{"id":2607039,"date":"2026-05-26T16:49:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thom-tillis-unloads-on-hegseth-ken-paxton-in-weekend-tantrum-as-gops-establishment-wing-faces-extinction\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T16:49:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:49:58","slug":"thom-tillis-unloads-on-hegseth-ken-paxton-in-weekend-tantrum-as-gops-establishment-wing-faces-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thom-tillis-unloads-on-hegseth-ken-paxton-in-weekend-tantrum-as-gops-establishment-wing-faces-extinction\/","title":{"rendered":"Thom Tillis Unloads on Hegseth, Ken Paxton in Weekend Tantrum as GOP&#8217;s Establishment Wing Faces Extinction"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthom-tillis-unloads-on-hegseth-ken-paxton-in-weekend-tantrum-as-gops-establishment-wing-faces-extinction%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2607039&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/4-politicians-and-media-outlets-giving-biased-reports-of-the-israel-conflict\/\" title=\"4 Politicians and ... Outlets Giving Biased Reports Of The Israel Conflict\">article describes<\/a> a feud between Republican Sen. Thom Tillis and the Trump management, arguing that Tillis is actively burning bridges while <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >seeking media attention<\/a>. It says Tillis used appearances on CNN\u2019s *State of the Union* to attack two prominent republicans: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (criticizing his handling of Iran and other actions) and Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton (calling him <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-reportedly-seeks-to-hire-left-wing-activist-as-ai-policy-advisor\/\" title=\"Biden Administration Reportedly Seeks To Hire Left-Wing Activist As AI Policy Advisor\">ethically unfit<\/a> and effectively a drag on the party\u2019s agenda).<\/p>\n<p>It then frames the political context as a culmination of Tillis breaking wiht Trump over major legislation (the \u201cOne Big Beautiful Bill Act\u201d) and clashing with many conservatives aligned with Trump. The piece highlights then-President Donald Trump\u2019s criticism of tillis-portraying him as a \u201cquitter\u201d who retired after being challenged-and includes Tillis\u2019s own rebuttal suggesting that Trump\u2019s circle supported positions Tillis viewed as harmful (such as using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-illegal-allegedly-stole-childs-identity-to-cash-in-on-medicaid-obtain-7-jobs\/\" title=\"Texas Illegal Allegedly Stole Child&#039;s Identity to Cash in on Medicaid, Obtain 7 Jobs\">taxpayer funds related<\/a> to convicted felons who attacked police).<\/p>\n<p>the article characterizes Tillis as part of an \u201cestablishment\u201d retreat and predicts that Republicans will eventually move on from him and other establishment figures after the midterms, treating the further conflict as \u201caddition by subtraction.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Like every Republican who loudly announces their retirement and bemoans the passing of the establishment in doing so, North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis is making sure to burn as many bridges with President Donald Trump and his administration as the media will allow him to get coverage for.<\/p>\n<p>That was at least twice this past weekend, both in an appearance on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union.\u201d (For if one were to ever pick a venue to burn bridges in when you\u2019re burning them inside the Beltway, it would be the Sunday morning current affairs chat show: Those remnants of a different age now only watched by politicos and wonks, while the rest of the world orders DoorDash and binges on\u201dThe Obscenely Rich Hockey-Wife Housewives of Fort Lauderdale.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>In one of his rants, he decided to go after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/pete-hegseth-sets-record-straight-current-status-ceasefire-recent-clashes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth<\/a>, calling him a man who made \u201cKristi Noem look like a five<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-gators-quarterback-jalen-kitna-booked-on-multiple-complaints-of-child-pornography-possession-with-intent-to-promote\/\" title=\"Florida Gators Quarterback Jalen Kitna Booked On Multiple Complaints Of Child Pornography, Possession With Intent To Promote\">-star recruit<\/a>,\u201d and Texas Senate Republican candidate Ken Paxton an undeserving \u201cfailure\u201d who would be \u201cnothing but an anchor on our conference\u201d in the upper chamber.<\/p>\n<p>The first came when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/flashback-jake-tapper-defends-kimmels-jokes-melted-aaron-rodgers-linked-abc-host-epstein\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jake Tapper<\/a> asked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/big-name-democrat-announces-running-thom-tillis-senate-seat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tillis<\/a> if he was \u201cadvised well\u201d by the head of the Pentagon on the Iran issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I actually \u2014 if you take a look at the assessment that Hegseth gave \u2014 at the end of the day, regardless of who collected the information, Hegseth owns it by being secretary of Defense,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you tell the president that you have \u2018obliterated\u2019 Iran and you\u2019re in a position to pretty much dictate terms, and now you see what we have, when you see Hegseth pull back on operations in Poland, when Ukraine \u2014 when Russia is raping, killing, murdering, torturing countless people in Ukraine, when you see these mistakes made by Hegseth, I have \u2014 I actually \u2014 I think, with all these mistakes in total, it\u2019s beginning to make Kristi Noem look like a five-star recruit,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth \u201cmakes Kristi Noem look like a 5 star recruit\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Senator Tom Tillis (R-NC) on U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atrupar?