Tucker Carlson - Ep. 43 You think elected Republicans in Washington are craven frauds who’d sell your children for a steak dinner at the French Laundry? Actually, says Marjorie Taylor Greene, it’s worse than that.
Marjorie Taylor Greene joins Tucker Carlson to expose how elected Republicans—like Mike Rogers and Patrick McHenry—prioritize military-industrial donors over voters, funding Ukraine while ignoring border crises. She recounts media smears after her 2021 win, built on grassroots support from small-dollar donors, and calls out establishment figures like Nikki Haley for enabling open borders. Greene ties political persecution of figures like Derek Chauvin to a broader war on masculinity and warns of coming gun confiscations, framing the GOP’s inaction as betrayal. Her shift to supporting McCarthy reflects pragmatic deals, but she insists her fight against elite corruption continues. [Automatically generated summary]
If you're watching this right now, the chances are you have at some time in your life voted for a Republican, possibly even given one money, because what were your options?
You didn't feel you had any.
But after you did that, you likely stood back and watched the Republicans in Washington and thought to yourself, these people have very different priorities from me.
I didn't vote for them in order for them to do the things they're doing now.
They seem to care about things that have nothing to do with my life at all.
In fact, it may have occurred to you, they may secretly hate me.
And you may be on to something.
But if you ever asked yourself what it would be like to work among them, to be an elected Republican in Washington who actually believes something and actually wanted to represent your constituents, what would that be like?
Well, Marjorie Taylor Greene found out a couple of terms ago.
She's from the state of Georgia.
She was elected to Congress.
She's had an amazing two terms there, and she's written a new book about it called MTG. She joins us now.
And the first time I heard of you was in an explosion of Vesuvius of news stories calling you a crazed Nazi anti-Semite and attaching you to the phrase Jewish space lasers.
And so I thought, well, that's kind of a crazy thing to say.
So I looked it up and it turns out you never said that.
And it had nothing kind of to do with what you said.
And then I watched the Republicans in Congress.
It was a smear job.
Very obvious.
Two-minute Google search proved that.
And then the Republican leadership in Congress immediately attacked you on the basis of the smears without even looking into them.
And I thought, well, I'm not really surprised because that's who they are.
And then I beat a candidate, a Republican candidate, that was highly...
Supported by the establishment in Washington, Steve Scalise, over 30-something members of Congress, had raised money for him, endorsed him, and then I beat him by double digits.
Well, I came in and my views were concreted, not only from how I grew up in a small business, not a wealthy family, in a family where my dad was literally living the true American dream.
Who's your dad?
My father, Robert Taylor, owned a construction company, the company that I bought after college.
Started out so poor.
They had $500 for their name when I was born.
And they just worked hard, and I learned all their lessons growing up in the company.
Went to college.
After college, I bought my parents' company.
I had to buy it.
It wasn't given to me.
I wasn't a trust fund baby or anything.
And so I actually had to earn it.
And I truly believe the things that I say, and I think that made me the greatest threat.
Yeah, you're missing that Washington doesn't care about normal Americans and normal American ideas and normal American values.
And I carried what was extremely normal in real America, and I brought that with me very loudly and passionately in Washington, D.C., and they tried to kill me for it.
If you don't wear the country that is fighting that you're supposed to be supporting, if you don't wear their flag or wear their little colors in your front pocket of your jacket, if you don't have a sign outside your office door that says, I stand with Ukraine or whatever the flavor of the month is, then you're going against Washington.
You're going against the Pentagon.
You're going against the military-industrial complex, and you will pay the price.
But shouldn't the Congress—the Congress has oversight over all of those institutions, the Pentagon, of course, the intel agencies, the entire executive branch.
Congress funds them and has oversight over them.
They shouldn't be mindlessly carrying their water or acting on their priorities, right?
They shouldn't be, but here's what's interesting about how fundraising works in Washington.
If you're a member of Congress and you have to get reelected every two years, you need money to campaign.
You need money for your ads.
You need money for the literature you mail people.
You need money to encourage your voters to get out and vote.
Well, it's hard to raise that money.
So in Washington, the military-industrial complex and other big industries have all of their lobbyists.
Well, they can host you a fundraiser.
Literally in one night and raise you hundreds of thousands of dollars as a member of Congress, and you won't have to spend hours on the phone calling donor after donor, begging for, can you give me $1,000?
Can you give me $2,000?
Please, I really need your help.
I got to get reelected.
I've got five primary opponents.
