Trump and former loyalist Marjorie Taylor Greene trade jabs as Maga split over Iran widens – US politics live

From 3h agoBefore Donald Trump stepped into his meeting with Nato secretary-general Mark Rutte, and as the ceasefire with Iran seemed to be falling apart on its first day, the president found time to continue a social-media feud with his former close ally Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Trump, whose pre-presidential career was animated by similar social-media spats with celebrities, gloated on his own platform over the success of his hand-picked candidate to replace Greene in Congress.“Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Brown’s (GREEN TURNS TO BROWN UNDER STRESS!) seat in Congress has been taken over by a wonderful and talented man, Clay Fuller, who won convincingly,” Trump wrote after Fuller won a special election to retain Greene’s seat for the Republicans in a conservative district of Georgia. “Congratulations to Clay Fuller, a very large improvement over his deranged predecessor!” the president added.

Trump also noted that he had won the heavily Republican district by almost 37 points in the 2024 presidential election, but that only served to underscore the size of the swing to the Democrats, whose candidate in Tuesday’s special election, came within 12 points of the Trump-endorsed Republican, Clay Fuller.

In 2022, then Congresswoman Majorie Taylor Greene joined then Fox News host Tucker Carlson and then former President Donald Trump to watch a Saudi-backed golf tournament at Trump’s New Jersey golf course. Photograph: Justin Lane/EPA

As voters went to the polls on Tuesday, Greene had replied to Trump’s threat to erase Iranian civilization by calling on the cabinet and Congress to remove the president through the 25th Amendment to the US Constitution. “25

Th Amendment

!!! Not a single bomb has dropped on America. We cannot kill an entire civilization. This is evil and madness,” the recently resigned congresswoman wrote on X.

Greene’s replacement, Fuller, is a former judge advocate general in the US air force, who joins Congress in the wake of the president’s threat to destroy Iran’s civilian infrastructure, which is a clear war crime according to many of his former colleagues.

Minutes after Trump’s post on Wednesday, Greene responded by pointing out that, despite Trump’s boast about the value of his endorsement of Fuller, her former district “was never in danger of flipping” to the Democrats, and noted that while she had defeated the Democratic candidate Shawn Harris by nearly 29 points in 2024, Fuller only beat Harris on Tuesday by less than 12 points.“Trump flipping MAGA from America First to America Last, covering up for the Epstein files, and betraying key campaign promises of no more foreign wars has been the best help for the Democrats,” Greene wrote. “Sad!”

Key events9m agoReporter attacks 'low-quality lawyering from Trump’s DOJ' in complaint against whistleblower1h ago

FBI arrests former special forces employee for allegedly leaking classified information to a journalist2h agoVance claims not to know Vatican ambassador reportedly reprimanded by Pentagon3h agoTrump finds time to pursue social media feud with Marjorie Taylor Greene3h agoHere's a recap of the day so far5h agoWhite House defends Trump's comments threatening to wipe out a 'whole civilization'6h agoLeavitt offers muddled explanation over 10-point plan as basis for ceasefire agreement7h agoSchumer says that Senate Democrats will force vote on war powers resolution7h agoGrowing calls among Democrats for 25th amendment to be invoked to remove Trump from office over Iran threats8h agoHouse oversight committee to still pursue Pam Bondi testimony over justice department's handling of Epstein case8h agoZeldin touts rollbacks at climate-skeptical conference: 'What we are doing is no surprise'9h agoTop House Democrat pushes Congress to take up war powers resolution immediately11h agoHegseth says that US had 'legitimate targets' amid Trump's threats to eradicate a 'whole civilization'11h agoHegseth says new Iranian regime was 'out of options and out of time'11h agoHegseth: Iran ‘begged’ for this ceasefire14h agoLiberal Chris Taylor wins election to Wisconsin supreme courtSeth Harp, a journalist who based parts of his book, The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces, on interviews with Courtney Williams, an army veteran who worked with US special forces, condemned the Trump administration’s arrest of Williams on Wednesday on social media.

“The FBI is incapable of solving real crimes, like all the murders on Fort Bragg involving elite soldiers trafficking drugs, so they settle for retaliating against courageous whistleblowers like Courtney Williams, whose only ‘crime’ was telling the truth about Delta Force,” Harp just wrote in response to an X post from Kash Patel, the FBI director, about the arrest.

“Typical low-quality lawyering from Trump’s DOJ,” Harp wrote in another post, which showed a page from the criminal complaint against Williams filed on Wednesday in federal court in North Carolina which referenced him arranging for his source to mail him a computer drive.

“The jump drive ‘likely contained classified NDI’?” ” the journalist wrote in reference to the assumption by prosecutors that the drive had secret national defense information on it.

“That’s the standard for indicting someone?”

“News flash,” he added, “the drive contained an incredibly boring and tedious 100% public EEOC complaint THAT WAS TOO BIG TO SEND VIA EMAIL”.

The US justice department announced on Wednesday that the FBI has arrested Courtney Williams, a military veteran who later worked in support of Delta Force, a covert US commando unit, after she was indicted for her “alleged transmission of classified national defense information to individuals not authorized to receive it, including a journalist”.

The criminal complaint against Williams, filed in federal court in North Carolina, details communication between Williams and a journalist who is not named, but, as the legal journalist Chris Geidner notes, the reporter Seth Harp wrote about Williams in his book, The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces, and in an excerpt from the book published by Politico last year.

According to complaint, investigators found that someone using Williams’s phone had spoken with a journalist for nearly five hours, and “exchanged approximately 180 text messages with the Journalist between 2022 and 2025.”

Harp provided the following statement on the charging of Williams to WRAL, a North Carolina news station:“Courtney Williams is a brave whistleblower and truth-teller. Former Delta Force operators disclose ‘national defense information’ on podcasts and YouTube shows every day, but the government is going after Courtney for the sole reason that she exposed sexual harassment and gender discrimination in the unit. This is a vindictive act of retaliation, plain and simple.”

The arrest was celebrated on social media by the FBI director, Kash Patel.“Let this serve as a message to any would-be leakers: we’re working these cases, and we’re making arrests,” Patel wrote.