Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., blasted President Donald Trump on Sunday for his assaults towards her in current weeks, suggesting his rhetoric could possibly be chargeable for a current pipe-bomb risk at her building firm in addition to hoax pizza deliveries.
“President Trump’s unwarranted and cruel assaults towards me had been a canine whistle to harmful radicals that would result in severe assaults on me and my household,” Greene wrote in a submit on X.
The congresswoman did not present further particulars in regards to the pipe bomb risk. Her feedback come after an Indiana state senator was swatted at his dwelling on Sunday simply hours after Trump criticized him and different Republican lawmakers for not transferring ahead with redrawing the state’s congressional map forward of subsequent yr’s elections.
Greene warned that Trump and different conservatives calling her a “traitor” to the Republican Social gathering “places blood within the water and creates a feeding frenzy. And it might in the end result in a dangerous and even lethal consequence.”
NBC Information reached out to the White Home for remark.
When requested Sunday night about Greene’s declare that his feedback are placing her life at risk, Trump informed reporters, “I don’t assume her life is at risk. I don’t assume, frankly, I don’t assume anyone cares about her.”
Greene’s feud with Trump intensified over the weekend after the president introduced on Fact Social on Friday that he was withdrawing his assist for the congresswoman. Greene has drawn the ire of Trump and different Republicans in Congress after breaking along with her get together on a number of excessive profile points. Most lately, she criticized Republicans in Congress over their strategy to well being care amid the federal government shutdown and their opposition to laws that might order the Justice Division to launch the federal government’s information on the late convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“It actually makes you marvel what’s in these information and who and what nation is placing a lot strain on him?” Greene wrote Saturday on X, later clarifying Sunday that she doesn’t imagine Trump could be implicated in wrongdoing if the information had been launched.
The lawmaker additionally mentioned Saturday that she was receiving threats after Trump criticized her on social media and mentioned he was withdrawing his endorsement from her. Greene mentioned personal safety companies had been contacting her with warnings for her security “as a sizzling mattress of threats towards me are being fueled and egged on by essentially the most highly effective man on the earth.”
Greene has been on the opposite facet of comparable accusations previously. In 2021, then-Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., acquired demise threats after supporting the bipartisan infrastructure invoice. He informed The Detroit Information that the threats got here after Greene shared the names and telephone numbers of Upton and a dozen different Home Republicans who supported the laws.
Whereas interviewing Greene on CNN’s “State of the Union,” anchor Dana Bash famous Sunday that when Trump has attacked or criticized others, Greene hasn’t spoken out towards him — till such assaults had been directed at her.
“Dana, I believe that’s honest criticism, and I wish to say humbly, I’m sorry for participating within the poisonous politics,” Greene mentioned. “It’s very unhealthy for our nation. And it’s been one thing I’ve thought of quite a bit, particularly since Charlie Kirk was assassinated.”
U.S. Capitol Police mentioned in an evaluation in February that threats towards lawmakers and their households and workers had elevated in 2024 for the second yr in a row, going from about 8,000 regarding statements and direct threats in 2023 to almost 9,500 final yr.
Quite a few lawmakers expressed concern about their security after the September assassination of Kirk, a conservative activist. In the meantime, a brand new NBC Information ballot discovered that greater than six in 10 registered voters assume “excessive political rhetoric” was an essential contributor to Kirk’s killing.
