Former MAGA loyalist and Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene says that President Donald Trump warned her that his “mates would get harm” if she continued pushing for the Division of Justice to launch its recordsdata on sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein in opposition to Trump’s opposition.
Showing on health teacher and conservative commentator Jillian Michaels’ “Keeping It Real” podcast over the weekend, Greene claimed that she and the three different Republicans who supported a discharge petition to power a vote on the release of the Epstein files have been pressured by the White Home “for months” to again down.
“Right here’s the fascinating half. OK, there have been solely 4 Republicans, solely 4 of us that signed that discharge petition: Thomas Massie [R-Ky.], myself, Lauren Boebert [R-Colo.], and Nancy Mace [R-S.C.]. Now, what was taking place within the background for months main as much as after we lastly received it launched is we have been getting stress from the White Home” and Home Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to take away their names, she stated in the course of the Feb. 15 episode.
“We’re like, ‘Why? We’re speaking in regards to the Epstein recordsdata.’ That is the final word promise. That is the final word approach to supply transparency,” she continued. “That is the final word technique to take it to the deep state and expose a complete prison cabal of wealthy, highly effective elites that I consider management every little thing. And guess what? Come to search out out, they do.”
“They do,” Michaels then chimed in.
“So within the meantime, President Trump is calling it… the whole thing a hoax. He’s calling it a Democrat hoax,” Greene continued. “He received’t have something to do with the ladies. He nonetheless refuses to have something to do with these girls. So this entire factor is constructing.”
Greene then expressed confusion about why Trump would battle the discharge of extra info when a few of Epstein’s victims or their attorneys have stated he did nothing flawed. She additionally divulged how she thinks the White Home “pressured” her and the opposite three Republicans.
“The White Home is placing stress on Nancy Mace. They take Lauren Boebert right into a [Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility]. I don’t even know what they stated to her in there. They’re attacking Thomas Massie, nonstop attacking Thomas Massie,” she added.
The once-staunch Trump supporter then stated the president personally berated her for signing the discharge petition.
“After which, in the future, I get a telephone name from the president in September, and he’s so mad at me, and he’s yelling at me, and he’s offended at me,” she stated. “And he’s like, ‘You’re supporting Rand Paul Jr.’ [a reference to Massie]. And he’s chewing me out for signing my title on Thomas Massie’s discharge petition to launch the Epstein recordsdata.”
Greene added, “And I’m attempting to inform him, ‘Mr. President, they are saying you probably did nothing flawed. This wants to come back out.’ And so we’re having this argument. And he tells me on this telephone name, he’s like, ‘Marjorie, my mates will get harm.’”
“That’s it. That’s it,” Michaels interjected.
“Each single individual is on this fricking checklist,” she later added. “They’re all there. Each billionaire, heads of state, Larry Summers, Peter Thiel. They’re all in there.”
The White Home didn’t instantly reply to HuffPost’s request for touch upon Greene’s remarks.
In late December, every week earlier than Greene was set to resign from Congress after her explosive public break with Trump, she recalled to The New York Times that Trump had yelled so loud at her in the course of the name that he could possibly be heard on speakerphone by everybody in her workplace. The Instances additionally reported that, on the time, the telephone name between the 2 was their “last conversation.”
