The FBI director reportedly brushed off threats made against a vocal critic of the president.
As Marjorie Taylor-Greene faced backlash and death threats amid her reversal from staunch MAGA ally to top Republican critic of Donald Trump, the congresswoman reached out to the FBI for help.
The former Georgia congresswomanwho first broke with Trump over his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein filessaid that she had reached FBI Director Kash Patel, who responded with a curt reply.
“I did hear from Kash Patel,” she said during a speech she held in Texas. “He said ‘on it,’ but I haven’t heard from him since.”
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Greene, who quit Congress in January, paused before adding “I don’t know what he’s on,” an apparent reference of reported excessive drinking the director has been accused of.
The crowd at the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity erupted into laughter and applause. Greene said that many of the death threats she received called her a “traitor,” echoing what Trump had said at a rally. One referenced her son, with the message threatening to “put a bullet” in his head.
After leaving Congress, Greene kept up her criticism of Trump, most recently against the war in Iran.
She said she forwarded the threats to Patel, Trump, Vice President JD Vance, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and deputy chief of staff James Blair.
“I got no response from Susie Wiles, none, and she’s a mother and a grandmother and a woman. I got no response from James Blair because he only cares about making money on campaigns,” she said.
But she did hear from Patel, reportedly only receiving that two-word response.
The speech came just days after a report by The Atlantic, which included sources accusing Patel of excessive drinking and “conspicuous inebriation and unexplained absences” while leading the FBI.
One of the worst anecdotes includes claims that Patel’s alleged drinking problem was so severe that he somehow locked himself behind doors, requiring “breaching equipment” used by SWAT teams to get to the director.
Patel has denied the claims and has filed a $250 million lawsuit against the lawsuit, calling the report a “hit piece” that is “malicious and defamatory.”
Greene later added that the president did respond to her about the threats but said they were her fault.
“I saved these text messages—I’ll probably get put in jail if I release them publicly, but I saved them—where Donald Trump proceeded to tell me that it was my fault and that I deserve it,” Greene said. “If my son gets killed, I deserve it because I was a ‘traitor’ to him. That is our president of the United States.”
