Marjorie Taylor Greene

It was the most shocking thing when I sat in a conference meeting and I learned that the president didn't want to release the Epstein files.

I was like, what?

Yeah, come to find out he was very much against it.

So we kept on trying and kept on talking about it.

And then the president told Mike Johnson, no, do not bring that resolution to the floor for a vote.

He told the Rules Committee and Johnson told the Rules Committee, no, you will not mark up any bill in the Rules Committee that will allow the Epstein files to be released.

And the resistance built and built and built.

He told Pam Bondi, don't release the Epstein files.

He told everybody, don't release the Epstein files.

Well, I'll never forget it.

I was in my office in the Rayburn building, and I got a phone call from the president.

And he was at the White House, and he wanted to talk to me about the discharge petition that I'd signed my name on.

And he said, Marjorie, you're going to have to take your name off that discharge petition.

This is a hoax.

We can't carry this.

This is a hoax.

It's a Democrat hoax.

And we've got to just put this away and stop doing this.

And he said, my friends are going to get hurt.

He said his friends would get hurt if we released the Epstein files.