MTG gets Final Revenge on Trump as MAGA is Dead!!!

Summary

The MeidasTouch Podcast

Episode: MTG gets Final Revenge on Trump as MAGA is Dead!!!
Date: April 22, 2026
Hosts: Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas

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Overview

This episode dives deep into the stunning and public rift between former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG) and Donald Trump, marking what the MeidasTouch brothers deem "the end of MAGA." After resigning from Congress, Greene has gone on a public crusade against Trump—accusing him of betrayal, covering up the Epstein files, favoring elites over his base, and causing devastating consequences for the Republican Party. The brothers break down MTG’s bombshell interviews and social media revelations, analyze the consequences for the GOP—and trumpet the final collapse of the MAGA movement, as echoed by numerous prominent right-wing voices now turning on Trump.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

MTG’s Public Break and Explosive Allegations

• Political Fallout in Virginia

  • [02:35] MTG highlights Democrats’ sweeping advantage in Virginia’s redrawn congressional map—from near parity to a now 10:1 Dem:Republican split, warning that GOP and Trump’s failures are accelerating Republican decline nationwide.
  • Quote (MTG): "Trump betraying the America First wing of MAGA is going to have devastating consequences in the midterms. I've been warning about this all along." [~02:50]
  • The MeidasTouch brothers frame this as MTG's “I told you so” moment—she claims GOP and Trump ignored her warnings to huge cost.

• Trump’s Priorities: Big Donors Over Base

  • [04:05–05:22] Greene goes on the Shannon Joy podcast, excoriating Trump as a sellout to the "big bastards"—Big Pharma, the military-industrial complex, and wealthy donors.
  • Quote (MTG): “He wants the golden statues. He wants his name everywhere. That’s what he received. But what he had to give away was, I’ll give you what you want.” [05:04–05:21]
  • She claims small donors only got “an annoying amount of texts and emails” pestering them for donations, while big donors kept access and influence.

• Epstein Files Cover-up Allegation

  • [06:41–08:54] Greene reveals new, direct detail about Trump’s role in blocking the release of the Epstein files, insisting he personally intervened and told her, “My friends will get hurt.”
  • Quote (MTG): “He flat out told [Pam Bondi], do not release the Epstein files. He was blocking everybody…He told me, he said, my friends will get hurt. So he’s talking about his friends. He told me, people you know, Marjorie, people at Mar a Lago, they’re going to get hurt.” [07:13–08:17]
  • The brothers highlight how she positions herself as the only one refusing to back down on exposing these files, in the face of immense pressure.

• Trump’s Treatment of MTG and Her Family

  • [10:39–13:00] On the Ben Swan podcast, Greene recounts being ostracized and threatened after dissenting from Trump—describing how Trump and his allies blamed her, even insinuating threats to her child were her fault.
  • Quote (MTG): “He was very nasty to me in his text messages back…basically saying if my son were killed, it'd be my fault. This is all your fault.” [11:10–11:57]
  • The brothers make clear this level of break is unprecedented, and reflects both personal and political betrayal.

• Corruption and Economic Consequences

  • [13:00] MTG slams Trump for pledging that tariffs would “replace the income tax”—now, she says, the government must refund $166 billion plus interest, while Americans are paying more at the pump and for Trump’s war in Iran.
  • She demands investigations into oil market manipulation and highlights widespread economic hardship.

Wider Right-Wing Disillusionment

• Tucker Carlson’s Response

  • [14:42–15:56] Carlson laments Trump’s “crazy disloyalty” to MTG, whom he praises for being a sincere conservative.
  • Quote (Tucker Carlson): "[Trump's treatment of her] was unforgivable. That’s when I really started ..." [15:56]
  • Carlson expresses disgust after learning about Trump’s reported coldness toward threats against MTG’s son.

