President Donald Trump has dismissed his ex-staunch supporter Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and her claims that his criticisms have endangered her.
The fallout between the political pair has intensified in current months after the Georgia consultant doubled down on her calls to launch extra information associated to convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Trump administration has confronted mounting criticism, even from its personal MAGA base, over its dealing with of the Epstein information.
As he boarded Air Drive One on Sunday night time, Trump was requested by reporters if he thought Greene’s life was in danger, to which he questioned, “Her life is in danger? Who’s that?”
After the reporter repeated that the query was about Greene, he fired again, “Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Greene. I don’t think her life is in danger. Frankly, I don’t think anybody cares about her.”
Reps for Greene didn’t instantly reply to HuffPost’s request for remark.
Greene stated Saturday on X that Trump’s on-line condemnation of her has set off “a hot bed of threats” which might be “being fueled and egged on by the most powerful man in the world.”
She additionally decried Trump’s “unwarranted and vicious attacks” in a prolonged X publish Sunday, telling her five-million-plus followers that the insults triggered a slew of “hoax pizza deliveries” to her and family members’ houses and a “pipe bomb threat” despatched to her building firm’s workplace constructing.
She known as the smear marketing campaign led by the president “a dog whistle to dangerous radicals that could lead to serious attacks on me and my family.”
Trump withdrew his assist for Greene in a heated Fact Social publish Friday, calling her “wacky” and a “ranting Lunatic” whereas accusing her of getting “gone Far Left.” He additionally declared her to be a “traitor” and blasted her as “a disgrace to our GREAT REPUBLICAN PARTY” in one other publish Saturday.
Showing Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Greene known as Trump’s remarks “hurtful.”
“The most hurtful thing he said, which is absolutely untrue, is [that] he called me a ‘traitor,’” she stated. “And that is so extremely wrong, and those are the types of words used that can radicalize people against me and put my life in danger.”
When requested what she thinks brought on the confrontation between her and the right-wing chief, Greene responded, “Unfortunately, it has all come down to the Epstein files, and that is shocking.”
Noting that she “will not apologize” for her stance, she added, “I believe the country deserves transparency and these files. And I don’t believe that rich, powerful people should be protected if they have done anything wrong.”
Greene was one in every of solely 4 Home Republicans — together with Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) and Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) ― to assist a discharge petition from Democrats on the Home Oversight Committee to power a vote on the launch of paperwork on Epstein.
The Home is ready to carry a vote as quickly as Tuesday on laws to power the discharge of the federal information.
