Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., expressed support for President Donald Trump and his agenda Sunday after becoming one of the latest and most visible targets of his anger.

“I do support him and his administration,” she said in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” just days after the president publicly rebuked her in a social media post laced with insults over her recent breaks with him, including her support for the release of Justice Department records related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Greene, long one of president’s closest political allies, said the rupture stems largely from her position on the Epstein files, which she has said was rooted in transparency, not disloyalty. The response from Trump had been unfortunate, she said, but vowed not to back down, telling CNN that she would “continue to do my small part to get the files released.”

Fallout Has Been Potentially Dangerous

The fallout has been personal and potentially dangerous, she warned, saying that the president’s decision to call her a “traitor” could inflame extremists. “Those are the types of words used that can radicalize people against me and put my life in danger,” she said, describing the episode as the most intense clash yet in their relationship.

On Sunday evening, Greene wrote on social media that she and members of her family had been receiving repeated “hoax pizza deliveries” to their homes. She also described a “pipe bomb threat” directed at the offices of her construction company.

She linked the threats to social media posts in which Trump called her “wacky” and a “traitor,” describing his remarks as a “dog whistle” for some of his followers to harass her. “This puts blood in the water and creates a feeding frenzy,” she wrote. “And it could ultimately lead to a harmful or even deadly outcome.”

That relationship has been strained for months as Greene increasingly challenged the president on issues ranging from foreign aid to internal House strategy. The split burst into full view this past week as Trump escalated his attacks, portraying her as insufficiently faithful to his Make America Great Again movement and blasting her over a pattern of increasingly independent positions that irritated the president and his closest allies.

Greene is not the only Republican pushing the Trump administration on the Epstein matter. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., who has taken a leading role in the bipartisan bill that would compel the Justice Department to release the Epstein files, accused Trump on Sunday of trying to block the bill to “protect a bunch of rich and powerful friends.”

He urged other Republicans to support the bill, telling ABC’s “This Week” that the record of their votes “will last longer than Donald Trump’s presidency.”

Speaker Mike Johnson, who said last week he would move up the timeline for a vote on the bill to this week, told “Fox News Sunday” that the House just needed to “get this done and move it on.” He added, “There’s nothing to hide.”

Trump Could Veto

Should the vote succeed this week, the bill would face tough odds in the Senate — and Trump would be all but certain to veto it.

Massie on Sunday said he hoped enough Republicans would support the bill to secure a “veto-proof” majority, the latest example of his refusal to back down from his call for releasing the files. He’s maintained that position despite repeated rebukes from the president, including Friday night, when Trump assailed Massie for remarrying a little more than a year after his wife’s death.

Massie told ABC that his new bride’s response was that Trump was “mad that he didn’t get an invitation.” He added, “Dogs don’t bark at parked cars, and we are winning.”

Trump has sought to distance himself from Epstein, with whom he was friends starting in the 1980s to the early 2000s, when that relationship frayed. Trump said the split happened after Epstein “hired away” female staff members from his Mar-a-Lago estate and resort, saying repeatedly that he “threw him out” of the Florida club for that reason.

Last week, a tranche of Epstein’s emails released by the House Oversight Committee reignited scrutiny of their yearslong association. The messages include statements from Epstein that Trump “spent hours” at his house with one of his victims, and that Trump “knew about the girls” in Epstein’s network of abuse.

Trump has long denied any knowledge of Epstein’s actions, and Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, denounced “selectively released emails” as an attempt to “smear” the president.

Even so, the release of the messages has only added to the questions about the president’s relationship with Epstein.

For Greene, who built her brand on reflexive alignment with Trump and rode that allegiance to national prominence, the president’s hostility represented a sudden reversal. In response, she has sought to simultaneously defend her record and reaffirm her support without relying on the type of confrontational rhetoric that has been her hallmark.

Greene has recast herself as a voice for unity at a moment when her party is mired in internal conflict, urging Trump and other fellow Republicans in recent days to pull back from the edge.

“I think America needs to come together and end all the toxic, dangerous rhetoric,” she said on CNN. “I’m leading the way with my own example and I hope that President Trump can do the same.”

She added: “I would like to say, humbly, I’m sorry for taking part in the toxic politics.”

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This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

By Robert Jimison and Minho Kim/Tierney L. Cross
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