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,