Trump’s allies in danger of scraping false hope from Maga victory in Kentucky primary

Key points

• “Thomas Massie caught in a throuple!” screamed the AI-generated attack ad that showed the Republican congressman supposedly dining with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar then checking into a hotel with the two progressives.
• “Thomas Massie betrayed President Trump!” it added.
• Crude but effective, as it turns out.
• Massie, from northern Kentucky, lost the most expensive House of Representatives primary election in history on Tuesday to Ed Gallrein, a farmer and former US Navy Seal backed by Donald Trump.
• Massie’s ousting after nearly 14 years was proof that Trump still rules the Republican party like a mob boss who can get a horse’s head placed in any bed.