Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) fired again at a Tuesday post from Vice President Vance questioning if his successors noticed as a lot “pleasure” as him whereas in workplace.
“Ask Mike Pence about his final month,” the Kentucky lawmaker wrote.
Massie’s reply appeared to reference Pence’s refusal to nullify the 2020 presidential election on Jan. 6, 2021, and comes amid his battle with President Trump.
The president has exerted a concerted effort to vote Massie out of workplace alleging he’s “bad for the Constitution” after he voted towards key GOP initiatives and railed towards the chief’s “massive, lovely invoice.”
A Trump-aligned PAC just lately shaped to assist unseat Massie forward of the mid-term election cycle.
Regardless of naysayers, the Kentuckian has leaned into the backlash and used its publicity to boost fundraising for his marketing campaign.
He additionally co-sponsored a bipartisan invoice to finish U.S. involvement in strikes between Israel and Iran, warranting continued rebukes from Trump.
“MAGA ought to drop this pathetic LOSER, Tom Massie, just like the plague! The excellent news is that we are going to have a beautiful American Patriot working towards him within the Republican Main, and I’ll be out in Kentucky campaigning actually laborious,” Trump wrote in a Sunday Truth Social post.
“MAGA just isn’t about lazy, grandstanding, nonproductive politicians, of which Thomas Massie is certainly one.”
The subsequent day, Massie hit again making a joke out of the president’s repeated posts about him.
“I’m going to program my debt badge to show the variety of milliseconds which have elapsed since @realDonaldTrump has tweeted at me final,” Massie wrote.