WATCH: ‘Trump called me a traitor’ But Epstein survivors are patriots, Green says

Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene praised the courage of survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual assault and responded to President Donald Trump’s personal attacks over her call for the release of more Justice Department files.

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“These women fought the most terrible battle that no woman should ever have to fight, and they did it by sticking together and never giving up,” Greene said Tuesday. “And that’s what we did by fighting hard against the most powerful people in the world, even the president of the United States, to get this vote today.”

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Greene spoke during a press conference on Capitol Hill alongside Representatives Ro Khanna, Democrat of California, and Thomas Massie, Republican of Kentucky, as well as survivors and their loved ones.

The House of Representatives is expected to vote on Tuesday on a measure that would force the Justice Department to release its case files on Epstein. Trump, who was a friend of the late financier and convicted sex offender, called the controversy a “hoax.” On Sunday, he reversed his position on legislation to release the files and called on Republicans in the House of Representatives to support the bill. The president also criticized Greene, his longtime ally, calling her “traitorous Marjorie Greene.”

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Standing with survivors, the congresswoman responded to the president.

“I never owed him anything, but I fought for him, for policies and for America first,” she said. “He called me a traitor for standing with these women and refusing to remove my name from the discharge petition.”

She added that the “real test” will be whether the Justice Department and other institutions actually release their Epstein files after the vote.

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Greene also thanked her fellow lawmakers, Khanna and Massie, for “doing something that is so desperately needed in America: crossing a political aisle that has become larger than the Grand Canyon.”