Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Sunday warned Republicans that right-wing influencers attempting to downplay the Jeffrey Epstein recordsdata are going to value the social gathering in November.
“All of you MAGA influencers and the remaining mocking the seriousness of ladies who have been trafficked and raped as youngsters and younger ladies appear like cult fools,” she wrote on X. “Good luck attempting to get ladies to vote for Republicans within the midterms you insensitive clowns.”
Greene mentioned the GOP already has an issue drawing ladies to the social gathering.
This, she mentioned, gained’t assist.
“Preserve mocking these of us who take rape and pedophilia critically and demand accountability for corruption,” she sarcastically suggested.
Trump was as soon as shut associates with Epstein, a intercourse offender who died in jail in an obvious suicide in 2019. In 2024, Trump and people round him promised to launch recordsdata associated to the case if he gained the election.
After he did, his administration held a White Home occasion to offer a bunch of MAGA influencers massive binders of supposed recordsdata ― however it rapidly turned clear that almost all of those documents had already been released.
Trump and his administration then spent a lot of the remainder of the yr attempting to stonewall the discharge of extra recordsdata. Legal professional Basic Pam Bondi, who at one level prompt she had a list of Epstein clients on her desk able to be launched, later mentioned there was no such list and no additional paperwork to launch.
Greene ― who had been a staunch Trump supporter and MAGA believer who often appeared with the president at marketing campaign occasions ― joined a small group of Republican lawmakers to push for the complete launch of the Epstein recordsdata.
Trump was reportedly not joyful.
Greene’s stance led to a break between the 2, with Trump publicly attacking her as a “traitor.”
As Trump’s MAGA allies additionally turned on Greene, she appeared to reevaluate her former strategy, apologizing for her position in what she known as “toxic politics” and calling for extra kindness.
Final month, she declared that MAGA “was all a lie.”
