Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has waded into President Donald Trump's latest claims about a "rigged and stolen" election, but not in the way you might expect. Instead of backing the narrative, she's asking a pointed question: who exactly rigged the 2024 election?
In a post on X, Greene referenced disputed claims of Russian interference in 2016 and Chinese interference in 2020, then asked, "If the Russians rigged the 2016 election and China rigged the 2020 election, who rigged the 2024 election?" She also criticized officials who are now pushing fraud allegations, noting that some of them previously dismissed similar claims from Mike Lindell and Sidney Powell while backing the prosecution of January 6 defendants.
"Has anyone been arrested besides Trump supporters? Nope," Greene wrote. She called the renewed fraud talk a "big shiny object" distracting from the Iran conflict, unreleased Jeffrey Epstein files, and unmet campaign promises.
In a separate post, Greene took a sharper turn, alleging that "the foreign influence we are experiencing comes from Israel and their donors." She claimed that "Trump, his admin, and Republicans are the ones controlled by a foreign government," which she said is why they "pulled America into a senseless war with Iran that the American people do not support."
Greene's comments came after Trump's prime-time address on Thursday, during which he claimed that the forces behind what he called the "stolen" 2020 election still pose a threat to the 2026 midterm elections. Trump used terms like "rigged," "corrupt," and "cover-up" while referring to newly declassified documents. He also alleged that China had obtained 220 million U.S. voter records since 2020 and had tried to create illegal ballots for President Joe Biden. Beijing rejected the claim, calling it "entirely fabricated" and "maliciously slanderous."
This isn't the first time Trump has leaned on foreign figures to bolster his claims. In August 2025, he referenced Russian President Vladimir Putin's remarks following their Alaska summit, quoting Putin as saying, "If you would've won, we wouldn't have had a war."
For context, a declassified March 2021 assessment from the U.S. National Intelligence Council, coordinated with the CIA, FBI, DHS, and NSA, concluded with "high confidence" that China did not deploy interference efforts intended to change the outcome of the 2020 election. An Associated Press review of the newly released files found little new information, with many documents heavily redacted.
So Greene's skepticism isn't coming out of nowhere. She's essentially asking: if everyone agrees voting machines can be hacked and votes flipped, why aren't we getting rid of them? And why are the same people who dismissed fraud claims in 2020 now embracing them? It's a messy, tangled debate—and Greene is poking at the contradictions from within her own party.