These members of Congress don't have to continue doing that hard work and begging and begging and begging for money from other donors or from their districts when they can walk in a room.
Have a cocktail reception with little weenies on a stick and a bunch of alcoholic drinks, and they're getting written big checks over and over by all of these lobbyists and all of these big companies, major companies that really thrive on American taxpayer contracts that our federal government hands out.
I think I keep working there because I'm so pissed off.
And I really don't care if I'm friends with these people or not.
I go to D.C. every week when we're in session.
I know they don't like me and I could care less because I just feel like I have to push and shove every issue that is for our country and for our people front and center in any way I possibly can and embarrass the hell out of them if they do not support our country and our people.
Class, at least in their own minds, where they look down on all of us as if we're some subclass of people in the country.
We're so annoying to them.
We aren't educated enough for them.
We aren't good enough for them.
We won't support their never-ending causes for wars or whatever the next thing is or, you know, supporting gender change for children as if that's ever the right thing to do.
Or why can't every woman just have an abortion?
It should be a rite of passage.
That's who these people are.
And they hate any of us that stand up and say, you people are flat out evil.
This is a CEO position of one of the most powerful companies, so to speak, in the world, or the most powerful one.
They control the checkbook of the American people.
They control the votes that happen on the House floor that drive the agenda of the federal government.
They control whether we go to war or not, whether or not our sons and daughters in the military live or die.
Being Speaker of the House is a serious job, and it takes extremely serious-minded people.
And I was extremely disappointed when the first thing our new speaker, Mike Johnson, does as a conservative is he brings a continuing resolution to the floor completely clean that that just completely funds Joe Biden and his administration's budget that Nancy Pelosi created does as a conservative is he brings a continuing resolution to the floor completely clean that that just completely Absolutely hated.
They need them to believe the lies that you're told in the classified briefings, especially in the Situation Room, especially by people like Jake Sullivan.
I think he felt impressed to get those phone calls, felt important to be in those rooms, in those conversations.
And I think, I'm not sure what we're going to see, but the first things he was talking about was funding Ukraine and funding Israel.
First thing he talked about first week of speaker, continuing resolution of Joe Biden's budget, clean, not getting anything for it.
Funding, continuing the Ukraine war, even though it's the most unpopular thing in the country and everybody's fed up with it and angry that another penny would be even talked about going over there.
And then talking about funding a war in Israel and Gaza.
And Israel's handling the whole problem themselves.
Well, he is saying that if he pairs it with our border, Ukraine funding for getting wins for our border, that that's somehow going to be palatable to the American people.
And I'm going to argue right now, I'll fight it as hard as I can because I will be repulsed.
I will be insulted that funding a war in Ukraine that continues just killing people.
Just because America, because Washington wants to do that and it lines the pocket of people, just keep making them rich in the military industrial complex and continue getting rid of our reserves.
If that is somehow on the same level as our border security, that would be the biggest insult that you could ever throw in the American people's face.
Because here's Washington, D.C. So here's our government.
We're over $33 trillion in debt.
Our government must hate us, must truly hate the American people to do that to Americans.
Our border is wide open.
That's not just Joe Biden, everybody.
That is the Democrat Party.
Every single one of them are solidly on board with that.
We have crime erupting all over the country.
Innocent people are dying every day because the crime is so, so bad.
And the economy is being driven off a cliff with the Green New Deal.
It's the biggest thing looming in policy.
And it's already in place.
It's just at the start.
No one has suffered the consequences yet.
Here's why I hate Republicans right now.
They don't do a damn thing to stop it, Tucker.
They campaign on it every single cycle.
They talk about it.
They go on the news and say all these wonderful sounding things to their voters and their donors.
They do their committee hearing five-minute clips and post it all over social media.
And then they send red meat fundraising emails.
And no one does a damn thing to stop.
The agenda that is literally killing Americans, killing Americans every day.
I introduced articles of impeachment on Christopher Wray, Merrick Garland, Matthew Graves, the son of a bitch that attacks these January 6th defendants day in and day out, who is horrible, doesn't prosecute crime in D.C. as a U.S. attorney.
He has a jurisdiction to do both.
Doesn't do crime in D.C., only does J6ers.
Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, I forced that to the floor recently.
Eight Republicans voted with the Democrats to protect them.
Three of them were chairman of powerful committees.
And Joe Biden, multiple times.
But Republicans don't have the courage or the guts or maybe they don't want to impeach any of these people.
