Marjorie Taylor Greene says she is receiving threats amid rift with Trump

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Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia connected Saturday said she is receiving threats, 1 time aft President Trump announced helium is ending his enactment for his erstwhile longtime ally.

Greene has been 1 of Mr. Trump's astir ardent supporters going backmost to his archetypal term, but seemingly broke with the president connected respective cardinal issues implicit the past fewer weeks, including the governmental disagreement implicit health attraction funding, which pb to the longest authorities shutdown successful U.S. history, and the controversy implicit the merchandise of files related to convicted enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein.

"Aggressive rhetoric attacking maine has historically led to decease threats and aggregate convictions of men who were radicalized by the aforesaid benignant rhetoric being directed astatine maine close now," Greene wrote successful a lengthy societal media post. "This clip by the President of the United States. As a pistillate I instrumentality threats from men seriously. I present person a tiny knowing of the fearfulness and unit the women, who are victims of Jeffrey Epstein and his cabal, indispensable feel."

She did not item the nonstop quality of the threats. Greene's location has been the target of aggregate swatting calls successful the past.

A radical of much than 2 twelve radical that place arsenic Epstein survivors, oregon household members of survivors, released a associated connection Saturday successful enactment of Greene.

"Thank you for lasting up against the intimidation, silencing, and maltreatment that Epstein survivors person endured for decades," the connection read. "...You person our afloat support."

In an email to CBS News, a spokesperson for the radical added that galore of them person gotten decease threats, adding it's "part of the terms of speaking out."

In a bombshell Friday night, Mr. Trump took to Truth Social to constitute that helium was "withdrawing" his "support and Endorsement" of Greene, indicating that helium mightiness adjacent backmost an effort to superior her. He besides accused her of going "far Left."

"She has told galore radical that she is upset that I don't instrumentality her telephone calls anymore, but with 219 Congressmen/women, 53 U.S. Senators, 24 Cabinet Members, astir 200 Countries, and an different mean beingness to lead, I can't instrumentality a ranting Lunatic's telephone each day," the president wrote.

Greene responded connected societal media by saying "President Trump conscionable attacked maine and lied astir me. I haven't called him astatine all, but I did nonstop these substance messages today. Apparently this is what sent him implicit the edge."

The 2 proceed to speech barbs connected Saturday, with the president doubling-down, writing that "Marjorie 'Traitor' Green is simply a disgrace to our GREAT REPUBLICAN PARTY!"

Greene was among 1 of just 4 House Republicans that joined each Democrats past week successful signing a discharge petition to unit a House ballot that, if besides approved by the Senate, would necessitate the Justice Department to merchandise each materials related to Epstein.

"It truly makes you wonderment what is successful those files and who and what state is putting truthful overmuch unit connected him?" Green wrote Saturday of the president.

The House Oversight Committee on Wednesday released more than 20,000 pages of documents related to Epstein, and immoderate House Democrats said the contents rise questions astir what Mr. Trump knew of Epstein's activities.

In an exclusive interrogation with "CBS Mornings" Friday, Greene called Mr. Trump's absorption to the merchandise of the Epstein files a "huge miscalculation," arguing that the president has not been accused of misconduct successful narration to Epstein.

"I genuinely conscionable basal with the women, and I deliberation they merit to beryllium the ones that we're warring for," she said.

Greene has besides appeared to broadside with Democratic lawmakers who are calling connected Congress to widen the expiring Affordable Care Act taxation credits. The standoff implicit those credits sparked the 43-day authorities shutdown, which yet ended this week erstwhile 8 Democratic senators crossed the aisle and reached a woody with their Republican counterparts.

"Now that the [Affordable Care Act] taxation credits are expiring, which the Democrats did enactment successful spot — and they acceptable the expiration day for this twelvemonth — I spot a fiscal situation for Americans," Greene told "CBS Morning." "And truthful connected this issue, I don't spot governmental enactment lines."

Joe Walsh contributed to this report.