Marjorie Taylor Greene claims Trump warned her his ‘friends will get hurt’ over Epstein Files
Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) speaks alongside Trump at a campaign event in Rome, Georgia, on March 9, 2024. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage / AFP) (Photo by ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/AFP via Getty Images)
Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) speaks alongside Trump at a campaign event in Rome, Georgia, on March 9, 2024. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage / AFP) (Photo by ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/AFP via Getty Images)
Marjorie Taylor Greene has continued to take aim at former ally turned nemesis Donald Trump, claiming the president warned her his “friends will get hurt” if those accused of abusing women alongside Jeffrey Epstein were named publicly.
Republican congresswoman Greene, who is set to step down as representative Georgia’s 14th congressional district on 5 January, spoke to The New York Times in a wide-ranging interview following her highly-publicised falling out with the US president.
Greene, who was notorious in Washington for espousing anti-LGBTQ+ views and conspiracy theories – including ones about “Jewish space lasers” and a malevolent force that can control hurricanes – was an outspoken Trump supporter and MAGA proponent until just a few weeks ago.
However, fractures formed in the pair’s relationship over the release of the Epstein Files, which Trump promised to publish if he won the 2024 election and returned to the White House. The Epstein Files refer to the huge raft of documents amassed during criminal investigations into paedophile Jeffery Epstein’s sex trafficking of women and children, and include transcripts, records and items confiscated during raids of the financier’s luxury properties.
Greene has now detailed a call she claims she had with Trump after a September news conference during which she threatened to identify some of the men who had abused women.
According to Greene, Trump called her to voice his displeasure at the suggestion, and when questioned on his position, replied: “My friends will get hurt.”
When Greene urged the president to invite Epstein’s female victims to the Oval Office, she claims he refused. It was reportedly the last conversation the two shared before their public falling out, during which Trump branded Greene a “ranting lunatic”.
Greene, who has since apologised for her role in promoting the “toxic politics” that continues to grip the US, said the Epstein files represented “everything wrong with Washington” and that it was a tale of “rich, powerful elites doing horrible things and getting away with it. And the women are the victims”.
White House spokesperson Davis Ingle said in a statement: “President Trump remains the undisputed leader of the greatest and fastest growing political movement in American history – the MAGA movement.
“On the other hand, Congresswoman Greene is quitting on her constituents in the middle of her term and abandoning the consequential fight we’re in – we don’t have time for her petty bitterness,” Ingle added.