\">@atrupar<\/a> (2026) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vpBOyCv6KE\">pic.twitter.com\/vpBOyCv6KE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/highbrow_nobrow\/status\/2058636162684555671?\">May 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As for Paxton, he\u2019s the odds-on favorite in the Senate runoff in Texas on Tuesday over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in what\u2019s been a brutal race where Cornyn has based the majority of his attacks on Paxton on issues of character. (Cornyn, meanwhile, is mostly disliked by the Republican base for being more adept at climbing the leadership ladder in the GOP than in actually doing the work he has been elected, repeatedly, by Texans to do.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo call Paxton ethically challenged is to call Jeffrey Dahmer suffering from an eating disorder,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen they go to the polls on Tuesday, I hope that they know that they have got a great American who deserves reelection, and the other guy [referring to Paxton] is going to be nothing but an anchor on our conference for as long as he\u2019s in the U.S. Senate,\u201d Tillis added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is a failure. He doesn\u2019t deserve to be in the U.S. Senate,\u201d he said of Paxton.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tillis: \u201cTo call Paxton \u2018ethically challenged\u2019 is to call Jeffrey Dahmer suffering from an eating disorder. He\u2019s gonna be an anchor on our caucus\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YFEQskghvU\">pic.twitter.com\/YFEQskghvU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atrupar\/status\/2058550875635712399?\">May 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In case you\u2019re wondering what this is all about, Tillis broke with Trump over the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and has been having a tiff with virtually everyone to the right of Bill Kristol since. He also seems to have lost all contact with reality and insists on doing every media hit wearing a bolo tie, so seldom a good sign.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, this has culminated, over the past few weeks, in this <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116618410517308849\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>  message from Donald Trump:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>People don\u2019t remember that Thom Tillis, the weak and ineffective Senator from the Great State of North Carolina, a State I won, including primaries, 6 consecutive times, didn\u2019t have the courage to fight it out in the Senate, remain in place, and run again for office, a thing he desperately wanted to do. I called him a \u201cNitpicker,\u201d always fighting against the Republican Party, and ME, mostly on things that didn\u2019t matter. When I told him that I would not, under any circumstances, endorse him for another run, too much work and drama (he couldn\u2019t have won, anyway!), he immediately quit the race and publicly announced that he was going to \u201cretire.\u201d I said, \u201cWow, great news, that was easy!\u201d The media said how brave he was to take me on, but he wasn\u2019t brave, he was just the opposite \u2013 HE WAS A QUITTER! Now he can have all the fun he wants for a few months, with some of his RINO friends, screwing the Republican Party. In the end it will only get bigger, and better, and stronger, than ever before!!! President DJT<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And this riposte:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mr. President, completely agree about having a lot of fun over these next seven months.<\/p>\n<p>But nitpicking? Some of your advisors are telling you to support things like:<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Using billions of taxpayer dollars to compensate convicted felons and thugs who attacked police. (Ed\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P9nvBrazOy\">pic.twitter.com\/P9nvBrazOy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senator Thom Tillis (@SenThomTillis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenThomTillis\/status\/2057865631031013887?\">May 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Look, I get that Tillis isn\u2019t the first guy to make a name off the Not That Kind of Republican\u2122 grift, and he won\u2019t be the last. That being said, he\u2019s more proof that the establishment is dying slowly, but not quietly.<\/p>\n<p>After the midterms, Republicans will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gop-sen-thom-tillis-runs-cnn-brag-swearing-trump-behind-closed-doors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">free of Tillis<\/a>, Mitch McConnell, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-urges-texans-reject-disloyal-john-cornyn-polls-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Cassidy<\/a>, and perhaps even Cornyn. It\u2019ll be addition by subtraction in the short term if the GOP can keep those seats, and in the long term, even if they can\u2019t. 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