Controversial Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has alleged that President Donald Trump angrily called her on the phone after meeting with several victims of the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
In an interview with The New York Times, Greene recounted a heated call that followed a closed-door House Oversight Committee meeting in which she heard testimony from alleged Epstein victims.
After the hearing, she publicly criticized the handling of Epstein’s case files and threatened to release the names of individuals she believed were connected to Epstein’s crimes. Soon after, she received an angry phone call from the President, with him allegedly stating that his “friends will get hurt” if more information on Epstein’s clients were to be revealed.
In September, Greene aligned with lawmakers across the aisle on the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which aims to compel the Justice Department to make more documents public. That legislation advanced after Greene and others signed a discharge petition to force the House to vote on the bill, a rare procedural move that signalled bipartisan frustration with delays in releasing Epstein-related records. Trump and some Republicans had opposed the push, though he ultimately signed the law after it passed Congress.
She described the Epstein case as “everything wrong with Washington,” as it was “rich, powerful elites doing horrible things and getting away with it. And the women are the victims.”
In the interview, Greene described the clash over the Epstein files as a turning point in her relationship with Trump. She called herself “so naive” for believing in the President and that she decided to break away from the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement after seeing the President’s response to the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
The Georgia representative recalled watching Kirk’s memorial on television and, in contrast to Kirk’s widow, Erika, saying she forgave her late husband’s killer, Trump would go on to say, “I hate my opponent, and I don’t want the best for them.”
This comment from the President was reportedly the last straw for Greene, as she would say in the interview that, “That was absolutely the worst statement. It just shows where his heart is. And that’s the difference, with her having a sincere Christian faith, which proves that he does not have any faith.”
She added, “I realized that I’m part of this toxic culture. I really started looking at my faith. I wanted to be more like Christ.” Last month, Greene announced that she will be resigning from Congress to avoid having “to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the President we all fought for, only to fight and win my election while Republicans will likely lose the midterms.”
She will step down from her role as representative of Georgia’s 14th congressional district on January 5.
