Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khana have, for quite some time now, been bipartisan leaders for the release of the Epstein files, a case with more than a thousand underage, sexual abuse victims.
In an interview last night, Kentucky’s Massie said that Rep. Lauren Boebert had been called to the White House — one of the power centers of the world — to be pressured not to vote for the discharge petition of the Epstein files. And though he would not say which congressperson told him this, he added, “One of them was told ‘we can’t let Massie have a win’. How petty is that?”
Very petty.
The powerful can be shockingly petty.
Here’s an example:
During the 2024 Kentucky General Assembly, a non-Trump-supporting Republican who was leaving office filed a bill to temporarily remove firearms from those suffering a mental health crisis. Though the senator filing the bill had been talking about this issue for several months, I was repeatedly told — in private, of course — that his bill would never see the light of day.
Why? Leadership would never support a firearm safety proposal because of the gun lobby, nor would they support an attention-grabbing bill like this from a lawmaker who was anti-Trump.
The senate bill was assigned number 13.
An unlucky number.
Does anyone believe this kind of pettiness was an accident? Of course not. This is how childishly small — how petty — grown men, your elected representatives, can be.
Remember this when you vote.
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