Marjorie Taylor Greene Recalls Trump Warning Over Epstein Files | EUROtoday

Former MAGA loyalist and Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene says that President Donald Trump warned her that his “friends would get hurt” if she continued pushing for the Department of Justice to launch its information on sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein in opposition to Trump’s opposition.

Appearing on health teacher and conservative commentator Jillian Michaels’ “Keeping It Real” podcast over the weekend, Greene claimed that she and the three different Republicans who supported a discharge petition to drive a vote on the launch of the Epstein information have been pressured by the White House “for months” to again down.

“Here’s the interesting part. OK, there were only four Republicans, only four of us that signed that discharge petition: Thomas Massie [R-Ky.]myself, Lauren Boebert [R-Colo.]and Nancy Mace [R-S.C.]. Now, what was happening in the background for months leading up to when we finally got it released is we were getting pressure from the White House” and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to take away their names, she mentioned in the course of the Feb. 15 episode.

“We’re like, ‘Why? We’re talking about the Epstein files.’ This is the ultimate promise. This is the ultimate way to provide transparency,” she continued. “This is the ultimate way to take it to the deep state and expose a whole criminal cabal of rich, powerful elites that I believe control everything. And guess what? Come to find out, they do.”

“They do,” Michaels then chimed in.

“So in the meantime, President Trump is calling it… the whole thing a hoax. He’s calling it a Democrat hoax,” Greene continued. “He won’t have anything to do with the women. He still refuses to have anything to do with these women. So this whole thing is building.”

Greene then expressed confusion about why Trump would struggle the discharge of extra info when a few of Epstein’s victims or their attorneys have mentioned he did nothing fallacious. She additionally divulged how she thinks the White House “pressured” her and the opposite three Republicans.

“The White House is putting pressure on Nancy Mace. They take Lauren Boebert into a [Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility]. I don’t even know what they said to her in there. They are attacking Thomas Massie, nonstop attacking Thomas Massie,” she added.

The once-staunch Trump supporter then mentioned the president personally berated her for signing the discharge petition.

“And then, one day, I get a phone call from the president in September, and he is so mad at me, and he’s yelling at me, and he’s angry at me,” she mentioned. “And he’s like, ‘You’re supporting Rand Paul Jr.’ [a reference to Massie]. And he’s chewing me out for signing my name on Thomas Massie’s discharge petition to release the Epstein files.”

Greene added, “And I’m trying to tell him, ‘Mr. President, they say you did nothing wrong. This needs to come out.’ And so we’re having this argument. And he tells me on this phone call, he’s like, ‘Marjorie, my friends will get hurt.’”

“That’s it. That’s it,” Michaels interjected.

“Every single person is on this fricking list,” she later added. “They’re all there. Every billionaire, heads of state, Larry Summers, Peter Thiel. They’re all in there.”

The White House didn’t instantly reply to HuffPost’s request for touch upon Greene’s remarks.

In late December, per week earlier than Greene was set to resign from Congress after her explosive public break with Trump, she recalled to The New York Times that Trump had yelled so loud at her in the course of the name that he could possibly be heard on speakerphone by everybody in her workplace. The Times additionally reported that, on the time, the cellphone name between the 2 was their “last conversation.”