Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) complained about "unbelievable blowback and pressure from the White House" on releasing files about Jeffrey Epstein, despite her support for President Donald Trump on controversial topics, such as the Jan. 6 riots.
"I've always been an unapologetic Trump supporter," Greene told Real America's Voice host Eric Bolling on Tuesday. "Spent millions of dollars out of my own campaign to do that."
"I'm not a slave and I am independent-minded," she continued. "And at times, I disagree with the Trump administration. And guess what, Eric? I'm allowed to do that. I'm an American. I'm allowed to have my own opinion."
Bolling agreed that "Trump's a better president with conservative people who back him, who say maybe not this one, Mr. President."
"On the Epstein files, I've unapologetically stood with women and victims of rape, especially these women," Greene pointed out. "And I received unbelievable blowback and pressure from the White House pushing me to get off [Republican Rep.] Thomas Massie's discharge petition, which I absolutely refuse to do."
"And, you know, that has been shocking to me, and I've seen it as completely unnecessary, and I won't tolerate it," the lawmaker insisted. "There is no amount of pressure they can put on me to force me to step in line on that, so to speak."
Greene said she also received pressure after demanding that Republicans come up with a solution for rising health insurance premiums, which have been at the center of an ongoing government shutdown.
"And I want Republicans to have a solution, and I'm demanding it," she remarked. "I don't think Democrats should be the ones owning this issue because they want socialized health care, and we're $37 trillion in debt, and we can't afford that. However, the reality is many Americans, our families especially, are paying $2,000 a month for health insurance premiums with high deductibles."
"And it's unforgivable. And to allow Democrats to have some sort of moral high ground on this issue because they're only one, the only ones talking about it, I think, is a major failure from the Republican Party," Greene added. "And I'm not going to stand there and just keep talking the talking points when my own adult children can hardly afford health insurance premiums. When everyone in my district, it's the number one issue that I hear about day in and day out, not just people on the ACA, but people that have private insurance as well."
Bolling encouraged Greene to stand firm.
"Instead of other people, you know, you see them kind of flailing around trying to contort themselves into a, and I agree with everything that the president says when, you know, you can't just agree with everything," the host argued. "It's a fool's game to agree with everything as brilliant as he's been and as great as he's done for the country. You just don't have to, especially people who represent literally millions of people like you do yourself."
