Monday, November 17, 2025

How Thomas Massie Outmaneuvered Trump on Epstein

He got tired of me winning'

The president's Sunday capitulation handed his biggest GOP foe in Congress a major victory.

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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.

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"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."

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Much more at the thread link... Trump is funding a replacement for Massie in his Red District, but that's not going well either.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-17 01:19 PM

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