Trump calls Marjorie Taylor Greene resignation ‘great news for the country’

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Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican Georgia congresswoman who had a dramatic blow-up with Donald Trump despite being his longtime ally, announced on Friday she would be resigning - which the president called great news".

Loyalty should be a two-way street," Greene said in a lengthy resignation statement shared on social media, adding that it was unfair and wrong" that Trump turned on her for disagreeing with him.