Ken Buck knocks ‘Moscow Marjorie’ Taylor Greene

Former Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) took shots at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Monday, attacking his former GOP colleague as “Moscow Marjorie.”

The jab comes after former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) called Greene a “very serious legislator” following her threat to force a vote to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) over Ukraine aid. Buck disagreed with McCarthy’s assessment.

“My experience with Marjorie is, people have talked to her about not filing articles of impeachment on President Biden before he was sworn into office, on not filing articles of impeachment that were groundless made on other individuals in the Biden administration,” he told Erin Burnett in a CNN interview Monday. 

“And she was never moved by that. She was always focused on her social media account,” Buck continued. “And Moscow Marjorie is focused now on this Ukraine issue and getting her talking points from the Kremlin and making sure that she is popular and she is getting a lot of coverage.”

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Greene has vehemently opposed additional spending for Ukraine aid. She filed a motion to vacate the Speakership before the Easter recess and threatened to make the motion privileged if Johnson attempts to pass a bill.

Buck abruptly retired from Congress last month. He clashed with the Georgia Republican in the final months of his tenure after he moved to remove McCarthy from the Speakership last year; Greene was a close McCarthy ally.

Both Buck and Greene were members of the House Freedom Caucus at one point, though Greene left the group last year amid internal strife. The caucus also voted to kick out Buck just days before his resignation.