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Trump responds to Massie, Rand Paul about drug strikes, endorses GOP challenger in KY
Posted on 10/19/25 at 10:31 am
Posted on 10/19/25 at 10:31 am
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President Donald Trump has endorsed a primary challenger to Rep. Thomas Massie. Now he just needs Ed Gallrein to get into the race.
Trump gave Gallrein his full-throated support in a Truth Social post Friday evening, applauding the former Navy SEAL for his service and saying “he will fight tirelessly” on a host of issues including border security and crime.
“I hope Ed gets into the Race against Massie,” Trump wrote. “Unlike ‘lightweight’ Massie, a totally ineffective LOSER who has failed us so badly, CAPTAIN ED GALLREIN IS A WINNER WHO WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN. Should he decide to challenge Massie, Captain Ed Gallrein has my Complete and Total Endorsement. RUN, ED, RUN.”
Gallrein ran unsuccessfully for state Senate last year, narrowly losing in the GOP primary. The winner of that race, fellow Navy SEAL and now-state Sen. Aaron Reed, was also vetted by Trump and his team as a possible challenger to Massie. Reed visited the White House over the summer, but Trump did not come away from the meeting totally sold on him. Some Republicans are pushing for former Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, who’s currently running to succeed retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell, to drop that bid and enter the primary against Massie.
Massie, in response to Trump’s endorsement, called Gallrein a “failed candidate and establishment hack.”
“After having been rejected by every elected official in the 4th District, Trump’s consultants clearly pushed the panic button with their choice of failed candidate and establishment hack Ed Gallrein,” Massie told POLITICO. “Ed’s been begging them to pick him for over three months now.”
Trump’s endorsement of Gallrein — which included a photo of himself and Gallrein holding red MAGA hats in the Oval Office — comes as the president has been publicly teasing his plans to help unseat Massie for months. Two of his top political hands launched a super PAC, MAGA KY, that has already spent $1.8 million trying to take Massie down.
In a Saturday statement, Gallrein thanked Trump for his support but did not officially launch his bid.
“I’m honored by President Trump’s support. He is doing an amazing job securing the border, lowering taxes, and making America great again,” he said. “I will make an announcement on what’s next soon!”
The president initially targeted the six-term congressmember over his opposition to the GOP megalaw that’s been the president’s crowning achievement on Capitol Hill this year.
“I don’t think Thomas Massie understands government. I think he’s a grandstander,” Trump told reporters at the Capitol before a key megabill vote in May. “I think he should be voted out of office.”
But Trump’s effort to oust the Kentucky Republican is coming to a head just as Massie is poised to clinch the required 218 signatures to end-run Speaker Mike Johnson and force a floor vote on compelling release of the Justice Department’s entire file on the late sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
White House officials and senior House Republicans have for weeks pushed a quiet pressure campaign to try to get three female House Republicans to remove their names from Massie’s discharge petition, depriving him of the required signatures.
Massie is relishing the fight with Trump, using the president’s threats to boost fundraising for his reelection bid. He hauled in $768,000 from July through September — the best fundraising quarter of his career, according to a Federal Election Commission filing posted this week.
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Posted on 10/19/25 at 10:47 am to RelicBatches86
Please do Cassidy next!!!
Posted on 10/19/25 at 11:28 am to RelicBatches86
Massie joined trhe democrats and gave Swallowswell the talking point that muh epstein will break up MAGA and finally take Trump out.
Rand cried like an infant during DOGE. Instead of being happy something was finally happening he thumbed his nose like a bitch. He loves to complain with his festivus and never solve anything.
They do nothing so they need to shut their geri curl mouths. Who appointed them the new Romney's?
Massie wrote in DeSantis' name with him as VP. As if DeSantis could accomplish what Trump has. As if he could win Ohio, much less the rustbelt.
Rand now complains that Trump needs congressional approval to take out fentanyl deaths in the USA--- is the straw that broke the camels back for me. Congress would ruin a wet dream and is a feckless owned bag of crooks.
