Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) is a notorious RINO who voted to convict President Trump during the last big impeachment imbroglio. He is, as a result, under attack in Louisiana’s primary race by a Trump-backed MAGA primary challenger, and is facing increasing pressure as a result, pressure that reportedly led to him getting in a shouting match over the GOP leaving him out to dry. He’s also continued facing immense criticism for years over his RINO positions.
For example, in one such recent incident, Cassidy was caught and exposed as having worked with Big Pharma to try and torpedo some of Health and Human Services Director Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s efforts to make prescription medications more affordable for Americans, a key platform plank of the Trump Administration.
Doing so, a MAGA account skewered Cassidy for trying to torpedo Trump’s efforts to lower drug prices even as the policy wins over Americans of every stripe, saying, “RFK Jr. has revealed one of his Democrat sons told him he’s PROUD of him & Trump for majorly cutting drug prices. Now, RINO Bill Cassidy has been CAUGHT trying to undermine Trump and hike drug prices. No wonder why Trump has endorsed his opponent, Julia Letlow.”
That came in response to a post from journalist Trish Regan revealing that Sen. Cassidy was working behind the scenes to try to sink the policy on the behalf of greedy pharma companies. Regan said, “We’ve been warning you. The Rx mandates in this were designed by RINO Bill Cassidy to hand his Big Pharma backers higher profits at YOUR expense. This sneaky swamp stuff is EXACTLY why Trump endorsed true conservative Julia Letlow’s run AGAINST Cassidy!!”
That came alongside RFK giving a speech in which he noted that fixing the drug prices scandal has been a long-term stated objective of successive administrations, but it is Trump and he who made it happen and even leftists are thanking him for it, saying, “A couple of days ago, when one of my sons, 29 years old, very, very left-wing Democrat and disagrees with a lot of the policies of this administration, he called me, and he said, ‘Dad, I want to tell you how proud I am about this. This is the best achievement that could happen to our country.’ This is something Bernie Sanders has been clamoring for for 25 years. Elizabeth Warren has been clamoring for. Joe Biden promised to the American people, President Obama, President Clinton, all promised to do this for the American people. All of them express their outrage, their indignation.”
Further, describing the problem, RFK said, “We were paying $1,300 for a drug manufacturing New Jersey, the same drug manufacturing, the same plant, was being sold for $88 in London. And everybody recognized how unfair this was. We were paying for all the innovation in this country, and yet the rest of the world was free riding on it. And President Trump told me, and Dr Haas at the beginning of this term, this is what I want you to do. And he leaned on us. I think both of us were very skeptical at that point that it could be done. But I would say this is a miracle.”
But that is just one of the latest examples. Sen. Cassidy’s betrayals of the Republican base have gone on for years and years. For example, way back in 2023, when Senator Mitch McConnell, one of the most important Republican senators in the country at the time, kept having his “freezing” incidents in which the senile senator stood still and looked utterly out of it, Sen. Cassidy was right there trying to downplay the importance of such public medical episodes.
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During that incident, he said, in part, “I think Mitch McConnell has handled it perfectly. His doctor is releasing not just the test, but the results of the test and and with that, there is a transparency that allows people to move beyond a number, how old is the person, and to what is actually the kind of science, if you will, the medical science of how to evaluate. And I think that should be the standard that folks are held to.”
Predictably, that led to him getting scorched on X by MAGA. One poster, for example, said, “Bill Cassidy says McConnell has handled his two frozen episodes’ perfectly.’ He also took a shot at Rand Paul. Who elects these RINO ghouls.” Watch Cassidy here:
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