{"id":65857,"date":"2026-05-29T07:14:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T11:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=65857"},"modified":"2026-05-29T07:21:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T11:21:21","slug":"flashback-marjorie-taylor-greene-claims-trump-said-her-family-deserved-death-threats-after-split-over-epstein-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=65857","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>FLASHBACK: Marjorie Taylor Greene claims Trump said her family deserved death threats after split over Epstein files<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65858\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-29-at-7.14.29-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-29-at-7.14.29-AM.png 570w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-29-at-7.14.29-AM-300x256.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former Georgia. Rep.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/tag\/marjorie-taylor-greene\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/a>\u00a0said that she and her family received death threats after President Trump labeled her a &#8220;traitor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At a speech at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RwFvCgilRUU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Ron Paul Institute in Texas<\/a>\u00a0over the weekend, Greene discussed her push to release documents involving the Jeffrey Epstein case, an effort that she says put her at odds with the president.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Trump&#8217;s hand was forced to sign it,&#8221; Greene told the crowd. &#8220;He didn&#8217;t sign that because he supported it. He was forced. And so we released the Epstein files, and then I got a Truth Social dropped on my head like a nuclear bomb where the president called me a traitor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In November, Mr. Trump announced that he was\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-withdrawing-support-marjorie-taylor-greene\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">withdrawing his support for Greene<\/a><\/span>, saying he would back a primary challenge against his one-time ally.<\/p>\n<p>Greene said following the president&#8217;s comments, none of her Republican colleagues supported her, which made her realize that she couldn&#8217;t continue with her work in Congress. She\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/atlanta\/news\/marjorie-taylor-greene-resignation-last-day-congress-trump-fight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">stepped down from her seat<\/a><\/span>\u00a0on Jan. 5.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They kept coming on my son, my youngest, my baby boy,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to snuff out his life. We&#8217;re going to put a bullet in his head.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Greene said she texted the president and other members of the administration about the threats. In response, she claimed Mr. Trump told her &#8220;that it was my fault and I deserve it. If my son gets killed, I deserve it because I was a traitor to him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\"><span class=\"img embed__content \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" ls-is-cached lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/05\/06\/1b72016b-a00a-44ac-916a-a931c453ec20\/thumbnail\/620x349\/3ac2fcd57870b6dbe16f251f6c86e2d1\/gettyimages-2247280397.jpg#\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/05\/06\/1b72016b-a00a-44ac-916a-a931c453ec20\/thumbnail\/620x349\/3ac2fcd57870b6dbe16f251f6c86e2d1\/gettyimages-2247280397.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/05\/06\/1b72016b-a00a-44ac-916a-a931c453ec20\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/6e6c9d19238ececf2215df2f2542e15b\/gettyimages-2247280397.jpg 2x\" alt=\"sex offender Jeffrey Epstein \" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" \/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\">Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, pictured, R-Ga, Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky held a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol, on Tuesday, November 18, 2025, with victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as the House prepares to vote to release records related to him.<\/span><span class=\"embed__credit\">Sarah L. Voisin\/The Washington Post via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She said that she saved the text messages the president sent her, but feared being put in jail if she released them.<\/p>\n<p>Greene said the Make America Great Again Movement was dead and that both parties have failed the American people, but she was hopeful for the future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are moving past Donald Trump. And the quicker we move past him, the faster we get to the whiteboard, the faster we build the solutions, the quicker we&#8217;re ahead of everybody else on the way to saving the country,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/mtg-claims-trump-texts-said-her-son-deserves-death-threats-11966958\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">People<\/a>\u00a0about Greene&#8217;s allegations, White House spokesperson Davis Ingle did not discuss the supposed texts, intead he called her &#8220;a quitter who is pathetically trying to stay relevant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, Trump Derangement Syndrome has rotted former Congresswoman Greene&#8217;s peanut-sized brain,&#8221; Ingle said<\/p>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/atlanta\/news\/marjorie-taylor-greene-claims-trump-said-her-family-deserved-death-threats-after-split-over-epstein-files\/\">https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/atlanta\/news\/marjorie-taylor-greene-claims-trump-said-her-family-deserved-death-threats-after-split-over-epstein-files\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65865,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65857\/revisions\/65865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}