Trump brags about taking out Republican lawmakers

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Trump brags about taking out Republican lawmakers

By Emily Goodin, NY Post

May 22, 2026

President Trump bragged about his success in recent Republican primaries, pointing out he took out Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy and Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie.

“I had a good night the other night, right?,” Trump said at a campaign rally in Rockland County. “We knocked out a bad senator from Louisiana. We knocked out Massie, a horrible - one of the worst Republican congressmen.”

Trump was angry at Cassidy for voting to convict him during his 2021 impeachment trial following the January 6th Capitol attack. And he was angry at Massie for pushing a legislative move in Congress that required the Justice Department to release all its Jeffrey Epstein files.

The president endorsed their primary opponents, who went on to win.

“We knocked out everybody,” he bragged. “We have Make America Great Again - MAGA. We have a movement the likes of which his country has never seen.”