Marjorie Taylor Greene make clear her fallout with Donald Trump, revealing the president was “livid” along with her over her choice to signal the Epstein information discharged petition.
In a brand new “60 Minutes” interview, the congresswoman, who represents Georgia’s 14th congressional district, confirmed she did focus on the Epstein information with the president.
“We did speak concerning the Epstein information,” Greene instructed Lesley Stahl in a snippet from Sunday’s episode, “and he was extraordinarily offended at me that I had signed the discharge petition to launch the information.”
She added: “I absolutely consider that these ladies deserve the whole lot they’re asking. They’re asking for all of it to come back out. They deserve it.”
Whereas Greene remained unwavering in her choice to signal the discharge petition, which compelled a vote on the Epstein Information Transparency Act, the congresswoman emphasised that Trump was not happy by her political transfer.
“And he was livid with me,” she famous. “He mentioned that it was going to harm folks.”
Greene’s “60 Minutes” sit down marks her first interview since abruptly saying her resignation final month. In each a video and written assertion uploaded to her social media pages, Greene confirmed she can be resigning from Congress in January.
Greene’s choice got here on the heels of her falling out with President Trump, who publicly shared that he rescinded his endorsement of her. She had been a vocal critic of the federal government shutdown, routinely calling out Republican management.
Throughout her resignation assertion, Greene famous that “loyalty ought to be a two-way road.”
“We should always be capable to vote our conscience and symbolize our district’s curiosity as a result of our job is actually: ‘Consultant,’” she added on the time. “‘America First’ ought to imply America First and solely People First, with no different overseas nation ever being hooked up to America First in our halls of presidency.”
She additional declared that her choice to face up for the victims of late little one intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein “mustn’t end in me being referred to as a traitor and threatened by the President of the US, whom I fought for.”
Trump responded to Greene’s choice by blasting her as “Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Brown” and claiming she stop over “PLUMMETING ballot numbers.”
“For some cause, primarily that I refused to return her by no means ending barrage of telephone calls, Marjorie went BAD,” Trump wrote on Reality Social. “Nonetheless, I’ll all the time respect Marjorie, and thank her for her service to our Nation!”
“60 Minutes” airs Sundays at 7 p.m. ET on CBS and Paramount+.
