MTG DENIES TIPPING OFF CODE PINK ABOUT WHEN AND WHERE TRUMP WAS GOING TO HAVE DINNER

MTG explodes in astonishing f-bomb laden tirade as Trump orders Secret Service probe: 'Incredibly dangerous'

 

By Phillip Nieto 

 

Daily Mail

Jan 9, 2026

 

 

 

Last September, protesters confronted Donald Trump at Joe's Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab restaurant in Washington, DC

 

Marjorie Taylor Greene was spitting with rage after White House aides claimed she was behind a security leak that could have endangered Donald Trump.

An Axios report published on Friday features testimony from Trump administration aides who blamed Greene for tipping off an activist group to the president's whereabouts during his trip to a local D.C. steakhouse in September. 

During Trump's ‘surprise’ appearance to Joe's Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab, a group of Code Pink protesters were able to get unusually close to the president. The noisy activists stood feet from the President across a table and chanted: ‘Free DC! Free Palestine! Trump is the Hitler of our time!’ 

Months later, some in the White House have claimed that Greene is to blame and that she may have tipped off the protestors. But Greene says that's all a lie and the story is only coming out now because the president and her relationship has soured. 

‘Axios doesn't even list their sources. They say aides, and that's not even credible.’

‘Treat me with fu**ing respect and don't cut those lies about me,’ she told the Daily Mail in a phone interview Friday afternoon.

The Daily Mail has reached out to Axios for a response to Greene. 

After fears that Trump's longtime ally turned bitter foe leaked the location of his dinner to a group of pro-Palestinian protesters, the Secret Service reportedly were asked to open a probe in to Greene.

 

The President reported Marjorie Taylor Greene to the Secret Service over the alleged leaking of his location. She has denied being involved

Trump is believed to have told Greene he was visiting the steakhouse minutes before he was confronted by the liberal protesters. She denies this

 

‘There's no proof, and the Secret Service has not contacted me. There's been no investigation. It's like pure speculation. They print a story, it's a complete smear campaign,’ Greene furiously continued.

‘The entire thing lays at the feet of the White House and Secret Service. And they think about this seriously, they are creating this story on me after I leave Congress because the president is mad at me.’

Greene then suggested she would sue Axios for publishing the accusations. 

‘I'm talking to my attorney about all of this,’ she said. ‘It is incredibly dangerous.’

A now-viral photo of Greene with the leader of Code Pink, Medea Benjamin, who she said in a statement she has been friends with for years, has been pointed to as evidence of the ex-congresswoman’s ties to the anti-war, pro-Palestine group.

Greene’s latest statement contrasts sharply with the praise she gave the group in December, when she claimed to have a longstanding friendship with the anti-Trump organization’s founder.

‘I have enjoyed a friendship with Medea for a few years now even though politics says that’s not allowed,’ Greene wrote on X.

Now, Greene is walking back her past support of the Code Pink founder, saying: 'She goes all over the place. She only likes me for my anti-war [stance]. That was it. That's how that picture came about, because I have voted against no funding for Ukraine, no funding for practically every country, and I'm against war. That is the only reason that picture exists, and it's being twisted and used to into this lie.'

The incident at the high-end DC restaurant sparked widespread concern in the White House just a year after Trump was nearly assassinated in Butler, Pennsylvania.

 

Greene is walking back her claim that she maintains a longtime friendship with the anti-Trump Code Pink leader whose group bombarded the President at a DC restaurant 

 

Aides told Axios that they believe the restaurant confrontation was ‘a point of no return’ in the President's relationship with Greene, as many believed she tipped off the protesters.

Greene responded to the allegations by claiming that any suggestion that she leaked Trump’s dinner reservation was ‘an absolute lie, a dangerous lie. I would never do that.’ She added that she recommended the restaurant to the President but didn’t know when he would go there.

Officials, however, say that after Greene recommended the restaurant to Trump, she repeatedly called White House staffers the day of the dinner to confirm he was going. 

Trump heard about Greene’s calls and informed her shortly before leaving the White House that he planned on visiting the steakhouse. 

It is unclear whether the Secret Service opened up an official investigation into Greene. The former Georgia representative refused to confirm whether she had been contacted by agents about the incident. 

Greene said, ‘The story you should be writing is why didn't the Secret Service sweep the restaurant.’

Code Pink spokesman Melissa Garriga dismissed the claim that Greene warned the group about Trump’s dinner plans.

‘That absolutely did not happen, to the point it is comical,’ Garriga said.

 

Greene has been linked to the protest group that interrupted the President's dinner 

 

White House officials did not provide direct evidence that Greene leaked Trump’s location to the liberal protest group but gave two reasons for their suspicions.

They claimed that after Trump alerted Greene about his plans to attend the restaurant - a claim that Greene denies - she did not show up when the President arrived.

Moreover, White House aides accused Greene of maintaining a friendly relationship with Code Pink co-founder and leader Medea Benjamin.

Greene and the liberal protest organization are united in their opposition to US support for Israel. 

The group praised Greene last June for opposing Trump’s bombing of nuclear facilities in Iran.

The group’s leader, Benjamin, visited Greene in November as a show of support shortly after Greene announced she would resign from Congress.

Trump’s relationship with Greene, meanwhile, began to deteriorate at the start of his second term after the President warned her that she was set to lose the Georgia Senate race to a Democrat.

After Trump sent Greene polling indicating this, she began to publicly criticize the President by claiming he had abandoned his ‘America First’ principles.