Former Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has escalated her feud with President Donald Trump by branding him and his team traitors over their alleged role in blocking the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Greene, who resigned from Congress earlier this year after a very public falling-out with Trump, leveled the explosive charge during an interview with CNNs Kaitlan Collins. According to Western Journal, her comments came in response to revelations in a forthcoming book that the Trump White House convened high-level meetings to manage political fallout surrounding the Epstein documents rather than move decisively to expose them.
The book, authored by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, claims Trump chastised several conservative figures including the late Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk for focusing too heavily on Epstein, according to Mediaites account of the volume. When Collins pressed Greene on the report, the former lawmaker dismissed it as old news, saying the alleged obstruction was not new news to her.
Unfortunately, that was something that I lived through, she said, describing what she portrayed as a deliberate effort by the Trump-aligned House leadership to stall any action on Epstein-related disclosures. I watched the speaker of the House shut down the government for, and keep the House completely out of session, for eight weeks, in the fall of 2025, simply because he was under orders of the president, and his team, not to do anything in the House of Representatives because they were doing everything they could do to stop that resolution from passing the House, the same resolution that I signed, the discharge petition, to force to a vote on the floor, Greene alleged.
She argued that the paralysis described in the book merely confirmed what she had already witnessed from inside the Republican conference. This doesnt shock me that his team was paralyzed. But Ill tell you what it is. Its absolutely ridiculous and unforgivable, she said, framing the alleged inaction as a moral betrayal rather than a mere political miscalculation.
Greene insisted that the Epstein scandal is not just another Beltway controversy but a test of whether Americas ruling class will ever be held to the same standards as ordinary citizens. Were talking about pedophiles and rapists of the elite class of people that never get held accountable for anything, she said, arguing that any hesitation to release the files amounts to complicity in a cover-up.
Her anger focused squarely on those she says blocked transparency about Epsteins network and its powerful associates. So, if they were paralyzed and scared and didnt know what to do about releasing the Epstein files? These people are absolutely absurd. They dont deserve the American peoples trust, Greene declared, casting the alleged stonewalling as a direct affront to voters who expected a Republican administration to clean house.
Greene then pushed her rhetoric to the constitutional limit, explicitly invoking the language of betrayal. As a matter of fact, we should consider them as they should be considered traitors, she added, before sharpening the accusation even further. They are traitors, the ones that refuse to release the Epstein files, want to cover up for pedophiles and rapists, and all sorts of disgusting things in these files; those are the traitors to the American people, and they should be ashamed of themselves.
Her use of the word traitor stands in stark contrast to the Constitutions narrow definition of treason, which is confined in Article III, Section 3 to acts that shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. While Greenes charge is clearly political rather than legal, it underscores the depth of her disillusionment with a president she once championed as a transformative conservative leader. For many on the right who see the Epstein saga as emblematic of a two-tiered justice system, her fury taps into a broader frustration that even Republican administrations have failed to fully confront entrenched elites.
Greenes break with Trump is particularly striking given her trajectory since her 2020 election, when she emerged as one of his most vocal and loyal defenders on Capitol Hill. The same media establishment that mocked her over old social media posts including the infamous Jewish space lasers line endlessly recycled by left-leaning outlets is now eagerly amplifying her criticism of the president, a shift that underscores how quickly corporate media will embrace a conservative figure once that figure turns on Trump.
According to Greene, the Epstein dispute marked the point of no return between her and the Trump political machine. She announced her resignation from Congress after it became evident that Trumps allies were preparing to back a primary challenger against her, a move that signaled the MAGA establishment was closing ranks against one of its original firebrands rather than confront uncomfortable questions about Epstein and accountability.
Greene has since leveraged her outsider status to expand her media footprint, appearing on platforms that once treated her as a caricature, including CNN and The New York Times, which have both featured her in interviews and profiles since her resignation announcement. For grassroots conservatives who still demand full disclosure of the Epstein files and equal justice under the law, her latest broadside raises an uncomfortable question: if even a self-styled America First administration would not pull back the curtain on pedophiles and rapists of the elite class, who in Washington actually intends to challenge the system rather than protect it.
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