Marjorie Taylor Greene said President Donald Trump blamed her for death threats against her son, saying, “It’s your fault and you deserve it.”
“I sent him directly the death messages I was receiving on my son, and I said, no matter political disagreements, our children should never be threatened. That’s absolutely unacceptable. And I told him his words were causing that to happen,” the former Republican Georgia congresswoman said on SiriusXM’s Straight Shooter with Stephen A. Wednesday.
“And his reply back to me was, ‘It’s your fault and you deserve it,’ that’s what he texted me back. I have those text messages,” Greene said.
The public rift between Trump and Greene, once one of the president’s most loyal allies, emerged after she voiced support for releasing the Epstein files. Greene emphasized that she does not believe Americans have the full truth and that additional information remains hidden from the public.
“I would also suspect that there’s a lot of intelligence information there, as well as very disturbing information that would be on prominent people,” Greene said.
The Department of Justice released 3.5 million pages of responsive pages under the Epstein Files Transparency Act signed into law by Trump on Nov. 19,2025.
Greene said she entered Congress with little political experience and described herself as naive, adding that she had to learn quickly after taking office. She also stated that she had no problem resigning after seeing things clearly but did not expect Trump to turn on her.
“I never expected the president to turn on me and call me a traitor simply because I stood with women who were raped when they were teenagers, doing exactly what we both promised on the campaign trail,” Greene said. “No, I didn’t expect that. So yes, I was pretty shocked by it.”
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE VS. TRUMP OVER EPSTEIN FILES: ‘HE’S THE REAL TRAITOR’
Greene claimed Trump urged her to withdraw support for the discharge petition, describing what she said was intense pressure on lawmakers backing the effort.
“He was telling me to take my name off the discharge petition,” Greene said. “We were under tremendous pressure. You would not believe the pressure that the four of us — Thomas Massie, myself, Nancy Mace, and Lauren Boebert — the pressure that was put on us to take our names off the discharge petition.”