MAQA Civil War

[Bobcat]

Hey did you guys hear the new lie about Trumps health?

If not wait a couple days and every single media outlet will be repeating the same words and phrases.

It so funny to watch the panic!!! I love the left

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GOP rep says he doesn’t trust Trump DOJ

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) signaled Tuesday that he doesn’t believe the findings from the Justice Department’s (DOJ) probe of files related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein — including the lack of a client list and the cause of his 2019 death.

“I’m over it. It disgusts me,” Burchett told CNN’s Manu Raju. “I’m big on clarity and transparency, and that’s a good reason people don’t trust government, either party.”

When asked whether he deems DOJ trustworthy, the Tennessee Republican responded, “I don’t know.”

He quickly added, “No, I don’t. I think I don’t. I don’t trust them.”

Weakling.

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Trump lashes out at supporters pushing the 'Epstein Hoax': Behind the MAGA fallout over the investigation into his 'client list'

The president disavowed longtime backers who are furious over the administration's conclusion that the accused sex trafficker did not possess a secret list of clients.
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In a Truth Social post early Wednesday, Trump repeatedly referred to the case as “the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax.”

“My PAST supporters have bought into this ‘bullshit,’ hook, line, and sinker,” the president fumed. “All these people want to talk about, with strong prodding by the Fake News and the success starved Dems, is the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax.”

He added: “Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work, don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support anymore!”

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office later Wednesday, Trump said some Republicans "got duped by the Democrats."

"I lost a lot of faith in certain people," the president said.

trump: Damnit, I'm the only one that gets to dupe my qult members.

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Trump lashes out at supporters pushing the 'Epstein Hoax': Behind the MAGA fallout over the investigation into his 'client list'

The president disavowed longtime backers who are furious over the administration's conclusion that the accused sex trafficker did not possess a secret list of clients.
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In a Truth Social post early Wednesday, Trump repeatedly referred to the case as “the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax.”

“My PAST supporters have bought into this ‘bullshit,’ hook, line, and sinker,” the president fumed. “All these people want to talk about, with strong prodding by the Fake News and the success starved Dems, is the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax.”

He added: “Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work, don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support anymore!”

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office later Wednesday, Trump said some Republicans "got duped by the Democrats."

"I lost a lot of faith in certain people," the president said.

trump: Damnit, I'm the only one that gets to dupe my qult members.

It’s even better reading the actual Truth with the typical all caps and such.

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Trump Flips Out at Republican Lawmaker Exposing the Party on Epstein

I think this is the referendum on [Johnson’s] leadership, Massie said on Monday, according to Punchbowl News. Who’s he gonna pick? Is he going to stand with the pedophiles and underage sex traffickers? Or is he gonna pick the American people and justice for the victims? This is the ultimate decision the speaker needs to make. And it’s irrespective of what the president wants.

Thomas Massie, the worst Republican Congressman, and an almost guaranteed NO VOTE each and every time, is an Embarrassment to Kentucky. He’s lazy, slow moving, and totally disingenuous—A real loser! Never has anything positive to add, Trump wrote Monday evening on Truth Social, attaching a link to an attack ad about Massie. Looking for someone good to run against this guy, someone I can Endorse and vigorously campaign for!

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The QAnon shaman, Jacob Chansley, has turned on trump ...

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Senate bill to ban lawmaker stock trading moves step forward – and Trump turns on Hawley

Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley voted with Democrats Wednesday to advance his bill to ban US lawmakers from stock trading, over the opposition of other Republicans on the panel and drawing the ire of President Donald Trump.
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The bill sparked wide-ranging debate during the at-times contentious meeting, including over the reach it would have into the executive branch and whether it would discourage individuals from running for Congress in the future.

Hawley, who has been working on the effort for years, told reporters after the vote, “What the White House wanted was that the president, the vice President not be covered, they’re not, their offices are, but it will be the next office holders,” though he said the White House did not speak to him directly about their concerns.
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Still, Hawley’s alignment with Democrats in the vote prompted anger from Trump, who called him “second-tier.”

“I don’t think real Republicans want to see their President, who has had unprecedented success, TARGETED, because of the ‘whims’ of a second-tier Senator named Josh Hawley!” Trump posted on Truth Social Wednesday.

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Senate bill to ban lawmaker stock trading moves step forward – and Trump turns on Hawley

Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley voted with Democrats Wednesday to advance his bill to ban US lawmakers from stock trading, over the opposition of other Republicans on the panel and drawing the ire of President Donald Trump.
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The bill sparked wide-ranging debate during the at-times contentious meeting, including over the reach it would have into the executive branch and whether it would discourage individuals from running for Congress in the future.

