Marjorie Taylor Greene blasts Trump for ‘vicious’ attacks amid pipe bomb scare and death threat against her son

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., blasted President Donald Trump on Sunday for his attacks against her in recent weeks, suggesting his rhetoric could be responsible for a recent pipe bomb threat at her construction company.

Then, hours after her post, the local police said her son had been the target of a death threat.

“President Trump’s unwarranted and vicious attacks against me were a dog whistle to dangerous radicals that could lead to serious attacks on me and my family,” Greene wrote Sunday night on X, without providing details about the pipe bomb threat.

On Monday morning, police in Rome, Georgia, where Greene lives, received a pair of emails “in reference to the threat of Assassination to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s son,” according to an incident report obtained by NBC News.

The two emails targeting her son, Derek Green, were sent from the same address. One said “I am going to assassinate MTG’s son” and appeared to name him, though the name was redacted in the police report. The other said: “I already have the plane ticket booked … MTG’s son [redacted] will have his life snuffed out soon … better watch his back.”

Derek Greene turned 22 in April, his mother posted at the time.

Police said they forwarded the threats to the Secret Service for investigation. When reached for comment, Secret Service spokesperson Nate Herring said Greene is not a protectee of the agency.

U.S. Capitol Police did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday evening.

An Indiana state senator was swatted at his home Sunday just hours after Trump criticized him and other Republican lawmakers for not moving forward with redrawing the state’s congressional map ahead of next year’s elections.

Greene warned in her post Sunday that Trump and other conservatives’ calling her a “traitor” to the Republican Party “puts blood in the water and creates a feeding frenzy. And it could ultimately lead to a harmful or even deadly outcome.”

The White House didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Asked Sunday evening about Greene’s claim that his comments are putting her life in danger, Trump told reporters: “I don’t think her life is in danger. I don’t think, frankly, I don’t think anybody cares about her.”

Greene’s feud with Trump intensified over the weekend after Trump announced Friday on Truth Social that he was withdrawing his support for her. Greene has drawn the ire of Trump and other Republicans in Congress after she broke with her party on several high-profile issues. Most recently, she criticized Republicans in Congress over their approach to health care amid the government shutdown and their opposition to legislation that would order the Justice Department to release the government’s files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

“It really makes you wonder what is in those files and who and what country is putting so much pressure on him?” Greene wrote Saturday on X, clarifying Sunday that she doesn’t believe Trump would be implicated in wrongdoing if the files were released.

She also said Saturday that she was receiving threats after Trump criticized her on social media and said he was withdrawing his endorsement from her. Greene said private security firms were contacting her with warnings about her safety “as a hot bed of threats against me are being fueled and egged on by the most powerful man in the world.”

Greene has been on the other side of similar accusations in the past. In 2021, then-Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., received death threats after he supported the bipartisan infrastructure bill. He told The Detroit News that the threats came after Greene shared the names and phone numbers of Upton and a dozen other House Republicans who supported the legislation.

Interviewing Greene on CNN’s “State of the Union,” anchor Dana Bash noted Sunday that when Trump has attacked or criticized others, Greene hasn’t spoken out against him — until such attacks were directed at her.

“Dana, I think that’s fair criticism, and I would like to say humbly, I’m sorry for taking part in the toxic politics,” Greene said. “It’s very bad for our country. And it’s been something I’ve thought about a lot, especially since Charlie Kirk was assassinated.”

U.S. Capitol Police said in an assessment in February that threats against lawmakers and their families and staff increased in 2024 for the second year in a row, going from about 8,000 concerning statements and direct threats in 2023 to nearly 9,500 last year.

Numerous lawmakers expressed concern about their safety after the September assassination of Kirk, a conservative activist. Meanwhile, a new NBC News poll found that more than 6 in 10 registered voters think “extreme political rhetoric” was an important contributor to Kirk’s killing.