Kimmel says Greene ‘lone voice of reason’ in GOP: ‘What is going on?’
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel called Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) the “lone voice of reason” in the GOP after she bucked her party by demanding the release of the Epstein files and by opposing the expiration of health care subsidies.
“For the last few years, Republicans were the ones screaming for these Epstein files — and one of them still is and doesn’t care what the rest of the party has to say about it,” Kimmel said on Wednesday night’s broadcast of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
Kimmel flashed to a clip of Greene talking to a journalist about her advocacy for victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“There is no amount of pressure they can put on me, to force me to step in line on that, so to speak,” Greene, a staunch Trump supporter, said in the clip.
The broadcast returned to Kimmel: “You know things in Washington are broken when Marjorie Taylor Greene is the lone voice of reason on the Republican side.”
“I mean, what is going on?” he continued. “First health care and now this? Did she get a visit from three ghosts?”
Kimmel, who returned to the network last month after a temporary suspension from ABC, stressed Greene’s history of unwavering support for the president. The host played a clip of the congresswoman reflecting on being among his few defenders in the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, when much of his party turned on him.
“I’ve always been an unapologetic Trump supporter. I was one of the very few that stood with him after January 6 — fought for him all over the country and helped him get reelected, spent millions of dollars out of my own campaign to do that,” she said in the clip. “And I’ve also supported many great Republicans getting elected as well.”
“But I’m not a — let’s see, what’s the right way to say it — I’m not a slave,” she continued.
Kimmel quipped: “No, that wasn’t the right way to say it… Next time, maybe try, ‘doormat.’ I think it would work better.”
Greene did not respond to an immediate request for comment.
Greene has made headlines in recent weeks as one of only four Republican House members to sign a discharge petition that would force a vote on the full release of the Epstein case files. This week, she again made news when she broke with her party over opposing expiring health care subsidies — an issue at the core of the shutdown standoff between Republicans and Democrats.
In an interview with NewsNation’s “The Hill” on Tuesday, Greene doubled down on her outspoken approach, saying she has faced more pressure over her support for the Epstein file discharge petition than any other issue.
“My signature is on that discharge petition, and there has not been another issue where I have ever received more pressure than that one, and I’m pretty much shocked by it. I can’t imagine — I’ve never understood how this is an issue,” Greene told NewsNation’s Blake Burman.
“I think when it comes to women being raped, especially when they were 14 years old, that’s pretty black and white,” she added, referring to the described experiences of some of Epstein’s accusers.