• Additional Source Details

  • [15:56–16:20] A text narrator relays that Trump directly told MTG that threats to her son were her responsibility.
  • “She texted Trump...and Trump responded...‘he deserves it. It's your fault.’” [15:56–16:20]

• Megyn Kelly’s Critique

  • [16:27] Kelly reports Trump is “bored with the war he started,” saying it's “too bad American lives aren’t the motivator; he just has the attention span of a gnat.”
  • Quote (Megyn Kelly): “It’s really too bad that the, you know, cost of American lives isn’t the motivator. It’s just that Trump has moved on to other things because he has the attention span of a gnat.” [16:27]

• Theo Vaughn’s Disillusionment

  • [17:10–18:04] Vaughn, a Trump supporter, questions who the war in Iran is helping besides the “military industrial world complex,” and wonders if Trump is simply compromised and no longer serving everyday Americans.
  • Quote (Theo Vaughn): “And I don’t know. It’s fucking dark. It’s dark.” [18:04]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• MTG: “Trump betraying the America First wing of MAGA is going to have devastating consequences in the midterms.” [02:50]
• MTG: “He wanted it all to be in the limelight...he wants the golden statues.” [05:04]
• MTG: “He was blocking everybody [on the Epstein files]...He told me, my friends will get hurt.” [07:13–08:17]
• MTG: “He was very nasty to me...basically saying if my son were killed, it'd be my fault.” [11:10–11:57]
• Tucker Carlson: “...to treat someone who had actually put themselves to hard work to great effect was unforgivable.” [15:56]
• Text Message Narrator: “He deserves it. It’s your fault.” [16:18]
• Megyn Kelly: “The attention span of a gnat.” [16:27]
• Theo Vaughn: “I just don’t know. I don’t understand...it’s fucking dark.” [18:04]

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Important Timestamps

| Timestamp | Segment/Topic | |--------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 02:35 | MTG’s reaction to VA Dem sweep and warning to MAGA | | 04:05–05:22 | MTG’s condemnation of Trump selling out to big money, military, and elites | | 06:41–08:54 | Epstein files cover-up revelations and Trump’s personal warning to MTG | | 10:39–13:00 | MTG on personal fall-out: threats, lack of GOP support, and Trump’s blame | | 13:00 | Economic fallout: tariffs, inflation, criticism of Trump and war in Iran | | 14:42–15:56 | Tucker Carlson’s defense of MTG and condemnation of Trump’s disloyalty | | 15:56–16:20 | Text narrations: Trump reportedly tells MTG threats are her fault | | 16:27 | Megyn Kelly: Reporting on Trump’s “boredom” with war | | 17:10–18:04 | Theo Vaughn’s emotional disillusionment with Trump and current GOP direction |

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Analysis & Takeaways

• The MAGA Civil War is Open:
  MTG’s public break—backed with damning allegations and detailed recounting of Trump’s priorities and conduct—marks a watershed moment in the conservative movement. Her insider status and specific allegations around both policy (Epstein files, war spending, economic mismanagement) and personal mistreatment give her immense credibility among former Trump loyalists.

• Conservative Media No Longer United:
  The round-up of right-wing voices—Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Theo Vaughn—voicing either disgust, disappointment, or outright repudiation of Trump demonstrates that the right’s former kingmaker is deeply embattled, with trust eroding rapidly.

• MeidasTouch Framing:
  The brothers position this as both vindication and an opportunity: the unraveling of Trump’s "charade" and the final demise of MAGA.

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Final Thoughts

This episode charts a bombshell chapter in the demise of MAGA as both a movement and a brand, as Marjorie Taylor Greene—once a loyal soldier—turns into Trump’s most damaging opponent. Through revelations of corruption, betrayal, and elite pandering, the brothers argue that the GOP is facing existential collapse, with even its most famous former supporters leading the charge against Trump.

Listeners come away with a sense of seismic change inside the GOP and far-right media ecosystem, and the suggestion that former allies have finally drawn a line—and are intent on public reckoning and reform.

Transcript

[Marjorie Taylor Greene]

When I found out I was going to be a parent, I immediately felt

[Podcast Host]

a lot of anxiety and worry.

[Marjorie Taylor Greene]

So I went on to BetterHelp to try to look for a therapist to help me with that.

My relationship with my family and with my boyfriend and with myself were suffering.

[Podcast Host]

I really needed help.

[Podcast Co-host]

I was ruminating a lot. Really getting those thoughts out to a therapist and getting feedback was just life changing.

