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Trump's RINO purge backfires as ousted GOP senator immediately tips scales in stunning revenge vote
« on: May 21, 2026, 05:47:51 am »

Trump's RINO purge backfires as ousted GOP senator immediately tips scales in stunning revenge vote

Daily Mail
By ROSS IBBETSON
20 May 2026

Donald Trump's purge of his detested 'Republicans in Name Only' risks backfiring after a freshly ousted senator went straight for the jugular, voting Tuesday to clip the President's wings on the Iran war.

Days after Trump ended his Louisiana tenure, Bill Cassidy backed a resolution to curb the President's war powers, his first anti-war vote since strikes were launched against Iran on February 28.

The 50-47 procedural vote saw Cassidy join Republican rebels Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine and Rand Paul of Kentucky, shattering a GOP defense that had crushed seven previous attempts to rein Trump in.

Hours later, Trump-baiting libertarian Representative Thomas Massie was ousted in his Kentucky primary by White House-backed challenger Ed Gallrein, cementing his rebel status. 'I got seven months left in Congress,' Massie said with a grin as he warned that he would continue to defy the President into the November midterms.

It is the latest sign that Trump's demands for total loyalty are breeding a growing club of lawmakers alienated from the MAGA movement, capable of hamstringing his agenda given his tenuous majorities: 53-47 in the Senate and 217-212 in the House.

The mutiny isn't confined to war powers. Senate Majority Leader John Thune could hardly hide his fury on Tuesday after Trump endorsed scandal-plagued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over sitting Senator John Cornyn in next week's runoff.

'Senator Cornyn is a principled conservative. He is a very effective senator for the state of Texas,' Thune told reporters. 'But I don't, none of us, control what the President does.'

Murkowski said she was 'supremely disappointed', while Collins questioned why the President would back 'an ethically challenged individual.'

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Re: Trump's RINO purge backfires as ousted GOP senator immediately tips scales in stunning revenge v
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2026, 05:52:41 am »
There is no gain without some pain!

Every one of these RINO pieces of $%*t can KMA!
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Re: Trump's RINO purge backfires as ousted GOP senator immediately tips scales in stunning revenge v
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2026, 05:54:07 am »
Short term pain for long term gain is why the RINO's had to go. 

The outed ones are just going to the old McStain wing of the party. The defeated and the destructive.
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Re: Trump's RINO purge backfires as ousted GOP senator immediately tips scales in stunning revenge v
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2026, 05:56:51 am »
Sometimes all you can do is laugh at the desperate reaching and grasping whitewash they want to pass off as journalism.

Cassidy just proved why he needed to lose.
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Re: Trump's RINO purge backfires as ousted GOP senator immediately tips scales in stunning revenge v
« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2026, 05:58:51 am »
Quote from: Wingnut on May 21, 2026, 05:54:07 am
Short term pain for long term gain is why the RINO's had to go. 

The outed ones are just going to the old McStain wing of the party. The defeated and the destructive.

Personally, I'm looking forward to a lot more crying and teeth gnashing before this year is done.
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Re: Trump's RINO purge backfires as ousted GOP senator immediately tips scales in stunning revenge v
« Reply #5 on: May 21, 2026, 05:59:00 am »
All this does is finally show people who these RINOs really are. The country was never their priority.
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