How Marjorie Taylor Greene went from Trump ally to quitting Congress

Greene's tenure in Congress may be ending, but her involvement in US political life may not be over.

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Sworn into office just days before the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol, Greene supported the president - and echoed his contention that the 2020 presidential election was "stolen" - when many in the Republican Party disavowed him.

Now, five years later, Greene will leave Congress having been branded a "traitor" by the man she once revered.

Over the course of just a handful of months, Greene broke with Trump in the most dramatic fashion.

Although Greene had criticised Trump's decision to launch airstrikes on Iran, his support for Israel during the Gaza War and a lack of sufficient regulation of big technology companies earlier this year, the final fracture began over Jeffrey Epstein, the late financier and convicted paedophile who had connections to the wealthy and powerful.