MTG Attacks Again, Blames Trump for Death Threats Against Her Son
Departing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia claimed during a contentious “60 Minutes” interview aired Sunday that her family faced serious threats after President Donald J. Trump publicly labeled her a “traitor,” a remark that followed a highly publicized rift between the two former allies.
Greene made the allegation while pushing back against CBS correspondent Lesley Stahl, who suggested the congresswoman had chosen to “give in” rather than continue fighting in Congress. Greene announced on Nov. 21—just one week after President Trump confirmed he would no longer back her reelection bid—that she would resign her safely Republican House seat effective Jan. 5, 2026.
“After President Trump called me a traitor, I got a pipe bomb threat on my house. And then I got several direct death threats on my son,” Greene told Stahl. Greene has two sons, ages 22 and 26.
Stahl referenced Greene’s viral Nov. 15 social media post in which the congresswoman warned of a “hot bed of threats against [her] being fueled and egged on” by Trump. That post did not explicitly mention a pipe bomb threat or threats against her children.
Greene responded by claiming the “subject line for the direct death threats” against her son read “Marjorie Traitor Greene,” echoing the nickname President Trump used on Nov. 16 when asked by a reporter about Greene’s criticism.
“Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Greene. I don’t think her life is in danger. I don’t think. Frankly, I don’t think anybody cares about her,” Trump said at the time.
Greene told Stahl the threats were “directly fueled by President Trump” and claimed she personally forwarded them to both Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance.
“J.D. Vance replied back to me, ‘We’ll look into it,’” Greene said. “I got response from President Trump that I will keep private, but it wasn’t very nice.”
Pressed by Stahl to elaborate, Greene described the president’s response only as “extremely unkind.”
The interview then turned toward Greene’s broader critique of congressional Republicans, whom she claimed privately express views about Trump that differ sharply from their public posture.
“Does the support come about because they’re afraid that they’ll get death threats?” Stahl asked.
“I think they’re terrified to step out of line and get a nasty Truth Social post on them,” Greene replied.
She answered “yes” when asked whether GOP lawmakers were “watching” what happened to her and whether they speak differently about Trump behind closed doors.
“The way they talk about him will shock people,” Greene claimed.
“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… kissing his a** and decided to put on a MAGA hat for the first time,” she added.
Greene also said she and President Trump discussed the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, a dispute that reportedly intensified their falling out.
“And he was extremely angry at me that I had signed the discharge petition to release the files,” Greene said. “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.”
“He [Trump] said that it was going to hurt people. I had asked him, ‘These women are the ones that were hurt,’” Greene continued. “They were raped at 14. They were raped at 16. I watched them stand in front of the press trembling, their bodies shaking as they were telling their stories, many of them for the first time.”
Greene said she urged the president to personally hear from the victims.
“And I had told him, I said, ‘You know, you have all kinds of people come in the White House. Have these women come in the White House. These, these women deserve to be heard,’” she said.
She added that she did not know who Trump meant when he allegedly warned that “people would get hurt” if the disclosure effort succeeded.
Days later, President Trump reversed course and signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act on Nov. 19—the same legislation brought forward through the discharge petition Greene supported. All voting House Republicans except Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana joined Democrats in approving the bill.