Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of President Donald Trump’s most outspoken allies on Capitol Hill, sharply criticized the president on Sunday for calling her a “traitor,” saying the accusation was both “hurtful” and dangerous.
In a wide-ranging interview on CNN’s State of the Union, Greene expressed frustration that Trump, whom she has supported through political storms and personal expense, has turned his ire toward her. “I stood with President Trump when virtually no one else did,” she said. “Campaigned all over the country, spent millions of my own dollars, helping him get elected. And I think that’s incredibly important. And I do support him and his administration, and I support them in delivering the campaign promises we made to the American people. His remarks, of course, have been hurtful.”
But Greene said one remark in particular crossed a line. “The most hurtful thing he said, which is absolutely untrue, is he called me a traitor,” she said. “And that is… that is so extremely wrong! And those are the types of words used that can radicalize people against me and put my life in danger.”
Greene suggested that Trump’s anger toward her may stem from her efforts to force the release of the so-called Epstein Files held by the Department of Justice—records she and a handful of Republicans have pressed to make public. She noted that the women she has spoken with who were connected to the Epstein case “over and over again said that Donald Trump did nothing wrong. Quite a few of them even told me they voted for him.”
Greene said she wants those women to have support and a voice, adding, “I have no idea what’s in the files, I can’t even guess, but… the questions everyone is asking, is why fight this so hard.”
CNN’s Dana Bash pressed Greene on whether her recent criticisms of the president were motivated instead by personal political considerations. Trump has claimed that Greene is lashing out because he advised her not to run for Senate or for governor in Georgia. Greene flatly rejected that account.
“That is absolutely not true,” she said. “Actually, I never had a conversation at all with the president about running for Senate, or running for Georgia [governor]. And those were decisions I came to on my own — that I don’t want to have anything to do with the Senate. I think the past two months of the government shutdown should have shown America exactly why I would never want to be there.”
Calling the Senate “a very broken institution that serves the uniparty and doesn’t serve the American people,” Greene said she decided not to seek the governorship either. “I very much wanna do the job that I’m in,” she said.
Greene’s remarks underscore broader tensions within the Republican Party as the 2026 landscape takes shape. Her criticism—delivered even as she reiterated her support for Trump’s administration—reflects an uneasy moment for a party navigating internal conflict while preparing for another high-stakes election cycle.
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