President Donald Trump called his once loyal ally, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a “Lightweight Congresswoman” and accused her of being a ‘traitor’ to the Republican Party, as their rift over the release of the Epstein files deepens.
Trump continued to insult the Georgia Republican on Truth Social Saturday morning, after announcing he would no longer endorse her due to her recent criticisms of the White House for refusing to release more files.
“Lightweight Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Brown (Green grass turns Brown when it begins to ROT!), betrayed the entire Republican Party when she turned Left, performed poorly on the pathetic View, and became the RINO that we all know she always was. Just another Fake politician,” Trump wrote.
He later posted, “Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Green is a disgrace to our GREAT REPUBLICAN PARTY!”
Greene called the president’s vitriol “astonishing” and accused Trump of coming after her to “make an example to scare all the other Republicans” from voting on the Epstein files.
The Georgia representative said she does not “worship or serve Donald Trump.”
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Who are the other people Trump has called a ‘traitor?’
President Donald Trump has often leaned on the word “traitor” to insult his political foes and vilify them to the Republican Party – he recently invoked it to denounce his former ally Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Greene joins the club of many other individuals and entire groups whom Trump has deemed committed treason.
Individuals include:
- Senator Adam Schiff, a Democrat
- Chelsea Manning, a whistleblower
- Edward Snowden, a whistleblower
- James Comey, former FBI director in the first Trump administration
- Peter Strzok, former special agent in the FBI during the first Trump administration
- Andrew McCabe, former FBI deputy director during the first Trump administration
- Miles Taylor, the former chief of staff for Homeland Security during the first Trump administration
Greene calls for ‘a new way forward’ after Trump’s attacks
After facing a barrage of anger from Trump, Greene took to X to call for “a new way forward” that puts America First.
“I never thought that fighting to release the Epstein files, defending women who were victims of rape, and fighting to expose the web of rich powerful elites would have caused this, but here we are,” Greene said Saturday morning.
“There needs to be a new way forward. The toxic political industrial complex thrives on ripping us all apart but never delivers anything good for the American people, whom I love,” she added.
Greene said the traditional political system “pits Americans against each other to the point of violence,” in part by fundraising off messages of hate.
“We can have our own differences and differing opinions but we can still love and respect one another,” Greene said.
Trump’s Saturday morning message to Greene: ‘disgrace to our great Republican Party’
Saturday morning, Trump hopped on Truth Social to reiterate his ire toward his former ally-turned-moderate, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
“Marjorie “Traitor” Green is a disgrace to our GREAT REPUBLICAN PARTY!” Trump wrote on his social media platform.
Calling Greene a “lightweight congresswoman,” Trump claims she “betrayed” his party when she chose to go on the liberal talk show “The View.”
“Green grass turns Brown when it begins to ROT,” Trump wrote.
Trump: ‘I don’t know what happened to Marjorie’
President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw his support for MAGA firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene comes amid a growing rift between the former allies.
Speaking during a swearing-in ceremony for U.S. Ambassador to India Sergio Gor on Monday, Trump said: “I don’t know what happened to Marjorie.”
Trump was asked about Greene’s recent comments to Axios in which she panned what she called his “America Last” focus on foreign policy and the government shutdown.
At one point in the interview, she complained about “revolving door at the White House of foreign leaders” whilst Americans are “screaming from their lungs” about high prices.
In response, Trump told reporters: “I don’t know what happened to Marjorie.
“She’s a nice woman, but I don’t know what happened. She’s lost her way, I think.”
Greene admitted she was tired of ‘p*ssing contest’ in Washington on The View
Marjorie Taylor Greene admitted she was tired of the “p*ssing contest” between men in Washington in a recent television appearance.
Speaking to panellists on The View earlier this month, she appeared to continue to distance herself from her former MAGA allies and hit out at the government shutdown.
“Look, I’m with women, so I feel very comfortable saying this, I’m really tired of the p*ssing contest in Washington, D.C. between the men. I really am,” she exclaimed to cheers from the live studio audience in New York.
The congresswoman also criticised House Speaker Mike Johnson and “weak and pathetic” MAGA influencers.
‘No more secrets’: Lawmakers push for the release of Epstein Files after latest emails
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have renewed calls for the Justice Department to release the Epstein Files.
The DOJ “must release every piece of the Epstein files”, New York Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman wrote on X. “No more secrets. The American people, the survivors, and the victims deserve the truth.”
New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez similarly urged: “It’s time for the truth to come to light and for the DOJ to release the files.”
South Carolina GOP Rep. Nancy Mace posted: “Our signature remains on the discharge petition for the release of the Epstein Files. It will stay there. We demand justice for the victims.”
Recap: What do the Epstein emails say about Trump?
A newly released batch of Jeffrey Epstein’s private emails shared with Congress by the sex offender’s estate claimed that Donald Trump “knew about the girls.”
The previously undisclosed emails, published on Wednesday by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, date from 2011 to 2019.
The Independent has reviewed what they say about Trump:
Analysis: The specter of Epstein continues to cause trouble for Trump
Some of Trump’s most loyal supporters believe the government is withholding sensitive documents about Epstein, a convicted sex offender who died by suicide in jail in 2019, that would reveal his ties to powerful public figures.
A handful of Republicans have broken ranks to join Democrats seeking a full documents release, drawing a rebuke from Trump, who called them “soft and foolish.”
“I think the hope was that it would die down and go away, and that was never going to be the case,” Republican strategist Terry Sullivan, who headed Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign, told Reuters.
“It’s an impossible issue to handle effectively,” he added. “It’s impossible to prove a negative. If he (Trump) didn’t know anything, how do you prove it?”
Pia Carusone, a Democratic strategist and partner at political consultancy SKDK, said the spectre of Epstein could depress Republican turnout in the 2026 midterm elections if new revelations keep dripping out.
While Trump has not been accused of wrongdoing related to the wealthy financier, he has faced a backlash from supporters over his administration’s refusal to disclose all Epstein-related investigative files.
Trump has repeatedly denied any knowledge of Epstein’s alleged abuse and sex trafficking of underage girls.
What has Trump said about the Epstein emails?
President Donald Trump finally broke his silence on Friday after days dodging reporters questions over the bombshell emails, including one in which Epstein claimed the president “knew about the girls.”
Trump told reporters Friday night he “knows nothing” about the emails.
Writing on Truth Social, he also accused Democrats in Congress of “doing everything in their withering power” to “push” what he called “the Epstein Hoax” as a distraction from “all of their bad policies and losses.”
The Independent’s Andrew Feinberg reports:
Source: independent.co.uk