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By\u00a0<\/span>Julianne McShane<\/p>\n President Donald Trump told Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene this year that he opposed the release of the Epstein files because his \u201cfriends will get hurt,\u201d Greene said in a New York Times Magazine profile\u00a0published<\/a>\u00a0Monday.<\/p>\n Trump also told Greene, R-Ga., that he would not invite the Epstein survivors to the Oval Office because they had not earned that honor, according to Greene, who was once among Trump\u2019s biggest boosters but has broken with him.<\/p>\n Greene said the president made the comments in the last conversation he had with her, in a phone call after she appeared at a September news conference with Epstein survivors on Capitol Hill. During the call, which the soon-to-be-ex-representative says Trump initiated, the president yelled at her as she listened on speakerphone, the Times said.<\/p>\n \u201cCongresswoman Greene is quitting on her constituents in the middle of her term and abandoning the consequential fight we\u2019re in,\u201d White House spokesperson Davis Ingle told the Times and MS NOW. \u201cWe don\u2019t have time for her petty bitterness.\u201d<\/p>\n The Justice Department began\u00a0releasing<\/a>\u00a0the Epstein files earlier this month. They included an email\u00a0stating<\/a>\u00a0that Trump flew on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s private jet at least eight times in the mid-1990s. The Justice Department said in a statement that some of the files \u201ccontain untrue and sensationalist claims\u201d about Trump that the FBI received before the 2020 election. The released files also contained images of Trump posing with unidentified women whose faces were blacked out.<\/p>\n Other files included in the document dump\u00a0included<\/a>\u00a0images of former President Bill Clinton alongside Epstein, his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell and others whose identities were redacted; Trump adviser Steve Bannon; Microsoft founder Bill Gates; director Woody Allen; and lawyer Alan Dershowitz. All of those men have distanced themselves from Epstein and denied wrongdoing, as has Trump.<\/p>\n The DOJ\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0it has more than a million other documents related to the Epstein investigation to review and release.<\/p>\n Trump has said he was concerned people\u2019s reputations could be damaged if they were merely named in the files without proof of wrongdoing.<\/p>\n The details featured in the Times story offer new insight into Greene\u2019s remarkable break with Trump after being one of his staunchest supporters since she took office in 2021.<\/p>\n Greene began\u00a0speaking out<\/a>\u00a0against the president earlier this year, criticizing his foreign policy decisions \u2014\u00a0including speeding up weapons deliveries to Ukraine and launching strikes on Iran \u2014 which she argued ran counter to the \u201cAmerica First\u201d platform he campaigned on.<\/p>\n Their public bickering turned into a full-blown breakup after Greene\u00a0became<\/a>\u00a0one of only four Republicans to sign on to a discharge petition to force a vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which\u00a0required<\/a> the Justice Department to release all documents related to its investigation of Epstein\u2019s sex-trafficking operation.<\/p>\n Greene told the Times that her support for releasing the Epstein files was the final straw for Trump: \u201cEpstein was everything,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n In mid-November, as pressure to pass the bill ramped up, Trump\u00a0railed<\/a>\u00a0against Greene in a Truth Social post, calling her a \u201ctraitor<\/a>\u201d and a \u201cLunatic\u201d and announcing he was withdrawing his support for her. Greene has said those posts led to death threats against her and members of her family. She told the Times that she wondered: \u201cAm I going to get murdered, or one of my kids, because he\u2019s calling me a traitor?\u201d<\/p>\n Greene said she texted Trump about the death threats, but he only insulted her in response, the Times wrote, citing an anonymous source familiar with the conversation.<\/p>\n