Posted on 11/17/2025 10:07:18 AM PST by RandFan
President Donald Trump’s call for House Republicans to support releasing Jeffrey Epstein-related documents was a stunning capitulation after a months-long campaign to block the vote.
It was also a specific defeat for Trump at the hands of a despised GOP opponent: Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky.
“He got tired of me winning,” Massie said of Trump’s U-turn in an interview Monday morning.
Insisting “I DON’T CARE!” in a late-night Truth Social post, Trump was bowing to the inevitable — a broad House Republican mutiny on a vote that was only scheduled because Massie forced it. It was the result of Massie and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) launching a discharge petition aimed at sidestepping senior GOP leaders who desperately wanted to avoid bringing the issue to the House floor.
The campaign to avoid the vote got remarkably ugly in the days before Trump finally conceded, with the president personally attacking Massie for recently remarrying after the sudden death last summer of his wife of more than 30 years. Just hours before Trump’s reversal, one of his top political advisers called him “garbage” in an X post.
That adviser, Chris LaCivita, is carrying out a Trump-ordered effort to unseat Massie from the rural northern Kentucky seat he has held since 2012. Trump recently endorsed a challenger, former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein, in the GOP primary.
Massie has not flinched from the threats. Politically, he has seen the best fundraising of his congressional career, entering October with more than $2 million in his campaign coffers.
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Current epi files interest level......😴😴😴😴
Massie is so dumb, he has no idea Trump has been playing him all along.
Politico pumping up Massie.
The art of making crap up out of thin air.
Face it. Massie is squad.
Massie is a prick. A lot of innocent people are going to be falsely branded by Massies work.Donald was doing the right thing.
Lol. Let’s see the response when big league democrats are named and Trump is not. Oh, let it be so!
Isn’t some of this material protected as grand jury proceedings?
That’s why dim judges wouldn’t allow the release.
Yes, in Florida by a Dem judge!
I’ve read more from Margie Greene pushing the release than Massie.
Massie is anti-Trump...What is wrong with the Kentucky congressmen and senators? Kentuckians need to oust this guy and Rand Paul, and McConnell is out come January 2027 so that’s a start.
“...Massie is so dumb, he has no idea Trump has been playing him all along....”
Exactly. Played him like fiddle, and he’s so vain and stupid that he thinks he actually got something over past Trump....whadda moron.
Massie had far far far less to do with the matter than Massie or Politico will ever admit; but both will play it that way as much as they can to help further their own nests.
Fixed. It's been the most protracted trolling operation I've ever seen.
Trump wanted to get the whole Democrat party to support the files release. The only way to do that was to pretend he wanted to not release them.
Now the Dems will be responsible for exposing their own party members that are in the files.
“Massie is so dumb, he has no idea Trump has been playing him all along.”
“Massie is so dumb, he has no idea Trump has been playing him all along.”
“Massie is so dumb, he has no idea Trump has been playing him all along.”
I agree so much I had to say it three times!!!
Bill Clinton and Barak Obama will be exposed.
Or it all could have been a bunch of Kabuki Theater the whole time. Like Elon’s ‘tiff’ with Trump.
Massie is a prick. A lot of innocent people are going to be falsely branded by Massies work.Donald was doing the right thing.
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It looks like the only tactic left now will be to crucify the victims like Dershowitz did - - and possibly more suicides.
I’ll agree massie has done something....
he has exposed himself, rand paul, and you of supporting the left against Trump
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