Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says Donald Trump erupted at her for pushing to release all remaining documents tied to Jeffrey Epstein—putting her on a collision course with the man she once championed and the movement she says has now turned on her.
In a preview of her upcoming 60 Minutes interview with Lesley Stahl, Greene recounts how Trump lashed out after she became one of just four Republicans willing to sign a petition demanding that the full Epstein files be made public.
“We did talk about the Epstein files, and he was extremely angry at me that I had signed the discharge petition to release the files,” Greene told Stahl in a clip released Friday night. She added, “I fully believe that those women deserve everything they’re asking. They’re asking for everything to come out. They deserve it. And he was furious with me.”
When Stahl pressed her—“What did he say?”—Greene replied, “Um. He said that it was going to hurt people.”
That exchange is the latest escalation in a political meltdown that began simmering weeks before Greene shocked Washington on Nov. 21 by announcing she’d resign from Congress and trigger a special election. At the center of it: her refusal to accept Trump’s rationale for withholding more Epstein documents.
Trump responded with both barrels, branding her “Marjorie Traitor Greene” and a “ranting lunatic” who had veered “far left.” Greene fired back, saying Trump had put her life at risk with “unwarranted and vicious attacks” that whipped his most hardcore followers into a “frenzy.”
It’s a far cry from Greene’s last 60 Minutes appearance in April 2023, when she used her time to claim—falsely—that Democrats were the “party of pedophiles.” Stahl pushed back immediately: “They are not pedophiles. Why would you say that?” But Greene barreled on: “Democrats support — even Joe Biden, the President himself — supports children being sexualized and having transgender surgeries. Sexualizing children is what pedophiles do to children.” Stahl could only respond: “Wow.”
In her resignation announcement on X last month, Greene insisted she never betrayed Trump’s “America First” vision—but argued that loyalty “is a two way street.” She accused “MAGA Inc” of treating her like “a battered wife” while cozying up to “Neocons, Big Pharma, Big Tech, [the] Military Industrial War Complex,” “foreign leaders,” and “the elite donor class,” instead of “good, regular, common Americans.”
“There is no ‘plan to save the world’ or insane 4D chess game being played,” she wrote. “The Political Industrial Complex of both parties is ripping this country apart.”
Now, with Greene out of Congress and openly recounting Trump’s anger over the Epstein files, the rift between the former allies appears wider—and more explosive—than ever.
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