Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Trump’s Rhetoric Has Encouraged Dangerous Actors
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R‑Ga.), who has publicly split with former President Donald Trump over the Epstein records, posted a long message on social media Sunday accusing Trump of sending a “dog whistle to dangerous radicals” with his recent attacks on her.
Greene said Trump’s criticism escalated Saturday after he published two posts that hurled insults at her before labeling her Marjorie “Traitor” Greene. In her social post, she warned that the former president’s rhetoric is putting her and her family at risk and described several incidents she says target her personally.
“The hoax pizza deliveries have started now, to my house and my family members.”
Update: “We also received a pipe‑bomb threat on my construction company’s office building.”
Greene wrote that Trump’s “unwarranted and vicious attacks against me were a dog whistle to dangerous radicals that could lead to serious attacks on me and my family.” She added that she has experienced similar harassment in the past while campaigning and defending Trump, including dozens of swatting calls to her and relatives’ homes, hoax pizza deliveries, and serious death threats—some of which led to convictions and prison sentences.
“I am not a traitor,” Greene declared. “However, when the President of the United States irresponsibly calls a Member of Congress of his own party, traitor, he is signaling what must be done to a traitor… The toxic and dangerous rhetoric in politics must end and we need healing in this country for all Americans.”
On Sunday, as he prepared to fly back to Washington, D.C., Trump spoke briefly with reporters on the tarmac in West Palm Beach, Fla. When asked whether Greene’s life was in danger, he replied, “Her life is in danger? Who’s that?” After being told it was Greene, he said, “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.”
The original version of this story first appeared on Mediaite.