Hawley, who has been working on the effort for years, told reporters after the vote, “What the White House wanted was that the president, the vice President not be covered, they’re not, their offices are, but it will be the next office holders,” though he said the White House did not speak to him directly about their concerns.
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Still, Hawley’s alignment with Democrats in the vote prompted anger from Trump, who called him “second-tier.”

“I don’t think real Republicans want to see their President, who has had unprecedented success, TARGETED, because of the ‘whims’ of a second-tier Senator named Josh Hawley!” Trump posted on Truth Social Wednesday.

Who would be against this?

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Senate bill to ban lawmaker stock trading moves step forward – and Trump turns on Hawley

Who would be against this?

I don't know the specifics of the bill. I don't have any problem with lawmakers being invested in the stock market and being active traders. I only have a problem with lawmakers making trades based on insider knowledge (so, basically, the same level of accountability as pretty much everyone else). Hopefully the bill is making that distinction. Let me know if it does.

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Trump tirade against Grassley irritates Republican senators

GOP senators were not pleased that Trump piled so much pressure on Grassley, the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to get rid of a long-established Senate tradition. Trump piled on by reposting on Truth Social posts accusing Grassley of being a “RINO” and “sneaky” and standing in the way of Trump’s agenda.
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Grassley has been a loyal Trump ally, steering some of his most controversial nominees through the Senate confirmation process this year, including Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel and, most recently, Emil Bove, Trump’s former defense attorney, whom senators confirmed Tuesday to serve on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.

Yet that didn’t stop Trump from putting heavy pressure on Grassley on Tuesday night to “step up” and get rid of the blue slip documents senators can use to block nominees to serve as federal district judges and U.S. attorneys in their home states.

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Fuming Trump Trashes Republican for Refusing to Do His Bidding

Trump warned Republicans that they should forsake a planned summer recess to confirm his Senate votes. He posted, “We have to save our Country from the Lunatic Left. Republicans, for the health and safety of the USA, DO YOUR JOB, and confirm All Nominees.”

The president then took direct aim at Collins in a follow-up Truth Social post. Advising the MAGA faithful, he wrote, “Republicans, when in doubt, vote the exact opposite of Senator Susan Collins. Generally speaking, you can’t go wrong. Thank you for your attention to this matter and, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

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Republicans slam Trump’s firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics chief

Trump defended his decision to fire US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) commissioner Erika McEntarfer. Without evidence to back his claims, the president wrote on social media that were numbers were “RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad” and the US economy was, in fact, “BOOMING” on his watch.
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“If the president is firing the statistician because he doesn’t like the numbers but they are accurate, then that’s a problem,” said Wyoming Republican senator Cynthia Lummis. “It’s not the statistician’s fault if the numbers are accurate and that they’re not what the president had hoped for.”

Lummis added that if the numbers are unreliable, the public should be told – but firing McEntarfer was “kind of impetuous”.

North Carolina senator Thom Tillis, a Republican, said: “If she was just fired because the president or whoever decided to fire the director just … because they didn’t like the numbers, they ought to grow up.”

Kentucky senator Rand Paul, another Republican, questioned whether McEntarfer’s firing was an effective way of improving the numbers.

“We have to look somewhere for objective statistics,” he said. “When the people providing the statistics are fired, it makes it much harder to make judgments that you know, the statistics won’t be politicized.”

According to NBC News, Paul said his “first impression” was that “you can’t really make the numbers different or better by firing the people doing the counting”.

I'm not sure that Tillis and Paul qualify as MAQA anymore but they are Republicans despite what trump might say about them.

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Republicans slam Trump’s firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics chief

Trump defended his decision to fire US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) commissioner Erika McEntarfer. Without evidence to back his claims, the president wrote on social media that were numbers were “RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad” and the US economy was, in fact, “BOOMING” on his watch.
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“If the president is firing the statistician because he doesn’t like the numbers but they are accurate, then that’s a problem,” said Wyoming Republican senator Cynthia Lummis. “It’s not the statistician’s fault if the numbers are accurate and that they’re not what the president had hoped for.”

Lummis added that if the numbers are unreliable, the public should be told – but firing McEntarfer was “kind of impetuous”.

North Carolina senator Thom Tillis, a Republican, said: “If she was just fired because the president or whoever decided to fire the director just … because they didn’t like the numbers, they ought to grow up.”

Kentucky senator Rand Paul, another Republican, questioned whether McEntarfer’s firing was an effective way of improving the numbers.

“We have to look somewhere for objective statistics,” he said. “When the people providing the statistics are fired, it makes it much harder to make judgments that you know, the statistics won’t be politicized.”

