Terrified Republicans disparaged Trump behind his again at the same time as they donned MAGA hats, Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene advised “60 Minutes” in her first sit-down interview since asserting her resignation from Congress.
The Republican congresswoman opposed Trump on releasing the Epstein information earlier than her bombshell announcement final month following the president yanking his endorsement and branding her a traitor. She advised CBS correspondent Lesley Stahl within the interview that aired Sunday night time that security issues had been a serious impetus for her departure.
“It wasn’t a decision that I came to lightly,” Greene mentioned, noting that Trump “was furious” along with her for supporting the sex-trafficking victims of the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
“I stood for women who were raped when they were 14 years old, and the president that I fought for, for five years, called me a traitor for that,” mentioned Greene, who has represented Georgia’s 14th District since 2021 and was one in every of 4 Republicans to signal a petition calling for launch of all information associated to Epstein’s sex-trafficking case.
“After President Trump called me a traitor I got a pipe bomb threat at my house, and then I got several direct death threats on my son,” she mentioned. “The subject line for the direct death threats on my son was his words: ‘Marjorie Traitor Greene.’ Those were death threats directly fueled by President Trump.”
Greene additionally says she grew to become disillusioned with Trump’s obvious abandonment of “America First” insurance policies. Whereas these stances have put her at odds with many in her get together, she revealed to Stahl that worry underlies a lot of her fellow Republicans’ assist.
“It would shock people,” Greene mentioned. “I watched many of my colleagues go from making fun of him, making fun of how he talks, making fun of me constantly for supporting him, to when he won the primary in 2024, they all started — excuse my language, Lesley — kissing his a–, and decided to put on a MAGA hat for the first time.”
