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Published 16:23 04 May 2026 GMT
Marjorie Taylor Greene has made shocking new claims about a private text message she says Donald Trump sent her about her son, telling an audience the message was so damaging she would 'probably get put in jail' if she released it publicly.
The former Republican congresswoman, who resigned from Congress in November 2025 after a public falling-out with Trump over the Epstein files, made the comments during a speech delivered at the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity's spring conference on April 25 in Lake Jackson, Texas.
A clip of the speech has since gone viral on social media, fuelling fresh scrutiny of the acrimonious Trump/Greene feud.
Speaking to the in-person audience, Greene said she had reached out to several senior figures in Trump's orbit after the death threats against her family escalated to her 22-year-old son Derek.
"I sent them to all these people," Greene said, referring to the threats.
She continued: "I got no response from Susie Wiles - none - and she's a mother and grandmother and a woman.
"Got no response from James Blair because he only cares about making money on campaigns.
"I did hear from Kash Patel. He said 'on it,' but I haven't heard from him since.
"I don't know what he's on. JD Vance was very nice to me, compassionate and kind, and reassured that he would do everything we could to find out what's going on."
Then, she said, came the response from Trump himself.
"Then I heard back from Donald Trump, and I've saved these text messages. I'd probably get put in jail if I released them publicly, but I saved them," she said.
"Where Donald Trump proceeded to tell me that it was my fault and that I deserve it.
"If my son gets killed, I deserve it because I was a traitor to him."
Greene then turned the comments back on the man she once defended at every turn.
"That is our president of the United States. That's a man [who] says MAGA whatever he wants it to be."
Greene did not specify what law or which authority she believed could be used to jail her if she made the text message public.
The comment has been widely interpreted by viewers as a reference to potential legal pressure from the Trump-aligned Department of Justice.
The current Attorney General is Pam Bondi, a long-time Trump ally.
The White House has not commented on Greene's claim that she could be imprisoned for releasing the message.
It is also not the first time Greene has detailed the text exchange publicly.
She made similar claims in an interview with Piers Morgan in mid-April, although she didn't say that she could go to jail if she revealed the nature of the texts.
In her earlier Morgan interview, Greene paraphrased Trump as saying that 'if my son were to get killed, it would be my fault' and said the exchange was 'the nail in the coffin' in her relationship with the president.
The Trump White House has previously dismissed Greene's claims, with a spokesperson telling The Hill that she was 'a quitter who is pathetically trying to stay relevant by going on liberal media shows to bash President Trump.'
In a 60 Minutes interview in early December 2025, Greene first revealed that one of the death threats against her son arrived via an anonymous email with the subject line 'Marjorie Traitor Greene' - the very nickname Trump had publicly given her the day before.
"Derek will have his life snuffed out soon," the email reportedly read.
"Better watch his back."
Greene has previously claimed she received close to 700 death threats during the height of her dispute with Trump over the release of the Epstein files.
She has consistently said the threats came in two waves - first from the political left during her years as a MAGA loyalist, and then from the political right after Trump branded her a 'traitor' for backing the Epstein files release.
Greene was, for years, one of Trump's most prominent and combative supporters in Congress.
The relationship soured in late 2025 when she became one of just four Republicans to sign a discharge petition forcing a vote on the release of the Epstein files.
According to Greene, in the final phone call she had with Trump before resigning, the president urged her to remove her name from the petition and warned her that 'his friends would get hurt' if the documents were released.
The relationship collapsed publicly within days.
Trump branded her a 'traitor' and a 'disgrace' on Truth Social, withdrew his political support, and signalled he would back a primary challenger against her. Greene resigned from Congress in November 2025.
In the months since, she has publicly called for Trump to be assessed under the 25th Amendment, describing his recent threats to wipe out the 'whole civilization' of Iran as 'evil' and showing 'real mental depravity,' and called his recent AI-generated image of himself depicted as Jesus Christ 'blasphemous.'
The Greene-Trump feud is now playing out against a chaotic political backdrop for the 79-year-old president, who has been firing off late-night Truth Social rants in record numbers and is currently waging an ongoing war with Iran that has divided his MAGA base.
Trump has also been criticised in recent days for the way he responded to the news of his former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani being hospitalised in critical condition, with the president using the announcement as an opportunity to attack Democrats.
For Greene's part, she does not appear to be backing down.
As she put it in her speech, the existence of the text messages, saved on her phone, leaves no doubt in her mind about who Trump is.
Whether she ever releases the text message itself is, by her own account, another question entirely.
