{"id":271,"date":"2026-05-21T16:07:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T16:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=271"},"modified":"2026-05-21T16:07:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T16:07:30","slug":"trump-planted-a-bomb-thats-set-to-sink-his-whole-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=271","title":{"rendered":"Trump planted a bomb that&#8217;s set to sink his whole presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s revenge tour continues.<\/p>\n<p>Republican congressman and Trump critic Thomas Massie lost Tuesday to Trump-backed challenger Ed Gallrein in the most expensive House primary in U.S. history (total cost was more than $32 million from combined campaign and super PAC spending).<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=269\">Steve Bannon goes scorched earth on top Republican in meltdown that \u2018the Senate is gone\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Massie lost by a 10-point margin after being outspent 2-to-1 for most of the race. Pro-Israel groups (AIPAC, RJC) accounted for just over 30 percent of outside spending in the race, while Trump\u2019s own Super PAC accounted for another 30 percent.<\/p>\n<p>This is just Trump\u2019s latest victory on what has been dubbed his \u201crevenge tour.\u201d Other Trump victories include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The retirement of North Carolina Republican Senator Thom Tillis, who announced last summer he would not run for reelection after voting against Trump\u2019s Big Ugly Bill.<\/li>\n<li>The primary defeat of all but one of the Indiana Republicans who stood up to Trump by opposing his demand for redistricting.<\/li>\n<li>The primary defeat of Louisiana\u2019s Republican Senator Bill Cassidy, who voted to impeach Trump for January 6th.<\/li>\n<li>The potential loss of Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn to Trump-endorsed Ken Paxton in next Tuesday\u2019s runoff. (Trump says he decided to back Paxton because Cornyn was \u201cvery late in backing me\u201d in 2024, despite Cornyn\u2019s record of voting for everything Trump has wanted.)<\/li>\n<li>Incumbent Georgia Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who opposed Trump\u2019s plot to \u201cfind 11,780 votes\u201d in Georgia in 2020, and declined to seek reelection to another term as Secretary of State in favor of running for governor, was easily trounced in the Republican primary for governor. (The GOP Secretary of State primary in Georgia is headed to a June 16th runoff, with <u>both candidates having promoted voter fraud conspiracies<\/u>.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These purges cement Trump\u2019s stranglehold over the GOP. They send a clear signal to all Republicans who seek office or who are planning to run for reelection that they must be a rubber stamp for Trump to gain or remain in power.<\/p>\n<p>They have thereby converted the official Republican Party from a political party into an extension of Trump\u2019s regime \u2014 further eroding American democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s retribution victories have encouraged him to settle additional scores. He\u2019s now demanding that Senate Republicans fire parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough after she ruled that funding for the White House ballroom cannot be included in the Republicans\u2019 party-line immigration enforcement bill.<\/p>\n<p>When Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Trump\u2019s threat against MacDonough was \u201cconcerning,\u201d Trump doubled down \u2014 posting on Truth Social: \u201cGet smart and tough Republicans, or you\u2019ll all be looking for a job much sooner than you thought possible!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump also reiterated his threat to seek revenge against Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), an \u201cAmerica Firster\u201d who broke with Trump by pushing to release the Jeffrey Epstein files and campaigning with Massie last weekend. (Boebert declared Tuesday on X after Massie\u2019s defeat that \u201cTrump is my President!\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=267\">Megachurch founder who prayed over Trump scrambles to explain explicit video on X account<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump is also threatening Pennsylvania Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, who last week criticized Trump\u2019s ballroom funding request. Fitzpatrick is a moderate Republican from a must-hold district if the GOP hopes to defend the House majority. \u201cHe likes voting against Trump,\u201d Trump said, <strong>\u201c<\/strong>You know what happens with that \u2014 doesn\u2019t work out well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>But the purges in Congress could also make Trump a premature lame duck over the next six months if Tillis, Cassidy, Massie, and Cornyn break with him for the remainder of their terms.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And why shouldn\u2019t they, if they have left a shred of integrity?<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re already showing some courage. Since his loss, Cassidy has rebuked Trump by voting against ballroom funding and voting<em><em> for <\/em><\/em>a procedural vote to advance a war powers resolution aimed at limiting Trump\u2019s military action in Iran. The resolution forces Trump to either end hostilities or seek congressional authorization. The motion to advance the resolution passed by a 50-47 vote, marking the first time Democrats successfully advanced this measure.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Cassidy, other Senate Republicans who broke party lines with their May 19 procedural vote to advance a war powers resolution were Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Rand Paul. Notably, Thom Tillis and John Cornyn were absent from the vote. (Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, who\u2019s fast becoming a DINO, was the sole Democrat to vote with most Republicans against the resolution.)<\/p>\n<p>If Cornyn losses in Texas, the rift between Trump and Thune is likely to deepen \u2014 thereby threatening Senate passage of the second reconciliation bill (which incorporates a huge funding increase for ICE as well as $1 billion for Trump\u2019s ballroom).<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Reich is an emeritus professor of public policy at Berkeley and former secretary of labor. His writings can be found at https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/. His new memoir, <\/em><em>Coming Up Short, can be found wherever you buy books. You can also support local bookstores nationally by ordering the book at bookshop.org<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=265\">5 things to know as DNC\u2019s long-buried 2024 autopsy leaks to CNN<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends,Trump\u2019s revenge tour continues.Republican congressman and Trump critic Thomas Massie lost Tuesday to Trump-backed challenger Ed Gallrein in the most expensive House primary in U.S. history (total cost was more than $32 million from combined campaign and super PAC spending).Massie lost by a 1&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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