Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Republican Calls This: 'The Epstein Administration'

Rep. Thomas Massie went nuclear on President Donald Trump over his handling of the Epstein files, branding the White House the "Epstein administration."

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Q: "Do you still have confidence in Pam Bondi as Attorney General?" Rep. Thomas Massie: "I don't think Pam Bondi has confidence in Pam Bondi ... No, I don't have confidence in her. She hasn't gotten any sort of accountability there at DOJ."

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-- The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) Feb 15, 2026 at 11:51 AM

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"Donald Trump told us that even though he had dinner with these people in NYC and West Palm Beach, that he would be transparent," Massie said.

"But he's not. He's still in with the Epstein class. This is the Epstein administration."

"The people who are funding the attacks against me, they may or may not be implicated in these files, but they were certainly rubbing shoulders with the people who are in these files," he said.

"They're billionaires who are friends with these people and that's what I'm up against in Washington, D.C."

Despite the president's attempts to thwart him, Massie reported some of his best fundraising ever last year, particularly in Q2 after he began championing the release of the Epstein files."

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Massie, Ro Khanna, MTG... the new Three Amigos!

(Martin Short as MTG! Which reminds me, have you ever seen he and Steve Martin in the tv show Only Murders in the Building?... one of like 2 shows I watch sometimes &)

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-16 06:35 PM

Epstein is at the beating heart of everything Trump is and does.

He knows that we know what he's done. But somehow the final documentation of that is intolerable to Donald Trump, who has never really been president, but a career sexual criminal pretending to be one.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2026-02-16 06:36 PM

- He knows that we know what he's done.

He also appears not to care that we know what he's done.

He reminded us again the other day that he could shoot someone on 5th Ave and not lose any votes. I mean, he's been Impeached, convicted by a Jury of his Peers, openly lied into the faces of his Cult... with little to no effect on the Base.

Fortunately, it takes more than the Base to win, and he's already lost the middle voters.

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#3 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-16 06:52 PM

PEDO DONNIE needs to be executed

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-02-17 01:01 AM

The funniest thing about it is that it was entirely self-inflicted.

They weaponized it hoping it would work as some bad reverse psychology thing and it backfired.

#5 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-17 08:34 AM

#5 | Posted by jpw

I think Trump didn't realize how much he was in the files... He should have though as he was Trump's best bud and "wingman" for over a decade and during the time everyone put everything in emails without thought not thinking we would be reading them. Idiot.

#6 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2026-02-17 11:27 AM

This will be remembered as the worst Presidency in American history bar none.

#7 | Posted by moder8 at 2026-02-17 05:15 PM

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