Trump's Self-Sabotage Is Eating the Him Alive 📱
May 21, 2026
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as posted by the channelTrump just purged Thomas Massie for asking about Epstein and
opposing Iran. Cliff and Shuster on the MAGA primary bloodbath—
everyone who won't bow is being picked off.
Tuesday night, May 19, Trump went 5–0. The marquee scalp: Thomas Massie of Kentucky. He was replaced by Ed Gallrein, a Trump-backed former Navy SEAL who has offered unconditional support to...who else, Trump! Bill Cassidy in Louisiana is gone. Ken Paxton is being teed up in Texas. Anyone who visibly questions Trump is now being systematically at risk.
Cliff and David Shuster lay out what just happened, what comes next, and why the Hungary playbook Trump is running has a fatal endgame Democrats need to be ready to exploit.
🔹 Why Massie lost—the Epstein files vote and the Iran war pushback
🔹 Ed Gallrein and the new wave of cult-loyalty winners
🔹 The pattern: Bill Cassidy gone, John Cornyn next?
🔹 The Orbán playbook—and why running it just cost Orbán the election
🔹 What the purge means in November (it isn't what you think)
🔹 The receipts: Cliff and Joe Walsh called this on Tequila Talk two weeks
ago—we played the clip
🔹 What Jeffries and Schumer need to actually do to capitalize instead of fumbling as they so often do
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