Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene alleged President Donald Trump told her, âMy friends will get hurtâ 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. Trumpâs ire came after Greene sat in a closed-door House Oversight Committee hearing with Epsteinâs victims before holding a news conference where she threatened to gather the abusersâ names from the victims and publicly identify them.
Greene, who found the victimsâ accounts to be âentirely believable,â 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.
âCongresswoman Greene is quitting on her constituents in the middle of her term and abandoning the consequential fight weâre in â we donât have time for her petty bitterness,â 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 ârepresents everything wrong with Washington,â 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 lawâs 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.
âThe quickest way, and I think most expeditious way, to get justice for these victims is to bring inherent contempt against Pam Bondi,â Massie said on CBS Dec. 21.
Greeneâs office did not immediately respond to the DCNFâs request for comment.
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