If anyone thought Marjorie Taylor Greene would fade quietly into private life, they clearly haven’t been paying attention.
The former congresswoman may be out of office, but she’s not out of the fight. In a bombshell media tour stop on the “Keeping It Real” podcast hosted by Jillian Michaels, Greene detailed what she describes as a dramatic falling out with Donald Trump — and it all centers on the long-simmering controversy surrounding the files of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
According to Greene, her push to force public release of additional Epstein records hit a wall inside Republican leadership — and she says the pressure came straight from the top.
“We were getting pressure from the White House. We were getting pressure from the speaker. ‘Do not — take your name off this discharge petition,’” Greene said, describing what she claims was a coordinated effort to derail the move.
Only four Republicans — Greene, Rep. Lauren Boebert, Rep. Nancy Mace, and Rep. Thomas Massie — signed on to the petition aimed at compelling disclosure.
Greene framed the fight as a defining test of transparency.
“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 declared.
The rupture, she says, became personal.
Greene recounted a heated call with Trump in September, alleging he berated her for backing a discharge petition spearheaded by Massie and for supporting Sen. Rand Paul’s son politically.
“He is so mad at me, and he’s yelling at me, and he’s angry at me … ‘You’re supporting Rand Paul Jr.,’” she said.
Greene claims she tried to reassure the president. “I’m trying to tell him, ‘Mr. President, they say you did nothing wrong. This needs to come out.’”
Then came the line that stopped her cold.
“And so we’re having this argument, and he tells me on this phone call, he’s like, ‘Marjorie, my friends will get hurt.’”
Michaels reacted instantly: “That’s it!” — pointing to the list of billionaires and power players whose names surfaced in newly released materials, though not necessarily tied to wrongdoing.
Greene also criticized Trump for publicly dismissing the Epstein uproar as a “hoax” and “a Democrat hoax,” arguing that victims deserved clarity — especially since some women have claimed Trump was “the only one that helped us.”
Tensions spilled into public view when Trump began referring to Greene as “Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Greene.”
Asked about candidates lining up to replace her, Trump told reporters, “We have a lot of people that want to take Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Greene’s place. Many, many candidates and I have to choose one.”
Greene says the label cut deep.
“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 also warned about what she described as Trump’s formidable political war chest — reportedly nearing $2 billion — suggesting it could be deployed against her and against Massie.
“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,” she said.
Perhaps the most alarming claim: a surge of threats after the “traitor” label stuck.
“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,” Greene said, adding that some of the threats targeted her youngest son.
She said she relayed one such threat to Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, FBI Director Kash Patel, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair. Greene claimed Vance and Patel responded, but Wiles and Blair did not.
Her description of Trump’s reply was blistering.
“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.’”
