President Donald Trump has dismissed his ex-staunch supporter Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and her claims that his criticisms have endangered her.
The fallout between the political pair has intensified in recent months after the Georgia representative doubled down on her calls to release more files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Trump administration has faced mounting criticism, even from its own MAGA base, over its handling of the Epstein files.
As he boarded Air Force One on Sunday night, Trump was asked by reporters if he thought Greene’s life was at risk, to which he questioned, “Her life is in danger? Who’s that?”
After the reporter repeated that the question was about Greene, he fired back, “Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Greene. I don’t think her life is in danger. Frankly, I don’t think anybody cares about her.”
Reps for Greene didn’t immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.
Greene said Saturday on X that Trump’s online condemnation of her has set off “a hot bed of threats” that are “being fueled and egged on by the most powerful man in the world.”
She also decried Trump’s “unwarranted and vicious attacks” in a lengthy X post Sunday, telling her five-million-plus followers that the insults triggered a slew of “hoax pizza deliveries” to her and relatives’ homes and a “pipe bomb threat” sent to her construction company’s office building.
She called the smear campaign led by the president “a dog whistle to dangerous radicals that could lead to serious attacks on me and my family.”
Trump withdrew his support for Greene in a heated Truth Social post Friday, calling her “wacky” and a “ranting Lunatic” while accusing her of having “gone Far Left.” He also declared her to be a “traitor” and blasted her as “a disgrace to our GREAT REPUBLICAN PARTY” in another post Saturday.
Appearing Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Greene called Trump’s remarks “hurtful.”
“The most hurtful thing he said, which is absolutely untrue, is [that] he called me a ‘traitor,’” she said. “And that is so extremely wrong, and those are the types of words used that can radicalize people against me and put my life in danger.”
When asked what she thinks caused the war of words between her and the right-wing leader, Greene responded, “Unfortunately, it has all come down to the Epstein files, and that is shocking.”
Noting that she “will not apologize” for her stance, she added, “I believe the country deserves transparency and these files. And I don’t believe that rich, powerful people should be protected if they have done anything wrong.”
Greene was one of only four House Republicans — including Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) and Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) ― to support a discharge petition from Democrats on the House Oversight Committee to force a vote on the release of documents on Epstein.
The House is set to hold a vote as soon as Tuesday on legislation to force the release of the federal files.