Marjorie Taylor Greene explains why she is quitting Congress, claims she "stood for women who were r*ped when they were 14"

Marjorie Taylor Greene, in an interview on CBS News 60 Minutes on December 7, 2025, explained the circumstances that led to her decision to resign from Congress. Once regarded as one of President Donald Trump’s most loyal and visible allies, the Georgian Republican reflected on the shift in her political standing and why she now viewed her departure as both unavoidable and necessary.

While Greene has spoken publicly about policy disputes and strategic disagreements, she identified a specific moment as the turning point in her relationship with Trump and the party leadership. She recounted in the interview:

“I stood for women who were r*ped when they were 14 years old. And the president that I fought for for five years called me a traitor for that. And so that changed the landscape of things.”

On November 21, 2025, Greene announced her resignation from the House of Representatives via an official statement posted on social media. Her last day in the office will be January 5, 2026.

Marjorie Taylor Greene explains her decision to leave Congress

In the 60 Minutes interview, Marjorie Taylor Greene laid out in detail the situations that pushed her to the point of resignation. She also offered a look into what she described as deep fractures within the Republican Party’s internal culture and its relationship with Donald Trump.

The congresswoman claimed that many of her GOP colleagues had privately expressed unease about the president while outwardly aligning with him once it became politically advantageous. Greene recounted how the shift unfolded, telling the program:

“I watched many of my colleagues go from making fun of him, making fun of how he talks, making fun of me constantly for supporting him, to when he won the primary in 2024, they all started — excuse my language — kissing his a**.”

Marjorie Taylor Green recently appeared on CBS News' 60 Minutes (Image via Getty)

Marjorie Taylor Greene added that several Republicans, previously hesitant to identify with the movement, had “decided to put on a MAGA hat for the first time.” Further claiming that many lawmakers had refrained from voicing disagreements, she said:

“I think they’re terrified to step outta line and get a nasty Truth Social post on them. Yes.”

She argued that the dynamic she had described created a congressional environment in which political survival was prioritised over transparency, independence, and policy-driven debate.

In Marjorie Taylor Greene's telling, her own break with Trump accelerated when she challenged his handling of matters related to Jeffrey Epstein’s case files and aligned herself with survivors. That opposition, she said, unleashed a wave of hostility that increasingly came from within the right itself. In a series of posts on X, she wrote:

“All of the death threats came from the ‘left’ until I stood with the Epstein Survivors, woman who were raped as teenagers, abused, and trafficked by rich powerful men – and that’s when President Trump turned on me and called me a ‘traitor’ and then new death threats and harassments came from the ‘right’ or somewhere.”

She added that she had even relayed threats targeting her son to Trump directly.

“I sent these assassination threats on my son to President Trump in which he responded with harsh accusatory replies and zero sympathy,” she wrote.

Beyond the personal fallout, Marjorie Taylor Greene reiterated grievances about Trump’s governing priorities. She argued that the administration’s focus drifted from domestic concerns central to the “America First” vision, saying:

“For an America First president, the number one focus should have been domestic policy, and it wasn’t. And so, of course I was critical because those were my campaign promises. Once we fix everything here, then, fine, we’ll talk to the rest of the world.”

Marjorie Taylor Greene was first elected to Congress in 2020, representing Georgia's 14th district. She was re-elected twice in 2022 and 2024. The congresswoman has not yet clarified whether she will run for the seat in the upcoming 2026 midterm elections.

Edited by Riya Peter