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Tim Miller: Trump Bullies One Ally While Another Slips Away

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

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4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Tim digs into Trump’s ugly attacks on Rep Thomas Massie, the backstory Trump ignores, and what it says about the cracks forming inside MAGA. He also joins Nicolle Wallace to dig into it.
 
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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. Tim Moore from the Bullwork here. I was on with my girl Nicole on Deadline White House, now on MS now.

0:06.1

And we were talking about the Mag of Fissures and MTG and Megan Kelly. We get to a bunch of good stuff.

0:13.9

But she also asked the panel about something that I've been wanting to talk about, which is Thomas Massey and how he has been responding to just these horrific attacks from Donald Trump.

0:25.4

I mean, honestly, possibly the most disgusting thing Donald Trump has done over the last week.

0:31.3

This is treatment of Republican Congressman Thomas Massey.

0:34.2

And so if you've missed that, I don't explain exactly what's been happening.

0:37.8

But, you know, Nicole sent that question to Von Hilliard. So here we go. On YouTube, I get to

0:44.2

tell you what I think about it. I want to play for you a little bit of the clip that you played in

0:48.8

this segment of Massey responding to these attacks for Trump and then give you guys the backstory.

0:56.9

So let's watch.

0:57.6

The president has gone after you in some deeply personal ways.

1:01.3

I mean, attacking you over and over again, even attacking you regarding your wedding,

1:08.6

your recent wedding, which, by the way, congratulations.

1:10.9

What do you make of all that?

1:12.8

And he's obviously supporting your primary opponents.

1:16.4

I mean, what kind of retribution are you facing?

1:21.5

You know, my wife told me, she said, I told you so.

1:24.8

We should have invited Donald Trump.

1:26.5

He's mad that he didn't get an invitation.

1:29.5

So, you know, we're taking it with the grain of salt. He's being a bully or trying to be a bully.

1:35.1

And they're trying to beat me here in Kentucky. But here's what's interesting. The people financing this campaign consists completely of three billionaires, and they're all in the Epstein class.

1:45.4

In fact, one of them is named in Epstein's phone book, not the secret files that the FBI's

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