- Greene says her support for releasing Epstein files sparked a furious split with Trump, who called her a "traitor."
- Her push for the Epstein Files Transparency Act forced Trump to flip and sign it into law days before her exit.
- Greene frames her resignation as choosing dignity and family over party loyalty amid a bitter MAGA rift.
WASHINGTON—Marjorie Taylor Greene, the firebrand Republican who’s been a fixture in the MAGA spotlight for years, dropped a bombshell in a preview clip from her upcoming 60 Minutes interview:
Her once-ironclad alliance with Donald Trump shattered into “fury” because she wouldn’t back down on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files.
You remember Greene—the Georgia congresswoman who stormed into office as one of Trump’s earliest and loudest cheerleaders, always ready with a tweetstorm or a rally cry to defend the man.
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But as she gears up to leave Congress after announcing her resignation last month, she’s pulling back the curtain on what really drove the wedge between them.
And it’s got everything: high-stakes political maneuvering, a nod to Epstein’s dark legacy, and Trump labeling her a “traitor” in a fit of rage.
Details of the Political Fallout
It all boiled down to the Epstein Files Transparency Act, a bill aimed at prying open the sealed documents tied to the late sex-trafficker financier and his web of powerful connections.
Greene threw her weight behind a discharge petition to force a House vote on it, a move that put her squarely at odds with Trump, who was reportedly dead-set against it.
“We did talk about the Epstein files, and he was extremely angry at me that I had signed the discharge petition to release the files,” Greene told interviewer Lesley Stahl in the interview, set to air in full this weekend.
She didn’t mince words about why she stood her ground.
“I fully believe that those women deserve everything they’re asking; they’re asking for all of it to come out… They deserve it, and he was furious with me,” Greene said, her voice carrying that familiar mix of defiance and conviction.
It’s a rare glimpse into the personal toll of crossing the boss—especially when the boss is the president fending off his own whispers of Epstein ties from years past.
Trump, after all, has spent chunks of his second term swatting away questions about their old friendship, insisting publicly that he has “nothing to hide.”
The fallout was swift and brutal.
Trump Gives into Pressure
Trump, under mounting pressure from the push, eventually flipped and endorsed the bill himself—signing it into law just days before Greene’s exit from the Hill.
But not before unloading on her in a late-night Truth Social rant on November 14, where he branded her a “traitor” and warned darkly about the consequences.
When Stahl pressed Greene on how Trump reacted to her persistence, she recounted his chilling response: “He said that it was going to hurt people.”
For those who’ve followed Greene’s arc, this isn’t entirely out of left field.
She’s been chafing at the edges of the MAGA machine lately, taking swipes at Trump’s so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill” on spending and even his handling of foreign flare-ups like the war in Gaza.
In her resignation video last month, she laid it all out with unfiltered candor: “I have too much self-respect and dignity, love my family way too much, and do not want my sweet district to have 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.”
It’s the kind of raw admission that humanizes her in a way her bombastic floor speeches never did— a woman weighing her legacy against the grind of party loyalty, all while eyeing the bigger picture of midterm losses looming on the horizon.
And let’s be real: In a town where alliances flip faster than a bad trade deal, Greene’s stand on Epstein feels like more than just policy wonkery.
It’s a gut-check on transparency, power, and the ghosts of scandals past that still haunt the GOP’s inner circle.
What Happens Next?
Since her fallout, Greene’s been everywhere—CNN panels, ABC spots, even this primetime CBS sit-down—morphing from elected firestarter to unfiltered commentator.
One Beltway insider quipped to The Daily Beast that her pivot to “online influencing” might actually make her “more dangerous than ever,” free from the shackles of committee votes and C-SPAN lighting.
As the full 60 Minutes episode drops, you can’t help but wonder: Is this the end of Greene’s MAGA chapter, or just the spark for a fiercer, untethered encore?
One thing’s clear—the rift she described has “ripped MAGA apart,” as she put it herself.
And in Trump’s world, that’s not a breakup; that’s a full-on political divorce.
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