Chris Murphy Spins a Fairy Tale About Thomas Massie’s Loss — Here’s a Reality Check
The defeat of Rep. Thomas Massie
(KY-04) on Tuesday night by Trump-backed candidate Ed Gallrein in the
GOP primary was welcome news for conservatives who had grown tired of
Massie's attention-seeking antics and theatrics, and his frequent breaks
with President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans on America
First policies.
Those antics, as we reported, continued right on into Primary Day,
with Massie and his campaign texting an "endorsement" from Trump to
voters in the 4th Congressional District, making it look like it
happened this election cycle when it was actually from 2022.
When
a furious Trump called him out on it, Massie just doubled down and
continued to make it look like it was a recent endorsement, most likely
out of desperation from knowing he was about to lose.
In
the aftermath, the hot takes were fast and flowing among the Usual
Suspects who were speculating as to why Massie went down in defeat.
The
consensus among Democrats and Marjorie Taylor Greene types on the
right, of course, was that it was because of Massie's push for the
release of the full Epstein files, and how the MAGA faithful in his
district didn't appreciate it.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) was among the many who pushed this theory:
The
problem with this hot take is that it ignores the timeline of Massie's
sudden rush of concern about whether the full files would be released.
It all started after the Trump administration made clear they hoped this
would be Massie's last term in Congress:
In other words, it wasn't sincere, and everyone knew it.
Further,
there was the incovenient-to-the-left's-narratives issue of how often
Massie voted against his party (and Trump) in 2025 alone - including on
issues like border security and tax cuts, as RedState previously reported:
Then
there is Massie’s habit of casting crucial anti-Republican Party-line
House votes. In that chamber, the GOP has a razor-thin margin, and an analysis of voting patterns in the 119th Congress
by Fox News found Massie sided against his party "on 73 occasions, or
22.3 percent of the time." This includes votes against the One Big
Beautiful Bill and for Democrat war resolutions against the Iran
conflict.
Let us also not forget what some have characterized as an antisemitic tone to some of Massie's Israel criticisms:
Massie
has been doubling down on the antisemitic trope about Israel dragging
Trump and America into conflicts and doing their dirty work. He
deliberately mischaracterizes aid to Israel—almost all of which is spent
in the United States, bolstering vital domestic arms manufacturers—as
having no benefit to Americans. He ignores or lies about the fact that
America derives enormous benefits from the alliance with the Jewish
state in terms of intelligence and weapons development. And, like
Carlson, he pretends Iran has not been at war with the United States
since the Islamist regime seized power there in 1979. Just as bad, he’s
been one of the prominent voices bolstering the smear that the crimes of
the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were somehow linked to Israeli
intelligence…He also seems to think there is something illegitimate
about millions of Americans, both Jewish and non-Jewish, who understand
that a close relationship with Israel is not only an expression of
common democratic values.
As if to prove the point, here's the disgusting way Massie chose to begin his concession speech Tuesday night:
Gee, buddy, thanks for saying the quiet part out loud - and for proving the point in the process.
It
was time for Massie to go, not because of the Epstein files but because
a majority of GOP voters who voted in the Tuesday primary wanted
someone who actually was a conservative Republican instead of someone
who cosplayed one only when it was convenient to his ambitions. This X
user summed it up well:
Massie’s
last-ditch effort of using a four year old Trump endorsement
(deliberately blocking out the date by the way) perfectly summarizes
just how vile and deceitful of a person he is.
It also demonstrates Trump’s continued dominance of the Republican Party.
Massie
has been calling Trump a pedophile for over a year. Epstein
Administration, Epstein Class, pedo protector, all of these slanderous
titles he used to attack Trump. Regardless, when it came time to save
his seat, he lies right to his voters’ faces and claims to be a loyal
Trump supporter.
He did this every time he was in his district
speaking to voters face to face. He put pictures of himself with Trump
in campaign ads. Despite being an anti-Trump lunatic to his online,
third world fanbase, he’s smart enough to know that actual voters,
actual AMERICANS, love Trump.
Perhaps no one in history has been
more deserving of a crushing, humiliating defeat than Thomas Massie.
Good riddance to this piece of garbage.
If you come at the king, you best not miss.
He missed. Big time.
Relatedly, Chris Murphy knows we'll take lectures from Democrats on the Epstein files on like the 4th of Never, right?
For
heaven’s sake Bill Clinton spoke in prime time at the last Dem
convention less than two years ago and he was far cozier with Epstein.
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