GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene stood defiant in her first interview since announcing her resignation from Congress, making clear she’s not afraid to talk out on the problems that made President Donald Trump “furious” with her, together with her help for releasing all files associated to accused intercourse trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
“He was extremely angry at me that I had signed the discharge petition to release the files,” Greene mentioned in an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” that aired Sunday night. She mentioned her issues lie with survivors of the convicted intercourse offender’s abuse, who she mentioned are “asking for all of it to come out.”
“They deserve it. And he was furious with me,” she mentioned.
In an announcement final month that shocked many in Washington and in her district, the Georgia Republican mentioned she would resign from her seat early subsequent yr amid a feud with her longtime ally. Trump had known as her a “traitor” and vowed to again a GOP problem to her House seat within the major election.
The president warned her that making all the Justice Department’s data on Epstein’s case public was “going to hurt people,” mentioned Greene, who was one in all 4 Republicans to signal on to the petition to power the transparency invoice to the ground.
Though her place on the Epstein information introduced her public falling-out with Trump to a head, she has additionally notably broken with her get together’s leaders lately on a number of points, together with well being care reform, relations with Israel and the House’s absence throughout the 43-day authorities shutdown.
Greene suspects a lot of her GOP colleagues’ unshakeable loyalty to Trump comes largely out of a concern of defying him.
“I think they’re terrified to step out of line and get a nasty Truth Social post on them,” she instructed CBS’ Lesley Stahl, referring to the president’s social media platform the place he has launched vicious assaults in opposition to her.
While most Republican lawmakers hesitate to publicly criticize Trump, Greene insisted what they are saying behind closed doorways “would shock people.”
“I watched many of my colleagues go from making fun of him, making fun of how he talks, making fun of me constantly for supporting him to when he won the primary in 2024, they all started, excuse my language, Lesley, kissing his a** and decided to put on a MAGA hat for the first time,” she continued.
Greene mentioned in a publish on X on Sunday that her workplace has reported 773 loss of life threats made to her workplace to Capitol Police since she took workplace in 2021. That quantity, she mentioned, doesn’t embrace on-line threats to her and her household, in addition to swatting incidents and different ways.
She claimed most of the threats beforehand got here from these on the political left, however since her falling-out with Trump, they’re coming from the fitting.
“I got a pipe bomb thrown at my house, and several direct death threats on my son,” she mentioned on “60 Minutes.” “The subject line for the death threat on my son was exactly what Trump said, ‘Marjorie Traitor Greene.’”
Greene additionally mentioned as soon as she retires from Congress, she’s finished operating for workplace.
“I have zero plans, zero desire to run for president. I would hate the Senate. I’m not running for governor. I’m not one of those politicians with a long list of political plans,” Greene mentioned.