Former President Donald Trump has claimed that Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia is “going through hell” due in part to her state’s top Republican officials.
Greene, a Trump loyalist whose first term in Congress has been marked by repeated controversies, is set to testify before a Georgia state administrative law judge on Friday. She is facing a lawsuit that could result in her being disqualified from seeking reelection during November’s midterms due to her alleged role in the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Although the legal challenge to Greene’s candidacy was brought by a group of voters from her congressional district, Trump blamed the state’s Republican Governor Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who he has denounced repeatedly for failing to overturn his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden.
“The Governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, and Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, perhaps in collusion with the Radical Left Democrats, have allowed a horrible thing to happen to a very popular Republican, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene,” Trump said in a statement on Friday. “She is now going through hell in their attempt to unseat her, just more of an election mess in Georgia.”
Former President Donald Trump claimed that Georgia’s Governor Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, both Republicans, were to blame for Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene “going through hell.” Trump is pictured above during a rally in Commerce, Georgia, on March 26, 2022.
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Trump went on to repeat unsubstantiated allegations related to his false claim that the 2020 election was “stolen” from him while urging Georgia Republicans to end Kemp’s reelection bid by voting against him in the GOP primary.
“Unlike other Republicans, this Governor does everything possible to hurt the voting process in Georgia,” said Trump. “Brian Kemp should be voted out of office…Kemp will never be able to win the…