Rand cried like an infant during DOGE. Instead of being happy something was finally happening he thumbed his nose like a bitch. He loves to complain with his festivus and never solve anything.
They do nothing so they need to shut their geri curl mouths. Who appointed them the new Romney's?
Massie wrote in DeSantis' name with him as VP. As if DeSantis could accomplish what Trump has. As if he could win Ohio, much less the rustbelt.
Rand now complains that Trump needs congressional approval to take out fentanyl deaths in the USA--- is the straw that broke the camels back for me. Congress would ruin a wet dream and is a feckless owned bag of crooks.
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Posted on 10/19/25 at 11:31 am to cajunangelle
Rand did a great job responding. I stand with Rand!
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Posted on 10/19/25 at 11:35 am to RelicBatches86
For years during Obama’s terms, Republicans accused the Left of voting for Party over people or principles and marching in lockstep. Now they’re wanting the same from themselves.
I really wish Trump would focus on his job instead of continuing the infighting.
Trump didn’t get Rand elected. In fact, Kentucky held a primary caucus in 2016 so that Rand could still run for Senate reelection if the POTUS run stalled.
I won’t comment on Massie because I’m honestly less familiar with his record, but Rand should come as no surprise to Trump or anyone else, and despite the criticisms that he gets from some posters on here, he stands for his principles, which I respect. I don’t agree with him all the time, but at least he doesn’t get pushed around.
Blocking unanimous consent on the Booker-Harris hate crimes bill. Fighting no-knock warrants. Filibuster against Brennan and getting him to admit that he wouldn’t rule out drone strikes on Americans overseas. Exposing Fauci and his ties to gain of function research, NIH funding, etc. Rand has done a lot.
I really wish Trump would focus on his job instead of continuing the infighting.
Trump didn’t get Rand elected. In fact, Kentucky held a primary caucus in 2016 so that Rand could still run for Senate reelection if the POTUS run stalled.
I won’t comment on Massie because I’m honestly less familiar with his record, but Rand should come as no surprise to Trump or anyone else, and despite the criticisms that he gets from some posters on here, he stands for his principles, which I respect. I don’t agree with him all the time, but at least he doesn’t get pushed around.
Blocking unanimous consent on the Booker-Harris hate crimes bill. Fighting no-knock warrants. Filibuster against Brennan and getting him to admit that he wouldn’t rule out drone strikes on Americans overseas. Exposing Fauci and his ties to gain of function research, NIH funding, etc. Rand has done a lot.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 11:38 am to RelicBatches86
They both sound like democrats. Rand Paul also c/o DOGE.
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Trump then unloaded on Massie in a post minutes later, saying he "must be thrown out of office" and offered an alternative candidate for Kentucky's 4th Congressional District, Ed Gallrein.
"Third Rate Congressman Thomas Massie, a Weak and Pathetic RINO from the Great Commonwealth of Kentucky, a place I love, and won big SIX TIMES, must be thrown out of office, ASAP!" Trump wrote.
He added: "I hope Ed gets into the Race against Massie, who is now polling at about 9% because the Great People of Kentucky are wise to him — He only votes against the Republican Party, making life very easy for the Radical Left."
Paul has clashed with Trump on several key issues, including government spending, tariffs, and executive overreach.
He opposed Trump's $5 trillion debt ceiling package as fiscally reckless and criticized new tariffs as hidden taxes.
Paul also rejected Trump's proposal to use the military for deportations and condemned federal investment in private firms like Intel as "socialism."
On Friday, Paul called on Congress to "make it clear that war powers reside with Congress, not the president."
That came after Paul questioned the legality and precedent of using lethal force against Venezuelan vessels accused of drug trafficking without congressional authorization.
"About 25% of the time that the Coast Guard boards a vessel in the Caribbean looking for drugs, about 25% of the time, the boat that is boarded doesn't have drugs," Paul told Newsmax earlier this month.
"So we've blown up four boats. Statistically speaking, what are the odds that one of the boats didn't have drugs?"
