CHRISTOPHER BUCKTIN: Marjorie Taylor Greene is aware of Trump’s MAGA ship is sinking
Marjorie Taylor Greene can see what the rest of the party won’t admit: the MAGA ship is going under and Trump is the one punching fresh holes in the hull
Republicans in Congress are staring down a political barrel loaded, cocked and pointed directly at them by Donald Trump and they know it.
The Epstein files are no longer just a rumbling scandal on the horizon; they are a political missile hurtling straight toward Capitol Hill. And every Republican is now calculating, in real time, whether clinging to Trump is worth being vaporised alongside him.
In the coming days, both the House and Senate will vote on whether to release the files. If the bill passes – and it likely will – it lands squarely on Trump’s desk. He will almost certainly veto it, not because of principle or privacy or process, but because he is desperate to protect himself. That veto, though, is not a shield. It is a trigger.
Once it bounces back to Congress, Republicans must make the choice they have avoided for eight long years: override Trump, or publicly brand themselves the party that helped bury the truth to save a man they privately describe as a political and moral black hole. If they duck the override, the scandal doesn’t end – it detonates.
The House Oversight Committee will simply continue to leak whatever it receives from state authorities. Day after day. File after file. Fragment after fragment.
Republicans will be hounded on camera, on radio, on social media, in their districts: Why didn’t you release the files? What are you hiding? Whose side are you on – America’s, or Trump’s? It will dominate the midterms. And voters who are already tired, angry and suspicious will punish them for shielding a president visibly buckling under the weight of his own secrets.
And here’s the part that terrifies Republican strategists: if Democrats take back Congress, it’s game over. They won’t need a bill. They won’t need Trump’s signature. They’ll appoint a special prosecutor – something Trump has no power to stop – and they’ll publish everything. Every email. Every meeting. Every connection. At that point, insiders warn, Trump will likely be exposed as possibly the most bought-and-paid-for politician in American history.
Would he resign? Of course not. His ego is too inflated to fit through the exit door. But his presidency would effectively be dead – a hollowed-out relic kept alive only by his refusal to admit defeat. And Republicans, paralysed by cowardice, will carry that stench into 2028, where they’ll be flattened again for their refusal to cut him loose when they had the chance.
The only viable escape route is obvious: turn on Trump now. Break cleanly. Override the veto. Crawl out of the crater before he pulls the entire party into the abyss with him. And that is exactly why one of Trump’s most loyal attack dogs, Marjorie Taylor Greene, is suddenly howling in the opposite direction.
Greene once treated Trump like a political messiah. She defended him through two impeachments. Through the fallout of January 6. Through scandal after scandal after scandal. She was Trump’s megaphone, his enforcer, his ever-willing proxy warrior. But now? Now she’s publicly accusing him of trying to stop Republicans from releasing the Epstein files. She’s telling the world he’s lashing out because she won’t cover for him.
She says he’s whipped up threats against her. And Trump – true to form – has responded not with reason, but with rage, calling her “wacky” and “traitor” like a man terrified his favourite guard dog has turned its teeth on him.
Their feud has become the political equivalent of smashing plates in the street. Greene knows what the rest of the party won’t say aloud: the ship is sinking, and Trump is drilling new holes in the hull. She isn’t rebelling. She’s reading the smoke signals before the firestorm engulfs them all. She’s the canary in the coal mine, choking first because she’s closest to the fumes.
Republicans do not have months to decide. They have days. Days to choose whether to run for daylight or let Trump bury the entire party alive beneath the weight of whatever the Epstein files contain.
And hovering above all of this is the one question every lawmaker terrified of the upcoming vote should be forced to answer:
When did paedophilia become partisan?
