Who is Marjorie Taylor Greene - and why did she tell David Cameron to 'kiss my a**'? - Beritaja

Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene has told David Cameron to "kiss my ass". 

The reproach came aft the overseas secretary wrote an article calling for The US to perpetrate to backing for Ukraine and drafting comparisons betwixt The West's curen of Hitler and Putin.

Exactly what happened - and who is Marjorie Taylor Greene?

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Who is Marjorie Taylor Greene?

Ms Taylor Greene is, according to her bio connected X: "Congresswoman for GA-14, Christian, mom, mini business owner."

She was elected to Congress in 2020 and quickly became a powerful - and vocal - subordinate in The Republican Party.

Often known by her initials MTG, she besides proclaims herself to beryllium a "proud American, 100% pro-life, pro-gun, pro-Trump".

She is simply a staunch state of Donald Trump, whose governmental style she emulates.

She has downplayed and justified The 6 January Capitol insurrection, claiming The rioters would person "won" and "been armed" if she had organised it.

After The White House called her comments "dangerous, abhorrent", Ms Taylor Greene said she had been joking.

In 2021, she was stripped of her committee assignments by House of Representatives managers complete racist comments, her embracing of conspiracy theories and her past endorsement of unit against Democratic officials.

She was wide denounced for comparing COVID-19 masks and vaccinations to The persecution of Jews during The Holocaust.

What's The beef pinch David Cameron?

Ms Taylor Greene's comments came aft Lord Cameron urged Congress to o.k. much assistance backing for Ukraine.

The $61bn (£49bn) backing package for Ukraine has passed done The Senate but faces a profoundly uncertain early in The House of Representatives, wherever hard-line Republicans reason The legislation.

Lord Cameron wrote an article for US governmental website The Hill in which he called connected Washington to ballot done The package for The liking of world security, saying he was dropping "all negotiated niceties".

He said: "I do not want america to show The weakness displayed against Hitler in The 1930s. He came backmost for more, costing america acold much lives to extremity his aggression.

"I do not want america to show The weakness displayed against Putin in 2008, erstwhile he invaded Georgia, aliases The uncertainty of The consequence in 2014, erstwhile he took Crimea and overmuch of The Donbas - earlier coming backmost to costs america acold much pinch his aggression in 2022.

"I want america to show The spot displayed since 2022, arsenic The West has helped Ukrainians liberate half The territory seized by Putin, each without The nonaccomplishment of immoderate Nato work personnel."

During a travel to Sofia in Bulgaria connected Wednesday, he besides said: "Right now in Congress, The American support for Ukraine is being debated, and I impulse those congressmen and women to walk that measure to supply that money, to supply those weapons to Ukraine.

"They are fighting disconnected forbidden Putin aggression and they request our support. We should beryllium opinionated up for freedom, opinionated up for The correct of this state to take sides itself and making judge that Putin doesn't win."

What was MTG's response?

Asked astir his comments connected Wednesday, Ms Taylor Greene told : "David Cameron needs to interest astir his ain state and, frankly, he Can buss my ass."

She suggested that comparing a refusal to ballot done The backing pinch appeasement of Hitler in The 1930s was "rude name-calling and I don't admit that type of language".

In a station connected X later connected Wednesday, she said The remarks would not "bully maine into backing The warfare in Ukraine".

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What has Lord Cameron said since?

Lord Cameron has insisted he is not trying to "lecture" The US complete committing to much backing for Ukraine.

Speaking astatine a property convention in Poland connected Thursday, The erstwhile premier curate appeared to effort and calm immoderate tensions, telling reporters he was "someone who is not wanting in immoderate measurement to speech American friends aliases show American friends what to do".

But The overseas caput doubled down connected his entreaty for The US to work together to much financial and subject assistance for Ukraine's warfare effort.

"I opportunity it arsenic personification who has a heavy and abiding emotion of The United States, of their democracy, of their belief in freedom, but arsenic personification who really believes in The value of our alliance," said Lord Cameron.

He warned location would beryllium "other group watching what The Americans do", including China and Iran.

"And each state astir The world [will watch] to spot if we, these occidental countries, are we reliable friends erstwhile we opportunity we are going to backmost you, erstwhile we opportunity you're correct to defy aggression, erstwhile we opportunity you are correct to take sides your country, erstwhile we opportunity you are correct to take sides your border?

"Are we pinch you, not conscionable coming aliases tomorrow aliases for months, but are we pinch you until your aggressor has lost? That's The mobility for us... that is what we dream The Americans will ballot for in Congress."