Trump's friction with Massie dates back to 2020, when Massie held up a COVID-19 relief bill, earning Trump's rebuke as a "third-rate grandstander."
Massie has since broken with Trump on spending, foreign aid, and tariffs, positioning himself as a libertarian purist.
In recent months, Trump allies have blasted Massie for undercutting the GOP agenda, accusing him of siding with Democrats on key votes while Trump pushes to unify the party.
"Unlike 'lightweight' Massie, a totally ineffective LOSER who has failed us so badly, CAPTAIN ED GALLREIN IS A WINNER WHO WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN," Trump said in his second post.
"Should he decide to challenge Massie, Captain Ed Gallrein has my Complete and Total Endorsement."
Massie raised $768,000 from July through September — his strongest fundraising quarter yet — as he faces pressure from a super PAC aligned with Trump ahead of next year's midterms.
Newsmax wires contributed to this report.
This post was edited on 10/19/25 at 11:40 am
Posted on 10/19/25 at 12:33 pm to cajunangelle
trump is after massie because aipac is after massie. if you don't submit to israel, they will work for your defeat. what better way than to sic trump on him.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 12:36 pm to RelicBatches86
quote:Trump didn't have shite to do with Rand being elected.
I got him elected twice
Posted on 10/19/25 at 2:44 pm to TerryDawg03
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he stands for his principles, which I respect
I really don't get this line of thinking. Do you respect leftists for standing by their principles of grooming children? Do you respect democrats for standing by their principles of authoritarianism?
Do you respect muslims for killing infidels? Do you respect jews for destroying western civilization with mass migration?
All of these people are very principled in their beliefs and detrimental actions.
If your principles don't match mine and weaken our country, I don't care how principled you are. Sticking to bad principles regardless of the situation doesn't make one respectable.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 3:19 pm to RelicBatches86
Posted on 10/19/25 at 3:21 pm to RelicBatches86
Trump calling out the Kentucky RINOs.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 3:22 pm to RelicBatches86
Posted on 10/19/25 at 3:24 pm to cajunangelle
Makes sense Dems would support Massie. He is a guaranteed vote against Trump’s agenda.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 3:24 pm to cajunangelle
I support the strikes but Trump should seek congressional approval to officially declare war on the cartels so we can drone strike their production labs
Posted on 10/19/25 at 3:26 pm to foosball
How do you “declare war” on an international terrorist organization? Please explain that one to me. They aren’t a nation state with a government.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 3:31 pm to TenWheelsForJesus
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All of these people are very principled in their beliefs and detrimental actions.
If your principles don't match mine and weaken our country, I don't care how principled you are. Sticking to bad principles regardless of the situation doesn't make one respectable.
These are two very different scenarios that you’re painting as the same.
If someone is principled in things with which I don’t agree, there is a certain amount of respect for someone sticking to their beliefs instead of going in and out with the tide.
Likewise, it’s very different to stand for principles of limited government, fiscal responsibility and limiting unilateral war powers than it is to stand for theocratic views that call for executing infidels.
Rand is trying to control spending, the national debt, and to keep us from getting into another unilaterally led military conflict. I can agree with that and I respect him for doing so. No hyperbole.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 3:38 pm to RelicBatches86
My opinion is that we are in a covert war with the Venezuelan commie dictator and those drug runners are enemy combatants
Posted on 10/19/25 at 4:11 pm to Riverside
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How do you “declare war” on an international terrorist organization? Please explain that one to me. They aren’t a nation state with a government.
They have militaries both in manpower and firepower that rival the nations in which they reside. They control local politics and arguably federal policy throughout Latin America. Just because it is a covert shadow government doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. In Mexico alone, 1,270 politicians have been assassinated since 2000. If anyone seriously threatens their operations, they die.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 5:24 pm to Riverside
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Trump calling out the Kentucky RINOs.
You mean like Mitch??
Posted on 10/19/25 at 5:29 pm to Bunk Moreland
You’d stand with Buffalo shite if it was anti Trump. Oh that’s right, you already did in the last election
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