Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is now responding to President Donald Trump's attacks on her and his push for her ouster in next year's Republican primary.
On Friday night, Trump called Greene "wacky" in a 294-word post to his Truth Social account, and that he didn't have time to take constant phone calls from "ranting lunatic." He added that the "right person" could win his endorsement should they mount a primary challenge to the three-term congresswoman.
Shortly after Trump wrote his post, Greene authored a lengthy post of her own on her official X account. She accused Trump of erupting at her in response to text messages she sent him on Friday urging him to publish the unreleased Department of Justice (DOJ) files about deceased child predator Jeffrey Epstein.
"President Trump just attacked me and lied about me. I haven’t called him at all, but I did send these text messages today," Greene wrote. "Apparently this is what sent him over the edge. The Epstein files."
In one of the two text messages she posted, Green told a contact in her phone labeled "DJT" that he should "check the flight logs of Epstein's plane," mentioning that both former President Bill Clinton and former First Lady Hillary Clinton both flew on Epstein's jet (Trump also flew on the jet, according to the sex trafficker's former pilot). She then told him: "For many of us releasing the Epstein files has always been for the women who were victims of Jeffrey Epstein, but also because we believed that Democrat bad guys like the Clintons were entangled and involved with him."
"Epstein was the spider that wove the web of the deep state," she texted Trump. "Lean into it."
The other text message Greene published was to a contact named "Natalie" with the initials "NH." This could be Natalie Harp — the aide known for following Trump with a portable printer which she uses to provide the president with a constant flow of flattering articles and memes — who often posts Truth Social statements that Trump dictates to her. When "NH" texted Greene: "THE JEFFREY EPSTEIN HOAX," the Georgia congresswoman responded forcefully:
"In every single interview I have done I have defended President Trump," Greene replied. "Stop ignoring the women. Many of them literally voted for President Trump and say so publicly."
In Greene's Friday night tweet, she argued that the president was "coming after me hard to make an example to scare all the other Republicans before next weeks vote to release the Epstein files."
"It’s astonishing really how hard he’s fighting to stop the Epstein files from coming out that he actually goes to this level," she wrote. "But really most Americans wish he would fight this hard to help the forgotten men and women of America who are fed up with foreign wars and foreign causes, are going broke trying to feed their families and are losing hope of ever achieving the American dream. That’s what I voted for."