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Trump threatens to back challenger to fellow Republican Boebert after she campaigns for Massie
Reuters ^ | 5/15/2026 | David Morgan

Posted on 05/16/2026 5:57:44 PM PDT by usafa92

WASHINGTON, May 16 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump threatened a primary challenge on ​Saturday for hardline conservative Representative Lauren Boebert, until now ‌a staunch Trump ally, after she campaigned for maverick Representative Thomas Massie in his Kentucky district.

"Boebert is campaigning for the Worst 'Republican' Congressman ​in the History of our Country, Thomas Massie, of ​the Great Commonwealth of Kentucky, and anybody who can ⁠be that dumb deserves a good Primary fight!" Trump ​wrote on Truth Social.

Boebert, a Colorado congresswoman, responded with a ​post on X: "Yes, I saw the President’s post. No, I’m not mad or offended. I knew the risks when I agreed to stand by ​my friend Thomas Massie. I was, and will be, ​America First, America Always, and MAGA."

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Another day, another tweet by Trump attacking somebody for not being sufficiently loyal. I don’t like Massie, I hope he loses, but Trump continues to diminish himself when he acts like this. The Colorado primary election is June 30, ballot access is closed to new candidates and ballots are being mailed next week, nobody is running against Boebert and nobody will mount a write-in campaign. So, like 99% of Trump tweets, actually nothing will happen.
1 posted on 05/16/2026 5:57:44 PM PDT by usafa92
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To: MileHi; dynachrome; backspace; Balata; bboop; Ben Dover; Benito Cereno; BigEdLB; bluejean; ...

Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)


2 posted on 05/16/2026 6:04:08 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: usafa92

So who is the Democrat she’ll be facing?


3 posted on 05/16/2026 6:06:41 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: usafa92

We need Boebert on our side. This is not helpful.


4 posted on 05/16/2026 6:07:45 PM PDT by vivenne (7Come to think of it. Fact.)
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To: usafa92

Pick a target
Freeze the target
Personalize the target
Polarize the target

President and Commander in Chief Trump uses these rules for radicals.

And has for awhile.

Some may feel like they have to pick sides.

And his side has revealed a ton of schiffheads, even with R next to their names, since coming down an escalator.


5 posted on 05/16/2026 6:08:53 PM PDT by delchiante
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To: george76

Sheesh...


6 posted on 05/16/2026 6:10:01 PM PDT by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: usafa92

Trump’s ego leaves no room for pragmatism.


7 posted on 05/16/2026 6:10:55 PM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: usafa92
I'm really getting sick of Trump's dumba$$ery.

Massie is a heck of a Congressman, and this would be a better country with 435 of him in Congress. Then Trump endorses people like Lindsey Graham. Just stop.

8 posted on 05/16/2026 6:17:46 PM PDT by Pappy Smear
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To: FamiliarFace

Prediction, Lauren Boebert follows in the footsteps of MTG, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, etc, and finds a new revenue stream that arises from going against DJT. Massie has the same support. I have no evidence, but this is a gut feeling. Time will tell if I’m wrong or I’m right.


9 posted on 05/16/2026 6:19:09 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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I wonder what Lindsay Graham has on him. When Graham ran for president he got 0%.


10 posted on 05/16/2026 6:20:50 PM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: Pappy Smear

Massie fails us every time something important comes up.


11 posted on 05/16/2026 6:21:04 PM PDT by roving
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To: usafa92

Well when Boebert and Massie campaign and says they are going to do something and when they get elected they do the opposite the people do have the legal ability and right to recall them. I know it is rarely done, if it has been done at all, but it is the duty of the people to get rid of politicians that don’t do what you elected them to do.


12 posted on 05/16/2026 6:21:23 PM PDT by ReformedBeckite (1 of 3 I'm only allowing my self each day)
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To: Pappy Smear

Bullschiff.

On Massie’s watch we got ‘they spied on my campaign ‘, two hoax impeachments, Wuhan Coup flu stolen election and targeted lawfare.

535+ there during any of those rail cars added to the long train of abuses and usurpations, are lucky they aren’t being hanged in alphabetical order for being coup co-conspirators.


13 posted on 05/16/2026 6:23:32 PM PDT by delchiante
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To: vivenne
We need Boebert on our side. This is not helpful.

Trump is not the same man who came down the Trump Tower escalator in 2015. He's 80 years old now.

He would have been the old Trump in his second term had 2020 not been stolen from him.

14 posted on 05/16/2026 6:23:34 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If it ain't fun, you ain't doin' it right.)
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To: proust

Graham doesn’t have anything on Trump. You think Graham found something didn’t use it in the past, didn’t trade to the Ratters for something. Unfortunately what Graham has is clout in the Senate. Thanks to the convoluted incumbent protection jungle primary South Carolina has baked into its election system its virtually impossible to find a real effective MAGA challenger. Trump has to work with what’s there - Graham!


15 posted on 05/16/2026 6:28:38 PM PDT by Reily
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To: vivenne

if she was on our side she would not have made the endorsement.


16 posted on 05/16/2026 6:41:16 PM PDT by cableguymn (Can't cancel all of us)
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To: usafa92
She's a loose canon with too many stray hormones.

And I hate the smell of estrogen in the morning.

17 posted on 05/16/2026 6:42:13 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: usafa92

The circular firing squad and a waste of money voices have told us in the past do they keep saying the same thing this time around.

President Trump is my president, not my God not a pope with infallibility.


18 posted on 05/16/2026 6:56:39 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER REV; NIEMOLLER)
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To: usafa92

She showed her true colors.


19 posted on 05/16/2026 6:56:41 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: usafa92
There's something about those last batch of unreleased Epstein files that Trump doesn't like. Two and a half million of them according to reports.


Epstein files

20 posted on 05/16/2026 7:02:56 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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