[Podcast Host]

Discover what BetterHelp online therapy can do for you. Visit betterhelp.com today Marjorie Taylor Greene just went nuclear on Donald Trump. We already know she took the gloves off. Since she resigned from Congress, she has made it her mission to go after and expose Donald Trump for the traitor that he really is after turning against her and kicking her out of Maga. But in the past 24 hours, Marjorie Taylor Greene has really put the dagger in. She's put the screws in and she's twisted it. She went on a number of podcasts in the past 24 hours and she said stuff she's frankly never said before. And you can see that as we know this vote in Virginia just took place where the yes vote won and we're seeing across the country Democrats over performing the yes vote referendum making Virginia a 10 to 1 Democratic congressional versus Republican congressional makeup. You have Marjorie Taylor Greene saying I told you so. I told you this was going to happen. Let me just share with you her message and let me show you these appearances she just made on these right wing podcasts or these more libertarian like podcasts and you can judge for yourself what took place. So Marjorie Taylor Greene post the following message. Virginia just voted to redraw House district lines taking their state from 6 Democrats 5 Republicans to 10 Democrats 1 Republicans eliminating 4 Republican seats Seats just by redrawing the map. A once red state is turning into one of the blue states because people don't want to support Republicans now. Trump betraying the America first wing of MAGA is going to have devastating consequences in the midterms. I've been warning about this all along. No more foreign wars and regime regime change. He started a war in Iran lowering inflation and cost of living. His war is increasing inflation and gas and diesel and it's just starting. Release the Epstein files. He fought it and called it a hoax are some of the top issues that has caused a revolt on the right and a mass exodus of America Trump voters. Pause there. Remember when I was doing the videos mass exodus of Trump voters got Marjorie Taylor Greene saying it right now. She goes on to say add on the betrayals to the Maha wing The Make America Healthy Again wing. And it gets even worse. But it's not just Trump. It's the Republicans in the House and Senate, too. They love the donations and the parties and the praise they get from the big donors and the lobbyists representing the big corporations. There won't be accountability. They will not drain the swamp. And Trump is not your retribution. It's a tough pill to swallow. But open up your eyes and look at the facts and take note of their actions. Stop lapping up their meaningless words. Our loved military is once again fighting in the Middle East. Your money is paying for Israel's war. And once again, people will suffer and die. Then she went on the Shannon Joy podcast and she was not holding back on this podcast. And she said that Donald Trump and MAGA and his MAGA movement were taking advantage of most of the donors. They favored all of the rich donors. And he said. And she said, Donald Trump has been exploiting his base. Listen to what she says here, play this clip.

[Podcast Co-host]

So.

[Marjorie Taylor Greene]

So Big Pharma was easy for him. The military industrial complex loves Donald Trump. Why? Because he talks Congress into funding the biggest military budgets you've ever seen. And he wants $1.5 trillion on the next one. So. Of course. So he had all these groups. So I'm describing. Sorry, I'm being long winded, but.

[Podcast Co-host]

No, no, no, keep going because you're naming all of the money pots. Apac, Tech Bros, Big Pharma, the military industrial complex.

[Marjorie Taylor Greene]

Big bastards.

[Podcast Co-host]

Right? Like all of the criminals who have always controlled presidents throughout history, all coalescing around Donald Trump. And he just sold out.

[Marjorie Taylor Greene]

Just sold out.

He made the deal. Art of the deal. That was his art of the deal. So for. What did Trump do? He said, what did he want? What was the exchange? He wanted to be president again.

That's what his.

His pride is enormous.

[Podcast Co-host]

Naming rights, naming rights, naming rights.

[Marjorie Taylor Greene]

Yeah. He wanted it all to be in the limelight. He wants to stand in the center arena. He wants it. He wants the golden statues. He wants his name everywhere. That's what he received. But what he had to give away was, I'll give you what you want.

And he's done it.

