WASHINGTON — Renegade Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Sunday publicly questioned whether Israel or another country is pressuring President Trump to conceal the files on late sex predator Jeffrey Epstein.
The congresswoman had noted in a post on X on Saturday that she hasn’t received donations from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a k a AIPAC, while asking “who and what country is putting so much pressure” on Trump.
Greene, pressed on Sunday’s “State of the Union” on CNN about whether she was alleging that “Israel is pushing the president of the United States to cover up the Epstein files,” initially claimed that she wasn’t.
“No, I simply just asked out loud, is there a foreign government? It could be any foreign government. But is a foreign government pushing to keep this covered up because people just don’t understand the big fight against [releasing the Epstein files],” she said.
But when anchor Dana Bash brought up her X post about AIPAC, Greene said, “I’m questioning that government [Israel] in particular and questioning any other foreign government.”
Greene’s Saturday post claimed that the Epstein files — which she has been demanding Trump fully release — and AIPAC’s concerns with her were fueling the Republican president’s attacks against her.
“I think it’s a question that many Americans are asking, especially when we saw information recently come out in these emails that the Oversight Committee that I serve on has released, and we saw Jeffrey Epstein with ties to [former Israeli Prime Minister] Ehud Barak,” Greene told CNN of her X post.
“I think the right question is to ask is, was Jeffrey Epstein working for Israel? And I’m proud to say I don’t take money from AIPAC. I don’t take money from any special group of people.”
Recent disclosures from the powerful House Oversight Committee detailed communications between Epstein and Barak, who served as Israel’s prime minister from 1999 to 2001, about a conflict in the West African country of Cote d’Ivoire in the early 2010s.
Epstein had encouraged Barack, who was then serving as Israel’s defense minister, to take advantage of the conflict and leverage Israeli intelligence-gathering of phone systems in the beleaguered country.
“We saw him making business deals with them, also business deals that involved the Israeli government, and seems to have led into their intel agencies,” Greene said, referring to the communications between Epstein and Barak.
Greene’s remarks come in the midst of an epic feud between her and Trump that erupted last week after months of her taking digs at the president. Trump yanked his support for Greene on Friday and accused her of going “far left.”
During her wide-ranging interview with CNN, Greene also defended right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson’s controversial softball interview with white supremacist Nick Fuentes and suggested CNN should have Fuentes on as well.
“I defend every single person’s free-speech rights,” Greene told Bash. “I don’t apologize for that, and I don’t believe in cancelling people. And I think it’s important for people like Tucker Carlson and yourself to interview everyone.
“I did watch the full interview with Tucker, and I admire him for interviewing many people as well as exposing a lot of powerful information.”
In 2022, Greene spoke at the America First Political Action Conference, which Fuentes organized in Florida, near where the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, was at the time.
Fuentes has repeatedly expressed affection for Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and other notorious figures. He has also cast doubts on the Holocaust and argued that women should be more subservient to men.
Greene denied knowing who Fuentes was at the time of the 2022 event and reiterated Sunday that she wasn’t aware of his hateful views when she attended it.
She later told Bash, “You should have Nick Fuentes on your show.”
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson on Sunday shrugged off Greene’s attacks against Trump, telling The Post the administration “won’t be distracted.”
“Those emails prove literally nothing,” Jackson said of the Epstein files. “Democrats and the mainstream media are desperately trying to use this hoax as a distraction to talk about anything other than the president’s many wins.”
