The right-wing's AOC, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor-Greene surprised everyone when she announced yesterday she will resign from Congress in January. Left unreported is how well the Georgia firebrand has done since she arrived in Congress five years ago.
The conservative American Thinker website reported July 31:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican representing Georgia, built her brand by claiming to fight for forgotten Americans. She stormed into Congress on the promise of taking down the elites and draining the swamp. But when you follow the money, a very different story unfolds. It looks a lot more like Wall Street self-enrichment than service to Main Street conservatives.
In 2021, Greene entered Congress with an estimated net worth of $700,000.
By April 2025, her net worth had ballooned to $22 million, driven largely by stock market investments that consistently outperformed even seasoned Lower Manhattan pros.
That kind of rapid financial ascent raises red flags.
After all, the average congressional salary is $174,000. Yet Greene somehow turned her time in public office into a personal fortune. This wasn’t by launching a business, but by making remarkably well-timed trades. She’s claimed not to handle her own investments, but the numbers and timing suggest a different reality.
In 2021, Greene bought shares in corporate behemoths like Visa and Walmart. These are companies she publicly criticized for promoting progressive causes. Her public statements painted these firms as enemies of conservative values, but her private trades told a different story. Those investments paid off handsomely.
By 2023, Greene’s portfolio was outperforming that of many of her congressional peers, earning returns of 18.6%. This level of success doesn’t align with the image of a grassroots outsider who supposedly shuns the elite’s ways.
Fast forward to 2025, and the pattern has only grown more striking. She movedinto Treasury notes as market uncertainty spiked — classic defensive positioning.
Then, in April, she made purchases in Apple, Amazon, and NVIDIA just days before Donald Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs were paused. This pumping of the brakes triggered an epic market rally. Greene also purchased Lululemon and Dell, reaping significant gains after the tariff freeze, with some stocks jumping over 30%....
On April 8, during the market crash, she also bought shares of Palantir, a data analytics firm that, just nine days later, landed a lucrative federal contract with ICE. Greene sits on the Homeland Security Committee....
Good grub, if you can get it.
4 comments:
Yep! Republicans can be counted on to be crooks.
So now she cashes outta the House seat. I never liked her inauthenticity and, frankly, difficult to look at as well.
She's scamming the pension too. She has alot in common with Bennie Thompson.
I saw her as a grifter from the start.
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