After speculation that she would be running for a U.S. Senate seat from Georgia, anti-LGBTQ+ Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) announced earlier this week that she would not seek the Senate seat.

Now she is lashing out at rumors that she decided not to run because Donald Trump told her that she would lose.

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Rep. Greg Casar was not going to let Greene use trans people to distract from her own indiscretions.

In a very long statement posted to social media this past Saturday, Greene said that she would not run for the Senate seat.

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“Beating Jon Ossoff? That would be easy,” she wrote, despite how polls show that she would be an epically bad Republican candidate since her running would convince even some Republican voters to vote for Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA). “The most disgusting thing about him? He has a daughter, yet he voted against our bill to keep mentally ill biological men out of girls’ sports. He’d rather virtue signal to the trans cult than protect his own daughter.”

But, she wrote, she ultimately decided that the Senate is full of people she doesn’t like so she wants to stay in the House.

“If I’m going to fight for a team, it will only be a team willing to lay it all on the line to save this country,” she wrote. “And right now, I just don’t see that, even after they tried to kill my favorite President. To be clear, I love President Trump and everything he has done and is trying to do for this country. I hate the system that stops it.”

But on Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Donald Trump’s team commissioned a poll that showed that Greene would lose against Ossoff by a huge margin and that several other Republicans in the state would be better candidates, prompting the president to ask her personally not to run. Greene provided comment for the article in which she said that it was a “private conversation” that was “leaked” by a consultant who refused to work for her.

“The same people telling Trump I can’t win a general [election] are the same people that get filthy rich off consulting on as many campaigns they can get the president to endorse,” she told the Wall Street Journal.

The fear is that she would be a good primary candidate in Georgia with her skills in speaking to conservatives on social media and fundraising, but that she would be too extreme for the general election in the purple state. Her Congressional district, where she has won three terms so far, is very conservative.

But after the Wall Street Journal published the article, she let loose on X, denouncing the consultants who she believed leaked her conversation with Trump. She then denied even talking to Trump about the Senate race, something that she didn’t dispute in her original statement to the Wall Street Journal. The Wall Street Journal even posted her full statement to social media to show that she didn’t dispute the rumor that Trump told her not to run for Senate.

“I have never spoken with President Trump about running for Senate or any other race,” she claimed on X. “But for some reason, some consultants and aids are leaking to the usual tools in the media in order to promote the narrative they want to tell about me.”

“You would think these people would be embracing me because I’ve fought the hardest for him, but the problem is they are not on my payroll.”