的高调保守派活动人士。
当被问及她将如何回应那些对她的政治转型持怀疑态度的人，这些人认为她正在试图竞选另一个职位，或在2026年中期选举中领先于共和党的潜在失败时，格林回答说，“每个采访我的人都问我，‘你在竞选什么?’我一遍又一遍地疲惫地说我不会竞选参议员。我不竞选州长，也不竞选总统。所以首先，那个叙述对我是错误的。"
她后来补充说，她的重点是“用我的声音将美国右翼和左翼团结在一起，关注我们的集体问题，特别是支付能力。”
然而，当被问及是否考虑成为民主党人时，格林对民主党人提出了尖锐的批评，她说，民主党的政策和行动助长了南部边境的问题，两党都助长了不断膨胀的国债。
她拒绝透露她是否会离开共和党。
“我还没有说我是否会离开共和党，但我的重点是美国第一，我的重点是——赢得我的选票，”她说。
至于她下一步的打算，格林告诉《观点报》,她希望花更多的时间和她的孩子、母亲和朋友在一起。
如果特朗普要求她重返国会，她会重返国会吗?
“绝对不是——他对待我的方式。不，”格林说。
Marjorie Taylor Greene says she's still 'America First,' but Trump's recent actions aren't
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., in her first interview since resigning from Congress effective Monday, said on ABC's "The View" on Wednesday that she disagrees with the Trump administration's capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and the focus on Venezuela instead of other countries that contribute to the flow of drugs into the U.S.
Greene said that while she served on the House Homeland Security Committee, "it wasn't Venezuela that we were ever talking about" regarding drug trafficking, and that "you can't hold Maduro accountable and not hold Mexican cartels accountable, who are number one".
The Trump administration has said it is taking action on stopping the flow of drugs from various countries, including Mexico.On Sunday, Trump said Colombia could face a similar fate as Venezuela, and he said Cuba was imminently "ready to fall." He also said Mexico could be next, as the administration seeks to continue its battle against drug cartels.
The former congresswoman, who has previously pushed back against other U.S. foreign policy endeavors, insisted as well that she remains "America First," which she said does not align with the U.S. military intervention in Venezuela.
"We campaigned, and I went to countless Trump rallies and stood on the stage with the president and stood on the stage with other Republican candidates and said 'America First. No more regime change, no more foreign wars, no more foreign intervention.' Enough of this. That's what America First means," she said.
"Militarily invading a country, killing people in the process, arresting their leader and taking them out, then claiming this is for the Venezuelan people, and saying all the charges are about drugs, but then turning around and literally, every single statement is about Venezuelan oil and how it belongs to America ... it's not working."
Greene also said a "deeper issue" for her on the U.S. action on Venezuela is that "if it's OK to go into Venezuela and arrest Maduro, then why are we telling China you can't go and take Taiwan? Why are we telling Russia you can't go take Ukraine?"
Greene, first elected to the House in 2020, had established herself as one of President Donald Trump's closest allies and a staunch supporter of the MAGA movement he spearheaded.Greenecame to define the MAGA movement on Capitol Hill, fighting Trump's second impeachment following the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat at then-President Joe Biden's State of the Union address in 2024.
Butshe broke with Trumpmore recently on issues such as the Israel-Hamas war and releasing files related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Trump withdrew his support forGreenein November after she criticized him and his administration for their handling of the Epstein investigation, along with other matters.
Greeneannounced that month that she would resign from the House, dropping a surprise bombshell soon after she was one of few Republicans to sign on to a discharge petition forcing a vote to order the Department of Justice to release the files.Her resignation before the end of her term leaves House Republicans with an even narrower majority -- with 218 Republicans against 213 Democrats as of Wednesday, afterGreene's resignation and thedeath of GOP Rep. Doug LaMalfaof California on Tuesday.
Greene said Wednesday she made the final decision to leave Congress when Trump called her a "traitor" and soon after, her son began to face death threats. She said she herself had faced threats previously and was used to them.
"One of MAGA's big campaign pledges was to release the Epstein files. And then having to say 'Am I going to have to be the next Charlie Kirk? Is my son going to get murdered because I'm trying to continue to do this job?'" she said, referencing the high-profile conservative activist who was assassinated in Utah in September.
Asked how she would respond to people skeptical of her political transformation who think she is trying for a run for another office or to get ahead of potential Republican losses in the 2026 midterms, Greene replied, "I've been asked by every single person that's interviewed me, 'What are you running for?' And I've said over and over again to exhaustion I'm not running for Senate. I'm not running for governor, I'm not running for president. So first of all, that narrative is just wrong about me."
She added later that her focus is on "using my voice to pull Americans on the right and the left together to focus on our collective problems, particularly affordability."
Yet Greene had sharp criticism for Democrats when asked if she'd consider becoming one, saying that Democratic policies and actions contributed to issues at the southern border and both parties had contributed to ballooning national debt.
She declined to say whether she'd leave the GOP.
"I haven't said if I'm leaving the Republican Party, but my focus is America First, and my focus is -- earn my vote," she said.
As for what's next for her, Greene told "The View" that she hopes to spend more time with her children, her mother, and friends.
Would she ever return to Congress if Trump asked her to?
"Absolutely not -- the way he treated me. No," Greene said.
