A stunning allegation has emerged from former Republican U.S. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who claims that the administration of former president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump is actively debating the use of nuclear weapons against Iran, as U.S. military forces face growing strain in the months-long conflict launched by Washington and Tel Aviv. In a social media post published late Sunday, Greene offered an unusually blunt warning to the American public, rejecting any suggestion that her claims are unfounded speculation.
“I’m not speculating, I know. And it’s pure evil,” Greene wrote in the post, which has since drawn widespread attention across global political circles. The ex-congresswoman, who was once counted among Trump’s most loyal and high-profile allies in Congress, has urged Americans across the political spectrum to speak out against any move to escalate the conflict, framing any potential nuclear strike as an act of catastrophic insanity that must be stopped before it is too late.
Greene’s break with Trump came after she pushed for the declassification of documents linked to Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased convicted sex offender and wealthy financier who counted Trump and dozens of other global political and business elites among his extensive social connections. In her latest comments, she also drew attention to the contradictory intelligence that shaped the lead-up to the war, accusing Washington of launching the conflict on the back of repeated, unsubstantiated warnings from Israel about Iran’s civilian nuclear program.
Greene pointed out that U.S. intelligence agencies had repeatedly confirmed Iran was nowhere close to developing a functional nuclear weapon, even as Israel recycled its decades-old talking point that Tehran was just weeks away from building a bomb. “And now our government is the one actually discussing lowering the nuclear threshold in order to use nuclear weapons against Iran even though Trump claims he’s won the war like 40 times and says the U.S. controls the Strait of Hormuz,” she added.
The U.S.-Israeli invasion and ongoing military campaign against Iran launched on February 28 has already left a devastating toll: months of sustained air and ground attacks have killed thousands of Iranian civilians, thrown global energy markets into chaos and disrupted critical supply routes, yet failed to dislodge Tehran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz, the strategic chokepoint through which roughly a fifth of global oil supplies pass daily.
Greene issued a grave warning about the consequences of any nuclear escalation, arguing such a move could trigger a global nuclear holocaust, trigger a worldwide economic depression, and cause mass casualties on a scale not seen in modern history. She also pushed back against the common assumption that the U.S. is insulated from retaliation, stressing “America is not untouchable.”
Her explosive allegation comes at a time when the U.S. military is already facing significant logistical and readiness challenges, with weapons stocks depleted after months of sustained combat operations. Reuters recently reported that U.S. forces have already used up virtually all of their stock of long-range precision missiles, while heavy expenditures of Patriot and THAAD defensive interceptor missiles have left U.S. military readiness weakened in other strategic regions around the world.
Earlier this month, NBC News also confirmed that the U.S. Pentagon is drafting a new military strategy that would expand the role of shorter-range tactical nuclear weapons in regional conflict scenarios. “Our view is that we need credible nuclear options,” a senior anonymous U.S. defense official told the network in confirming the draft strategy. To date, the U.S. remains the only country in history to have used nuclear weapons in combat, when it carried out atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II in 1945, killing more than 200,000 civilians in the attacks.