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What Marjorie Taylor Greene Doesn’t Understand
Her advocacy for Epstein’s victims is inspiring. But what about the rights of other women?
Naomi Beinart
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Earlier this month on The View, Marjorie Taylor Greene said something that progressives might once have found astonishing: that “the Republican Party has a woman problem.” It’s part of her rebranding as an advocate of women, following her recent split from Donald Trump. The former MAGA loyalist, who recently resigned from the House of Representatives, joined Republican Tom Massie and Democrat Ro Khanna in a high-profile campaign to force the Department of Justice to release its files on Jeffrey Epstein. On November 19, both the House and Senate passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which mandated that “all unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative material” be released to the public.
Greene hasn’t stopped there. In December, she proposed inviting Epstein’s victims to the Oval Office, something Trump refuses to do. The files, she laments, represent “everything wrong with Washington.” And as a woman, she considers it particularly personal. “Greene herself had never been sexually abused, but she knew women who had,” wrote The New York Times’ Robert Draper, after he conducted two lengthy interviews with her. “In her own small way…she could understand what it was like for a woman to stand up to a powerful man.”
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In those same interviews, Greene cited Trump’s handling of the Epstein case, and his bullying of female members of Congress, as emblematic of “why women overwhelmingly don’t vote Republican.” She added that “there’s a very big message here.”
But how sincere is Greene’s newfound concern for the rights and experiences of women? If she really believes that “how women in leadership present themselves sends a message to younger women”—including her own two daughters—why does she continue to support policies that tell young women they should live without bodily autonomy? While her advocacy for Epstein’s victims is inspiring, she has failed to defend sexual assault survivors when their alleged assailants were prominent Republicans. In June 2024, more than a year after a New York jury found that Trump had sexually assaulted writer E. Jean Carroll, Greene compared him to Jesus Christ. When Dr. Christine Blasey Ford recounted, in horrifying detail, how Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett …
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Naomi Beinart
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Earlier this month on The View, Marjorie Taylor Greene said something that progressives might once have found astonishing: that “the Republican Party has a woman problem.” It’s part of her rebranding as an advocate of women, following her recent split from Donald Trump. The former MAGA loyalist, who recently resigned from the House of Representatives, joined Republican Tom Massie and Democrat Ro Khanna in a high-profile campaign to force the Department of Justice to release its files on Jeffrey Epstein. On November 19, both the House and Senate passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which mandated that “all unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative material” be released to the public.
Greene hasn’t stopped there. In December, she proposed inviting Epstein’s victims to the Oval Office, something Trump refuses to do. The files, she laments, represent “everything wrong with Washington.” And as a woman, she considers it particularly personal. “Greene herself had never been sexually abused, but she knew women who had,” wrote The New York Times’ Robert Draper, after he conducted two lengthy interviews with her. “In her own small way…she could understand what it was like for a woman to stand up to a powerful man.”
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Jeet Heer
In those same interviews, Greene cited Trump’s handling of the Epstein case, and his bullying of female members of Congress, as emblematic of “why women overwhelmingly don’t vote Republican.” She added that “there’s a very big message here.”
But how sincere is Greene’s newfound concern for the rights and experiences of women? If she really believes that “how women in leadership present themselves sends a message to younger women”—including her own two daughters—why does she continue to support policies that tell young women they should live without bodily autonomy? While her advocacy for Epstein’s victims is inspiring, she has failed to defend sexual assault survivors when their alleged assailants were prominent Republicans. In June 2024, more than a year after a New York jury found that Trump had sexually assaulted writer E. Jean Carroll, Greene compared him to Jesus Christ. When Dr. Christine Blasey Ford recounted, in horrifying detail, how Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett …
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Earlier this month on The View, Marjorie Taylor Greene said something that progressives might once have found astonishing: that “the Republican Party has a woman problem.” It’s part of her rebranding as an advocate of women, following her recent split from Donald Trump. The former MAGA loyalist, who recently resigned from the House of Representatives, joined Republican Tom Massie and Democrat Ro Khanna in a high-profile campaign to force the Department of Justice to release its files on Jeffrey Epstein. On November 19, both the House and Senate passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which mandated that “all unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative material” be released to the public.
Greene hasn’t stopped there. In December, she proposed inviting Epstein’s victims to the Oval Office, something Trump refuses to do. The files, she laments, represent “everything wrong with Washington.” And as a woman, she considers it particularly personal. “Greene herself had never been sexually abused, but she knew women who had,” wrote The New York Times’ Robert Draper, after he conducted two lengthy interviews with her. “In her own small way…she could understand what it was like for a woman to stand up to a powerful man.”
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In those same interviews, Greene cited Trump’s handling of the Epstein case, and his bullying of female members of Congress, as emblematic of “why women overwhelmingly don’t vote Republican.” She added that “there’s a very big message here.”
But how sincere is Greene’s newfound concern for the rights and experiences of women? If she really believes that “how women in leadership present themselves sends a message to younger women”—including her own two daughters—why does she continue to support policies that tell young women they should live without bodily autonomy? While her advocacy for Epstein’s victims is inspiring, she has failed to defend sexual assault survivors when their alleged assailants were prominent Republicans. In June 2024, more than a year after a New York jury found that Trump had sexually assaulted writer E. Jean Carroll, Greene compared him to Jesus Christ. When Dr. Christine Blasey Ford recounted, in horrifying detail, how Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett …
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