Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) claimed this week that President Donald Trump took revenge against Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) after she didn't follow his demands.
The rebel Republican told former Fox News host and MAGA influencer Tucker Carlson in a podcast interview on Wednesday that the president "vetoed a bill that would’ve brought water to a large portion of Colorado" in retaliation for Boebert's decision to support a petition to release government documents connected to late financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Mediaite reported.
" Lauren Boebert, they took her over to the Situation Room," Massie said. "Like, this is where if they are trying to kill or capture Osama Bin Laden, this is where they are at the White House. They took her into the Situation Room and tried to whip her into taking her name off of the discharge petition."
"Over Epstein?" Carlson asked.
"Over Epstein, yep, and then the president vetoed a bill that would’ve brought water to a large portion of Colorado. Over Epstein. And this isn’t even, at this point, it’s not just about Lauren Boebert," Massie said. "Why are people in Colorado deprived of water because their representative wants to expose a sex trafficking ring?"
Massie also told Carlson he was upset by Trump's treatment of former ally, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).
"There’s three women – Nancy Mace, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Lauren Boebert – who signed their names on that discharge petition and all suffered," Massie said. "Marjorie practically gave up her political career over this. She and her children got death threats over this. Not from the left, from the right."
Carlson responded, describing Trump's reaction to — and the dismissal of — Greene's concerns.
"And she went to President Trump and said, 'One of my children is getting death threats,' and he said, 'That’s your fault.'"
"Yeah, despicable. He also told her that if she insisted on following through with this, she was gonna hurt his friends," Massie added. "And I suppose some of them have been hurt. Howard Lutnick was shown to be a bold-faced liar, right?"
