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USA Today
28-03-2025
- Politics
- USA Today
'Go back to your country': Marjorie Taylor Greene snaps at reporter over Signal leak
'Go back to your country': Marjorie Taylor Greene snaps at reporter over Signal leak Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene refused to answer a question from a Sky News reporter who asked her about the recent leak of classified war plans on Signal: 'I don't give a crap about your opinion.' Show Caption Hide Caption Marjorie Taylor Greene at RNC: 'Trump will make us wealthy again' Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene called the day a celebration, hours after Trump became the official Republican presidential nominee. Cameras captured Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene snapping at a Sky News reporter during a news conference on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. The Georgia Republican refused to answer a question from reporter Martha Kelner, saying it was because the journalist was not from an American outlet. Video shared by Sky News Kelner asked Greene to respond to the recent leak of U.S. classified war plans on encrypted chat app Signal. In response, the congresswoman asked for Kelner's nationality. Kelner said she is from the United Kingdom. Greene quickly told Kelner to concern herself with the affairs of her own country, specifically a high migrant crisis in the UK. "I don't give a crap about your opinion or your reporting. Why don't you go back to your country where you have a major migrant problem," Greene said, repeatedly interrupting Kelner's responses, video shows. "You should care about your own borders. No, no, let me tell you something. Do you care about people from your country? What about all the women that are raped by migrants." The Georgia representative then called on another reporter, saying: "Yeah, this an American journalist." Video shows the reporter tell Greene that as an American, he would like to hear her answer to Kelner's question. "I'm not answering her question because I don't care about her network. If you would like to ask, I can answer," she said. Exchanged followed DOGE hearing about defunding public media The news conference followed a DOGE congressional subcommittee hearing during which Greene emphasized Republicans' desire to defund National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service. The hearing was called Anti-American Airwaves: Holding the heads of NPR and PBS Accountable. Greene called the heads of NPR and PBS "radical, left-wing echo chambers for a narrow audience of mostly wealthy, white, urban liberals and progressives, who generally look down on and judge rural America." After the lively exchange with Kelner, Greene had another tense back and forth with the U.S. reporter who also asked about the Signal leak. Greene deflected and bashed the Biden administration while praising the Trump administration before circling back to the purpose of the news conference. "We're talking about NPR and PBS today. We're talking about fake news that was funded with federal funding from American tax payers," she said. "That is what this is about today. Not journalists from the UK." Greene proceeded to walk away when Kelner followed to say: "A journalist is being vilified for exposing failings in the way your government conducts itself. Is that not that journalist doing a good job?" Greene defends Pete Hegseth after group chat leak Greene refused to engage with Kelner's questions any further until she was asked whether Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth needs to resign. "Absolutely not, he's doing a great job," Greene replied. Hegseth was included in the group chat along with Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense and CIA Director John Rafcliffe. The chat unintentionally included the Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg. In a Fox News interview Tuesday, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz took full responsibility for Goldberg's presence in the Trump administration officials chat discussing plans for a looming military strike on the Houthis in Yemen. "I take full responsibility. I built the group," Waltz said. "It's embarrassing. We're going to get to the bottom of it." Contributing: Miguel Legoas and Vanessa Countryman, Athens Banner-Herald
Yahoo
27-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Uhhhhh, Marjorie Taylor Greene Refused To Answer A Reporter's Simple Question Because They Aren't American
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) unloaded on a British journalist after being questioned about the fiasco over Trump officials sharing war planning on a Signal chat group. The Georgia Republican told Martha Kelner of U.K. broadcaster Sky News that 'we don't give a crap about your opinion,' and urged the reporter to 'go back to your country' during her unhinged rant on Wednesday. Taylor Greene spoke to the media as she chaired a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) subcommittee hearing where she accused NPR and PBS of using federal funds to push left-wing propaganda. Things turned fraught when Kelner asked about The Atlantic magazine's revelation that its editor-in-chief was accidentally included in a text message group detailing imminent airstrikes in Yemen. As Kelner started to ask a question, Taylor Greene interjected and demanded to know: 'Wait, what country are you from?' After Kelner, the broadcaster's U.S. correspondent, told her she was from the U.K., Taylor Greene let it rip. She said, 'We don't give a crap about your opinion and your reporting. Why don't you go back to your country? We have a major migrant should care about your own borders.' After telling the reporter 'I don't care about your fake news,' Taylor Greene asked another journalist for a 'relevant question' and appeared pleased with her choice. 'This is an American journalist,' Taylor Greene announced, before the reporter acted in solidarity and asked the congresswoman to answer the British journalist's question. 'I'm not answering her question because I don't care about her network,' Taylor Greene emphasized. Taylor Greene previously told a British interviewer to 'fuck off.' Watch the full exchange below. C-Span / Twitter: @HowardMortman This article originally appeared on HuffPost.
