Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Trump ‘Flat Out’ Told Bondi: ‘Do Not Release The Epstein Files’ | EUROtoday

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) says President Donald Trump was “blocking everybody” final 12 months from releasing paperwork on late intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein — and stated he “flat out” advised then-Attorney General Pam Bondi, “Do not release the Epstein files.”

Greene on Tuesday joined “The Shannon Joy Show” to debate her notorious cut up with Trump, who referred to as her a “traitor” for demanding the discharge of the recordsdata. One outstanding administration official had already instructed the general public would get solutions about Epstein after Trump returned to the White House.

“He had his administration, the White House, telling … [House Speaker Mike] Johnson and [Senate Majority Leader John] Thune, ‘Stop this, do not pass any resolution to release the Epstein files,’” Greene advised the conservative podcaster.

She continued: “He told Pam Bondi at the DOJ — no matter what you think of Pam Bondi — he flat out told her, ‘Do not release the Epstein files.’ He was blocking everybody.”

Epstein died behind bars in an obvious suicide in 2019 whereas awaiting trial on federal intercourse trafficking prices. His demise and recognized ties to outstanding individuals fueled rumors of a “client list,” which Bondi vowed in February 2025 to launch. She later stated her phrases in regard to the existence of an inventory had been misconstrued.

Bondi reportedly advised Trump in May that his title is everywhere in the recordsdata. Trump started to decry public curiosity within the case, calling it a Democratic “hoax,” however signed laws in November to launch the remaining Department of Justice recordsdata amid huge bipartisan strain.

The House Oversight Committee lately subpoenaed Bondi for a deposition about her dealing with of the case and the unfinished launch of extremely redacted recordsdata, however she didn’t comply, arguing it doesn’t apply since she is now not lawyer normal. Joy on Tuesday requested Greene if she thinks Trump, moderately than Bondi, impeded the general case.

“I know he did,” Greene stated. “And I don’t have any knowledge of him and Pam Bondi’s personal conversations, but I know he was telling everyone not to release the files. And his reasoning was, is people are going to get hurt, is what he said. He kept saying that.”

She continued, “He was publicly saying it’s a Democrat hoax … saying all this stuff and shaming people. But behind the scenes, he was telling all of us, he was telling Mike Johnson, he was telling everybody, telling Pam Bondi, ‘People are going to get hurt.’”

Greene beforehand divulged as a lot in a New York Times profile revealed in December, revealing on the time that Trump referred to as her “to voice his displeasure” after she threatened to “say every damn name” of Epstein’s co-conspirators if the DOJ didn’t launch the recordsdata.

Greene stated Tuesday that in their “final conversation, when he had really had it with me, because I wouldn’t take my name off the discharge petition and I was publicly saying over and over again, ‘Release the Epstein files,’ he told me, he said, ‘My friends will get hurt.’”

“He told me, ‘People you know, Marjorie, people at Mar-a-Lago. They’re going to get hurt,’” she added. “And I said, ‘People have already gotten hurt. There’s over 1,000 women that have been raped by Jeffrey Epstein — and are accusing others.’”

Greene went on to acknowledge that, at that time, not less than, she believed the one “bad guys” associated to Epstein had been Democrats and stated the victims she spoke to advised her Trump did nothing flawed, resulting in her shock when he “flat-out refused” her pleas for transparency on the case.

She continued, “And then, you saw, everybody saw, how it unfolded.”