'Larger dilemma': Analyst says GOP women face 'career suicide' for defying Trump
An analyst says that Republican women in Congress are facing a "larger dilemma" over defying President Donald Trump and his reported ties to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein amid the growing calls to release the Epstein files.
Salon's senior writer Amanda Marcotte describes why GOP women, who she coins "a rare breed" comprising of only 14% of the Republican caucus, make up an overwhelming amount of House Republicans — 75% — who have signed the discharge petition to prompt the U.S. Department of Justice to release the documents.
As Trump has tried to distance himself from Epstein and rants how only Republicans who are “very bad, or stupid” would want to reveal even more about the child sex trafficking case, it appears that Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Nancy Mace (R-SC) are poised to demand the Epstein files are made public. Each of them has different motives, Marcotte explains, but it presents a bigger question over their political futures and what's at stake. ...