Buzz Feed
27-03-2025
- Politics
- Buzz Feed
Uhhhhh, Marjorie Taylor Greene Refused To Answer A Reporter's Simple Question Because They Aren't American
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) unloaded on a British journalist after being questioned about the fiasco over Trump officials sharing war planning on a Signal chat group. The Georgia Republican told Martha Kelner of U.K. broadcaster Sky News that 'we don't give a crap about your opinion,' and urged the reporter to 'go back to your country' during her unhinged rant on Wednesday. Taylor Greene spoke to the media as she chaired a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) subcommittee hearing where she accused NPR and PBS of using federal funds to push left-wing propaganda. Things turned fraught when Kelner asked about The Atlantic magazine's revelation that its editor-in-chief was accidentally included in a text message group detailing imminent airstrikes in Yemen. As Kelner started to ask a question, Taylor Greene interjected and demanded to know: 'Wait, what country are you from?' C-Span After Kelner, the broadcaster's U.S. correspondent, told her she was from the U.K., Taylor Greene let it rip. She said, 'We don't give a crap about your opinion and your reporting. Why don't you go back to your country? We have a major migrant should care about your own borders.' After telling the reporter 'I don't care about your fake news,' Taylor Greene asked another journalist for a 'relevant question' and appeared pleased with her choice. 'This is an American journalist,' Taylor Greene announced, before the reporter acted in solidarity and asked the congresswoman to answer the British journalist's question. 'I'm not answering her question because I don't care about her network,' Taylor Greene emphasized. Taylor Greene previously told a British interviewer to 'fuck off.'
The Independent
27-03-2025
- Politics
- The Independent
Marjorie Taylor Greene tells reporter ‘go back to your country' when quizzed over Signal leak
Martha Kelner, working for the UK's Sky News, approached the MAGA loyalist at a press conference on Wednesday to ask about the major security blunder in which details of U.S. military operations in Yemen were shared with a journalist. But as she started to ask a question, Taylor Greene demanded to know: 'What country are you from?' When the journalist told her she was from the UK, Taylor Greene launched a verbal attack. 'We don't give a crap about your opinion and your reporting,' she said. 'Why don't you go back to your country, where you have a major migrant problem? You should care about your own borders.' As Kelner tried again to ask a question, Taylor Greene told her: 'Do you care about people from your country? What about all the women that are raped by migrants? Do you care? OK, you're done.' When Kelner asked her about the lives of U.S. soldiers being potentially put at increased risk following the leak to The Atlantic, Greene replied: 'I don't care about your fake news.' Turning away from Sky's U.S. correspondent, she pointed at a male journalist who then said: 'I'm an American and I'd like to hear your answer to what she's asking.' Greene fired back: 'I'm not answering her question because I don't care about her network. If you would like to ask, I can answer.' The American reporter went on to grill her on 'the complete disregard for operational security from the top level of this administration'. In her response, she blamed the former Biden administration for 'ripping our borders open to terrorists, cartels, child sex traffickers, people and drug traffickers'. She hailed Donald Trump for trying to end the war in Ukraine and tried to change topic to federal funding before holding her hand up to the British reporter and saying: 'That's what this is about today, not journalists from the UK'. She then walked off, refusing to take more questions. The exchange quickly went viral on social media. British TV writer Mick Collins defended Kelner in a post on X: 'Having worked with Martha Kelner and watched Marjorie Taylor-Greene, the calmness of the former, and the lunacy of the latter comes as absolutely no surprise here. 'More power to Martha for asking the right questions the right way. As ever.' Trump's administration has sought to contain the fallout after the March 15 Yemen bombing chat was shared with The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg on the encrypted messaging app. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has repeatedly denied texting war plans, and Trump and his top advisers are saying no classified information was shared, bewildering Democrats and former U.S. officials, who regard timing and targeting details as some of the most closely held material ahead of a U.S. military campaign.
Yahoo
27-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Watch MTG's Crazed Rant at Foreign Reporter Go Terribly Wrong
Marjorie Taylor Greene blew up at a British reporter on Wednesday, only for her attempted scolding to embarrassingly backfire. 'What country are you from?' the Georgia Congresswoman snapped at Sky News correspondent Martha Kelner, who was asking a question about American lives being put at risk by the Trump team planning military operations in a group chat. When Kelner replied that she was from the U.K., Greene went off. 'Okay, we don't give a crap about your opinion and your reporting,' she said, wagging her finger, before exploding, 'Why don't you go back to your country where you have a major migrant problem. You should care about your own borders.' Kelner kept pressing while Greene waved her off: 'No, you're done. I don't care about your fake news.' But when Greene tried moving on, calling on another journalist with a pointed, 'This is an American journalist, thank you,' she got an unexpected reality check. 'I'm an American and I'd like to hear your answer to what she's asking,' the journalist said. Again, Greene refused to engage—at least until the American journalist repeated back Kelner's initial question himself. The MAGA firebrand has mirrored Donald Trump's confrontational rhetoric towards Europe in recent years. In January, she penned an angry X post at the U.K. after it became clear that the country would not be adopting Trump's new name for the Gulf of Mexico. 'We have to force this to happen and we should!' she said. Last year, she told Sky News that David Cameron—then the U.K.'s foreign minister–'really needs to worry about his own country, and frankly, he can kiss my a--.' Cameron had urged the U.S. to send more aid to Ukraine. Greene never directly addressed Kelner's question about Trump officials potentially endangering military personnel by using the Signal app to plan attacks, instead deflecting the issue and launching into a tirade against the Biden administration's border policies. Earlier, she had chaired a hearing in which she and fellow GOP colleagues slammed the heads of NPR and PBS, accusing the public media networks of becoming, 'radical, left-wing echo chambers.' 'That's what this is about today,' she said as she hurried away from Kelner and other reporters, 'not journalists from the UK that should care about their own country.'
