News of Ali Khamenei’s killing sparks backlash from Marjorie Taylor Greene and other America First loyalists
Donald Trump had come to Fayetteville, near Fort Bragg military base in North Carolina, with a promise. “We will stop racing to topple foreign regimes that we know nothing about, that we shouldn’t be involved with,” the then US president-elect said in December 2016.
Trump has pushed his isolationist message in the decade since, repeatedly assuring his “America first” base that there would be no repeat of the forever wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
But the president’s decision to strike Iran with massive force on Saturday – killing supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei– quickly became an acid test for his core support, triggering criticism among some high profile Maga movement figures.
Among the early dissenters was Marjorie Taylor Greene, formerly one of Trump’s fiercest loyalists who broke with him last year and quit Congress over what she said was his lack of focus on domestic issues.
