Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene: The MAGA divorce
The Slow Newscast
Alice Sandelson
4.6 • 894 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump is facing an unexpected fallout as one of his most loyal supporters has resigned from Congress and turned against him. With divisions widening after the attack on Venezuela, is there a split in the broader MAGA movement?
Reporter: Stephen Armstrong
Producers: Madeleine Parr and Jonathan Lewis
Artwork: Lucy Stevenson
Editor: Matt Russell
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| 0:00.0 | The Observer |
| 0:05.5 | Hello, it's Matt here and you're listening to the slow newscast from The Observer. |
| 0:13.2 | This week, Trump's lost loyalists. |
| 0:17.5 | Over the weekend, President Trump launched an attack on Venezuela and captured the sitting |
| 0:22.9 | president, Nicholas Maduro. |
| 0:25.6 | While Trump praised the success of the operation, the backlash from parts of his MAGA circle |
| 0:30.0 | was almost immediate. |
| 0:32.0 | The attack on Venezuela has revealed a stark and growing divide in MAGA, but this rift has |
| 0:36.9 | actually been slowly opening up over the past year, |
| 0:39.7 | and it began in a different world entirely, |
| 0:42.7 | and arguably with one person in particular, |
| 0:45.8 | because in November, one of Donald Trump's most loyal supporters |
| 0:49.0 | resigned from Congress, |
| 0:50.8 | she had the president in her crosshairs. |
| 0:53.4 | But will her split from the president signal a deeper rift opening up on the right in American politics? |
| 0:59.4 | My colleague Stephen Armstrong, Madeline Parr and Jonathan Lewis investigate. Over to Stephen. |
| 1:08.8 | I'm in constant communication with him. I support President Trump. I just came from the Republican |
| 1:13.9 | debate in Milwaukee last night. Landed here this morning. The reason why I'm here is because |
| 1:18.4 | this is my home state. A congresswoman stands outside Fulton County Jail in the summer of |
| 1:26.0 | 2023. I'm here as a Georgia and I'm also here as a member of Congress. |
| 1:30.3 | We're going to be standing up against the weaponized government. |
| 1:33.3 | We're launching an investigation in Defani Willis through the Judiciary Committee. |
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