According to NBC News, Paul said his “first impression” was that “you can’t really make the numbers different or better by firing the people doing the counting”.

I'm not sure that Tillis and Paul qualify as MAQA anymore but they are Republicans despite what trump might say about them.

He’s getting desperate. Approval tanking, road blocks to his and the 2025 agenda.

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We are 120 days into 1460 days of Trumps 4 years. We haven't even got the engine warmed up yet on this trip

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Turns on GOP, Says Republicans Are Anti-Women

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican and steadfast supporter of President Donald Trump, has publicly criticized her party over its treatment of women and has said the GOP is out of step with the priorities of the Make American Great Again (MAGA) movement.

"I don't know if the Republican Party is leaving me, or if I'm kind of not relating to Republican Party as much anymore," she told the Daily Mail.

She added that women in her party were "really sick and tired of the way men treat Republican women."
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"I think there's other women—Republican women—and I'm just giving my opinion here, who are really sick and tired of them," the congresswoman continued. "And the one that really got shafted was Elise Stefanik."
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Greene also said the Republican Party was reverting to its "neocon" past and failing to represent workers and "regular Americans."

"I think the Republican Party has turned its back on America First and the workers and just regular Americans," she said.

Greene wants the party to focus on ending foreign aid, cutting down government expenditure, halting increases to the national debt and avoiding inflation.
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Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene told the Daily Mail: "I don't know what the hell happened with the Republican Party. I really don't. But I'll tell you one thing, the course that it's on, I don't want to have anything to do with it, and I, I just don't care anymore."

Trailer Park Barbie is just now figuring this out? She doesn't want to go to the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant to make sammies for the men.

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Fits here and the 2025/2025 elections thread ...

'It's high season for hypocrisy': The godfather of the Indiana GOP slams Trump's redistricting push

Former Gov. Mitch Daniels said he didn’t “see the point” of redistricting in Indiana, just as Vice President JD Vance was in the state pressing Republicans for an edge in the contest for control of the House.

“It would just be wrong,” Daniels told POLITICO. “People there have a right to pick the person they want.”
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Daniels had sharp criticism for President Donald Trump’s redistricting push, saying the president “could’ve just kept quiet.”

“By spouting off in that way, he turns it into this partisan wrangle that we now see,” Daniels said in the interview.

Still, Daniels accused Democrats of having a history of using redistricting against Republicans over the years.

“It’s high season for hypocrisy,” he added, noting Democrats have also gerrymandered.

A Real Republican adult who actually knows how to lead and make things better pushes back against the RINOs pushing for redistricting.

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A strange GOP divide is forming over Trump’s gerrymandering plans

But some senior GOP members of the impacted state delegations are quietly raising concerns about the fallout, though they ultimately fear crossing the president. Other Republicans — particularly those in blue states — are increasingly vocal about the potential fallout as Democratic governors threaten to redraw or outright erase their already difficult-to-win districts in retaliation for Trump’s plan.

New York Rep. Mike Lawler blasted the Trump-driven effort in Texas as “wrong,” while California Rep. Doug LaMalfa warned Texas’ gambit “is going to start a grass fire across the country.” Another New York Republican, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, said she’s “not somebody who’s supportive of any type of gerrymandering.”

House Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Harris, the Maryland delegation’s lone Republican, cautioned that “we should probably shy away from mid-cycle redistricting” but also told reporters last week that it’s “pretty hypocritical of Democrats to complain” and if they “want to roll the dice in Maryland, let them roll the dice. … I look forward to more Republican colleagues.”

Qualms are cropping up in other corners. Utah Rep. Blake Moore, the vice chair of the House Republican Conference who previously co-chaired the anti-gerrymandering group Better Boundaries, called mid-decade redistricting “a step too far.” A Utah district judge is poised to rule on a redistricting lawsuit that could force the GOP-controlled Legislature to redraw its congressional boundaries.

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MAGA Turns on Kari Lake as Feds Launch Investigation

The Government Accountability Office is looking into the U.S. Agency for Global Media — Voice of America’s parent agency — for potentially misusing congressionally appropriated funds, an agency spokesperson confirmed to The Daily Beast on Thursday.

The probe comes at the request of a Republican-majority panel chaired by MAGA loyalist Sen. Lindsey Graham.

Graham’s betrayal, via the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations, came after his staffers warned her in June that she may be violating federal law by putting hundreds of staffers on paid leave, the Washington Post reported.

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[BDKJMU]

Walsh is 100% correct on this.

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‘Traitors’: Four Republicans Get Dragged by Conservatives After Voting With Democrats to ‘Protect’ Ilhan Omar

[GannonFan]

Yup, good that there were some sane GOP House members. Leave censure for something more weighty. This wasn't it.