The day Georgia’s 14th Congressional District sent voters to the polls to fill a seat left empty by a resignation, the woman who resigned chose to call for the sitting president’s removal from office.
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene walked away from Congress in January. On Tuesday, as her former constituents determined her replacement, she trained her fire on President Donald Trump — demanding he be stripped of power under the 25th Amendment.
The catalyst was a Truth Social post from Trump issued Tuesday morning, directed at Iran. The president wrote that the country’s “whole civilization will die tonight” unless “something revolutionarily wonderful” occurs.
Trump connected the warning to what he described as “Complete and Total Regime Change,” declaring that “47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end.”
He told his followers the world would witness the outcome Tuesday night, framing the moment as “one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World.”
Greene did not hold back. Taking to X, she posted: “25TH AMENDMENT!!! Not a single bomb has dropped on America. We cannot kill an entire civilization. This is evil and madness.”
The constitutional mechanism Greene invoked is no small matter. Section Four of the 25th Amendment, as Time Magazine explained, “allows the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet to declare the President unable to discharge his duties and instead vest those powers and duties in the Vice President.”
Should such a declaration occur, Congress would then have authority to act. Time noted that lawmakers “can also determine by a two-thirds vote whether to permanently remove the President or to return the President to his duties.”
While Greene was posting her constitutional demands, Georgia Republicans were deciding who would take the seat she vacated. Trump has had a preferred candidate in that race since February — Clay Fuller, a man he labeled an “America First Patriot.”
Fuller’s resume carries both legal and military weight. He serves as district attorney for the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit and holds the rank of lieutenant colonel, functioning as deputy staff judge advocate in the Air National Guard.
Trump made clear he expects Fuller to carry the administration’s agenda forward once seated in the House.
The night before Election Day, Trump put his full promotional machinery behind Fuller, writing: “There is a very important Special Election tomorrow, Tuesday, April 7th, in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District! I am asking all Republicans, America First Patriots, and MAGA Warriors, to please GET OUT AND VOTE for a fantastic Candidate, Clay Fuller, who has my Complete and Total Endorsement!”
Trump also posted specific voting instructions, reminding supporters that polls ran from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., and that anyone in line by closing time must be permitted to cast a ballot.
Greene’s departure from Washington created the vacancy now being contested. When she announced the resignation, Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow did not mince words, calling the decision “deeply selfish” in November, arguing it stripped Republicans of a critical House vote.
The tension between Greene and Trump did not materialize overnight. Since leaving office, Greene has made Iran policy a recurring flashpoint in her public criticism of the administration.
In March, she appeared on CNN and labeled Trump’s military posture toward Iran a “perverted, deranged version” of MAGA. “This is not what we campaigned for,” she said. “We said on every single rally stage, no more foreign wars, no more regime change. It’s time to put America first.”
She escalated further, stating Trump’s conduct represented “100% a betrayal” of the mandate voters handed him in 2024.
On 60 Minutes, Greene argued that a president committed to America First priorities should have led with domestic policy — and said Trump did not.
Her anti-war positioning also drew her toward unexpected company. CODEPINK cofounder Medea Benjamin visited Greene’s Capitol Hill office in December and afterward called her a “strong anti war voice in congress.” Greene acknowledged the relationship, saying she had “enjoyed a friendship” with Benjamin “for a few years” and was “fully against funding foreign wars.”
Trump has shown no interest in reconciliation. He welcomed her congressional exit as “great news for the country,” branded her “not AMERICA FIRST or MAGA,” dubbed her “Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Brown,” and declared her “a very dumb person.”
