Who Is Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Book Even For?

Having spent less than three years in Congress, Marjorie Taylor Greene has apparently accumulated enough experience to author a tell-all on her time in Washington. In MTG, a quasi-autobiography released last week by Donald Trump Jr.’s publishing company, the Georgia Republican gives her “side of the story” and offers lurid tales “about the Swamp you won’t hear anywhere else.”

The tome, at least by the looks of Amazon, has thus far proven to be an undeniable flop. As of Monday afternoon, the world’s top online bookseller has MTG ranked at the 8,746th spot on its sales chart. Perhaps worse yet, it has garnered just seven written reviews, all of which are negative.

Greene, however, is likely unbothered by her book’s unpopularity, as MTG appears to be nothing more than a strategic ploy meant for an audience of one: Donald Trump. That was the conclusion drawn by former Justice Department official Lloyd Green, who wrote in a Guardian review that the book “reads like an audition for the No. 2 slot on the 2024 Republican presidential ticket.” MTG predictably opens with an endorsement from the former president, who hails Greene as “one of the most fierce warriors in Congress for America First and all it stands for.” (Greene has previously said that while she “would be honored” to serve as Trump’s running mate, she is primarily focused on representing her constituents.)

Greene’s short congressional tenure notwithstanding, the tell-all could have potentially been interesting had it addressed the myriad controversies on which the representative built her brand. After all, she is the only lawmaker in Washington known to have once reacted approvingly to an assassination threat against then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. But that incident apparently goes unmentioned in the 275-plus-page work.

Greene instead opts to rehash January 6, both mocking Democratic lawmakers for supposedly ceding the House chamber to the mob that day and expressing support for the pro-Trump rioters arrested for storming the Capitol building. “The events of January 6 have been mischaracterized by the Democrats,” she writes before claiming that the rioters have been “cruelly mistreated” while in federal lockup. “They will not be forgotten.” (To that end, Greene is now lobbying for the creation of a new House select committee to target members who served on the original bipartisan select committee that investigated January 6.)

Greene, whose belligerent intraparty antics have alienated her from a number of her closest ideological counterparts on Capitol Hill, has meanwhile returned to her QAnon roots of years past. On Wednesday, she appeared on a popular QAnon-supporting show to promote her book, despite disavowing the conspiracy theory in 2021 while under pressure from her Democratic colleagues.