Marjorie Taylor Greene slammed for saying Trump should go free so prosecutors can go after rapists

Out former Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY) had a cutting response to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) latest bizarre complaint about Donald Trump’s fourth criminal indictment.

Greene – one of Trump’s most loyal supporters – has spent the last few days attacking Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis for filing 13 criminal charges against Donald Trump and other charges against 18 coconspirators in connection to the alleged conspiracy to falsify Georgia’s 2020 election results and steal the state’s electoral votes. Greene’s latest attack is that Willis should be prosecuting other crimes, like rape, instead of prosecuting criminal matters involving Trump, even though Willis’s office prosecutes many cases simultaneously.

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“People everywhere are terrified of this government,” Greene claimed on the far-right network Newsmax. “This is something that we expect in third-world countries, in communist regimes. but this is what we’re seeing in America today.”

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She said people in her district are mad that “the Biden regime” is trying to “arrest President Trump, lock him up in jail for the rest of his life, which is a death sentence.” Willis is a county official and the charges she filed were under state law; she is not a part of the Biden administration at all.

“I wanna tell you something about Atlanta,” Greene continued. “Atlanta has some of the highest crime in the country. Murder, rape, carjacking, and the state of Georgia is one of the worst states in the country for child sex trafficking.”

“Fani Willis should be going after child sex predators and traffickers. Fani Willis should be going after murderers, rapists, car theft.”

Jones pointed out that Willis is, in fact, going after someone with a history of sexual assault in prosecuting Trump.

“It is an underreported story that in May of this year, a jury found that Donald Trump raped E. Jean Carroll,” he wrote.

Jones was referring to Carroll’s successful civil suit against Trump earlier this year, where a jury found that Trump sexually abused Carroll in a department store changing room in the 1990s and ordered Trump to pay $5 million in damages for the sexual assault and his subsequent defamation of Carroll. While the jury unanimously agreed that Trump sexually abused her, they did not believe that she had proven “rape” under New York law since Trump forcibly inserted his fingers, and not his own genitalia, into Carroll’s genitalia. Other states don’t make that distinction.

And it was far from the only time that Trump has been accused of sexual assault. Over two dozen women have done so, including one who filed a lawsuit against Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, accusing them of raping three 12 and 13-year-old girls at underage sex parties. She withdrew her lawsuit in November 2016, and her name was never made public.