Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., blasted President Donald Trump on Sunday for his attacks against her in recent weeks, suggesting his rhetoric could be responsible for a recent pipe-bomb threat at her construction company as well as hoax pizza deliveries.
“President Trump’s unwarranted and vicious attacks against me were a dog whistle to dangerous radicals that could lead to serious attacks on me and my family,” Greene wrote in a post on X.
The congresswoman didn’t provide additional details about the pipe bomb threat. Her comments come after an Indiana state senator was swatted at his home on Sunday just hours after Trump criticized him and other Republican lawmakers for not moving forward with redrawing the state’s congressional map ahead of next year’s elections.
Greene warned that Trump and other conservatives calling her a “traitor” to the Republican Party “puts blood in the water and creates a feeding frenzy. And it could ultimately lead to a harmful or even deadly outcome.”
NBC News reached out to the White House for comment.
When asked Sunday evening about Greene’s claim that his comments are putting her life in danger, Trump told reporters, “I don’t think her life is in danger. I don’t think, frankly, I don’t think anybody cares about her.”
Greene’s feud with Trump intensified over the weekend after the president announced on Truth Social on Friday that he was withdrawing his support for the congresswoman. Greene has drawn the ire of Trump and other Republicans in Congress after breaking with her party on several high profile issues. Most recently, she criticized Republicans in Congress over their approach to health care amid the government shutdown and their opposition to legislation that would order the Justice Department to release the government’s files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“It really makes you wonder what is in those files and who and what country is putting so much pressure on him?” Greene wrote Saturday on X, later clarifying Sunday that she doesn’t believe Trump would be implicated in wrongdoing if the files were released.
The lawmaker also said Saturday that she was receiving threats after Trump criticized her on social media and said he was withdrawing his endorsement from her. Greene said private security firms were contacting her with warnings for her safety “as a hot bed of threats against me are being fueled and egged on by the most powerful man in the world.”
Greene has been on the other side of similar accusations in the past. In 2021, then-Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., received death threats after supporting the bipartisan infrastructure bill. He told The Detroit News that the threats came after Greene shared the names and phone numbers of Upton and a dozen other House Republicans who supported the legislation.
While interviewing Greene on CNN’s “State of the Union,” anchor Dana Bash noted Sunday that when Trump has attacked or criticized others, Greene hasn’t spoken out against him — until such attacks were directed at her.
“Dana, I think that’s fair criticism, and I would like to say humbly, I’m sorry for taking part in the toxic politics,” Greene said. “It’s very bad for our country. And it’s been something I’ve thought about a lot, especially since Charlie Kirk was assassinated.”
U.S. Capitol Police said in an assessment in February that threats against lawmakers and their families and staff had increased in 2024 for the second year in a row, going from about 8,000 concerning statements and direct threats in 2023 to nearly 9,500 last year.
Numerous lawmakers expressed concern about their safety after the September assassination of Kirk, a conservative activist. Meanwhile, a new NBC News poll found that more than six in 10 registered voters think “extreme political rhetoric” was an important contributor to Kirk’s killing.
