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2022. At MTG's urging, Massie does his Trump impression and recalls when Trump threatened him for being a grandstander. After listening to this interview, it seems that they definitely didn't think that Trump would ever be back in the White House.

The system is rigged. And ‘we the people’ know it. Fight Fight Fight

This will be a bit more formal than usual, but I wanted to announce that I am withdrawing my nomination for consideration as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs. I am tremendously grateful to President Trump for nominating me and then (upon expiration of my original nomination) renominating me for this role, and I am also grateful to Secretary Rubio and his team for their continued support throughout this long and time-consuming process. The fact that they chose to nominate me and were so supportive of my candidacy was one of many indications that this is an administration that was not satisfied to simply do business as usual nor to simply pick nominees from the same stable of “business as usual” possibilities. Unfortunately, for senior positions such as this one, the support of the President and Secretary of State is very important but not sufficient. We also needed the unanimous support of every GOP Senator on the Committee on Foreign Relations, given the unanimous opposition of Senate Democrats to my candidacy, and unfortunately, at this time this unanimous support was not forthcoming. Under our Constitutional system, that is the role that the Senate has in deciding Presidential appointments at this level and I accept that political reality, and do not wish to have the President, Secretary Rubio, or the rest of his team waste valuable time and energy attempting to change that decision. I remain extremely confident in President Trump, Secretary Rubio, and the rest of the outstanding team at State (a group of leaders that includes many close friends). I know they will continue to pursue a foreign policy that puts America first, and that they will work to ensure America is able to exercise its power and influence in the world like never before.

Congress voted to protect their sexual harassment records but not America’s elections. Says it all.

Thank you both for exposing this. I had no idea this is how the game is played. I thought it was fascinating when Doge first started, and one of the first things to go was canceling tens or hundreds of thousands spent on "pro" news subscriptions from politico, nyt, wp. those expensive politico subs were shocking.

One important addendum for people criticizing our Senators for this. I've had multiple Senators from our caucus (and not just "based" ones) reach out to me to let me know how disappointed they were in this result. And several Senators went above and beyond the call of duty in supporting me. I'm not understating the challenges we have in our Senate caucus. It's a real problem, and we're all seeing this with the difficulty in getting the SAVE America act passed despite the the strong support of both President Trump and the overwhelming majority of our voters. But we have a number of excellent Senators, and we've got a number of other Senators whom, while I don't always see eye to eye with them, basically want to do the right thing and usually will. But unfortunately, we also have a significant number of problem Senators, and with no help from the Democrats and a narrow majority, we're unfortunately going to see a lot of disappointments. Our voters need to pay attention in primaries and if you have a good Senator, make sure that Senator is holding his weaker colleagues' feet to the fire.