Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared with the Jeffrey Epstein survivors at their press conference on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, which got Fox News to cover the event, thinking from the Fox News folks, one can presume, that MTG was going to crap all over survivors.
When she didn’t, and instead crapped on the Trump administration’s continued efforts to contain the fallout from the ongoing Epstein controversy, Fox bolted, and started talking about how bad the new Chicago mayor is.
Forward this story to your MAGA mother-in-law, so she can see what she missed while Harris Faulkner was hyping up Chicago and narcoterrorism.
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“Mr. President Donald J. Trump, I am a registered Republican, not that that matters, because this is not political. However, I cordially invite you to the Capitol to meet me in person so you can understand this is not a hoax. We are real human beings! This is real trauma!” said Lisa Phillips, one of the Epstein survivors who spoke their truths in front of the world on Wednesday morning, as the Trump administration intimidated them from above, with two military flyovers designed to drown out the noise.
Didn’t work as intended, that effort at silencing the survivors.
As this was going on, a couple of miles away, down Constitution Avenue, then crossing Pennsylvania Avenue, Trump was talking with reporters at the White House – broadcast live on Fox News! – and putting the emphasis on the H-word when confronted about the Epstein case.
“This is a Democrat hoax that never ends!” Trump fumed. “You know, it reminds me a little of the Kennedy situation. We gave him everything, over and over again, more and more, and nobody’s ever satisfied. And from what I understand, I could check, but from what I understand, thousands of pages of documents have been given.”
Which, true, but the “thousands of pages of documents” provided to the House Oversight Committee by the Trump Department of Justice this week was almost entirely old information.
Trump is trying to frame the Epstein controversy – it’s been six months since his attorney general, Pam Bondi, told Fox News that the “Epstein list” was on her desk, and she handed out binders to far-right influencers as part of a PR stunt – as a “hoax” because “they’re trying to get people to talk about something that’s totally irrelevant to the success that we’ve had as a nation since I’ve been president,” he told reporters today at the White House.
When even Marjorie Taylor Greene is out front and center calling bullsh*t on the Dear Leader, you know things are about to get interesting.
“Jeffrey Epstein and his cabal continued a nightmare. Those people deserve the shame. And today we are coming forward, and we are going to fight like hell for these women, because we have to fight like hell for those that are enduring sexual abuse and are living in a prison of shame. Anyone that is being abused, it is not your fault. You should live with no guilt or fear or shame. All of the fault belongs to the evil people that do these things to the innocent,” Taylor Greene said.
MTG, Nancy Mace and Lauren Boebert – I sh*t you not – have joined fellow Republican Thomas Massie in signing a discharge petition to get a bill authored by Massie and Democrat Ro Khanna compelling the DOJ to release all the files from the Epstein case to the House floor.
The bill still needs two more Republicans to sign on to get a majority.
“I ask my Republican colleagues not to choose just one path for justice and transparency and accountability, but I ask my Republican colleagues to choose every path for justice and accountability and transparency,” Taylor Greene said.
Notably, our two local MAGAs in Congress, Ben Cline in the Sixth District, which represents the I-81 corridor, and John McGuire in the Fifth District, which represents the Route 29 corridor, have had nothing to say about the Epstein matter, though McGuire did have a post on his Facebook page over the weekend about Chicago.
Phillips, a former model who hosts the “From Now On” podcast, which is focused on highlighting and uplifting survivors of sexual abuse, said the survivors and their attorneys will collaborate on creating their own “Epstein list” in the meantime.
“We know the names. Many of us were abused by them. Now, together as survivors, we will confidentially compile the names we all know who regularly were in the Epstein world. And it will be done by survivors and for survivors. No one else is involved. Stay tuned for more details,” Phillips said.
That would seem to put the ball in the court of MAGA Republicans, who, aside from Taylor Greene, Mace, Boebert and Massie, have been loathe to buck the Trump party line on much of anything over the past eight months.
“Epstein surrounded himself with the most powerful leaders of our country and the world. He abused not only me, but countless others, and everyone seemed to look away. The truth is, Epstein had a free pass. He bragged about his powerful friends, including our current president, Donald Trump. It was his biggest brag, actually,” Epstein survivor Chauntae Davis said, adding later, in response to a question from a reporter:
“My first trip to the Palm Beach residence, I drove there from the airport with Ghislaine Maxwell, and they, Jeffrey and Ghislaine, were always very boastful about their friends, their famous or powerful friends, and his biggest brag, forever, was that he was very good friends with Donald Trump. He had an 8-by-10 framed picture of him on his desk with the two of them. Like, they were very close,” Davis said.
“Why was Maxwell the only one held accountable when so many others played a role? Why does the government hide this information from the public?” Davis asked, rhetorically. “This secrecy is not protection, it’s complicity. And as long as the truth is buried, justice will remain out of reach. That is why this bill matters. Passing it ensures that the suffering of survivors is not in vain. Passing it will bring accountability, transparency and prevention. It will help prevent the next generation of predators who seek to place themselves above the law through wealth, influence and connections.”
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