Leaving no bridge unburned, Marjorie Taylor Greene leveled new accusations over President Donald Trump’s position on the Epstein files that she claimed found him “yelling” at her.
Resigning from Congress doesn’t mean the former Georgia representative has resigned from the spotlight as she set out on her latest media circuit. Now, amid the latest releases pertaining to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that included lists of high-profile figures named — though not necessarily implicated — Greene insisted Trump pressured her to back off while arguing “… my friends will get hurt.”
The claim from the businesswoman came during her appearance on Jillian Michaels’ “Keeping It Real” podcast after pointing out that only four Republican lawmakers — Reps. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Nancy Mace of South Carolina, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, and herself had signed the discharge petition. Greene claimed, “We were getting pressure from the White House. We were getting pressure from the speaker. ‘Do not — take your name off this discharge petition.'”
Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Her Fallout w/ President Trump Was Over the Epstein Files
“I’m trying to tell him, ‘Mr. President, they say you did nothing wrong. This needs to come out’ … He tells me on this phone call, ‘Marjorie, my friends will get hurt.’” pic.twitter.com/7I7U64L93n
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) February 16, 2026
“And we’re like, why? We’re talking about the Epstein files. This is the ultimate promise. This is the ultimate way to provide transparency. This is the ultimate way to take it to the deep state and expose a whole criminal cabal of rich, powerful elites that I believe control everything. And guess what? Come to find out, they do,” she went on.
“So in the meantime, President Trump is calling the whole thing a hoax. He’s calling it a Democrat hoax,” furthered Greene, insisting the president wanted nothing to do with helping Epstein’s victims at the same time those women claimed Trump was “the only one that helped us.”
The former lawmaker asserted, “President Trump is yelling at me. The White House is putting pressure on Nancy Mace. They take Lauren Boebert into a SCIF (sensitive compartmented information facility). I don’t even know what they said to her in there. They are attacking Thomas Massie, nonstop attacking Thomas Massie. And then one day, I get a phone call from the president in September, and he is so mad at me, and he’s yelling at me, and he’s angry at me … ‘You’re supporting Rand Paul Jr.,’ And he’s chewing me out for signing my name on Thomas Massie’s discharge petition to release the Epstein files. And I’m trying to tell him, ‘Mr. President, they say you did nothing wrong. This needs to come out.’ And so we’re having this argument, and he tells me on this phone call, he’s like, ‘Marjorie, my friends will get hurt.'”
“That’s it!” reacted Michaels, as she pointed to billionaires and leaders named in the files.
As it happened, while the president returned to Washington, D.C. from Mar-a-Lago on Monday, he spoke to the press and responded to a question about an endorsement for a candidate to fill Greene’s vacant seat.
“We have a lot of people that want to take Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Greene’s place,” said Trump, continuing to use the nickname to refer to her. “Many, many candidates and I have to choose one.”
.@POTUS: “We have a lot of people that want to take Marjorie Traitor Greene’s place. Many, many candidates.” pic.twitter.com/XOUWrgPDfv
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 17, 2026
During the podcast with Michaels, Greene went on to discuss how Trump began referring to her as “Traitor,” saying, “And what he meant is I was a traitor to him, not to the country and not to the American people, but to him I was a traitor. And that resonated with me really hard.”
She then brought up his “massive campaign machine,” estimated to have $2 billion in funds, “And they’re going to put that on top of me like they’re doing to Thomas Massie, after all that I have done, because I’m standing with women who were raped as teenagers.”
The businesswoman turned to previous claims about death threats starting as a result of Trump labeling her a traitor, including some directed at her son, “We reported, I think, nearly 773 official death threats, and they have to reach a certain criteria before we can report them to Capitol Police. And I dealt with that.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene Says She Received 700+ Death Threats After Trump Called Her a Traitor
“What he meant is I was a traitor to him. Not to the country but to him … A few days after that, I started getting serious death threats … and then direct death threats on my youngest… pic.twitter.com/X6avKCeyjM
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) February 16, 2026
Greene expressed that she passed along a threat aimed at her son to the president, Vice President J.D. Vance, FBI Director Kash Patel, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair. While Vance and Patel were said to have responded, she insisted Wiles and Blair had not.
“The president himself texts me back and is very nasty and tells me that it’s my fault. That this is totally my fault. He blames me for the death threats coming in on my own son, has no compassion, basically says, well, you know, basically saying if your son gets killed, it’s your own fault, and you deserve it,” she contended. “That’s basically his response to me saying, ‘No, I am standing with girls who were raped as teenagers.'”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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