Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie said on Monday that he does not support Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s push to impeach President Donald Trump for striking Iran without congressional approval, even though he too opposes the attack.
Massie opposed Trump several times and condemned the Saturday bombings of three Iranian nuclear sites with an X post saying they were “not constitutional.” However, when host Tim Pool asked Massie on “Timcast,” whether he agrees with Ocasio-Cortez that the strikes merited impeachment, the congressman said the process would be useless under the circumstances.
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“Impeachment isn’t a serious solution. It doesn’t solve anything here. The attack has already been done. I’m part of a coalition that I want to keep together,” Massie said. “It’s a coalition inside of the Republican Party, who I would include [Vice President] J.D. Vance and [Director of National Intelligence] Tulsi Gabbard in it, frankly, who joined in support of this president because we didn’t want another regime change war in the Middle East.”
“And so to go off about impeachment does no good whatsoever in this circumstance,” he continued. “We have tools available to us to rein this back in here in Congress and that’s called the War Powers Act. So that’s what I’m using.”
Massie, along with Democratic California Rep. Khanna, introduced a resolution on June 17 that seeks to bar Trump from engaging in “unauthorized hostilities” with Iran. But before Congress ever deliberated on the legislation, Trump announced the “very successful attack” on Iran.
After the bombings, Khanna asserted in a Saturday X post that Congress needed to “immediately return” to session to vote on the resolution in order to “prevent America from being dragged into another endless Middle East war.”
Trump wrote a long Truth Social post on Sunday announcing that he and his team would primary Massie.
“Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky is not MAGA, even though he likes to say he is,” the president wrote. “Actually, MAGA doesn’t want him, doesn’t know him, and doesn’t respect him,” Trump wrote. “He’s a simple minded ‘grandstander’ who thinks it’s good politics for Iran to have the highest level Nuclear weapon, while at the same time yelling ‘DEATH TO AMERICA’ at every chance they get.”
The congressman successfully fought off primary challengers for three consecutive election cycles. He told Axios in May that internal polling indicated that he maintains strong support in central Kentucky.
Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman on Monday also dismissed Ocasio-Cortez’s advocacy to impeach Trump.
“She knows it, I know it, we all know it. That’s not going anywhere. And, you know, he’s been impeached twice and now he’s still our president as well now, too,” Fetterman said. “So it’s not going anywhere. And I don’t think that’s helpful. And I think if you throw that term around, that actually diminishes the severity of what impeachment is reserved for.”
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