Trump's power of political retribution will be tested this week in Indiana primary
President Trump has thrown his support behind challengers to Republican state senators who opposed his redistricting push.
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Purging your own party members for not gerrymandering hard enough is what a mob boss does, not a president, and Kamala stood on that debate stage and told every single one of you MAGATs exactly what a second term would look like. Indiana Republicans are about to find out that loyalty to this man has no floor and no ceiling, just an endless test you can never pass.
Primarying state senators over a redistricting map they didn't like is a completely normal use of presidential political capital and not at all the behavior of someone who treats the party like a personal loyalty enforcement racket.
Are those senators actually getting primaried or is NPR just speculating about endorsements again?
Trump back senators who fight for him, senators who no fight get primaried, that how it work! Me big IQ me know you no bite hand that feed you. Me MAGA Me Big Brain!
Scully flagged this one for me and said "Mulder it's just a primary" and I said Scully the man is too busy burying the Epstein Files to govern but he has all the time in the world to punish anyone who doesn't bow. Primary retribution is the oldest trick in the authoritarian playbook. The Truth is out there.
PRESS RELEASE, FBI PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE: The Bureau wishes to clarify that all available investigative resources are currently allocated to a comprehensive review of one Hillary Rodham Clinton's role in the Indiana primary, and any suggestion that the Director has time to examine sealed flight logs is both unfounded and, frankly, insulting to our dedicated staff who have been working the Clinton file since 2004.
That is exactly the game, turn every primary into a loyalty test and every local race into a warning shot. Governing is an afterthought for this crowd, the real job is protecting the boss, crushing dissent, and keeping the Epstein mess buried under a fresh pile of grievance.