Republicans in Congress mocked Trump privately, Marjorie Taylor Greene says | Marjorie Taylor Greene
Congressional Republicans privately mocked Donald Trump only to support him when he won their party’s White House nomination in 2024, outgoing GOP House member Marjorie Taylor Greene said Sunday.
“I saw a lot of my colleagues making fun of him, making fun of the way he talks, constantly making fun of me for supporting him, until after he won the primary in 2024, they all started — excuse my language, Lesley — kissing his ass,” Greene, a Georgia Republican, said in an excerpt of an interview that will air Sunday on CBS’s 60 Minutes.
Referencing Trump’s slogan “Make America Great Again,” Greene told 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl that these Republicans at that moment “decided to put on a Maga hat for the first time.”
Greene was once a staunch ally of Trump, who split with the president and will leave Congress in January. Trump called her a “traitor” and attacked her online, prompting what she says was a wave of threats against her.
In articles published Sunday on X, Greene said she had reported hundreds of threats against the U.S. Capitol Police. She added that these threats came primarily from those who opposed Trump on the American political left. But then, she said, threats were directed at her and her son when she clashed with Trump over his handling of cases relating to the prosecution of the president’s former friend Jeffrey Epstein, the late convicted sex offender and disgraced financier.
Epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor and committed suicide while imprisoned on federal sex trafficking charges in 2019, during Trump’s first presidency.
“All the death threats came from the ‘left’ until I joined the Epstein survivors, women who were raped as teenagers, abused and trafficked by rich and powerful men – and that’s when President Trump turned on me and called me a ‘traitor,’ and then more death threats and harassment came from the ‘right’ or somewhere,” she said. writes Greene on X. “I sent these assassination threats against my son to President Trump in which he responded with harsh accusatory responses and no sympathy.”
In her 60 Minutes interview, Greene said Republicans don’t criticize Trump in public because they fear being targeted by him.
“I think they’re terrified of thinking outside the box and getting a nasty message on Truth Social,” she said.
