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Monday, February 16, 2026

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

Massie slammed Trump for "rubbing shoulders" with Jeffrey Epstein's associates during an appearance Sunday on ABC News' This Week, where he was discussing a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Attorney General Pam Bondi's handling of the Epstein files.

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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 | Reply

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 | Reply

- 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 | Reply

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