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In a high-profile interview, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., bashed President Donald Trump, accusing her onetime political ally-turned-foe of inciting death threats against her and her son and failing to live up to his campaign pledge to focus on improving the lives of Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor an \u2018America First\u2019 president, the No. 1 focus should have been domestic policy, and it wasn\u2019t. And so, of course, I was critical, because those were my campaign promises,\u201d Greene said in an interview that aired Sunday on CBS News\u2019 \u201c60 Minutes.\u201d \u201cOnce we fix everything here, then fine, we\u2019ll talk to the rest of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later, CBS News’ Lesley Stahl asked Greene: \u201cAre you MAGA?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am America First. \u2026 MAGA is President Trump\u2019s phrase. That\u2019s his political policies,” Greene said, referring to Trump’s signature motto, “Make America Great Again.” “I call myself America First.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other Republicans, on and off Capitol Hill, have expressed frustration that Trump and the GOP aren’t doing enough to address Americans’ concerns about affordability. But in recent days, Trump has pointed to lower gas prices, and he issued an executive order directing his administration to investigate anti-competitive behavior that could affect food supply chains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn a short time, President Trump has already delivered on many of the promises he was elected to enact. He\u2019s secured the border; tackled Biden\u2019s inflation crisis; lowered drug prices; ended taxes on tips, overtime, and social security; cooled inflation; deported criminal illegal aliens; implemented important reforms putting American workers first; and more,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said in a statement Sunday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“As the architect of the MAGA movement, President Trump will always put America First. Every single day he\u2019s working hard to continue fulfilling the many promises he made and he will continue delivering,” she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greene spoke to “60 Minutes” on the heels of her shocking announcement last month that she will resign from office in January, a full year before her term ends. Her decision came after she broke with Trump and other party leaders and signed a bipartisan discharge petition that forced a successful vote in the House to compel the release of the government\u2019s files on Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump slammed Greene, a conservative hard-liner who at one point had been one of his most vocal defenders on Capitol Hill, as \u201cMarjorie Traitor Greene.\u201d When Greene complained that she was receiving death threats because of Trump, he dismissed her worries: \u201cI don\u2019t think her life is in danger. \u2026 I don\u2019t think anybody cares about her.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the “60 Minutes” interview, Greene said that as Trump was fighting the release of the Epstein files and calling her a traitor, he was taking meetings with controversial foreign leaders and New York’s mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe did this in the same time span where President Trump brought in the Al Qaeda leader that was wanted by the U.S. government, who is now the president of Syria. Then, within a week, he brought in the Crown Prince MBS, who murdered an American journalist,\u201d Greene said referring to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. \u201cAnd then he brought in the newly elected Democrat socialist mayor of New York. That was the time span that he called me a traitor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Stahl asked whether Trump had run her out of town, Greene replied: \u201cNo, not at all. \u2026 I will be no one\u2019s battered wife \u2026 and I won\u2019t allow the system to abuse me anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greene recounted a phone call in which Trump tried to persuade her to back off the discharge petition effort involving the Epstein files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe did talk about the Epstein files, and he was extremely angry at me that I had signed the discharge petition to release the files,\u201d she told Stahl. \u201cI fully believe that those women deserve everything they\u2019re asking. They\u2019re asking for all of it to come out; they deserve it. And he was furious with me. \u2026 He said it was going to hurt people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the end, Greene and three other House Republicans didn\u2019t cave under pressure from Trump. The Epstein bill got to the floor, and all but one House member voted for Trump\u2019s Justice Department to release the files; the Senate passed the bill unanimously, and Trump quietly signed it into law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But because of Trump\u2019s ire, Greene said, she and her son faced numerous death threats. She said she sent Trump messages she had received threatening her son\u2019s life and described Trump\u2019s response as \u201cextremely unkind.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She elaborated about their exchange in a thread on X earlier Sunday, saying Trump \u201cresponded with harsh accusatory replies and zero sympathy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI also sent these threats to [FBI] Director Kash Patel and thankfully he responded with \u2018on it\u2019 and I sent these threats to Vice President JD Vance who responded promptly with kindness and sympathy,\u201d Greene posted on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the \u201c60 Minutes\u201d interview, Greene rejected speculation that her very public break with Trump is because she wants to run for president in 2028.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have zero plans, zero desire to run for president. I would hate the Senate. I\u2019m not running for governor,\u201d Greene said. \u201cBut, Lesley, it doesn\u2019t matter how many times I say it, I\u2019ll have face-to-face conversations with people, and I\u2019ll flat-out tell them to their face, and they won\u2019t believe me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd they\u2019re like, \u2018Oh yeah, sure.\u2019 Wink, wink. And I\u2019m, like, I don\u2019t know how to make it more clear.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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