Ladies and gentlemen, I want to talk to
you about Thomas Massie. I want to talk
about Thomas Massie and what's going on
in Kentucky. He is the seven-time
congressional representative in
Kentucky's fourth district. It's a
Republican district plus 17 Republican.
And if you know Thomas Massie, it's
likely through some of the coverage
we've done around his work with Ro
Khanna, a bipartisan team up Republican
and Democrat to tackle a number of
issues like, for example, the War Powers
Resolution which prevent prohibited
involvement in Iran. Or the No Immunity
for Glyphosate Act, which was basically,
long story short, there's a cancerous
chemical in Roundup weed killer and
herbicide and Trump protected them from
lawsuits
by saying it's part of defense
production. They put out a thing to try
and stop the immunity for glyphosate so
they can actually be sued by people who
were had their lives ruined by this
chemical. And then third, and most
importantly, the one you've probably
heard us talk about the most on this
channel is the Epstein Files
Transparency Act. This really put the Ro
Khanna-Thomas Massie partnership into
the spotlight where they bucked the
trend of Congress at the time and pushed
for the Epstein files actual
transparency. And this took a lot of
effort and coordinated
um campaigning and and getting the
Epstein victims and was a powerful
successful movement that actually forced
Trump eventually to have to sign the
bill that forced these files to be
released. All of the files we got so far
come from their hard work. So it
actually is really impressive. And
again, he was a guy who originally was
like, the Epstein files were an internet
conspiracy." And then Trump did this and
had these fake fake binders filled with
Epstein files and did the whole song and
dance dog and pony show and he was like,
"Why are they going through all these
lengths to pretend they released
something they hadn't?" The question
stayed with him. So he went and he
interviewed the Epstein survivors and he
was like, "It's a level of evil I hadn't
contemplated." So all of this caused him
to move forward, find the partnership
with Ro Khanna, and eventually get some
real progress made, which is a very
cool. I want to thank my colleague Ro
Khanna for co-leading this effort to
bring transparency and justice for these
victims. The Washington establishment is
asking the American public to believe
something that is not believable.
They're asking you to believe
that two individuals created hundreds of
victims and they acted alone and that
the DOJ has no idea of who else might
have been involved. Anyway, you get the
idea. I I think it was a very very noble
act that him and and Ro Khanna did, but
I've talked about it in the past. Why am
I bringing up Thomas Massie now? Well,
here's the deal. He has a very big
election tomorrow in Kentucky and just
to be quite candid, I generally, if you
balance all the things about him, I
generally have a positive feeling
towards the guy. As a matter of fact, he
wears a digital debt clock that
constantly updates with the US debt.
It's very a patriot coded.
He literally made this himself. He went
to MIT. He made this, okay, I like that.
Do I agree with everything? Probably
not. His stance on guns I find to be a
little extreme. This is his Christmas
card. [laughter]
But he did do some cool things. His
house is completely off the grid. He
installed solar panels and hooked them
up to a crashed Tesla battery and he
hasn't paid a single electric bill in 20
years cuz it's entirely
I mean, he he he he has cool stuff. But
the most important part the most
important part, the reason why I have
found to be a important voice in
American politics recently is that
despite being in the Republican Party,
he has three positions that I strongly
agree on and I think most Americans
agree on and [music] his vote in that
party is very helpful. Number one, he's
anti-war. Number two, he's anti-debt and
number three, most importantly lately,
he's anti-pedophile, okay? These are the
only real issues that we have strong
cross collaboration on, but they're very
important things right now in American
politics and there's a big movement
within the current Republican Party to
discredit him or say that he is
he's not he's secretly not a Republican
I can't vote for him in Kentucky or
whatever try to get rid of him. JD Vance
kind of made this point right here. I
think the problem with Thomas and I've
told him this in private and now I guess
I'll say it in public is it's one thing
to disagree with the party on a
particular issue. It's one thing to take
you know to take to have your
independent stand on a number of
questions and by the way some of the
stuff where Thomas Massie has been
independent against the Republican Party
I've agreed with him with. Thomas and I
worked together during 20 23 What do you
think is the one thing that JD Vance
will say here that he agrees with Thomas
Massie on? It's not going to be the
anti-pedophile stuff. It's not going to
be the stopping the big beautiful bill
and you think it'd be guns? No. It's
just helping out Ukraine. Where I was
trying to stop the limitless flow of
American money to Ukraine and Thomas was
one of the the people I was working
closest with it. But that's one thing.
Being independent having your own
opinions is one thing.
Voting against the party on every single
issue you're eventually going to make
too many enemies. And that is the
problem that Thomas has had. It's not
one issue it's not three or four issues.
