Marjorie Taylor Greene calls out Trump for election lies – After Donald Trump lost the 2020 election and denied that he had, Marjorie Taylor Greene—then newly elected to Congress—was one of the biggest backers of those election lies. On one of her first days in Congress, in January 2021, Greene even wore a “Trump won” facemask.
Six years later, following the Republicans’ midterm election wipeout, Trump has expressed some doubts about the election results, although one doesn’t get the sense that his heart is entirely in it.
President Donald J. Trump boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, for a campaign trip to Chillicothe, Ohio. (Official White House Photo by Patrick Witty)
President Donald J. Trump participates in a roundtable discussion in support of Wisconsin farmers at Custer Farms in Eau Claire, Wisconsin on Friday, June 5, 2026. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)
And Greene, now out of Congress after breaking with Trump, is very much not on board with this latest election denial push. She’s even hinted at a lack of continued faith in the 2020-was-stolen cause.
What Trump Denied
In 2020, Trump denied the results from the start, declaring on election night, “frankly, we did win this election,” and immediately filing lawsuits. And then, of course, came January 6. Trump has not, to this day, acknowledged that he did not win the 2020 election.
The 2026 aftermath looked very different. Trump did not question the results right away, and in his first post-election sit-down interview with 60 Minutes’ Ross Douthat, he spoke as though he accepted that his party had lost and that he would face a duly elected Democratic-majority Congress in 2027. There was no attempt by major Republican elected officials or top conservative media figures to present the midterm election returns as anything other than a legitimate election result.
It’s been a different story, though, on Truth Social. As The Hill noted, Trump has in recent days been casting doubt on the election results in social media posts.
“Does anybody really believe that this “Election” was honest? How could the Polls be so wrong???,” Trump said in a November 9 Truth Social post. “Some early voting ‘dumps’ were so large that it was impossible to win, no matter how many people went to vote.”
The polls, in fact, weren’t wrong; they showed Democrats winning most of the Senate races they won, and if anything, they likely underestimated the size of the blue wave. Trump had been vocal pre-election about not believing polls that showed his party losing.
Trump has also shared posts from less reputable social media users, who have been sharing what they consider algorithmic evidence of election cheating by Democrats. But there is no such evidence. Many of the states in which Democrats performed well are currently controlled by Republicans, who supervise the election machinery, making Democratic cheating unlikely. And finally, if Democrats have the ability to steal elections without detection, why did they neglect to do so in 2024?
Trump’s election denial, this time, seems to be half-hearted. He has not taken any legal action over the election results, nor has he mentioned such suspicions in any interviews or press availability this week.
MTG Isn’t Having It
Greene, now out of politics after she turned on Trump last year, reacted with disbelief to this soft election denial in an X post. She also indicated that she’s not as gung-ho about the 2020 election claims as she was at the time.
Greene represented Georgia, where Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff was easily reelected, and Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms was elected governor.
“For anyone who believes his [expletive], ask yourself, has he ever prosecuted ANYONE from the 2020 election???,” Greene said in the post. “NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!”
Greene’s post quoted Trump’s Truth Social post that cast doubt upon the 2026 election results.
“That ought to make some of you very angry, especially those of you who lost personal money, personal life relationships, and even went to prison for Trump as you fought against the 2020 election,” Greene, who in 2023 toured the jail where January 6 defendants were being held, wrote in the X post.
The former Congresswoman also speculated that Trump’s team knew he was losing all along, but kept on having rallies because “his entire political team makes money off of rallies, fundraising, and everything to do with Trump involved in elections.”
Greene believes Trump is in some type of denial.
“His ego and pride are hurt, and he knows the big Democrat victory is 100% on him,” she writes. “So this is another attempt to deflect any wrong going off of himself.”
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