Greene says she is ‘not suicidal’: ‘If something happens to me…’
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said on social media this weekend that she is not suicidal, raising the prospect of “heinous actions” in response to her support for a measure that would force the release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein.
“I am not suicidal and one of the happiest healthiest people you will meet,” Greene said Saturday on the social media platform, also noting her faith in God. “With that said, if something happens to me, I ask you all to find out which foreign government or powerful people would take heinous actions to stop the information from coming out.”
“Not only about this issue, but because of the truth that I have been speaking,” she added. “The People understand what I’m saying.”
The Georgia representative is one of only four Republican House members to sign a discharge petition that would force a vote on the full release of the Epstein case files. The effort secured its 218th backer with the election of Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D) in Arizona last week; crossing the threshold needed for a vote.
While President Trump has long pledged to bring transparency to the Epstein case, the White House has lobbied hard against the discharge petition, calling it a “very hostile act.”
Greene continues to be a staunch backer of the president, but has repeatedly broken with her party during his second term, on both the Epstein files and foreign policy issues, as she discussed in a New York Times profile published over the weekend.
“I told them, ‘You didn’t get me elected. I do not work for you; I work for my district,’” Greene said. “We aren’t supposed to just be whipped on our votes because they’re telling us what to do with this scary threat, or saying ‘We’ll primary you,’ or that we won’t get invited to the White House events.”
Greene, an isolationist, has also spoken out against U.S. strikes in Iran, continued arming of Ukraine and America’s backing of Israel’s war in Gaza, which she has called a genocide.
In another post on Saturday, Greene said her position on the Epstein files was “not about a pissing contest between political parties or political enemies,” noting that she did not believe Trump himself was implicated in Epstein’s crimes.
“I stand with girls and women who are sexually abused and raped. Period. Every time. At all times,” she wrote.
“If anyone is implicated, then they have the right to clear their name. Just as millions of Americans have had to do when falsely accused of a crime,” she added.
Greene has previously talked about Epstein’s high-powered connections in foreign countries as stifling the push to deliver justice to his victims.
During a press conference on Sept. 3, she said she would read out the names of alleged abusers on the House floor if a list was provided to her.