Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) says President Donald Trump was “blocking everybody” last year from releasing documents on late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein — and said he “flat out” told then-Attorney General Pam Bondi, “Do not release the Epstein files.”

Greene on Tuesday joined “The Shannon Joy Show” to discuss her infamous split with Trump, who called her a “traitor” for demanding the release of the files. One prominent administration official had already suggested the public would get answers about Epstein after Trump returned to the White House.

“He had his administration, the White House, telling … [House Speaker Mike] Johnson and [Senate Majority Leader John] Thune, ‘Stop this, do not pass any resolution to release the Epstein files,’” Greene told the conservative podcaster.

She continued: “He told Pam Bondi at the DOJ — no matter what you think of Pam Bondi — he flat out told her, ‘Do not release the Epstein files.’ He was blocking everybody.”

Epstein died behind bars in an apparent suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges. His death and known ties to prominent people fueled rumors of a “client list,” which Bondi vowed in February 2025 to release. She later said her words in regard to the existence of a list were misconstrued.

Bondi reportedly told Trump in May that his name is all over the files. Trump began to decry public interest in the case, calling it a Democratic “hoax,” but signed legislation in November to release the remaining Department of Justice files amid enormous bipartisan pressure.

The House Oversight Committee recently subpoenaed Bondi for a deposition about her handling of the case and the incomplete release of highly redacted files, but she did not comply, arguing it does not apply since she is no longer attorney general. Joy on Tuesday asked Greene if she thinks Trump, rather than Bondi, impeded the overall case.

“I know he did,” Greene said. “And I don’t have any knowledge of him and Pam Bondi’s personal conversations, but I know he was telling everyone not to release the files. And his reasoning was, is people are going to get hurt, is what he said. He kept saying that.”

She continued, “He was publicly saying it’s a Democrat hoax … saying all this stuff and shaming people. But behind the scenes, he was telling all of us, he was telling Mike Johnson, he was telling everybody, telling Pam Bondi, ‘People are going to get hurt.’”

Greene previously divulged as much in a New York Times profile published in December, revealing at the time that Trump called her “to voice his displeasure” after she threatened to “say every damn name” of Epstein’s co-conspirators if the DOJ did not release the files.

Greene said Tuesday that during their “final conversation, when he had really had it with me, because I wouldn’t take my name off the discharge petition and I was publicly saying over and over again, ‘Release the Epstein files,’ he told me, he said, ‘My friends will get hurt.’”

“He told me, ‘People you know, Marjorie, people at Mar-a-Lago. They’re going to get hurt,’” she added. “And I said, ‘People have already gotten hurt. There’s over 1,000 women that have been raped by Jeffrey Epstein — and are accusing others.’”

Greene went on to acknowledge that, at that point, at least, she believed the only “bad guys” related to Epstein were Democrats and said the victims she spoke to told her Trump did nothing wrong, leading to her shock when he “flat-out refused” her pleas for transparency on the case.

She continued, “And then, you saw, everybody saw, how it unfolded.”

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