Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene engage in war of words over Epstein investigation

[ad_1] President Donald Trump and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene escalated their feud over the weekend after the Georgia Republican slammed the president and the administration over quite a few subjects, together with the dealing with of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.

Trump went as far as to withdraw his assist for Greene and mentioned he would assist a major challenger.

"Light-weight Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Brown (Inexperienced grass turns Brown when it begins to ROT!), betrayed the complete Republican Social gathering when she turned Left," Trump mentioned in a social media put up Saturday morning as a part of a web based backwards and forwards with Greene.

President Donald Trump speaks at a gathering on Oct. 26, 2025, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. | Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks at a press convention on the U.S. Capitol Constructing, on Might 18, 2023, in Washington, D.C.

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Greene mentioned Saturday in an X put up that she had acquired loss of life threats.

"As a Republican, who overwhelmingly votes for President Trump‘s payments and agenda, his aggression towards me which additionally fuels the venomous nature of his radical web trolls (a lot of whom are paid), that is utterly surprising to everybody," she mentioned.

The battle started this week after Greene questioned in an NBC Information interview if Trump was centered on home affairs.

"Nobody cares in regards to the overseas international locations. Nobody cares in regards to the unending quantity of overseas leaders coming to the White Home each single week," she mentioned within the interview.

On Friday, Trump responded to her phrases, telling reporters aboard Air Power One, "she is a really completely different determine," and that he was now not "a fan."

President Donald Trump speaks throughout an occasion on the Kennedy Heart on Aug. 13, 2025, in Washington, D.C.

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"One thing occurred to her over the past interval of a month or two the place she modified. I believe politically, I believe that her constituents aren't going to be glad," he mentioned. "However when she says, 'Do not go abroad.' If I did not go abroad, we could be in a warfare proper now with China."

On this April 16, 2024, file picture, Home Homeland Safety Committee member Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene throughout a committee listening to within the Cannon Home Workplace Constructing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

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Trump added he would contemplate backing a major challenger and in a social media put up later within the evening withdrew his endorsement of the congresswoman.

He wrote, "all I see 'Wacky' Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN."

"I perceive that fantastic, Conservative persons are fascinated about primarying Marjorie in her District of Georgia, that they too are fed up along with her and her antics and, if the fitting particular person runs, they may have my Full and Unyielding Assist," the president added.

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Greene pushed again towards Trump Friday evening in an X put up, contending that the president was upset along with her after she texted him in regards to the ongoing Epstein investigation.

"And naturally he’s coming after me arduous to make an instance to scare all the opposite Republicans earlier than subsequent weeks vote to launch the Epstein recordsdata," she mentioned. "It’s astonishing actually how arduous he’s combating to cease the Epstein recordsdata from popping out that he really goes to this stage."

"I by no means thought that combating to launch the Epstein recordsdata, defending girls who had been victims of rape, and combating to reveal the net of wealthy highly effective elites would have triggered this, however right here we're," Greene mentioned in an X put up Saturday morning "And it actually speaks for itself."

The president, who spent Saturday morning {golfing} in Florida, slammed Greene in a social media put up arguing she, "grew to become the RINO that everyone knows she all the time was. Simply one other Faux politician."