Former Trump ally Marjorie Taylor Greene blames him for threats against her after their split

Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene accuses US President Donald Trump of putting her life in danger, saying his online criticism has triggered a wave of threats against her.

Greene is a former longtime Trump loyalist who has more recently taken positions at odds with the president, including her harsh criticism of Israel, which she has accused of “genocide.”

She posted on X yesterday that she has been contacted by private security firms warning about her safety.

“Aggressive rhetoric attacking me has historically led to death threats and multiple convictions of men who were radicalized by the same type [of] rhetoric being directed at me right now,” Greene, a firebrand US House of Representatives member from Georgia, wrote in a post. “This time by the President of the United States.”

Trump broke with Greene on Friday night in a withering social media post in which he referred to Greene as “Wacky” and a “ranting lunatic” who complained he would not take her calls. He continued his criticism on Saturday with two more social media posts, calling her a “Lightweight Congresswoman,” “Traitor” and a “disgrace” to the Republican Party.

He withdrew his endorsement of Greene, writing that conservative voters in her district might consider a primary challenger and that he would support the right candidate against her in next year’s congressional election.

In her first response posted on Friday, Greene accused Trump of lying about her and trying to intimidate other Republicans before a House of Representatives vote next week on releasing files related to the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender who was friendly with Trump in the 1990s and 2000s before they had a falling out.