The first: immediately after Greene broke with Trump, she was emailed a death threat targeting her son. When she texted the death threat to Trump, he blew off her concerns and blamed her (!) for putting her son in danger.

Kuo writes,

"The first [possibility] is that the president himself ordered the threat sent to Greene. After all, someone knew enough about her that they had her son’s name and, importantly, her personal email address."


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"The second and, in my mind, more likely possibility is that Trump once again deployed stochastic terror, confident someone would act on it for him."

The second point where the NYT buried the lede:

When Greene publicly advocated for the women sexually assaulted by Epstein who testified before a Congressional committee, Trump called her shouting with rage and telling her that his "friends will get hurt" if the Epstein files are disclosed.


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