Marjorie Taylor Greene Faces Backlash Over Pope Francis Comment and Stock Trades

April 22, 2025 — Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Mar­jorie Tay­lor Greene is under intense scruti­ny fol­low­ing two sep­a­rate inci­dents: a con­tro­ver­sial social media post after the death of Pope Fran­cis and the tim­ing of sig­nif­i­cant stock trades just before a major pol­i­cy announce­ment by for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump.​

✝️ Controversial Post Following Pope Francis’ Death

On April 21, Greene post­ed on X (for­mer­ly Twit­ter): “Evil is being defeat­ed by the hand of God,” short­ly after the Vat­i­can announced Pope Fran­cis’ death. Although she did not men­tion the Pope direct­ly, the tim­ing led many to inter­pret the mes­sage as a cel­e­bra­tion of his pass­ing. Greene, who con­vert­ed from Catholi­cism to evan­gel­i­cal Protes­tantism, has pre­vi­ous­ly crit­i­cized the Catholic Church’s lead­er­ship. ​People.com

Today there were major shifts in glob­al lead­er­ships.

Evil is being defeat­ed by the hand of God.

— Mar­jorie Tay­lor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) April 21, 2025

Watch a video dis­cussing the back­lash:

💰 Scrutiny Over Timely Stock Trades

Greene is also fac­ing crit­i­cism for pur­chas­ing between $21,000 and $315,000 in stocks, includ­ing shares of major com­pa­nies like Apple, Ama­zon, FedEx, and Nike, on April 8 and 9. These trans­ac­tions occurred just before for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump announced a 90-day pause on inter­na­tion­al tar­iffs, lead­ing to a sig­nif­i­cant mar­ket surge. Crit­ics sug­gest poten­tial insid­er trad­ing, though Greene claims her invest­ments are man­aged by a finan­cial advi­sor under a fidu­cia­ry agree­ment. ​

Watch a video ana­lyz­ing the stock trade con­tro­ver­sy:

These inci­dents have reignit­ed dis­cus­sions about eth­i­cal stan­dards for pub­lic offi­cials, par­tic­u­lar­ly con­cern­ing finan­cial trans­paren­cy and the use of social media plat­forms.​

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