Donald Trump and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) have been feuding for quite some time now, and the lawmaker seems to believe that the Epstein files could be his smoking gun to take the president out once and for all.
Massie has partnered with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) to release the documents to the public.
Now, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is calling out Massie, but something tells me this little feud is far from being over.
Over the weekend, both Massie and Khanna were touting the imminent release of the documents, stating that the American people would be outraged when they saw what was inside, which this administration had refused to provide.
With more than 30,000 documents going public, Epstein’s brother, Mark, still contends there is nothing new likely to be seen, stating, "There is no news there. I’d rather see the tape in the morning when they took his body off of the tier. That would show who was there, maybe who was running the show etc. That might be news."
I tend to agree with Mark on this one, as I believe anything truly damaging would have already been scrubbed from the records.
Khanna and Massie were taking a big risk by promising a bombshell in these documents, as that is the exact move that backfired on Trump and his surrogates.
While all this was going on, old videos taken at Epstein's infamous complex started to blow up all over the internet.
The videos showed the interior of his homes, which included many nude photos of women, images of Ghislaine Maxwell, and some pictures with some of the high-profile people Epstein had met over the years.
Oddly enough, one of those pictures was with Pope John Paul II.
The home has since been demolished, but the videos were yet another reminder of how the elite allowed this monster to exist among them for years, and nobody ever said a word.
All of this served to get MAGA and conspiracy theorists more wound up, believing that the White House was covering up rather than being transparent, and as a result, Johnson fired a shot at Massie.
The speaker stated, "I would describe virtually everything Thomas Massie says, as related to this issue, as meaningless.”
Massie responded, "He copied three pages out of my resolution. I mean, we wrote this from scratch. So if he thinks it's meaningless, why is he copying it and taking the teeth out of it? He is afraid of President Donald Trump. Mike Johnson's speakership just hangs on that thread."
I still do not understand why Republicans insist on fighting these battles in public. I understand what Massie is doing, but Johnson has to do better than this, and it surely does not benefit Trump to get into a mudslinging contest in the media or online. These people all have offices within a few steps of each other, so how about walking down the hallway, knocking on a door, and getting this all ironed out in private rather than continuing to air dirty laundry in public?
