Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said she left Congress in January because she feared she would be assassinated like her friend Charlie Kirk if she stayed in the fight against what she called a captured Republican Party.
In a lengthy post on X on Friday, May 29, Greene tied her early exit directly to the September 2025 killing of the conservative activist and to the recent primary defeat of Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky.
She described both events as part of a purge of America First voices who opposed the 2025 war with Iran and pushed to release the Epstein files.
“We just said goodbye to our good friends Thomas and Carolyn Massie,” Greene wrote. She said the Republican Party’s civil war is eliminating principled conservatives.
After she and Massie took stands against the Iran conflict and for transparency on the Epstein documents, the “neocon-controlled Republican establishment,” backed by the president, moved to destroy them, she claimed.
Greene resigned from her Georgia seat effective Jan. 5, 2026. At the time, she cited growing attacks from Trump and the risk of a brutal primary.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Links Resignation to Charlie Kirk Assassination
In her latest comments, she went further, saying the murder of Kirk made her realize the danger was real.
“I saw it all coming early, had just watched my friend Charlie Kirk assassinated, and knew they were going to do all of it and probably worse to me too,” she wrote. “So I refused to allow it to happen to me, my family, and my district, so I resigned.”
Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, was shot dead on Sept. 10, 2025, while speaking at an event at Utah Valley University. A suspect was later arrested and charged in the targeted attack.
Massie lost his GOP primary on May 19 to Ed Gallrein, a Trump-backed former Navy SEAL.
Greene described the race as unfair, claiming it was flooded with tens of millions in foreign donor money, including from pro-Israel groups.
She accused the campaign of spreading lies, including AI-generated ads that falsely showed Massie with liberal Democrats like Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar.
“Even though ALL of it was horrific lies proven wrong with his own 14-year impeccable America First liberty-driven voting record, naive older voters in his district were easily fooled,” she said.
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Greene, once one of Trump’s most vocal supporters, said she voted with him 98 percent of the time and helped him win.
She listed her own accomplishments, including impeachment articles against Biden’s DHS secretary, a bill to make transgender procedures on minors a felony, and work to cut government waste.
None of that mattered, she said, after she broke with the White House on Iran and the Epstein files.
Trump called her a traitor, and few Republicans defended her, she claimed. She criticized “low-educated Republicans that are easily manipulated by bot armies and bought and paid for social media influencers.”
The party is now under “full capture and control,” Greene wrote. Those who refuse to go along “will set out to kill you, and the party sits in silence while it happens.”
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Greene’s departure and Massie’s loss reveal deep cracks in the Republican coalition.
What began as a unified MAGA movement after Trump’s return to power has fractured over foreign policy, especially the Iran conflict, government spending, and how far to go in confronting institutions like the FBI or intelligence agencies.
Massie has filed paperwork to run again in 2028 and has promised to use his remaining time in office to push for more releases of the Epstein file.
Greene, now out of Congress, said her core views have not changed. She questioned what ordinary Americans will do as they watch the party shift away from the promises that got Trump elected.