And you can. You literally, if you open your eyes and look at his actions, he's literally delivering for all the people that funded him the most. He's not delivering for you. You guys received an annoying amount of text messages that said, my father is disappointed in you. Why haven't. Why haven't we heard from you demanding your money. Emails. 20 a day is crap. In the mail, you got berated constantly to donate your $10, your $50, your hundred dollars. You might have even wrote a thousand dollar check. Guys got, but the big, big donors, they got to go to the Mar A Lago parties and they still get to go. They get to go to the White House. They have lunches and dinners. For the love of God, look at the people that came in and had dinner with the President. They're the people that censored you.

[Podcast Host]

And here Marjorie Taylor Greene then talks on the Shannon Joy show about Donald Trump specifically being involved in the Epstein cover up. And she reveals more information than she's ever shared about just how directly Donald Trump has been involved in covering up the Epstein files. Now we know that she's talked about that. Donald Trump has said to her, you're going to hurt my friends. You're going to hurt my friends. But she adds some additional information right here on this Shannon Joy Show. Play this clip.

[Marjorie Taylor Greene]

We started moving into the Epstein files and everyone remembers that battle. That was the biggest battle on the planet, like the hardest thing to accomplish.

[Podcast Co-host]

Yeah.

[Marjorie Taylor Greene]

And he had the, he had his administration, the White House telling the speaker and Leader Thune, so Speaker Johnson, Leader Thune, stop this, do not, do not pass any resolution to release the Epstein files. He told Pam Bondi at the doj, no matter what you think of Pam Bondi, he flat out told her, do not release the Epstein files. He was blocking everybody.

[Podcast Co-host]

It was all him. Because there's a huge narrative out there that it's all Pam Bondi's fault, that, yeah, they want to make it pain body, undermining him. You're, you're saying that to your knowledge, he was driving this bus, Trump drove the bus to suppress the Epstein files according to what you witnessed.

[Marjorie Taylor Greene]

I know he did. And I don't, I don't have any knowledge of him and Pam Bondi's personal conversations. But I know he was telling everyone not to release the files. And his, his reasoning was is people are going to get hurt is what he said. He kept saying that people are going, he was publicly saying it's a Democrat hoax, it's a Democrat hoax, you know, blah, blah. He's saying all this stuff and shaming people, but behind the scenes, he was telling all of us, he was telling Mike Johnson, he's telling everybody, telling PM Bondi people are going to get hurt. And who, who he was talking about, what he told me on the phone, our final conversation when he had really had it with me because I wouldn't take my Name off the discharge petition.

Good for you.

And I was publicly saying over and over again, release Epstein files. He told me, he said, my friends will get hurt. So he's talking about his friends. He told me, people, you know, Marjorie, people at Mar a Lago, they're going to get hurt. And I said, people have already gotten hurt. There's over a thousand women that have been raped by Jeffrey Epstein and are accusing others. And they've told the, they've told the FBI, they've told the police. They have, they've been, they have been trying for years to get justice for this. Like, people already have been hurt.

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[Podcast Host]

But you see, Marjorie Taylor Greene wasn't done yet. She then went on the Ben Swan podcast and here's what she had to say on the Ben Ben Swan podcast. Let's play this clip.

[Marjorie Taylor Greene]

And not one Republican defended me. Not one came out and said, Mr. President, you know she's actually fought for you. You shouldn't primary her. You shouldn't want to destroy her.

[Podcast Host]

Yeah.

[Marjorie Taylor Greene]

I mean, when you're saying you're gonna destroy someone, it's the same type language he used when he said he wanted to kill an entire civilization of people. He wanted to destroy them. He wanted to destroy me. And then there were, right after this all happened, there were really bad death

threats that came in.

And there was some death threats that came in on my son in particular. And I texted many people in the administration. Susie Wiles, James Blair, Cash Patel, J.D. vance, and I texted the President himself, and I sent him pictures of the death threats. And it referred to the President's words about me, that the death threat came because of the President's words. And he, he, he. He was very nasty to me in his text messages back. I've saved him. No one can question me on this, but he was very nasty me. He blamed me, you know, basically saying that if my son were killed, it'd be my fault. This is all your fault. And I was like, we all said

we were going to release the Epstein files.