It's that every time that we've needed
Thomas for a vote he has been completely
unwilling to provide it. So big big
statement from JD Vance. He has never
voted with the party. So I tried to look
into it and it turns out if you're a
Republican in Kentucky you'd be happy to
know that Thomas Massie votes with the
Republican Party 91% of the time and the
only times he doesn't are around these
issues.
When it comes to gun or abortion or
religion or whatever he's he's 100%
locked in. It's just these. So the idea
that JD Vance is saying that he's this
guy that never you can never count on
him. And I think it's a it's a
frustrating line of thought because it
makes it seem like what the American
people don't want which is a bunch of
politicians who only go on party lines
have zero independence or zero integrity
to what their district actually wants.
And I think I liked what Thomas Massie
did the same thing as they tried to
ambush him with this hit piece. Thank
you. Wait, so Congressman, in the last 2
weeks, you repeated AOC's talking points
on Israel
and Jasmine Crockett has retweeted you.
When will you change your party
affiliation to Democrat?
Huh, I thought you knew.
I vote with Republicans 91% of the time.
It seems
>> 9% I don't, they're taking up for
pedophiles, starting another war, or
bankrupting our country. I don't know
about that, Congressman. We'll see. I
don't know about that. Anyway, pretty
good clip. So, these three issues have
made him a lot of enemies and I want to
go through these enemies because his
election tomorrow has turned out to
become extremely contentious with an
extreme amount of money flowing in to
try to stop him from winning a state
where he has won seven times previously.
First, you have Donald Trump sending
money through a PAC called MAGA KY.
Donald Trump is obviously very
frustrated with Thomas Massie [music]
for many reasons, but number one being
that he is pushing for the release of
the Epstein files. That is when they
first started saying like this.
Thomas Massie, there's something wrong
with him. We call him Rand Paul Jr. You
know, it's like they just vote no. They
love voting no. They think it's good
politically. The guy's polling at about
9%. There's actually five more clips I
need to find, but he calls him a
he calls him an idiot, he calls him a
bad American, he calls him a traitor, he
calls him many, many, many clips that
that Trump has here on Massie ever since
the Epstein file stuff. He clearly is
angry about it. He clearly tried to push
to have that not released and now
Massie's a problem. Additionally, Israel
is also targeting Thomas Massie largely
because of two reasons. Number one, he
opposes the war in Iran and he he also
is the one who made the AIPAC, which is
the Americans insist on political agent
clarity, which is the meant to
counteract this by making it so that
AIPAC has to register as a foreign
agent. Today, I introduced a bill called
the AIPAC Act.
You'll see this come up. Nobody knows
this. I'm debuting it on your show right
now, which would make AIPAC subject to
Foreign Agents Registration Act. For
some reason, they're immune right now.
And I think not just the money that's
spent in politics, but the lobbying that
happens on Capitol Hill should be
reported if if it's a foreign country.
Whether it's Great Britain, Australia,
Turkey, Qatar, or Israel,
it needs to be reported. 100%. They
would like that to not pass, so they are
donating heavily to his opponents and
none to him. So, you have Trump who's
mad about Epstein stuff. You have Israel
through AIPAC who is mad about Iran war
and his peace here. And you have
additionally billionaires. You have
billionaires through the US Chamber of
Commerce. US Chamber of Commerce, you
might think is a official US government
organization. No, it's just the largest
lobbying group in America that
represents business interests. And
billionaires, largely Monsanto, Bayer,
defense contractors, all of whom do not
like Thomas Massie and his blocking of
bills that benefit them. Most of the
billionaires are naturally against him
given that he voted against the big
beautiful bill and their tax cuts and
yada yada yada. But there was one
billionaire who was supposed to stand up
for Thomas Massie. Back in June of last
year when everyone was talking about the
debt, Elon Musk said, "Every member of
Congress who campaigned on reducing
government spending and then voted for
the biggest debt increase in history
should hang their head in shame. And
they will lose their primary next year
if it's the last thing I do on this
earth." This guy said, "Will please
support Thomas Massie. The establishment
is working to primary him cuz he's a
genuine fiscal conservative and opposes
the big bloated scam." Elon Musk said,
"I will. Okay? I'm going to be there for
you, Thomas Massie. This is part of my
core beliefs. I'm a billionaire who's
going to use my power for good. Elon
Musk sits out Thomas Massie's primary.
>> [laughter]
>> This is from today.
