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So Charles, you have a bit of a history with Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Is that how you'd put it?

Ah, history? Yeah, sure.

Charles Bithae writes for The New Yorker, but he lives in Georgia right near Marjorie Taylor

Greene's congressional district. He's covered her political rise for the last couple of years.

He's tagged along to her campaign speeches, interviewed the guys in her CrossFit gym. He

even has the congresswoman's cell phone number. But they are not close. When he did a splash

he profiled of her, back when she was first running for congress. She would not even grant

him an interview.

It was pretty clear she didn't see any benefit in doing that with me. She knew it wasn't

going to actually be able to harm her political chances in Northwest Georgia. Largely because

no one reads The New Yorker there. Not no one I shouldn't say, but few people probably

read The New Yorker. Also because she could just actually weaponize it and use it as,

look at the liberal fake news media coming after me and that could actually be used to raise

money.

What a weird situation for you to be in. To know that you're doing your job and you're

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