Thomas Massie’s defeat just backfired & now Tr*mp has a big, big problem
Well that didn't work as planned!
Mark
On Tuesday, Kentucky congressman Thomas Massie lost his primary race after publicly standing up to Tr*mp, the Iran War, and the continuing lack of accountability from powerful figures in the Epstein files.
Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna, who co-authored the Epstein Files Transparency Act with Massie, claimed that his collaborator lost because he had “the guts to stand up to the Epstein class.”
Massie stuck out his neck to make sure the Epstein files—including Tr*mp’s thousands of mentions inside—were released to the public last year. “Releasing the Epstein files put me on the wrong side of the president for quite a while,” he explained, “but on the right side of my constituents, who had been promised that we would release the Epstein files.”
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One thing about the Epstein class? They’re positively loaded. After Bernie Sanders and others started following the money to expose exactly how much it cost Tr*mp to lose Massie his race, the congressman’s defeat is starting to look like a major problem for Tr*mp.
In yesterday’s speech, Sanders laid out the facts. Massie, he explains, was defeated after the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC spent $9 million to boost the opposition, combined with $7 million from “Tr*mp SuperPACs. “Tr*mp Megadonors.”
In total, Tr*mp spent a whopping $32 million in an effort to oust Massie from his seat, and it worked. The problem? Now everyone’s talking about the money, and Massie is starting to look like a folk hero.
“They spent 32.6 million dollars to silence one man,” Don Lemon reported on a recent livestream, noting that the tab makes Massie’s race “the most expensive primary in American history.”
But if Tr*mp thought that was the end of the story, he was wrong. Now citizens across party lines are voicing their distaste with Tr*mp’s blatant attempt to buy a new congressman in Kentucky—ostensibly one who will agree with him on every policy, or else.
Unfortunately for him, it’s not the end of Massie. As Lemon explains, the Kentucky congressman now has seven months where he’s accountable to no one and beholden to zero donors, PACs, or parties. He is free to unleash hell on the GOP, and it’s possible that’s just what he’ll do.
Massie isn’t alone in this awkward position: fellow Republican Bill Cassidy, who also got ousted by Tr*mp Bucks during his primary on Tuesday, is also starting to raise a ruckus during his remaining months in office. After helping to slash the funding plans for Tr*mp’s billion-dollar ballroom, Cassidy is now focusing on torching the president’s $1.8 billion weaponization slush fund. He’s hitting Tr*mp where it hurts, and luckily, he’s not alone.
“People are concerned about paying their mortgage or rent, affording groceries and paying for gas, not about putting together a $1.8 billion fund for the President and his allies to pay whomever they wish with no legal precedent or accountability,” Cassidy tweeted yesterday, stating that Tr*mp’s payout fund was substantially contributing to the national debt. Massie also held Tr*mp’s feet to the fire with his remarks about the president being in Israel’s pocket.
That’s the problem with Tr*mp’s new position. In the past, all he had to do was say “you’re fired!” and the offending worker would be handed an NDA and instantly whisked out of sight. Fortunately, that’s not how it works in congress—yet. For the next seven months, Massie is going to be a pain in Tr*mp’s side, and possibly other places. And on X, he’s already chosen chaos. We love to see it!
As Massie himself pointed out in his concession speech, “we have the younger demographic.” Gen Z support for Tr*mp has already tanked, and if continues along this path, the midterms are going to be a MAGA bloodbath. Massie, meanwhile, will look like a true American hero in the history books.
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