Why Thomas Massie isn’t Liz Cheney

“The people of Kentucky won’t stand for it, just watch,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. The president also called Massie a “third rate Grandstander” and said the GOP should “throw Massie out of the Republican Party!”

Actually, those last two Trump quotes about Massie come from 2020, when the Kentuckian bucked the White House by pressing for a recorded vote on a COVID-19 emergency spending bill. The legislation ultimately passed. “[Trump’s] bill signing happened right on time,” Massie told me at the time.