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By Charles Richards

The Republican Congresswoman said that President Donald Trump has turned his back on those who helped get him elected.

Outgoing firebrand Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene’s combative interview with 60 Minutes anchor Leslie Stahl is the perfect encapsulation of the war being waged between grassroots conservatives and establishment RINOs currently seeking to suppress the America First movement and reassert their dominance over the GOP.

Stahl interviewed Greene when her popularity was at its highest several years ago. She has always been the voice of what President Donald Trump once called “the Swamp” in Washington D.C. Her line of questioning toward Greene during their conversation that aired earlier this month revealed her biased agenda. At one point during the interview, a fed-up Greene hit back, “You’ve contributed to (the toxicity in politics) as well, with your own … accusatory … questions (toward me).”

Greene’s decision to step down from Congress sent shockwaves across the U.S. when she announced she would resign this coming year. A true believer in the MAGA cause right from the start, she told Stahl that Trump has turned his back on those who helped get him elected.

“He passed the crypto bill that helped out all the crypto donors. He has served Israel’s interest, even attacking Iran. He has served Big Pharma, he didn’t take away the COVID vaccines that we want to see taken away,” Greene exclaimed. “We want to see action on areas for the American people, not for the major industries and the big donors.”

True to form, Stahl brought up the fact that Greene has called Israel’s bombing of Gaza a genocide while also noting she voted against the “anti Semitism Awareness Act.”

“Since I’ve been a member of Congress, we’ve had several resolutions that constantly denounce anti-Semitism,” Greene explained. “I’ve already voted denouncing anti-Semitism many times before. It becomes an exercise that they force on Congress, and I simply got tired of it.”

“Is there no value in having the United States Congress reaffirm the fact that they denounce anti-Semitism in the face of a growing issue, a growing problem?” Stahl replied.

“We don’t have to get on our knees and say it over and over again,” Greene shot back.

“Well, most members of Congress disagree with you,” Stahl responded.

“Well, most members of Congress take donations from AIPAC and I don’t.”

Over the past year, Greene and fellow Republican Congressman Thomas Massie have boasted about the fact that they don’t take donations from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. For their efforts, they have been increasingly targeted by Trump as well as by Miriam Adelson, an Israeli-born Zionist mega-donor to the president who is funding a PAC to prevent Massie’s re-election next year.

Massie, meanwhile, is not backing down. “Israeli citizen Miriam Adelson bought the Dallas Mavericks for $3.5 billion; now she’s buying politicians. She’s spending millions in Kentucky to buy Ed Gallrein, my primary opponent, a Congressional seat in Kentucky. Why? Because I won’t vote to send your tax dollars overseas,” he explained.

Greene further told Stahl that Trump’s decision to attack her is all the more hypocritical given his decision to not want the Epstein files released and welcome multiple politicians who share nothing in common with conservative principles to the White House.

“He did this in the same time span where President Trump brought in the al-Qaeda leader that was wanted by the U.S. government (Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa), who is now the President of Syria. Then within a week, he brought in the Crown Prince (of Saudi Arabia) who murdered an American journalist. And then he brought in the newly elected Democrat socialist mayor of New York (Zohram Mamdani). That was the time span that he called me a traitor.”

Greene has repeatedly said she will not be running for office in the coming years. The system is broken, essentially, and it cannot be fixed. And she’s right. For many decades, U.S. politicians have not served the will of the people but rather an elite, technocratic donor class that wants to use America’s influence to wage foreign wars and promote a globalist agenda. President Trump knew that once and promised he would bring it to an end but now it seems he won’t be one to put a stop to it. Greene, like millions of Americans, believed he would. She’s right to step down and spend her life doing something other than fight a losing battle.

By Peter Best

What do children owe their parents? Love, honour and respect are a good start. But what about parents who were once political figures – does the younger generation owe a duty of care to the beliefs of their forebears?

Two recent cases in Canada highlight the inter-generational conflict at play in Canada over Indigenous politics. One concerns Prime Minister Mark Carney and his father Robert. The other, a recent book on the life of noted aboriginal thinker William Wuttunee edited by his daughter Wanda. In each case, the current generation has let its ancestors down – and left all of Canada worse off.

