Trump yelled "My friends will get hurt" at MTG re: file release

[Tanuki]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-yelled-friends-hurt-marjorie-181823942.html

..."The Epstein files represent everything wrong with Washington,” Greene, 51, told the Times for the Dec. 29 profile, which was based on multiple interviews with the outgoing Republican congresswoman. “Rich, powerful elites doing horrible things and getting away with it. And the women are the victims.”

In September, Greene spoke directly to Epstein survivors during a closed-door House Oversight hearing, which moved her to fight for accountability on their behalf. After leaving the hearing, she rallied reporters and publicly threatened that, if necessary, she would work with victims to reveal the names of Epstein's associates who perpetrated sexual abuse against women and girls.

That threat, she said, resulted in a hostile phone call from the president — their last proper conversation.

According to the Times, which heard about the call through both Greene and one of her staffers, Trump, 79, rang her Capitol Hill office to voice his frustration with her public advocacy on the issue. The whole office could allegedly hear him yelling at her on speakerphone, according to her staffer.
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Greene claimed that when she expressed confusion to Trump on the call over his resistance to outing Epstein's potential conspirators, the president told her, "My friends will get hurt."

[MIButterfly]

1. Oh please, that man has no friends. He should've said his BENEFACTORS will get hurt.

[electric_blue68]

15. Bwah! Yeah, my First thought...

What friends?!!!


Like Gollum to Smegal: "You don't have any friends!"

[Amaryllis]

28. I can hear him saying it...

[Walleye]

2. That's right, Donald. And they won't be your friends anymore. They never liked you in the first place.

[UTUSN]

3. He left out, "And so will *I*! "

[Marie Marie]

13. This right here. He doesn't care about any of his "friends" - he'd throw them under the bus in a NY minute

if it would save his lard ass. HE is the one HE is worried about.

[OldBaldy1701E]

32. Hell, he left that out as the biggest person who would 'get hurt'. (n/t)

[newdeal2]

4. He has no friends

Other than Epstein. So he was afraid of getting hurt.

Also doesn't fit with his Dem hoax theories.

[PJMcK]

16. Epstein and Trump weren't friends in any meaningful sense

They were co-conspirators in their criminal activities abusing and raping girls.

[newdeal2]

22. Odd take given all we know

Friends are often based upon shared interests and you can guess what theirs was. And yes they were friends for many, many years.

[dem4decades]

5. Did he say that when Republicans wanted to back Ukraine too?

[Tribetime]

6. My friends....the voices in his head talking to him

[2naSalit]

10. That's what I was going to say!

[PCIntern]

7. When he says "friends"

He’s referring to his own balls. One can only wonder what he named his dick many years ago.

[NewLarry]

30. Tiny Tim

or maybe Little Willie?

[Bristlecone]

8. Friends like John Barron and John Miller

[Seinan Sensei]

23. Otherwise known as Left Ball and Right Ball

[progressoid]

9. Ya mean the "friends" who are paying for your ballroom?

[progressoid]

11. Over 500 comments and I couldn't find a possitive one for the orange anus.

[Initech]

12. Good! Fuck 'em all!

[S/V Loner]

14. What was left out was that...

his steam of blackmail money will run dry if they are arrested.

[patphil]

17. He wouldn't say "my friends will get hurt" unless he was getting big time favors from those "friends".

Trump would never do anything to spare one or more of his friends, unless the friends have something he really wants, or needs. Or, the "friend" has something on Trump that needs to be protected.
It's more likely he's the friend he wants to protect.

[popsdenver]

20. Knowing Trump, he is already

extorting blackmail money from all of those that would be revealed, and once they are revealed, there is no reason for those individuals to keep paying him a fortune to keep their names quiet....

[Emile]

18. BS, Trump only worries about himself.

[poozwah]

19. damn!

what friends? me, myself, and i?

[bluestarone]

21. All his friends are either in HELL, or headed that way. So

I say hey, TSF should just DIE and go see them! YOU need to be with your friends, everyone of them!!

[Wiz Imp]

24. I totally believe this to be true.

My question, though, is why did MTG wait until now to make this public? I mean, I can understand her holding it back until he threw her under the bus. But as soon as that happened, she should have announced this immediately.

[yellowcanine]

25. I guess he means Dershowitz. Only friend I know of.

[usonian]

26. "Friends" are people who enable and abet his crimes.

I don't bet, but if I did ...

[IronLionZion]

27. His friends sound sketchy as hell

[Blue Owl]

29. Like Andrew Tate and that other loser?

Good. Let the blows rain down on them all, the fat fuck included

[AllyCat]

31. The women AND CHILDREN are the victims...fixed it for her.

She is at least correct on this issue. I hope she continues to fight this turd of a Pedoprez.

He is the lowest scum on the planet, but I thought she would have known about this before she propped him up for 10 years. Glad she sees the light now.

[Figarosmom]

33. He doesn't have any friends.

He meant his free ride would be over. He only has hangers on that think they'll get something from him and contributing persons that know they'll get something from him.

[BurnDoubt]

34. The Term Is "Henchmen".

There is POSSIBLY a peaceful use MTG.

[BurnDoubt]

35. BTW....

When did he care about the People of the US… or the World for that matter?
BTW, again… Melania’s Motto plays well here.

[Ineedamoment]

36. Friends? More like co-conspirators.

What a creep!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

37. I Was Just So Nave': Inside Marjorie Taylor Greene's Break With Trump (gift article)

How the Georgia congresswoman went from the president’s loudest cheerleader to his loudest Republican critic.

Link to tweet

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....Most significant, she defied the president and compliant House Republican leaders as she argued that all investigative material pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein should be released. “The Epstein files represent everything wrong with Washington,” Greene told me in December. “Rich, powerful elites doing horrible things and getting away with it. And the women are the victims.”.....

For Greene, the decades that Epstein spent eluding justice for exploiting and sexually assaulting countless girls and young women while amassing a fortune, and the seeming efforts by the government to cover up the injustice, “represents everything wrong with Washington,” she told me. This September, Greene spoke with several of Epstein’s victims for the first time in a closed-door House Oversight Committee meeting. She knew that the women had paid their own way to come to Washington. She saw some of them trembling and crying as they spoke. Their accounts struck her as entirely believable. Greene herself had never been sexually abused, but she knew women who had. In her own small way, Greene later told me, she could understand what it was like for a woman to stand up to a powerful man.

After the hearing, Greene held a news conference at which she threatened to identify some of the men who had abused the women. (Greene says that she didn’t know those names herself but that she could have gotten them from the victims.) Trump called Greene to voice his displeasure. Greene was in her Capitol Hill office, and according to a staff member, everyone in the suite of rooms could hear him yelling at her as she listened to him on speakerphone. Greene says she expressed her perplexity over his intransigence. According to Greene, Trump replied, “My friends will get hurt.”

When she urged Trump to invite some of Epstein’s female victims to the Oval Office, she says, he angrily informed her that they had done nothing to merit the honor. It would be the last conversation Greene and Trump would ever have.