Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Sunday warned Republicans that right-wing influencers making an attempt to downplay the Jeffrey Epstein recordsdata are going to price the occasion in November.
“All of you MAGA influencers and the remainder mocking the seriousness of girls who have been trafficked and raped as youngsters and younger girls appear to be cult fools,” she wrote on X. “Good luck making an attempt to get girls to vote for Republicans within the midterms you insensitive clowns.”
Greene mentioned the GOP already has an issue drawing girls to the occasion.
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 mates 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 present a bunch of MAGA influencers giant binders of supposed recordsdata ― nevertheless it shortly grew to become clear that the majority of these paperwork had already been launched.
Trump and his administration then spent a lot of the remainder of the yr making an attempt to stonewall the discharge of further recordsdata. Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi, who at one level steered she had an inventory of Epstein shoppers on her desk able to be launched, later mentioned there was no such record and no additional paperwork to launch.
Greene ― who had been a staunch Trump supporter and MAGA believer who steadily 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 completely happy.
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 “poisonous politics” and calling for extra kindness.
Final month, she declared that MAGA “was all a lie.”