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MTG now beloved by media — next up is ’60 Minutes’

December 6, 2025 | | Print Article

In her first interview after announcing her self-ousting from Congress, Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) sat for one of the most contentious programs of the past two presidential elections.

Prior to her pre-Thanksgiving resignation announcement, set to take effect at the beginning of January 2026, Greene had begun a corporate media circuit that included known detractors of President Donald Trump like ABC’s “The View.” Now, as her departure from Capitol Hill draws near, the Georgia lawmaker opted to appear on CBS News’ “60 Minutes” with none other than Lesley Stahl.

Set to air Sunday, a preview of the interview dropped Friday evening that featured Greene discussing one of the hot topics said to have been integral in driving a wedge between herself and the administration, the files pertaining to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

“We did talk about the Epstein files. And [Trump] was extremely angry at me that I had signed the discharge petition to release the files,” the congresswoman expressed in the clip before she was heard saying of the victims of Epstein, “I fully believe that those women deserve everything they’re asking. They’re asking for all of it to come out. They deserve it. And [Trump] was furious with me.”

Stahl prompted Greene to continue, “What did he say?”

“He said that it was going to hurt people,” responded the outgoing politician.

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Beyond the content of the chosen clip used to promote the interview, Greene’s decision to sit down with “60 Minutes” to be interviewed by Stahl, of all people, was noteworthy in itself.

For one, the program and its parent company had been at the center of a massive lawsuit with Trump seeking $20 billion after alleging election interference. Those allegations pertained to the manner in which “60 Minutes” had edited an interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of the 2024 presidential election, seemingly to her favor.

Similar to a settlement that had been made with ABC News after alleged defamation by George Stephanopoulos, who repeatedly claimed the president was “liable for rape,” Paramount had agreed to pay $16 million in what many regarded to be an effort to avoid discovery.

Of Greene, Trump had referred to her as “Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Brown (Remember, Green turns to Brown where there is ROT involved!),” in response to her resignation, lumping her in with “other ‘lowlifes'” whom he deemed outside of the Republican Party, which he argued, “has never been so UNITED.”

Where it pertained the interviewee, comments under the preview couldn’t help but remind among other things that it was Stahl who’d infamously sparred with the president just prior to the 2020 presidential election, claiming, “There’s no real evidence of that,” in response to Trump raising the fact that his campaign had been spied on leading up to and even after the 2016 presidential election.

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“Lesley, they spied on my campaign, and they got caught,” said the president as Stahl responded, “You know, this is ’60 Minutes,’ and we can’t put on things we can’t verify,” leading Trump to call out that the program wouldn’t report it because it would hurt then-former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign.

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