Elon Musk has donated no money, no time,
and mentioned nothing. I would hate to
mess up his relationship with Trump. So,
all three of these are combining to
attack him in this primary. Every one of
them has a reason to try and get him,
and they're all tossing money in, which
is why, combined, it is the most
expensive House primary in the history
of the United States. Honestly seems
small at a whopping $32 million, but
that is $32 million being spent only on
a primary, not even the election, just
to prevent him from becoming the
Republican nominee, where he's won the
last seven times. Even Pete Hegseth, who
has both the Trump angle and the Iran
war angle, is out there today stumping
for his opponent. So, who is Thomas
Massie running against? Cuz I guess,
theoretically, there could just be a
challenger who's better than Massie,
money aside. This is Ed Gallrein. Ed
Gallrein here is Trump's chosen
challenger, and I do say Trump's chosen
because Ed was not planning on running.
He had no interest in running for this
position in Kentucky until Trump called
him, because Trump, quote, needed a warm
body to beat Massie. He's like central
casting. I said, this is the guy I'm
look I wanted to I wanted just Give me
somebody with a warm body to beat
Massie. And I got somebody with a warm
body, but a big, beautiful brain, and a
great patriot. He's unbelievable. He
just [laughter] admits it. He literally
just needed anyone who he could prop up
to try and take down Thomas Massie. So,
he got Ed Gallrein. Ed Gallrein can sum
up his whole campaign in one [music]
sentence. I used to be a Navy SEAL. I
can't talk about it because SEAL Team
Six is classified, although all
indicators seem to point towards the
fact that he wasn't in combat. He was
part of the support staff. But, he makes
it seem like he was out there, you know,
>> [laughter]
>> But okay, anyway, he always says it's
super classified. He's like he always
ranks classifications. He's like there's
classified, there's top secret, there's
super classified. I was one level above
that. I can't talk about it. That's all
he says. And then his other main
qualification is that he's endorsed by
President Trump. And so most of his
speeches for this campaign have been
simply just glazing Donald Trump. First
thing that struck me is he looks 20
years younger in person. I don't know
not what what's going on with those
cameras, but the president I saw was a
spring chicken. He talked about how
young he is. He talked about how he's
nicer than Christ. The second thing I'll
tell you about him just as kind as the
good shepherd.
>> [laughter]
>> Just nonstop glazing of Trump. He said
Trump's war in Iran, which is of course
deeply unpopular. I believe yeah, the
most unpopular American conflict since
recording since they recorded it. He
said don't worry about it. It's The
president is playing five-dimensional
chess.
He is resetting the entire global power
structure. But then he decided 5D chess
wasn't enough. So next time they
interviewed him, he upgraded it.
>> I stand for what the president has
brought forward the and he is playing
he's not playing three-dimensional
chess. He's playing nine-dimensional
chess with what's he doing to reshape
the entire world.
>> [laughter]
>> You get the picture of the guy. More
important than that, every time Kentucky
has had a debate to pit these two
against each other so that voters can
actually see where they stand on the
issues, Ed doesn't show up. His entire
plan is basically say nothing about his
past, say nothing about his positions,
tie himself to Trump, and run attack ads
like this one, which he's using with the
$35 million of super PAC money to get.
>> Thomas Massie caught in a thropple in
Washington. He's cheating with the squad
on the America First movement.
So, this is an AI-generated ad faking
Thomas Massie to be hanging out with
Ilhan Omar and AOC. This is the thrupple
ad they've been running all over
Kentucky. The entire point of it is to
put the AI disclosure in small print
here and then hopefully trick boomers.
>> [laughter]
>> Trick voting boomers. on the America
First movement. Massie voted with the
Squad against Trump's tax cuts. Massie
voted with the Squad against finishing
Trump's wall. He voted with them against
hiring new border agents. Well,
this is worse than adultery. It's a
complete and total betrayal of President
Trump and Kentucky conservatives. On May
19th, fire Thomas Massie. MAGA Kentucky
is responsible for the content of this
advertising. And that's not the only AI
they've used in their political
campaign. Their Facebook had a post,
quote, from Ed Gallrein that read like
this.
>> [laughter]
>> So, it's a real It's like a ghost
campaign. It's literally just propped up
with Trump money, Israel money, and
business money to try and defeat someone
who has voted for their independent
interests. And has done a reasonable job
for the people of Kentucky. I mean, it's
it's wild. Trump is out in full force
constantly writing longer and longer
Truth Social posts about how he is the
worst and most unreliable congressman in
the history of our country, very
disloyal, a major sleazebag. Trying to
take him down. Now, people have stood up
for him. Marjorie Taylor Greene came out
and said, "There were only four of us
Republicans that signed the discharge
petition to release the Epstein files.
