David Schoen, a lawyer who represented President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, blamed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) for refusing to drop a scandal concerning his former clients.
During a Monday interview on Newsmax, host Katrina Szish asked Schoen about Trump’s ongoing Epstein scandal.
“Just explain this to me because you, again, you’re a former Epstein lawyer,” Szish said. “Why, then, are people so obsessed? And I’m not just talking about one side of the party or on one side of party lines or others. Overall, people are obsessed. What will it take to get this story — I’m just going to say to go away because it doesn’t seem like there’s anything there?”
Schoen argued that the scandal was being driven by “competing agendas” on the left and the right.
“On the left, New York Times and the Democratic Party, the hypocrisy is outrageous, as I’ve said, but they want to continue to sow as much dissension as they can and distract from the accomplishments of the Trump administration,” he said.
“On the other side, you’ve got, you know, Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, conspiracy theorists, who will never be satisfied by anything,” Schoen added. “If there were a smoking gun, Maxwell says, for example, that some young woman was with, fill in the blank, some famous and wealthy person. They’ll say, well, there must be more. That can’t be all of it.”
“So it’s being driven, I think, by financial reasons and other reasons by both sides.”
Earlier this month, Greene warned that Trump could lose his MAGA base over the scandal.
“If you tell the base of people, who support you, of deep state treasonous crimes, election interference, blackmail, and rich powerful elite evil cabals, then you must take down every enemy of The People,” the lawmaker wrote on X. “The base will turn and there’s no going back.”
“Dangling bits of red meat no longer satisfies,” she remarked.