Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Trump is Reason for Hold on Epstein Files Release

It doesn't work that way. Only the speaker approves what we're all allowed to vote on. So they had a massive hold on the resolution to release Epstein files. Why was that? Because Donald Trump. 100% we knew that. If you were in the GOP conference, you knew it was coming directly from the top. He had, and I knew it even more so because I knew everybody in the White House, and he had a 100% lock. On this is not going to be released. I mean, he had a tight leash on Pam Bondi. This is not going to be released. He had a tight leash on Speaker Johnson, Leader Thune. These are not going to be released. Shut it down. And so if you remember leading into this, it was this resolution to release the Epstein files. Well, because that was such a major fight, also at the time, the Epstein victims, these women were coming to Washington and coming and talking to us, and I was like, oh my gosh, I really want to talk to these women, and so I did. I started talking to them, and thankfully, they came to my office, and I got to talk to them, and if you've ever seen anyone tell a story, And these women would tell their story, and they, it was physical. It wasn't just words they were speaking. Their bodies would shake. They would have tears. They would sob. And this isn't just in front of cameras. This would be in private meetings and closed doors. And that just cut me to the core. And these women were telling the truth. And so for me, it was like the easiest thing, the easiest thing in the world to go down there and sign my name on this discharge petition, which was required for us to take the power away from Speaker Johnson and get the resolution to the floor for a vote, because we needed 218 signatures to get the resolution to the floor for a vote. And I was like, my gosh, that's the easiest signature I can sign. It's a layup, right. But then you got yelled at by Trump. Oh, I knew it was coming, though. I knew it was coming, but I didn't care. It's like, who cares? Yeah. I don't care. I'd already gotten yelled at by him multiple times. I was already frustrated. I already... I was like, for me, I think I was strapped in on the front row of a roller coaster. You know on a roller coaster when you're going up the big hill and it's slowly pulling you up the hill and you know what's about to happen? I was strapped in on the front row. I was like, this whole thing is going sideways. He's already bombed Iran. He's probably going to do it again. He's already fighting. He's boosting big tech. People don't want data centers. He apparently... Really is behind a central bank digital currency, and he's all about selling his coins to people, which that's it. My goodness. He said to you. Okay, sorry, I get off track on that one. It's a lot of money been made. As you implored him to release the files and said, maybe you should go have. Well, what happened was I signed my name on the resolution and a pressure cooker started. Yeah. And by the way, at that time, and I'm dear friends with Thomas Massey, they were already challenging him in his primary. And I was watching tens of millions of dollars go up on television pounding him and his district, which was ridiculous. And I was getting phone calls from people on his staff. I was getting pressure, Mike Johnson, everybody coming to me about, you know, you need to take your name off this resolution. And I was adamant, absolutely not. They were also pressuring Lauren Boebert. They were pressuring Nancy Mace. And, but I was the one. I was, like, the hardest one to move, and so... You were the one that President Trump said, my friends will get hurt. I got a phone call from the president, and I was in my office in the Rayburn building, and he called me from the White House, and I'll never forget it, and I picked up my phone, and I was like, oh, boy, he's calling. This is not going to be good. Not going to be good. And I was like, hello, Mr. President. And that phone call was not good, and he proceeded to tell me, you know, he wanted me to take my name off the resolution that some files cannot be released, and I had told him, I said, you know, you really need to have these women in. You really need to have them in the Oval Office. Because, I said, Mr. President, you have everybody in the Oval Office. You have sports teams. You have all types of world leaders. And at that point, I mean, this whole presidency has been a revolving door of every foreign leader all over the world. We've even had terrorists in the Oval Office. And I said, you need to have these women in there. And he refused. He refused. I said, and this is what blew me away, Mr. President, they voted for you. Quite a few of them I talked to voted for you. You should have them in there. Like, I could not believe that. And he wouldn't. And he told me, he said, he said, Marjorie, people you know will get hurt. My friends, people you know at Mar-a-Lago. And he's totally against releasing the Epstein files. And so, in the weeks that followed, I mean, you held fast.