Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) criticized President Donald Trump’s handling of the release of records tied to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, calling the controversy the “biggest political miscalculation” of Trump’s political career.
Speaking on the “Home of the Brave” podcast, Greene said the former president fought “the hardest” against the public release of the files and only signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act “because he had to.”
“It became a massive political problem, biggest political miscalculation in Donald Trump’s career was calling this a hoax, fighting the release of it and having Mike Johnson, the Speaker, refuse to bring the bill to the floor,” Greene said during the interview.
She said she joined Reps. Thomas Massie, Nancy Mace and Lauren Boebert in voting with Democrats to force the release of the documents. Greene also defended Massie after Trump criticized him on social media this month.
“The President should be more concerned with voters, who put him in office, like Thomas Massie’s wife, not super rich donors and their favorite foreign countries and business demands,” Greene wrote on X.
Since leaving Congress in January, Greene has publicly broken with Trump and criticized elements of the MAGA movement.
“I think people are realizing it was all a lie,” Greene said in a separate interview. “What MAGA is really serving in this administration… is their big donors.”
