Marjorie Taylor Greene tells Trump to ‘refocus’ on MAGA and tamp down divisive rhetoric as feud over Epstein information intensifies: Live

President Donald Trump took to this Truth Social account to scold Indiana Republicans for rejecting his calls to redistrict the state in the hopes of picking up more congressional seats.

Targeting Indiana state Senators Rod Bray and Greg Goode, Trump used a familiar insult, a “RINO” or “Republican in name only,” to claim they were “depriving” Republicans of a potential majority in the House of Representatives.

“It’s weak ‘Republicans’ that cause our Country such problems — It’s why we have crazy Policies and Ideas that are so bad for America,” Trump wrote.

The president also called out Indiana Governor Mike Braun for “not working the way he should” and insinuated Braun owed him for helping the governor get elected.

Republican Rep. Thomas Massie said he anticipates more House members to vote to compel the release of the Epstein files and reminded them that the record of their vote “will last longer than Donald Trump’s presidency.”

Massie, one of the few Republicans who have criticized the president’s policies, said there could be “100 or more” House members who vote to compel the release of the files, making it “veto-proof.”

“I would remind my Republican colleagues who are deciding how to vote, Donald Trump can protect you in red districts right now by giving you an endorsement. But in 2030, he’s not going to be the president and you will have voted to protect pedophiles if you don’t vote to release these files,” Massie told ABC News’s “This Week.”

Rep. Greene apologized to those she caused harm to with “toxic” comments about politics or policy in the past – a position she’s recently come to after facing the wrath of Trump online for refusing to align herself with him on the Epstein files.

When confronted with her own past of harmful rhetoric on “State of the Union” Sunday, Greene said it was “fair criticism.”

“I would like to say, humbly, I’m sorry for taking part in the toxic politics. It’s very bad for our country and it’s been something I’ve thought about a lot, especially since Charlie Kirk was assassinated,” Greene said.

“I’ve been working a lot on this lately, to put down the knives in politics. I really just want to see people be kind to one another. We need to figure out a new path forward that is focused on the American people,” Greene added.

Senator Tim Kaine, one of the seven Democrats who voted with Republicans to reopen the government last week, believes Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer remains an “effective leader” despite abandoning the Democrats’ efforts.

When asked if Schumer gave him a tactical blessing to vote with Republicans to end the Democrats’ efforts to make healthcare more affordable for Americans, Kaine responded, “absolutely not.”

“But Chuck and I had a really interesting argument about an unrelated topic a couple of years ago where I was going a different direction than he was on something,” Kaine told NBC News’s “Meet the Press.”

“I said, ‘Chuck, listen, my goal with you is always to inform you. But I don’t need a permission slip from you because eight and a half million Virginians gave me that permission slip in November of 2024,” Kaine said.

On Friday, Trump used his Truth Social account to insult Massie and insinuate he got married “quick” after his first wife and high school sweetheart died in June 2024.

“No wonder the Polls have him at less than an 8% chance of winning the Election,” Trump continued. “Anyway, have a great life Thomas and (?). His wife will soon find out that she’s stuck with a LOSER!”

Massie is among the few Republicans who have been highly critical of Trump’s policies.

But Trump’s comments appeared to take it too far, with many MAGA-aligned individuals condemning Trump for bringing up Massie’s deceased wife.

“You know, my wife’s told me, ‘I told you so. We should have invited Donald Trump. He’s made he didn’t get an invitation,’” Massie told ABC’s “This Week” Sunday.

“We’re taking it with a grain of salt. He’s being a bully, or trying to be a bully.”

Massie married his second wife, Carolyn Moffa, this year.

Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene explained her growing feud with Donald Trump on Sunday while questioning whether the president was remaining true to his MAGA brand and suggested that a foreign government could be involved in covering up the Jeffrey Epstein story.

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is not abandoning her efforts to release the Epstein Files and said the dissolution of her relationship with the president ultimately comes down to it.

“Unfortunately, it all comes down to the Epstein files. That is shocking,” Greene told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union” Sunday morning.

After several months of breaking with her party on issues like declaring the Israel war in Gaza a genocide, and Republicans refusing to take responsibility for unaffordable healthcare, Trump said over the weekend he would no longer support Greene’s re-election campaign.

Greene was once considered one of Trump’s most loyal supporters

“I stand with these women, I stand with rape victims, I stand with children who are in terrible sex abuse situations and I stand with survivors of trafficking and those that are trapped in sex trafficking. I will not apologize for that. I believe the country deserves transparency for these files.”

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a known loyal supporter of the president, said Sunday morning that President Donald Trump’s words were “hurtful” and warned it could “radicalize” people.

On CNN’s “State of the Union,” Greene reminded people of her loyalty to the president, saying she spent millions of dollars helping him get elected and stood beside him when nobody else did.

“His remarks, of course, have been hurtful,” Greene began. “However, I think I have something in my heart that is incredibly important for our country and that is to end the toxic fighting in politics.”

Greene said political rhetoric has divided the United States and turned people against each other.

“The most hurtful thing he said, which is absolutely untrue, is he called me a ‘traitor,’ and that is so extremely wrong and those are the type of words used that can radicalize people against me and put my life in danger.”

Few allies can remain in Donald Trump’s good graces forever.

For a while, it seemed like far-right congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene might the one who bucked the trend, but now it seems her time has come, too.

The president has branded Greene, once one of his fiercest allies in Washington, D.C., a “traitor.” He said he’s open to endorsing a primary challenger against the Georgia Republican.

Here’s how their relationship came to an end.

On the same day the government reopened after 43-day shutdown, a petition supported by all House Democrats and four Republicans got the final signature needed for a vote on a bill to compel the Justice Department to release all files related to Epstein.

High-level Trump aides failed to convince Representative Lauren Boebert to take her name off the Epstein petition, going so far as to meet with her in the Situation Room, a White House space typically used for pressing national security matters, Reuters reports.

Republican Representative Nancy Mace, another Trump loyalist, also did not budge in her support for the petition. A source familiar with the situation who spoke on condition of anonymity said that when Mace and Trump were unable to connect by phone, she wrote a message to the president that referenced her experience as a sexual assault survivor.

The recalcitrance of Boebert and Mace, members of a Republican congressional conference that has shown almost complete obedience to Trump, suggests the president will have to navigate internal dissent carefully to ensure the Epstein saga does not fracture his party heading into the midterm elections.