Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene engage in war of words over Epstein investigation
President Donald Trump and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene escalated their feud over the weekend after the Georgia Republican slammed the president and the administration over a number of topics, including the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
Trump went so far as to withdraw his support for Greene, whom he called "Marjorie 'Traitor' Greene" and said he would support a primary challenger.
"Lightweight Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Brown (Green grass turns Brown when it begins to ROT!), betrayed the entire Republican Party when she turned Left," Trump said in a social media post Saturday morning as part of an online back and forth with Greene.
Greene said Sunday in an X post that she had received death threats, hoax pizza deliveries and a pipe bomb threat.
"The hoax pizza deliveries have started now, to my house and my family members," Greene wrote on X. "Update: we also received a pipe bomb threat on my construction companies office building," she added.
Greene said the threats stem from Trump's continued attacks on her. "President Trump’s unwarranted and vicious attacks against me were a dog whistle to dangerous radicals that could lead to serious attacks on me and my family," Greene said.
Referencing Trump's traitor comment, the Georgia representative said when the President "calls a Member of Congress of his own party, traitor, he is signaling what must be done to a traitor."
"This puts blood in the water and creates a feeding frenzy. And it could ultimately lead to a harmful or even deadly outcome," she said.
Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Trump responded to Greene’s claims that her life is in danger following his attacks on her.
“I don't think her life is in danger. I don't think, frankly, I don't think anybody cares about her,” the president said.
Greene was asked Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" if she believes there is something in the files that Trump doesn't want the public to see.
"Well, I think that's the part that has so many people confused, is that the women themselves that I have talked to have over and over again said that Donald Trump did nothing wrong," she said.
"Quite a few of them even told me they voted for him, and those are the women I would like to see in the Oval Office with support," Greene said. "I have no idea what's in the files. I can't even guess, but that is the question everyone is asking, is, why fight this so hard?”
The conflict began last week after Greene questioned in an NBC News interview if Trump was focused on domestic affairs.
"No one cares about the foreign countries. No one cares about the never-ending amount of foreign leaders coming to the White House every single week," she said in the interview.
On Friday, Trump responded to her words, telling reporters aboard Air Force One, "she is a very different figure," and that he was no longer "a fan."
"Something happened to her over the last period of a month or two where she changed. I think politically, I think that her constituents aren't going to be happy," he said. "But when she says, 'Don't go overseas.' If I didn't go overseas, we might be in a war right now with China."
Trump added he would consider backing a primary challenger and in a social media post later in the night withdrew his endorsement of the congresswoman.
He wrote, "all I see 'Wacky' Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN."
"I understand that wonderful, Conservative people are thinking about primarying Marjorie in her District of Georgia, that they too are fed up with her and her antics and, if the right person runs, they will have my Complete and Unyielding Support," the president added.
Greene pushed back against Trump Friday night in an X post, contending that the president was upset with her after she texted him about the ongoing Epstein investigation.
"And of course he’s coming after me hard to make an example to scare all the other Republicans before next weeks vote to release the Epstein files," she said. "It’s astonishing really how hard he’s fighting to stop the Epstein files from coming out that he actually goes to this level."
"I never thought that fighting to release the Epstein files, defending women who were victims of rape, and fighting to expose the web of rich powerful elites would have caused this, but here we are," Greene said in an X post Saturday morning "And it truly speaks for itself."
The president, who spent Saturday morning golfing in Florida, slammed Greene in a social media post arguing she, "became the RINO that we all know she always was. Just another Fake politician."
