Marjorie Taylor Greene casts doubt on Trump‘s MAGA credentials and suggests he is being pressured to cover up Epstein files

Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene explained her growing feud with Donald Trump on Sunday while questioning whether the president was remaining true to his MAGA brand and suggested that a foreign government could be involved in covering up the Jeffrey Epstein story.

She was on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday morning as a growing divide within the MAGA base threatens to split apart Trump’s coalition in the first meaningful way since the January 6 attack.

On CNN, Greene told host Dana Bash that Trump’s embrace of a foreign policy-focused agenda at the expense of centering domestic issues like rising inflation and cost-of-living price hikes amounted to an abandonment of the “America First” agenda he ran and won on.

“What the American people voted for with MAGA was to put the American people first,” said Greene. “Stop sending foreign aid, and stop being involved in foreign wars…they very much deserve to be put first. Cost of living is far too high. Health insurance is completely out of control, and thats– those are two issues I’ve been very vocal on for months and months now, long before Republicans were shocked when those big losses came on this past Tuesday’s election.”

Bash responded: “Sounds like you are saying that he is not representing the MAGA movement that he started?”

“Promoting H-1B visas to replace American jobs, bringing in 600,000 Chinese students to replace American students’ opportunities in American colleges and universities; those are not America first positions,” said Greene. “Continuing to, really, travel all over the world doesn’t help Americans back at home.”

She added that she wanted to see “nothing but a constant focus in the White House on a domestic agenda”.

The congresswoman also took questions about the administration’s ongoing refusal to release the Jeffrey Epstein investigation files, now a scandal that has enveloped the president and led to new insinuations of his involvement in Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring after the publication this week of new emails sent to and from Jeffrey Epstein, released by a congressional committee investigating the government’s handling of the case.

In those emails, Trump tellingly explained to Fire and Fury author Michael Wolff that Trump “knew about the girls”. The White House and Trump have denied that the president had any knowledge of Epstein’s illegal activities when they were friends.

On Sunday, Greene explained to CNN that she believed it was possible that a foreign government was putting pressure on the Trump administration to cover up further releases of information pertaining to Epstein’s crimes. Referencing a report in Drop Site News, Greene suggested that Epstein’s extensive communications with former Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak could suggest that Epstein was an Israeli intelligence asset.

“I think the right question to ask is, ‘was Jeffrey Epstein working for Israel?’” Greene told Bash.

Pressed by CNN to say whether she believed that it was Israel directly pressuring Trump on the matter of Epstein, Greene backed off.

“No,” she responded.

“I simply just asked, out loud, ‘is there a foreign government’ — it could be any foreign government — but is a foreign government pushing to cover this up?” Greene said.

Bash shot back that it was “pretty obvious” Greene’s suspicions fell on Israel, given her mention of AIPAC in a tweet about the story.

“I’m questioning that government in particular, and I’m questioning any other foreign government [that could be involved],” said Greene.

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