This was a campaign promise. This should not be a fight. My son should not be threatened his life. And then the President should not be telling me it's my fault. And then there should be, where's the Republican men? Where were the men standing up and defending me? And there were none. There were zero. And then, so again, I'll go back to this. Marjorie Taylor Greene's no votes stopped. Nothing. Nothing. So is it worth my son's life? Is it worth my life? Is it worth staying in Congress, beating my head on the wall every single day? No. I decided for the good of my district, I don't want my district to go through this. I resigned and I said, I'll keep talking. I'll tell all the American people everything I can possibly tell them about the system, because the system is a failed system. And you don't have a couple of members of Congress that are gonna fix it for you. You need several hundred members of Congress to fix it for you.

[Podcast Host]

But Marjorie Taylor Greene wasn't done yet. She then went back on social media and posted the following message. The US government has to refund $166 billion in tariffs plus interest. Trump said he would be paying America checks from tariffs and eventually it would even replace the income tax. So now not only are you not getting your Doge checks after he canceled Doge, you're not getting tariff checks and paying the interest back on tariffs collected. And you are also paying $2 billion a day for Trump and Netanyahu's war in Iran and you are paying on average $4 per gallon gas and inflation is rising. Again, the lack of humility and understanding the struggle of regular Americans is astounding to me. Trump and his lackeys demand loyalty and name call and bully, yet Americans struggle more and more. She then posts the Kobiasi letter right here which is showing a lot of market manipulation taking place where they said, look, is this the best time trade of 2026? Yesterday at 8:24am Eastern Time, oil traders bought nearly $800 million worth of oil shorts. Just 21 minutes later, Iran's foreign minister Iraqi said the Strait of Hormuz is declared completely open. Although he didn't say completely open. And, but that was from the end of last week. Marjorie Taylor Greene writes, who keeps making these trades? There needs to be an investigation. She also then reposts the following exchange of Tucker Carlson talking about her. Let's play this clip right here.

[Tucker Carlson]

Of course he turned on Marjorie Taylor Greene, who I think of all the elected members of Congress represents in sincere, hard working fashion. What it meant to be a not Trump fan, but a Trump lieutenant. I mean, this was someone who was inspired by Donald Trump and Donald Trump's program to leave her successful business, run for Congress and thank God for her because she got there and discovered what a captured institution it is, how flawed the individuals there are, how hostile they are to the American people who put them there and specifically the Republican voters who put them there. And then to see Trump turn on her and treat her the way that he treated her was, you know, she's an individual and she's tough and she can handle it. But that kind of like repetitive crazy disloyalty. And to treat someone who had actually put themselves to hard work to great effect was unforgivable. I thought that's when I really started.

[Unnamed Source/Text Message Narrator]

She texted Trump and she said, my son is getting threats because I've disagreed with you on the Epstein files. And Trump responded her by text message and said he deserves it. It's your fault. People are threatening the kid's life. And Trump says no, no, no, you brought this on him. It's on you.

[Tucker Carlson]

That's disgusting.

[Podcast Host]

And folks, it's not just Marjorie Taylor Greene. This is what the right wing's saying right now. I mean, you got Megyn Kelly saying the following. Play this clip.

[Megyn Kelly]

Axios reporting today that Trump is bored of this war and wants it over. Whatever. You know, maybe it wasn't the best thing to start if you didn't have the, the patience to actually see it through. That's, that's, that's what his supporters of the war might say. I mean, those of us who have been against it from the beginning would like to see it wrapped up, whether it's out of boredom or not. It's really too bad that the, you know, cost of American lives isn't the motivator. It's just that Trump has moved on to other things because he has the attention span of a gnat.

[Podcast Host]

You have Theo Vaughn, the podcaster who helped uplift Donald Trump in 2024. He's saying the following here, play this clip.

[Theo Vaughn]

And what American is this helping besides the war, the industrial world complex? What Amer? What American? What hard work? What guy who's trying to take care of, of his family or a single mother who's a nurse who's going to work and has to get home and get to her kids ball game and, and has to be both parents? What, what farmer is this helping? What regular person is this helping? I, I just don't know. I don't understand. So yeah, that's what, that's what, that's what our President's up to. And it's baffling and it's sick and it feels like he's just been compromised by Israel, by these, this dark government over there. And I don't know. It's fucking dark. It's dark.

[Podcast Host]

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