Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, says her office has documented more than 700 death threats over the past five years—first largely from the political left and now, she says, increasingly from the right after her very public split with President Donald Trump over the Jeffrey Epstein files, she wrote Sunday on X.
Why It Matters
Greene has announced she will leave Congress before the end of her third term, following a dramatic break with Trump. Her departure and estrangement from the former president represent a notable fracture inside the “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) movement, where she had long been one of his most vocal and visible allies. She has frequently helped refine and promote his agenda among hard-right activists and grassroots supporters.
In recent months, however, Greene has become one of the GOP’s most outspoken internal critics, particularly on foreign policy and the handling of the Epstein files. She signed a petition to force a vote on releasing those documents, after which Trump rescinded his endorsement and attacked her on Truth Social, labeling her “Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Green [sic]” and calling her “a disgrace to our GREAT REPUBLICAN PARTY!”
First elected in 2020 and reelected in 2022 and 2024, Greene has long been one of the House’s most polarizing lawmakers. Her campaign filings show spending on personal security predating the current rift with Trump. Lawmakers in both parties have similarly poured large sums into private security, citing escalating threats and a heightened atmosphere of political hostility and violence.
What to Know
In a lengthy X thread on Sunday, Greene described the nature and scale of the threats she says she has received, as well as whom she has turned to for help. She wrote that she has never been assigned an official security detail and that any protection she has had was privately paid for.
“My office has reported 773 death threats to Capitol Police, but those were just the threats that came directly into my office via call or email, and don’t include the countless threats online to myself and my family members. We just didn’t have enough people to constantly monitor that,” she posted.
In a follow-up message, she claimed that the threats originally came from one side of the political spectrum and later shifted: “All of the death threats came from the ‘left’ until I stood with the Epstein Survivors, woman who were raped as teenagers, abused, and trafficked by rich powerful men, and that’s when President Trump turned on me and called me a ‘traitor’ and then new death threats and harassments came from the ‘right’ or somewhere.”
During a recent interview on CBS News’ 60 Minutes, Greene said Trump became “furious” with her after she signed a House discharge petition demanding the release of all government records related to Epstein, the convicted sex offender.
Greene’s account comes as other members of Congress report a spike in threats as well. A group of Democratic lawmakers with national security backgrounds has said that the volume of threatening messages rose after Trump suggested that their comments in a video—where they urged service members not to follow “illegal orders”—were “punishable by DEATH.” Earlier in December, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, said three of his New York offices had received bomb threats via email.
Greene, who is from Georgia, also described a variety of intimidation tactics, including pizza deliveries intended to expose her location, pipe-bomb threats, and explicit assassination threats targeting her son. She said she forwarded “these assassination threats on my son to President Trump,” claiming his responses were “harsh accusatory replies and zero sympathy.”
In another post, Greene defended her record: “My voting and legislation has always been conservative and unapologetically America First,” she wrote, later asking, “Must I stay until I am Charlie Kirk’ed?”—a reference to the public assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk earlier this year.
She concluded her thread by criticizing both her party’s leadership and the Trump administration, saying, “A Congressional Republican majority who takes orders from the WH and relinquishes all control to the executive branch, is not serving the will of their voters. And an admin that only provides results through executive orders only provides temporary policies to the American people.”
“Regardless of left or right, death threats and political violence is out of control,” she added.
What People Are Saying
Representative Tim Burchett, a Tennessee Republican, told Axios in December that threats have weighed heavily on lawmakers’ decisions to step away from Congress, saying, “It takes a toll on people.”
Senator Elissa Slotkin, a Democrat from Michigan, told NBC News in November: “We’ve had hundreds and hundreds, if not, you know, closer to a thousand threats.”
Representative Seth Moulton, a Massachusetts Democrat, wrote in a September X post: “My office has received an extraordinary number of violent and graphic threats yesterday and today from right-wing individuals online and over the phone—directed toward me, my family, and my staff—after I pointed out the simple fact that President Trump should join Speaker [Mike] Johnson and other level-headed Republicans in condemning political violence, not inciting it further.”
What Happens Next?
Greene plans to resign her House seat on January 5, 2026. A special election will be held to fill the vacancy in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District.
