'I don't see how we win the midterms': GOP lawmaker says Trump ignoring 'five-alarm fire'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) warned that Republicans were on track for significant losses in the midterm elections if President Donald Trump continues to spend his time trying to prevent the release of files on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein instead of lowering health care costs for Americans.

"It's insanely the wrong direction to go," Greene told Politico in an interview this week. "The five-alarm fire is health care and affordability for Americans. And that's where the focus should be."

"Just release it all, let the American people sort through every bit of it, and, you know, support the victims. That's just like the most common sense, easiest thing in the world. But to spend any effort trying to stop it makes — it just doesn't make sense to me," she continued.

Greene predicted Democrats would win the midterms if they were held today.

"I don't see how we win the midterms on the course that we've been set on so far," she said.

In emails released by Democrats this week, Epstein claimed that Trump "knew about the girls" who were being abused. The president reacted by attacking Republicans who support forcing the Justice Department to release the remaining Epstein files.

"Only a very bad, or stupid, Republican would fall into that trap," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "There should be no deflections to Epstein or anything else, and any Republicans involved should be focused only on opening up our Country, and fixing the massive damage caused by the Democrats!"

The president also addressed Greene's involvement in the Epstein saga.

"I don't know what happened to Marjorie," he said during remarks in the Oval Office. "Nice woman. But I don't know what happened, she's lost her way, I think."

White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson accused Greene of "complaining about a lack of focus on healthcare affordability while actively working to advance a gigantic Democrat distraction that has nothing to do with bettering the lives of everyday Americans."