The president of the United States, Donald Trump, carried out his revenge this weekend against Republican Senator Bill Cassidy by causing him to be defeated in the Louisiana primaries, confirming the control he still exercises among the bases of the Republican Party.

Cassidy, who voted in favor of convicting Trump in his impeachment trial after the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, has received continuous public attacks from the president throughout the primary campaign, which this Saturday he finally lost to the candidate supported by the White House, Julia Letlow.

Trump did not hide his satisfaction with the result and wrote on his network, Truth Social: “His disloyalty to the man who got him elected is now part of the legend, and it is gratifying to see that his political career is over!”

The result in Louisiana adds to the defeats of a group of Indiana state legislators whom the president attacked with political retaliation and marks the weight of Trump's influence on the decisions of the Republican base in the primary processes prior to the November midterm elections.

In fact, the president is preparing another political “revenge” for this week.

On Tuesday, primaries are held in Kentucky and Trump has already expressed on numerous occasions his rejection of Representative Thomas Massie, a Republican who has criticized him for the Epstein case or for the war with Iran and has become one of the scourges of the Trump Administration in Congress.

In fact, after learning of Cassidy's defeat, Trump also dedicated one of his Truth messages to Massie.

“Tom Massie of Kentucky—the worst and most untrustworthy Republican congressman in the history of our country—is an even greater insult to our nation than Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana.”

And he did not hesitate to position himself again for the primaries: “Kentucky: get this loser out of politics in Tuesday's elections,” he said. EFE