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The storm over Trump’s long and close friendship with a serial pedophile with links to Israel and possibly (probably?) a US intelligence access agent may or may not blow over. Speaker Mike Johnson’s decision to cancel floor votes in the House until after August recess certainly reeks of a coverup.
In a mere 6 months, the president has shown that he has learnt nothing from his first term. He has broken promise after promise; he has staffed the highest levels of the US government with second-rate people, the third-rate people being reserved for the White House staff. Few in the America First movement voted for more arms to Ukraine, a war with Iran, and the adoption of the vicious, sinister Biden-Blinken policy of genocide in Gaza. But so far, that’s what has been on offer. No one, as far as I know, voted for a dual South African-Canadian national and autist, along with his band of teenage computer nerds, to come in and gut the federal workforce. There was, as far as I know, no great popular groundswell for a radio shock jock to be named Deputy Director of the FBI—nor was there any popular enthusiasm for among the most diehard neoconservatives in Congress to be appointed, Secretary of State, National Security Adviser, and UN Ambassador. Nor did there seem to be widespread enthusiasm for the appointment of an under-qualified, deeply troubled part-time TV anchor as Secretary of Defense.
Amidst all this, Mr. Trump’s allies in MAGA world, including the formidable Steve Bannon, are planning ways to skirt the 22nd Amendment and install Trump, who will by then be 82 years of age, as President in 2028.
Nearly alone among House Republicans against the onslaught of stupidity and self-dealing stands Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky. Massie poses a threat to Trump because Massie answers only to his constituents and his conscience. And so, Massie has joined with Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna in authoring a bill calling for a release of the Epstein Files; Massie opposed the co-called “big, beautiful spending bill”; he has opposed Trump’s foreign mis-adventures in the Middle East; and he alone among his 534 colleagues blew the whistle on AIPAC, exposing the lobby’s practice of signing a “Pro-Israel Position Paper” where they pledge to support Israel in exchange for money.
For his trouble, Massie was targeted by Trump this week, calling him "the worst Republican Congressman" and “an Embarrassment to Kentucky.” According to Trump, “He’s lazy, slow moving, and totally disingenuous - A real loser! Never has anything positive to add. Looking for someone good to run against this guy, someone I can Endorse and vigorously campaign for!"
Reads like an endorsement to me.
James W. Carden is editor of TRR.
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