Thomas Massie, Nancy Mace, Lauren
Boebert, and myself. Trump has come
after us one by one ever since then. The
president told Speaker Johnson not to
allow the vote to happen, but we
courageously went against the president
and refused to budge. Which is the
reason the vote was able to make it. The
reason the files were able to even start
to get released. The election, however,
is tomorrow. And going into it, despite
a massive lead for most of the campaign,
Thomas Massie on in polling and in
betting markets has begun to lose
ground. The the enormous impact of the
endorsements and the money is starting
to weigh against him. I don't know how
that it's going to go tomorrow, but
right now it is looking like both in
polling and in in betting markets that
he has flipped to an underdog, Thomas
Massie, and Ed Garvery [music] has taken
the lead. Which is a huge
disappointment. Donald Trump, by the
way, is so nervous about this because
losing this will be a huge crisis point
for helping other Republicans feel brave
enough to speak up against him. If
Massie wins, other Republican members of
Congress will become more vocal in
taking on the White House. It's a big
risk. He stands to gain not much, Massie
said of Trump, and he stands to lose a
whole lot when they lose this race
against me. I do hope he wins. I do hope
[music] he wins for beginning that
movement. And because Trump sees this as
so important, he is out in full force.
Not only has he sent Pete Hegseth, but
he is having a a telethon phone banking
campaign tonight. [music] This came out
10 minutes before this presentation.
I'll be doing hopefully a very powerful
tele-rally tonight for a friend of mine,
Ed Gallrein,
who is a fantastic man, a fantastic
hero, war hero, farmer from Kentucky.
Running against the worst congressman,
in my opinion, worst Republican
congressman in the history of our
country.
Uh the guy's a
total disaster, and you know who it is.
Thomas Massie, he's the worst.
So, we have to get out and vote. We have
to make sure that Ed gets there. I mean,
Ed left the Republican Party because he
couldn't stand Massie. Couldn't stand
watching him.
Couldn't stand how disloyal he was to
your president.
He left the Republican Party, but he
came back, and he came back strong. He
couldn't stand Massie, and neither can
I. A bad guy. So, get out and vote.
Thanks a lot. Bye. So, again, obviously
you know my stance on this issue. I very
much like Thomas Massie to win. It's
only 1 day till this happens. So, if
you're seeing this and you happen to be
in Kentucky and have the ability to
vote, I encourage you to vote. I think
Thomas Massie's a better choice for the
people of Kentucky and for the people of
America. But, the larger discussion that
I found while reading more into this is
really how insanely prevalent this type
of thing is across races across America.
The amount of money being spent to upset
primaries and upset challengers and get
the right candidate for a role is so big
in
>> [music]
>> in the country right now. And it's worth
noting that Thomas Massie can't even
lose this, then drop out and run as an
independent because Kentucky has sore
loser laws that don't allow him to do
that. Even though he likely would win
after losing this primary because he
would get uh both Democratic voters and
other voters. They have sore loser laws
that don't allow you to do that. If you
lose one primary, you can't do another.
Which is quite stupid. But, so I looked
at the numbers and it's like it really
does come back to Citizens United, which
was the landmark case that basically
treated corporate money as free speech.
That allowed them to do these massive
super PACs to donate with absolutely no
legal consequences, no investigation of
corruption or bribery. And I think if
you go back, I mean I I've obviously
been against Citizens United for a long
time on this channel. But, this is the
first time I really looked at the
numbers. And the numbers are so stark.
The second Citizens United passed, which
by the way, was a 5-4 Supreme Court
decision. Very hotly contested. Could
have gone the other way. Since this
passed and changed 100 years of
previously established campaign finance
laws, we have seen the percentage of
money that comes from billionaires
skyrocketed. Again, you can I can move
this over so you can see it. It is
absolutely skyrocketed. More and more of
our elections are being decided
primarily by those with absolute massive
fortunes. You can see here, federal
election donations by the 100 wealthiest
Americans went from near nothing in '08
to absolutely over a billion dollars
now. Now, think about this. If they're
donating over a billion dollars in just
one year, and this election, if they win
it tomorrow, only cost 35 million
dollars, then it's a rounding error for
them to go buy all these spots. That's
why my number one priority, I think the
number one thing to do to start fixing
America is campaign finance reform and
money out of politics. It is the only
way, because without it, it is so easy
to switch elections to the people that
you want to be winning. And I thought,
you know, maybe you don't follow a
district in Kentucky, but I wanted to
inform you on this because this election
tomorrow is really important. I'll
happily celebrate if Thomas Massie wins,
even though we disagree on many things.
And I hope, uh if you've been able to
able to influence it, you do too.
>> [music]
>> Thanks for watching. That's my update.
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