MTG suggests Israel or other foreign govt may be pressuring Trump to cover up Epstein files

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...