{"id":53118,"date":"2026-03-03T08:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=53118"},"modified":"2026-03-03T08:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:34:13","slug":"massie-goes-scorched-earth-against-the-epstein-controlled-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=53118","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Massie Goes Scorched Earth Against The Epstein-Controlled Trump Administration<\/span><\/b><h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53119\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-03-at-8.32.21-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-03-at-8.32.21-AM.png 541w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-03-at-8.32.21-AM-300x295.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A Republican lawmaker has accused US President Donald Trump of attempting to distract the public from the Epstein scandal by embroiling the country in a conflict with Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Representative Thomas Massie\u2019s comments come after the release of millions of pages of files on late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein by the US Justice Department (DOJ). The documents mention Trump over 5,000 times, though without any indication of criminal activity.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBombing a country on the other side of the globe won\u2019t make the Epstein files go away,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Massie\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepThomasMassie\/status\/2028118467832955070\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a>\u00a0on X on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>In other posts, the congressman described the US-Israeli attacks on Iran as\u00a0<em>\u201cacts of war unauthorized by Congress\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and expressed opposition to the conflict.\u00a0<em>\u201cThis is not \u2018America First.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A long-time critic of Trump over his ties with Epstein, Massie is one of several lawmakers who have accused the US president of using foreign crises to distract from the scandal.<\/p>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/633544-massie-trump-epstein-iran\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/633544-massie-trump-epstein-iran\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}