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NY Post
New York Post
4 Apr 2023


NextImg:Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene claims Eric Adams ‘put target on my back’

Far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene told The Post Tuesday that Mayor Eric Adams “put a target on my back” when he warned her to “be on your best behavior” while in New York City to support former President Donald Trump.

“That was horrible behavior for a mayor,” Greene (R-Ga.) said from her SUV after a truncated speech at a pro-Trump rally where she was drowned out by counter-protesters.

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The 48-year-old added that “the mayor of New York should be ashamed of himself calling me out by name” and claimed Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg “destroyed” democracy by indicting Trump, 76, last week.

Greene, who had called for protests outside the Manhattan Criminal Court building Tuesday morning — demonstrations which she only attended for about 10 minutes — also said ahead of Trump’s arraignment that Adams owes her an apology.

“It was a warning and it was really a threat,” she claimed. “I perceived it as a threat from the mayor of New York City, for me to not come. He threatened me. He put a target on my back and that was wrong.

Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks to reporters inside her SUV after speaking at the park
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“He’s never met me before, he only believes the lies he’s seen on the news about me, which is terrible,” she added of Adams.

“Our message is clear and simple, control yourself. New York City is our home, not a playground for your misplaced anger,” the mayor said at a press conference Monday to outline the Big Apple’s security preparations.

“Although we have no specific threats, people like Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is known to spread misinformation and hate speech, as she stated she’s coming to town, while you’re in town, be on your best behavior,” Hizzoner added.

US President Donald Trump arrives to speak to supporters from The Ellipse near the White House on January 6, 2021.

Rep. Greene made the comments ahead of Donald Trump’s Tuesday afternoon arraignment.
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Greene told The Post she hoped the protests didn’t turn violent, and said she has “a lot of faith in the NYPD.”

“We have to show up and stand up and protest this political persecution and weaponization of our government that we’re witnessing today,” the pol said. “In my opinion, the Democrats and many people in the media warned us for six years that President Trump would destroy democracy, but today democracy has been destroyed by what Alvin Bragg is doing.”

Greene, who called Trump “the most vetted person in American history,” said she spoke with the former president Monday after he got on his private plane to fly to New York for his arrest and arraignment. 

Picture of Greene speaking in her car.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene told The Post that Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s indictment of former President Trump “destroyed” democracy.
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“He was so excited by all the people he saw along the road that came out to support him,” she said of Trump. “He’s very convicted in fighting this and he’s ready for the fight. He is overly outraged and shocked that this would really happen in this country, as most people are.”

Trump is “deeply saddened and worried about our country,” Greene also told The Post. 

“He didn’t sound afraid for himself, he’s afraid for our country,” she claimed. “He knows what all of us know, once this line is crossed it’s like opening Pandora’s Box, there’s no turning back. 

“It’s what’s happened in every single Communist country where we see the weaponization of the government,” Greene said.

The lawmaker, who has repeatedly courted controversy since her election to the House of Representatives in 2020, said she believes Trump will prevail in his legal fight and become president again in 2024.

“Alvin Bragg is telling every single voter in America the Democrats are corrupt and the Democrats will break the law in order to stop the other side,” she said. “It’s hard to vote for that.”

Bragg indicted Trump last week for alleged improper business conduct relating to a 2016 hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of that year’s presidential election. Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, was given a three-year prison sentence for his role in giving $130,000 to Daniels, who was ready to go public with her claims of an affair with Trump.

Trump has denied he had a liaison with Daniels, and his now-lawyer Joe Tacopina said Trump made the payment — which he wrote off as legal expenses when reimbursing Cohen — because he was being extorted by Daniels.