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In today’s edition, Scott Bland immerses himself in the growing attacks of President Donald Trump against representative Thomas Massie, a republican legislator who has proven to be a constant spine on his side. In addition, we have the last of Middle East when Trump announces a high fire agreement between Israel and Iran.
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Trump takes his dispute with Republican representative Thomas Massie to a new level
By Scott Bland
The representative Thomas Massie has been an irritating Intraparty for Donald Trump for years, but never to the point that the president decided to try to crush Kentucky’s Republican in a primary. Until now.
Two of Trump’s main political advisors are launching a Super Pac dedicated to opposing Massie in his 2026 primaries, after Massie’s criticisms of US attacks ordered by Trump in Iran this weekend. Trump and Massie have also been exchanging spikes on social networks in the last 48 hours, with Trump publishing in Truth Social, “take this” rear “from the office, as soon as possible!”, And Massie says in X that the president’s actions are not “the American first.”
But the formation of the new political group is a step beyond what Trump has gone despite the last discomfort with Massie, often a “not” lonely and libertarian vote inspired by liberation, even when the majority of the Republican Party of the House of Representatives is supporting something, such as the vote last month to advance in the Trump tax and expenses package.
It is one of the first tests of the next year of Trump’s control over the Republican Party, the power of the political war chest that continues to accumulate despite being limited to term, and the remaining capacity of its top version upward of the Republican Party to maintain any traction locally.
Before this electoral cycle, Massie had courted Trump’s anger on several other high -profile occasions, including an early COVID relief effort in 2020, when Trump called him a “third -rate tariff grandfather” on social networks.
Massie was one of the few Republicans of the House of Representatives who supported the governor of Florida Ron Desantis for the president about Trump in the 2024 primary as well. Once again, Trump’s anger for that was not a real support for a main opponent.
Now, however, it seems that the president’s discomfort will fall in Massie along with his money and maybe even that powerful support, if the Trump team can find a credible challenger this time. Massie is using Trump’s opposition as an opportunity to collection of her own funds, but it will not live up to what Trump can drag in Kentucky air against him.
As Jonathan Allen points out, Trump has pointed to the Republican headlines in the primary before. In particular, in the 2022 electoral cycle he sought to disapprove of the Republican legislators who voted to accuse him after the attack of January 6, 2021 against the Capitol of the United States. Finally, eight of the 10 Republicans of the House of Representatives lost their primaries or refused to seek re -election.
And last year, Trump supported the successful primary challenge of John McGuire to Bob Good of Virginia, who was the president of the Freedom Caucus of the House at that time.
Trump announces the high the fire agreement between Israel and Iran
President Donald Trump announced in Truth Social tonight that Israel and Iran had agreed to a high fire.
“Congratulations to all! It has been agreed completely and between Israel and Iran that there will be a full and total fire (in approximately 6 hours from now on, when Israel and Iran have finished and completed their in progress, final final missions), for 12 hours, at which point the war will be considered, it ended! Trump wrote.
The announcement occurred hours after Iran launched a missile strike against the Udeid Air Base in Qatar, which establishes thousands of US troops, in retaliation for the United States bombing its nuclear sites during the weekend.
Trump had said that no American was harmed and that “almost no damage was done.” He added that Iran notified the attack.
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In each daily episode, Yasmin Vossoughian, Morgan Chesky and Brian Cheung brought you a new version of the main stories of the day in 15 minutes or less.
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🗞️ The other main stories today
- ⚖️ Scotus clock: The Supreme Court facilitated the Trump administration deported to criminals sentenced to “third countries” to those who have no prior connection. Read more →
- ⚖️ Scotus sign, cont. The court also agreed to submit a religious claim of a Rastafarian whose dreadlocks were cut by prison officials in Louisiana. Read more →
- 📊 The survey says: As the republican leaders of the Senate hope to start voting about the “great and beautiful bill” of Trump this week, a series of new surveys shows that the party is losing the battle of public opinion on the legislation. Read more →
- 🚫 More about BBB: The Senate Democrats forced the elimination of a provision of the bill that sought to restrict the power of the courts to block federal government policies with precautionary measures or restriction orders. Read more →
- 🪧 In his own words: Mahmoud Khalil, recently liberated from immigration custody, described the conditions of his detention and denounced the “hypocrisy” of Columbia University, where he was a graduate student. Read more →
- ☑️ If it’s Tuesday: The Democrats are ready to choose a new classification member tomorrow for the Chamber’s Supervision Committee in an internal four -way choice that has been broken down along generational lines. Read more →
- 👀 This city is not large enough: Rahm Emanuel, the former mayor of Chicago and Chief of Cabinet of the White House, told NBC News that the possibility of facing the governor of Illinois JB Pritzker in a 2028 presidential race “will be uncomfortable.” Read more →
- 🗳️ More options, more obstacles: A review of the records of tickets of more than 150 elections shows that the rejected tickets are more common in the elections of classified choice. Read more →
That’s all of the politics desk for now. Today’s bulletin was compiled by Adam Wollner and Dylan EBS.
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