
Departing Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed during a â60 Minutesâ interview which aired Sunday there were âseveral direct death threatsâ on her son after President Donald Trump publicly called her a âtraitor.â
Greene made the claim after CBS Newsâs Lesley Stahl pointed out to the lawmaker she âdecided not to stay and fightâ in Congress and instead âdecided to give in.â The firebrand Georgia congresswoman announced Nov. 21 â one week after Trump confirmed he would no longer support her for reelection â she would be resigning from her deep red House seat effective Jan. 5, 2026.
âAfter President Trump called me a traitor, I got a pipe bomb threat on my house. And then I got several direct death threats on my son,â Greene told Stahl during the interview. Greene has two sons, ages 22 and 26.
Stahl responded by referring to Greeneâs viral Nov. 15 X post in which she claimed there were a âhot bed of threats against being fueled and egged onâ by Trump. The post did not specifically mention death threats on her son or a pipe bomb threat.
Greene told the â60 Minutesâ correspondent the âsubject line for the direct death threatsâ on her son was âMarjorie Traitor Greene,â a pejorative nickname the president gave her Nov. 16 after being pressed by a reporter about Greeneâs X post from a day earlier.
âMarjorie âTraitorâ Greene. I donât think her life is in danger. I donât think. Frankly, I donât think anybody cares about her,â Trump told the reporter at the time.
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Greene again emphasized to Stahl the death threats were âdirectly fueled by President Trump.â She also claimed she told both the president and Vice President JD Vance about the alleged threats, sending them directly to both men.
âJD Vance replied back to me, âWeâll look into it,ââ Greene said. âI got response from President Trump that I will keep private, but it wasnât very nice.â
When asked by Stahl to give a âhintâ of what Trump had said in response to her, Greene simply stated his reply was âextremely unkind,â without providing any additional details.
Greene also claimed during her interview that her many of her Republican colleagues visibly support Trump out of fear.
âDoes the support come about because theyâre afraid that theyâll get death threats?â Stahl asked Greene.
âI think theyâre terrified to step outta line and get a nasty Truth Social post on them,â the congresswoman said.
The ex-Trump ally responded âyesâ to Stahlâs questions on if other House Republicans are âwatchingâ what happened to Greene, and if they âtalk differentlyâ about the president âbehind the scenes.â
Greene claimed how her fellow GOP lawmakers talk about Trump in private will âshock people.â
âI watched many of my colleagues go from making fun of him, making fun of how he talks, making fun of me constantly for supporting him, to when he won the primary in 2024 they all started ⌠kissing his ass and decided to put on a MAGA hat for the first time,â she added.
Greene also told Stahl she and Trump âdid talk about the Epstein files.â
âAnd he was extremely angry at me that I had signed the discharge petition to release the files,â the congresswoman continued, referring to the primary dispute that led to her rift with the president. âI fully believe that those women deserve everything theyâre asking. Theyâre asking for all of it to come out. They deserve it. And he was furious with me.â
âHe said that it was going to hurt people. I had asked him, âThese women are the ones that were hurt.â They were raped at 14. They were raped at 16. I watched them stand in front of the press trembling, their bodies shaking as they were telling their stories, many of them for the first time,â Greene added. âAnd I had told him, I said, âYou know, you have all kinds of people come in the White House. Have these women come in the White House. These, these women deserve to be heard.ââ
She also specified she did not know who Trump was referring to when he allegedly said that âpeople would get hurtâ if the discharge petition succeeded.
Following a dramatic reversal of position days earlier, Trump eventually signed the âEpstein Files Transparency Actâ â the very bill brought to the floor by the discharge petition Greene mentioned â on Nov. 19. All voting House Republicans â except for Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins â joined all voting Democrats in supporting the bill.
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