The New York Post, a newspaper owned by the conservative-leaning Murdoch family, published an opinion piece by British broadcast presenter Piers Morgan accusing Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of being "Putin's useful idiot and the real betrayer of America" after the US House of Representatives passed a $61 billion defense deal to Ukraine.
According to Morgan's piece written on Sunday (Apr. 21), everything that comes out of "Moscow Marjorie," as he called Taylor Greene, is too difficult to listen to.
"Since she first appeared on the Washington scene after the 2016 election, 'MTG' has proven herself to be a trash-talking, cerebrally challenged, shockingly shameless, attention-grabbing political Barbie for whom no conspiracy theory is ever bonkers enough to reject," Morgan wrote on the Post, listing all of her purported claims and conspiracy theories about several recent historical events within the United States, including those spewed by QAnon.
"In fact, the full list of Taylor Greene's stupefyingly cretinous comments and beliefs is so long, there literally isn't enough room in this column to cite them all," he added.
Yet, Morgan retorted, no one in the GOP "stopped her rise to one of the most influential voices" of the party.
"This weekend saw the nadir of her nefarious antics as she led a campaign to stop America offering support to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, in urgent need of security assistance to defend themselves from the ruthless totalitarian regimes of Russia, Iran and China," he added.
"It shouldn't have been a difficult bill for Republicans to support."
Morgan further agreed with The Daily Wire's resident commentator Ben Shapiro—who has supported Israel's right to exist given the bellicose attitude of the Arab world in the Middle East—when he said that the US "can, and should, be perfectly capable of" both securing the US border and supporting strategic military, diplomatic, and economic allies.
He also mocked Taylor Greene's apparent admiration for Vladimir Putin's Russia and what she claimed as Russia's mission of "protecting" Christianity and Christian moral values against Ukraine's alleged Nazi influences and the purported evils of the rest of the West, even to the point of claiming that the Ukrainian government was executing priests.
"In fact, it's Russia that's been torturing, kidnapping and killing scores of Ukrainian religious leaders," Morgan said.
Morgan finally praised House Speaker Mike Johnson, another Republican, for standing his ground and approving a $95 billion foreign aid bill passed over the weekend "in a bipartisan deal with Democrats."
"I believe that [Chinese President] Xi [Jinping] and Vladimir Putin and Iran really are an axis of evil," Johnson said prior to the House vote. "I think they are in coordination on this. I think that Vladimir Putin would continue to march through Europe. I am going to allow an opportunity for every single member of the House to vote their conscience and their will. I'm willing to take a personal risk for that, because we have to do the right thing. And history will judge us."
The Post's front page on Monday (Apr. 22) featured an edited photo of Taylor Greene wearing what seemed to be Russian-style headgear while the headline read "Nyet, Moscow Marjorie" in big, bold letters.