What do you think the, I don't know, I mean, we didn't do one word on it, but the speaker's drama, you got completely caught up in that without getting into all the details, which is probably not that interesting at this point, but what did you learn from that?
I mean, I read a piece today in Business Insider, which I typically read, I know, that said that Republican donors are widely convinced that Nikki Haley, who is like the most anti-American person to run for president on the Republican side in my memory, she's going to beat Trump.
And she's the one.
And leaving aside, Just how almost unbelievably, supernaturally horrible she is.
She's trailing him by like 50 points.
So my question to you is, like, are Republican voters, donors rather, that dumb and out of touch?
Most rich, powerful people are good with their money, right?
They usually invest in things that make them money.
Or they invest in relationships that they can build on, right?
And you would think if you're looking at the primary numbers and President Trump is blowing everyone out of the water.
But you're also looking at this, and the lead candidate, Trump, is being just politically persecuted by every justice system in the country.
And maybe there's something that they know that we don't know, and so they're throwing all their money and support behind Nikki Haley because if she loses, they're going to have to go back to Trump.
I believe that it's political and they have to crucify him because he was a police officer.
He had a great record.
He did nothing wrong.
And he is white and male and Christian.
So they have to make an example of him because that is the type of person in America and arguably the entire world, they want to kill.
They want to destroy that identity.
And it's the most dangerous thing happening and our children are suffering for it.
The younger generations of white men who are good, who would want to be in the military, who want to be a police officer when they grow up, want to be a fireman, want to be these ideal...
Male, masculine things when they grow up are being taught a lesson by, look at what happens to Derek Chauvin.
And they are probably going to kill him in jail when actually the right thing to do is to release him out of jail because he never did anything wrong in the first place.
But how do you, what I don't understand is now that it's not a close call because in a court filing, we discover that the medical examiner who did the autopsy said, the medical examiner, not a cable news pundit.
A political movement that was well-funded and supported by the entire Democrat Party, so much so that BLM's link, funding link, was on ActBlue, the Democrat Party's website, official website.
It was propped up by the entire powerful media industry in America.
And then every Democrat donor all over the country donated to BLM and supported the Democrats for supporting BLM. And then they sacrificed a white male.
Police officer.
It had to be done because that's what their movement wants.
That is exactly what they want.
Look at what's happening today over in Sudan.
There are thousands of people being slaughtered.
Millions of people, maybe.
We don't even know the numbers.
Being slaughtered by Muslims.
If Black Lives Matters, why isn't that group and the entire Democrat Party raging over supporting black lives over in this foreign country?
Because they love foreign war, don't they?
I mean, it doesn't make sense.
But yet in America, they obviously don't care at all about some other country in Africa where people are being killed because they don't care about black lives.
It's not about black lives.
It's not about any foreign war.
It's only about certain foreign wars.
And it's about certain movements that allows them to move the political needle and brainwash the masses to believe what they need them to believe.
They sacrifice Derek Chauvin because he's white and he's male and they want to kill off...
The whole generation of white men, they don't want them to be police officers.
They don't want them to join the military.
They don't want them to be strong figures in their family or husbands or fathers.
I ran for Congress in the beginning to push the Republican Party to actually support Americans in America and do the things that they always promise and tell us to do.
Going forward, that's all I care about.
It's all I've cared about from the beginning is, oh, you want to say this on television?
I just had a visit from Edward Bolsonaro and some of the members of Congress down there in Brazil, and they came.
to visit me because they are really afraid and they're concerned for their country.
Since the Lula administration has taken over, many of them are afraid of losing their political rights and the Lula administration is going after them and trying to take away their political rights to run for office.
They're going after their journalists, their press, you know, many of them are fleeing the country because they're going to be locked up by the Lula administration.
They want to take away their guns down there in Brazil.
So I'm looking at that country and I'm saying I think we're one election away from finding ourselves in the same situation in Brazil.
And it's the saddest thing in the world to think that that's where we are in America.
But yet so many people are asleep.
And it's a tragedy because I'm angry at my own party in Washington because they're not doing enough to stop it.
They're not doing anything to stop it.
As a matter of fact, they're passing continuing resolutions and keeping it going.
But I'm also looking at so many Americans because our American life is really good, Tucker.
And it's easy to get lost and enjoying every day as an American.
And gosh, God bless them, rightfully so.
But it's easy to be lulled into this world where you're not paying attention to what's about to happen to us.
I'm a little bit worried about what may be about to happen to us.