Rep. Thomas Massie on Tuesday filed articles of impeachment against US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for his roles in waging an illegal war against Iran and conducting a spree of boat bombings that many human rights groups and international law experts consider acts of murder . Massie (R-Ky.), who earlier this year lost a Republican…
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EIGHT CHARGES
Massie impeaches his own war secretary, then finds the votes to force his party's Epstein files anyway.
“This isn't a rebel with a conscience, it's just arithmetic — guy reads coconspirator names into the record, files eight impeachment articles on his own party's war secretary, then locks four votes to force the Epstein files out anyway. That's the whole party's leverage on him, gone, because he did the paperwork they all have the same right to file and none of them do. They sent the House home for seven weeks hoping the petition would go stale like milk; paperwork doesn't spoil, it sits there with a date stamp on it.”
“Massie's an independent voice — that's a feature of a big tent, not a problem, well, maybe a small problem. Discharge petitions stall out in committee all the time, everybody knows that, it's basically a formality that never actually — did I say never, forget I said that, they absolutely can pass. The boat program was reviewed and it was legal, full stop, we're not relitigating August in September.”
The receipts
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) announced Thursday that four Republicans, including him, have signed the Epstein Files II discharge petition and expressed confidence it will pass the House. The news comes after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) sent lawmakers home for a seven-week recess ahead of the midterm elections.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) filed articles of impeachment against War Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday, accusing him of abusing the power of his office. The Kentucky Republican filed these articles over the war in Iran, the Trump administration’s arrest of former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, strikes on alleged drug boats, and the…
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