Marjorie Taylor Greene Recalls Trump Warning Over Epstein Files

Former MAGA loyalist and Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene says that President Donald Trump warned her that his “friends would get hurt” if she continued pushing for the Department of Justice to release its files on sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein against Trump’s opposition.

Appearing on fitness instructor and conservative commentator Jillian Michaels’ Keeping It Real podcast over the weekend, Greene claimed that she and the three other Republicans who supported a discharge petition to force a vote on the release of the Epstein files were pressured by the White House “for months” to back down.

“Here’s the interesting part. OK, there were only four Republicans, only four of us that signed that discharge petition: Thomas Massie [R-Ky.], myself, Lauren Boebert [R-Colo.], and Nancy Mace [R-S.C.]. Now, what was happening in the background for months leading up to when we finally got it released is we were getting pressure from the White House” and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to remove their names, she said during the Feb. 15 episode.

“We’re like, ‘Why? We’re talking about the Epstein files.’ This is the ultimate promise. This is the ultimate way to provide transparency,” she continued. “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.”

“They do,” Michaels then chimed in.

“So in the meantime, President Trump is calling it… the whole thing a hoax. He’s calling it a Democrat hoax,” Greene continued. “He won’t have anything to do with the women. He still refuses to have anything to do with these women. So this whole thing is building.”

Greene then expressed confusion about why Trump would fight the release of more information when some of Epstein’s victims or their attorneys have said he did nothing wrong. She also divulged how she thinks the White House “pressured” her and the other three Republicans.

“The White House is putting pressure on Nancy Mace. They take Lauren Boebert into a [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,” she added.

The once-staunch Trump supporter then said the president personally berated her for signing the discharge petition.

“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,” she said. “And he’s like, ‘You’re supporting Rand Paul Jr.’ [a reference to Massie]. And he’s chewing me out for signing my name on Thomas Massie’s discharge petition to release the Epstein files.”

Greene added, “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. That’s it,” Michaels interjected.

“Every single person is on this fricking list,” she later added. “They’re all there. Every billionaire, heads of state, Larry Summers, Peter Thiel. They’re all in there.”

The White House did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment on Greene’s remarks.

In late December, a week before Greene was set to resign from Congress after her explosive public break with Trump, she recalled to The New York Times that Trump had yelled so loud at her during the call that he could be heard on speakerphone by everyone in her office. The Times also reported that, at the time, the phone call between the two was their “last conversation.”