Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene alleged President Donald Trump told her, “My friends will get hurt” if she identified the abusers in the Epstein Files, according to The New York Times Monday.
Greene told the outlet the president voiced his frustration via a phone call in September, with her aides claiming they could hear the president angrily screaming at the her throughout her Capitol Hill office as she they spoke on speakerphone. Trump’s ire came after Greene sat in a closed-door House Oversight Committee hearing with Epstein’s victims before holding a news conference where she threatened to gather the abusers’ names from the victims and publicly identify them.
Greene, who found the victims’ accounts to be “entirely believable,” also requested the women be invited to the Oval Office; she told the Times that Trump said they were undeserving of the honor. The interaction was allegedly the last conversation she had with the president.
“Congresswoman Greene is quitting on her constituents in the middle of her term and abandoning the consequential fight we’re in — we don’t have time for her petty bitterness,” Davis Ingle, White House spokesman, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
After the phone call, Greene decided to join forces with her fellow Reps. Thomas Massie, a Republican from Kentucky, and Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, to push forward a discharge petition calling on the Department of Justice to release their files relating to Jeffrey Epstein. She claimed the cover-up of the rampant assaults and the seeming obstruction of justice “represents everything wrong with Washington,” according to the paper.
The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the legislation, dubbed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, 427 to 1 on Nov. 18, which has since triggered the DOJ to release a barrage of documents, videos and communications relating to Epstein and his associates.
The DOJ, however, failed to release all its files by the transparency law’s Dec. 19 deadline, as they made files public in a staggered formation that will continue to spill into 2026. After the deadline passed, Massie and Khanna said they would consider holding Attorney General Pam Bondi in contempt, and Khanna also floated the possibility of impeaching Bondi.
“The quickest way, and I think most expeditious way, to get justice for these victims is to bring inherent contempt against Pam Bondi,” Massie said on CBS Dec. 21.
Greene’s office did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.
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