White House Believed Marjorie Taylor Greene May Have Tipped Off Code Pink Ahead Of DC Trump Confrontation
Tensions between President Trump and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene have escalated sharply, culminating in mutual accusations, public insults, and a complete breakdown of what was once a close political alliance.
The latest rupture traces back to a September evening when Trump dined near the White House and was confronted by activists from the far-left group Code Pink. According to accounts cited by Axios and confirmed by sources familiar with the matter, White House officials came to suspect that Greene alerted the protesters to the president’s whereabouts. Those concerns were later conveyed to the Secret Service.
The dinner took place on September 9 at Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab, just blocks from the White House. Trump chose the restaurant as part of an effort to highlight his administration’s push against crime in Washington, DC. The outing was not publicly announced in advance.
During the meal, demonstrators crowded Trump’s table and shouted slogans including: “Free DC, Free Palestine, Trump is the Hitler of our time.”
According to one source, Greene had suggested Joe’s as a dining option for the president. That detail, combined with the fact that the reservation was not made public, fueled internal suspicion about how the activists learned of Trump’s plans.
White House officials also pointed to Greene’s past comments about her relationship with Code Pink leadership. In a December 10 post on X, Greene wrote: “I have enjoyed a friendship with Medea for a few years now even though politics says that’s not allowed.” Medea Benjamin is a co-founder of Code Pink.
A former senior administration official summed up Greene’s political drift bluntly, saying, “Marjorie is closer with the hosts of ‘The View’ than the president.”
Greene forcefully rejected the allegations and threatened legal action against Axios in a lengthy statement posted on X after the report was published. She framed the accusations as retaliation for her criticism of the president and her role in pressing for the release of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein.
“They are mad at me for telling the truth about the President and forcing the release of the Epstein files. Now they are making up horrific lies about me!!,” she wrote.
She also denied having any meaningful relationship with Benjamin and placed responsibility for the protest squarely on security failures.
“Code Pink was in the restaurant because the WH and Secret Service did NOT sweep Joe’s, did NOT set up metal detectors and check everyone in the restaurant, and did not do any of their normal security protocols that they do at every public event he attends!!! Only the WH set up President Trump’s reservation at Joe’s, NOT ME!! I had ZERO knowledge of when his reservation was! The only people who could have tipped off Code Pink was the restaurant or the WH!,” Greene wrote.
She followed that with another emphatic denial: “This is a dangerous false accusation against me that is 100% false and you and Axios should never publish such a horrific lie!!! Anyone saying this is true is absolutely lying!!!”
Neither the Secret Service nor Benjamin responded to requests for comment.
The dispute is the latest chapter in a relationship that began unraveling earlier last year. Trump attempted to dissuade Greene from launching a US Senate bid in Georgia, sharing internal polling that showed her trailing Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff. Greene ultimately opted not to run and later said she never discussed the race with Trump.
The rift widened further when Greene joined three other House Republicans in backing a discharge petition that led to the release of Epstein-related files, a move that infuriated the White House. In the weeks that followed, Trump publicly pulled his political support, and Greene shifted from being a staunch ally to an outspoken critic, attacking the president’s foreign policy and his handling of the Epstein matter.
Trump responded with his own barbs, branding Greene a “stone cold liberal” and mocking her with the nickname “Marjorie Traitor Brown,” which he said was “because green turns to brown under stress.”
Greene later said those remarks put her in danger, telling “60 Minutes” in December that she received death threats after Trump’s comments.
Having resigned her House seat, Greene has since returned to Georgia, where she is preparing for her wedding to fiancé Brian Glenn, a former White House correspondent for Real America’s Voice.
{Matzav.com}
