While President Donald Trump has frequently quarreled with members of his own party, he’s increasingly lashed out at GOP lawmakers known as being among his strongest supporters, and to such an extent that prominent Democratic strategist Mike Nellis was left stunned Sunday night over what he called the president’s “crash out.”
Among Trump’s biggest targets has been Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who, despite long being a diehard supporter of the president, has drawn the president’s ire after co-sponsoring last year the Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA), a bill designed to force the Justice Department to release its files on Jeffrey Epstein.
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), who also supported the EFTA against Trump’s wishes, has also caught the ire of the president, who on Saturday, lashed out at the Colorado lawmaker as “weak minded” and floated the idea of withdrawing his endorsement of her.
“Donald Trump has moved the Republican Party so far away from common sense, so far away from decency and empathy that now, people like Thomas Massie and Lauren Boebert look like the reasonable ones inside their own party! And Boebert is a nutjob!” Nellis said in a video published Sunday night on his YouTube channel.
“They're purely loyal – yea, they might be skeptical of Trump's war in Iran, they might be a little bit worried about the economy, but this is all about Epstein.”
Boebert was one of four House Republicans who became “instrumental” in advancing the EFTA, despite Trump’s aggressive campaign to sway her against supporting the legislation, which included a rare meeting in the Situation Room.
“Thomas Massie and Lauren Boebert are two of the most loyal MAGA members of the Republican Party,” Nellis continued. “If you locked me in a room with the two of them, we probably wouldn't agree on much, but the one thing we agree on is that a powerful, wealthy group of people should not be able to traffic and abuse little kids and get away with it.”