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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 
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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 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 
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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 
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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. 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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. 
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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 
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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, 
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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 
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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. 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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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, 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 
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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. 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 
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recording since they recorded it. He said don't worry about it. It's The president is playing five-dimensional 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. the entire world. >> [laughter] >> You get the picture of the guy. More important than that, every time Kentucky 
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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 
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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. 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 
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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 quote, from Ed Gallrein that read like this. 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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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hero, war hero, farmer from Kentucky. Running against the worst congressman, in my opinion, worst Republican congressman in the history of our 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 
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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. 
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The amount of money being spent to upset primaries and upset challengers and get the right candidate for a role is so big the right candidate for a role is so big in >> 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 
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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 
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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 
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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, 
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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. able to influence it, you do too. >> [music] >> Thanks for watching. That's my update. >> [music] [music]