Former GOP congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has turned on Fox News, accusing the channel of “brainwashing boomers” and peddling “fake news” amid President Donald Trump’s war in Iran.
Greene, a former Trump loyalist, has been a regular guest on the MAGA-leaning network over the years but lashed out at its coverage of the conflict in the Middle East.
“Fox News is now the fake news,” Greene said Sunday X post, following news that thousands of U.S. troops have arrived in the Middle East, which she opposes. “Brainwashing boomers to support what we voted against.”
The MAGA firebrand was replying to a comment made by fellow conservative commentator Ann Coulter.
“Watching Fox News assure viewers the Iran war is going SUPER well and Trump is a total stud is like watching the same network assure viewers that Dominion Voting Systems rigged the 2020 election and Trump was the winner,” Coulter, who has also appeared on the network over the years, wrote on X Sunday.
Coulter was referring to the scandal that saw Rupert Murdoch’s network pay a settlement $787 million after hosts and guests repeatedly and falsely claimed on air that Dominion voting machines rigged the 2020 presidential election by recording Trump’s votes for former President Joe Biden.
The Independent has contacted Fox News for comment.
Trump appeared on Fox News’ The Five last week to defend the war, where he argued that the Iranian regime has been weakened because of Operation Epic Fury. The network also aired a segment by host Mark Levin over the weekend where he said there are “a lot of reasons” for sending troops into Iran.
Fox News also published an unfavorable poll that found 59 percent of Americans disapprove of Trump’s performance as commander in chief, while 58 percent said they opposed the conflict with Iran, versus 42 percent in favor.
Trump lashed out at the poll Friday during his interview on the network. “I hate Fox polls. Honestly, whoever does your polls are terrible,” he fumed. “Rupert Murdoch has promised me for years he’s going to get rid of your pollster, but he doesn’t do it. I don’t get it, but your Fox polls are terrible.”
Greene, the former Georgia representative, has criticized Trump for entering into the conflict and argued that it goes against “America First.”
“It’s a cruel irony that the American troops soon to be sent into Iran will be Gen Z and millennials (again), by the very President and admin that promised no more foreign wars, to make life affordable for Americans, and a strong American economy producing good American jobs,” Greene said Monday.
Greene dramatically fell out with Trump last year after she persistently called for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files and has since become one of his loudest critics.
The White House hit back at the MAGA firebrand in a statement to Fox News Digital last week. “There is nothing more ‘America Last’ than quitting on your constituents and the MAGA movement in the middle of your term,” said spokesperson Davis Ingle. “President Trump is fighting every single day to Make America Great Again – we don’t have time for quitters.”
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