Marjorie Taylor Greene says Trump pressured her to stop exposing Epstein files

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

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

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

“We thought, ‘Why? We’re talking about Epstein’s files.’ This is the ultimate promise. This is the best way to provide transparency,” he continued. “This is the best way to take it to the deep state and expose an entire criminal cabal of rich and powerful elites who I believe control everything. And guess what? Come to find out, they do.”

“They do,” Michaels interjected.

“Meanwhile, President Trump calls it … a hoax. He calls it a Democratic hoax,” Greene continued. “He won’t have anything to do with women. He still refuses to have anything to do with these women. So this whole thing is growing.”

fake images

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

“The White House is putting pressure on Nancy Mace. They take Lauren Boebert to a [Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility]. I don’t even know what they told him there. “They are attacking Thomas Massie, attacking Thomas Massie non-stop,” he added.

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

“And then one day, I get a phone call from the president in September and he is very angry at me, yelling at me and angry at me,” he said. “And he said to me, ‘You’re rooting for Rand Paul Jr.’ [a reference to Massie]. And he’s scolding me for signing my name on Thomas Massie’s discharge petition to release Epstein’s files.”

Greene added: “And I’m trying to tell you, ‘Mr. President, they say you did nothing wrong. This has to come to light.'” And so we’re having this discussion. And in this phone call he said, ‘Marjorie, my friends are going to get hurt.'”

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

“All the people are on this damn list,” he added later. “They’re all there. All the billionaires, heads of state, Larry Summers, Peter Thiel. They’re all there.”

The White House did not immediately respond to News themezone’s request for comment on Greene’s comments.

In late December, a week before Greene resigned from Congress after her explosive public breakup with Trump, she recalled to the New York Times that Trump had yelled at her so loudly during the call that everyone in his office could hear him over the speaker. The Times also reported that, at the time, the phone call between the two was their “last conversation.”