William Wuttunee was born in 1928 in a one-room log cabin on a reserve in Saskatchewan, where he endured a childhood of poverty and hardship. Education was his release, and he went on to become the first aboriginal to practice law in Western Canada; he also served as the inaugural president of the National Indian Council in 1961.

Wuttunee rose to prominence with his controversial 1971 book Ruffled Feathers, that argued for an end to Canadian’s Indian Reserve system, which he believed trapped his people in poverty and despair. He dreamed of a Canada where Indigenous people lived side-by-side all other Canadians and enjoyed the same rights and benefits.

Such an argument for true racial equality put Wuttunee at odds with the illiberal elite of Canada’s native community, who still believe in a segregated, race-based relationship between Indigenous people and the rest of Canada. For telling truth to power, Wuttunee was ostracized from the native political community and banned from his own reserve. He died in 2015.

This year, William’s daughter Wanda had the opportunity to rectify the past mistreatment of her father. In the new book Still Ruffling Feathers – Let Us Put Our Minds Together, Wanda, an academic at the University of Manitoba, and several other contributors claim to “fearlessly engage” with her father’s ideas. Unfortunately, the authors mostly seek to bury, rather than
praise, Wuttunee’s vision of one Canada for all.

Wanda claims her father’s desire for a treaty-free, reserve-free Canada would be problematic today because it would have required giving up all the financial and legal goodies that have since been showered upon Indigenous groups. But there is a counterfactual to consider. What if Indigenous Canadians had simply enjoyed the same incremental gains in income, health and other social indicators as the rest of the country during this time?

Ample evidence on the massive and longstanding gap between native and non-native Canadians across a wide variety of socio-economic indicators suggest that integration would have been the better bet. The life expectancy for Indigenous Albertans, for example, is a shocking 19 years shorter than for a non-native Albertans. William Wuttunee was right all along about the damage done by the reserve system. And yet nearly all of the contributors to Wanda’s new book refuse to admit this fact.

The other current example concerns Robert Carney, who had a long and distinguished career in aboriginal education. When the future prime minister was a young boy, Robert was the principal of a Catholic day school in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories; he later became a government administrator and a professor of education. What he experienced throughout his
lifetime led the elder Carney to become an outspoken defender of Canada’s now-controversial residential schools.

When the 1996 Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) attacked the legacy of residential schools, Carney penned a sharp critique. He pointed out that the schools were not jails despite frequent claims that students were there against their will; in fact, parents had to sign an application form to enroll their children in a residential school. Carney also bristled at
the lack of context in the RCAP report, noting that the schools performed a key social welfare function in caring for “sick, dying, abandoned and orphaned children.”

In the midst of the 2025 federal election campaign, Mark Carney was asked if he agreed with his father’s positive take on residential schools. “I love my father, but I don’t share those views,” he answered. Some Indigenous activists have subsequently accused Robert Carney of residential school “denialism” and “complicity” in the alleged horrors of Canada’s colonial education system.

Like Wanda Wuttunee, Mark Carney let his father down by distancing himself from his legacy for reasons of political expediency. He had an opportunity to offer Canadians a courageous and fact-based perspective on a subject of great current public interest by drawing upon his intimate connection with an expert in the field. Instead, Mark Carney caved to the
requirements of groupthink. As a result, his father now stands accused of complicity in a phony genocide.

As for William Wuttunee, he wanted all Canadians – native and non-native alike – to be free from political constraints. He rejected racial segregation, discrimination and identity politics in all forms. And yet in “honouring” his life’s work, his daughter misrepresents his legacy by sidestepping the core truths of his central belief.

No one doubts that Wanda Wuttunee and Mark Carney each loved their dads, as any son or daughter should. And there is no requirement that a younger generation must accept without question whatever their parents thought. But in the case of Wuttunee and Carney, both offspring have deliberately chosen to tarnish their fathers’ legacies in obedience to a poisonous
ideology that promotes the entirely un-Canadian ideal of permanent racial segregation and inequity. And all of Canada is the poorer for it.

Peter Best is a retired lawyer living in Sudbury, Ontario. The original, longer version of this story first appeared in C2CJournal.ca.