Rep.
Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), once one of Donald Trumps fiercest defenders on Capitol Hill, has now turned her fire on the former president and the Republican establishment over his attacks on Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Massies wife.
The Georgia Republican, long regarded as a high-profile face of the MAGA movement, has in recent months broken sharply with Trump and his inner circle. According to Mediaite, Greene has not only accused Trump of betraying his own supporters but went so far over the weekend as to declare the MAGA project all a lie, a stunning reversal from a lawmaker who once built her brand on unwavering loyalty to the former president.
At the center of this rupture is a bitter dispute over the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, a matter that has exposed deep frustration among conservatives who believe powerful interests are still being shielded. Greene has aligned herself with Massie and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) in backing legislation that forces the Department of Justice to disclose the long-secret records, a move that has put her at odds with Trumps current posture and with elements of the GOP leadership.
Under mounting pressure from Massie, Greene, and other Republicans, Trump signed a law last November requiring the release of millions of pages of documents, photos, videos, and related materials tied to deceased child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein, with a statutory deadline of Friday, Dec. 19. The law allowed only narrow redactions to protect victims names and identifying details, yet the Department of Justice blew past the deadline and has since produced staggered releases that critics say are both incomplete and sloppily redacted.
Those subsequent disclosures have revealed additional high-profile figures who communicated with Epstein, along with thousands of references to Trump himself and glaring failures to protect victims identities. In the most recent tranche, nude images of victims appeared unredacted, even as the DOJ is accused of withholding documents it is legally obligated to release and blacking out information that should be public, including the names and details of men alleged to have participated in Epsteins child sex trafficking and abuse.
Against this backdrop, Trump launched a blistering attack on Massie in a Truth Social post last November after the Epstein-related bill advanced, taking the extraordinary step of dragging Massies personal life into the fray. He mocked Massies new wife, Carolyn Moffa Massiewhom the congressman married in November 2025 after the death of his first wife, Rhonda Howard Massie, in July 2024and on Monday escalated again by accusing Carolyn of turning her husband into a Liberal.
Massie responded publicly, making clear that his wife had been a loyal Trump voter and had even tried to help move the Epstein disclosures forward. So now hes attacking my wife who voted for him three times, Massie posted. Maybe someone told him shes actually the one who suggested I ask Pam Bondi in person at a dinner when we would get Phase 2 of the Epstein files. Bondi said there were no more files. As they say, the rest is history.
Greene seized on Trumps latest broadside against the Massies, amplifying Massies post and issuing a lengthy statement that excoriated both the former president and her fellow Republicans in Congress. She accused Trump of betraying his own base and blasted weak Republicans in the House who stay silent refusing to utter even a word of support for their friend Thomas Massie.
Shame on every one of you, Greene wrote, directing her ire at colleagues who have chosen to keep their heads down rather than cross Trump. Cowards. You make me sick.
In her full statement, Greene portrayed Trump as having lost touch with the very voters who propelled him to power, while Massie and his wife remained faithful to the America First agenda. President Trump treats those who support him the most like crap, she wrote, before defending Carolyn Massie and her husbands record.
Thomass wife voted for him 3 times. Shes not a radical left flamethrower, Greene insisted, pushing back on the caricature Trump attempted to paint of Carolyn Massie.
Greene also underscored Massies conservative credentials and his refusal to bend on core issues of transparency and foreign entanglements. And Thomas Massie votes with the President 91% of the time, but wont vote to protect Epsteins sick pedophile and rapists friends or send Americans hard earned tax dollars to Israels wars or any other foreign country, she wrote, framing Massies stance as one of principle rather than disloyalty.
She went on to argue that Trump should be prioritizing ordinary Americans, not wealthy donors or foreign interests. The President should be more concerned with voters, who put him in office, like Thomas Massies wife, not super rich donors and their favorite foreign countries and business demands, Greene declared, echoing a long-standing conservative critique of globalist influence and donor-class priorities.
Greene pointed to recent Republican setbacks as a warning sign that the movement is drifting away from its grassroots base. Losing elections to Democrats in super red districts, like TX senate, where Trump endorsed, should be sending warning alarms across the Presidents desk, she wrote, suggesting that blind loyalty to endorsements and personality over policy is costing the party winnable races.
Instead of recalibrating, Greene argued, Trump has chosen to target one of the Houses most reliably conservative members and his pro-Trump spouse. But instead hes attacking REPUBLICAN Thomas Massie with one of the most conservative voting records in the House and his new wife with a three time MAGA voting record, she wrote, casting the feud as a betrayal of the movements own stalwarts.
Her harshest criticism, however, was reserved for House Republicans who have refused to defend Massie publicly, a silence she portrayed as moral cowardice and political malpractice. And all the weak Republicans in the House stay silent refusing to utter even a word of support for their friend Thomas Massie, Greene wrote, before closing with a final rebuke: Shame on every one of you. Cowards. You make me sick.
For conservatives who have long demanded accountability on the Epstein scandal and opposed endless foreign commitments, Greenes broadside highlights a growing rift between populist lawmakers and a party apparatus still heavily shaped by Trumps personal grievances.
Her remarks underscore a deeper question now confronting the right: whether the movement will remain anchored to principles of transparency, limited government, and putting American citizens first, or continue to revolve around the whims of a single political figure, even at the expense of its most consistent conservative voices.
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