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Posted on 04/26/2026 4:06:08 AM PDT by RandFan
Rep. Thomas Massie, the renegade Kentucky Republican who fiercely guards his political independence, doesn’t love being on President Trump’s bad side. He would prefer not to have the president’s allies spend millions to defeat him in a primary. In fact, if Massie had his way, he’d be working for Trump right now.
In his telling, in the weeks after the 2024 presidential election, the two men talked about Massie, a farmer who champions raw milk, becoming Trump’s agriculture secretary. Massie had formally endorsed Trump late in the campaign, offering to help him win over libertarians who might be tempted to stay home or vote third party in key battlegrounds. Trump had been appreciative, and the two had chatted by phone to hash out the timing of the endorsement announcement. “Just tweet it. I’ll retweet you,” Trump had told him.
The rollout went smoothly, but Massie’s endorsement didn’t get him the job in Trump’s Cabinet. He was recounting this to me in, of all places, a bridal suite inside a converted barn in his northern-Kentucky district. Massie had just delivered remarks to a friendly crowd in the wedding hall downstairs, part of an acrimonious campaign that, if Trump gets his way, will be Massie’s last. The president’s allies are spending big to defeat Massie in a May 19 primary and prop up Ed Gallrein, a Navy SEAL and a political novice whom Trump personally recruited as a challenger. Massie first won election to the House during the pre-Trump Tea Party era and has handily prevailed in competitive primaries before. But he is also aware of Trump’s unique hold on the GOP: When the president decides he wants a Republican out of Congress, he usually gets his wish. Polls have given Massie a lead over Gallrein
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The rest is PayWalled etc. I think but the picture of Rep. Massie is striking.
What’s interesting about that pic is the photographer.
I hope taxpayers didn’t pay for that.
Lefty Dem OP Foreign Trump Hater .
TODAY is not the Day for YOUR Trump Hating Ass
Peddling that EVIL Felloe Trump Hating ASS Dem operative
om this site .
You need to be ZAPPED NOW.
I’m about to say something that will get me banned.
Hear, hear!
Massive is not a Republican. He just plays one on tv. He would not have won his elections running as other than Republican so in that sense he is a fraud.
I say run as an independent libertarian Tommy and if you get elected then you will have out smarted President Trump. Until then not so much.
Massie shouldn't be classified as a republican.
He's an asshole.
So are you.
Eff off, faggot.
Creep
Get a life.
“Mass Hole”
They pushed the "suckers and losers" hoax.
They pushed the "Kash Patel is a drunk" hoax.
And now they're tweaking Trump with being "outsmarted" by Massie.
The Atlantic is nothing by psyops.
-PJ
Bkmk
And now you post nonsense all day from places like the Atlantic, leftist propaganda to try to ruin our country. With propping up this terrible human Masshole who also pretends to be a libertarian.
You are so divisive, awfl, and ugly. Stay in the UK and just stop.
The Atlantic?
I see you have lots of fans here.
About the only genuine representative of the people and our interests that we have.
If you are a Republican getting good press in The Atlantic, you need to re-evaluation your life.
Good point.
Randfan’s timing is suspect.
“I think but the picture of Rep. Massie is striking.”
You’re not “pulling” a Jeffrey Toobin, are you? Eeeewwww
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