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05/18 12pm ET The Most Expensive Primary in History: Massie vs. Trump + AIPAC Can Principles Beat the Machine?

05/18 12pm ET The Most Expensive Primary in History: Massie vs. Trump + AIPAC Can Principles Beat the Machine?

05/18 12pm ET The Most Expensive Primary in History: Massie vs. Trump + AIPAC Can Principles Beat the Machine?






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US Rep. Thomas Massie loses Kentucky GOP primary to Ed Gallrein in another victory for Trump

https://apnews.com/article/massie-ga...ebf6283a3fdb47

1 of 6 | Massie has been a thorn in the president’s side for pushing for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, opposing the war with Iran and voting against Trump’s signature tax legislation last year.



2 of 6 | Republican congressional candidate Ed Gallrein speaks after winning the Republican party’s nomination during an election night event Tuesday, May 19, 2026, in Covington, Ky. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)



3 of 6 | Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., speaks after losing the Republican party’s nomination during an election night watch party at the Marriott Cincinnati Airport, Tuesday, May 19, 2026, in Hebron, Ky. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)



4 of 6 | Workers attach a sign for Republican congressional candidate Ed Gallrein before he speaks at an election night event Tuesday, May 19, 2026, in Covington, Ky. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)



5 of 6 | Donavan Spencer speaks with members of the media during an election night watch party for Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., at the Marriott Cincinnati Airport, Tuesday, May 19, 2026, in Hebron, Ky. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)



6 of 6 | Rep. Andy Barr, R-KY, a Trump-endorsed candidate for the U.S. Senate, speaks to guests of the Kenton County Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner, Thursday, April 30, 2026, in Covington, Ky. (AP Photo/Jon Cherry)

BY JESSE BEDAYN AND DYLAN LOVAN

Updated 5:52 PM PDT, May 19, 2026

▶ Follow live updates on Tuesday’s primary elections

HEBRON, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie lost his Republican House primary Tuesday in another test of President Donald Trump’s power over his party after he handpicked challenger and ultimate winner Ed Gallrein to oust the incumbent.

The result showed the president’s persisting influence over GOP voters and added to a growing number of Trump-backed primary challengers to defeat Republican lawmakers who angered him in his second term, including Sen. Bill Cassidy in Louisiana and several Indiana state senators who defied him on redistricting.

Massie, who has served in Congress since 2012, is one of the last and most outspoken holdouts. He pushed for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, criticized the war in Iran and voted against the president’s signature tax legislation last year. Still, he tried to convince voters that they could be for both him and Trump.

In the evening, after the primary result was known, Massie took the stage before a fired-up crowd that cheered and chanted throughout his speech, including slogans such as “no more wars” and “America First!”

“We stirred up something. There is a yearning in this country for someone who will vote for principles over party,” Massie said.

LIVE: Massie Loses, Vance Confirms Omar Immigration Fraud Probe, Trump Endorses Paxton

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Originally Posted by Airbornesapper07

LIVE: Massie Loses, Vance Confirms Omar Immigration Fraud Probe, Trump Endorses Paxton

There was some confusion in my earlier post (now removed) with the dates ...

Unfortunately, Massie LOST the 2026 Primary ...

BIG loss for the U.S. Citizens ...

'IT'S A SETUP': Thomas Massie Election Results Look FRAUDULANT, 10k 'Overnight Ballots' for Gallrein



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Channel: Dahboo77
Published: 5/20/26
3:58 minutes

Originally Posted by GaiaGoddess

'IT'S A SETUP': Thomas Massie Election Results Look FRAUDULANT, 10k 'Overnight Ballots' for Gallrein

Well, Kentucky Voters, please do something!

This theft took planning and a lot of actions!

Thomas Massie Just Announced He’s Running For President! Or Did He?



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Channel: The Jimmy Dore Show
Published: 5/21/26
4:33 minutes

It’s Time to Talk about Massie

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/i...-about-massie/

Posted May 23, 2026 By Martin Armstrong |

Thomas Massie did not lose because the people of Kentucky suddenly rejected him. He lost because Washington sent a message to every politician in America that if you dare question the foreign policy agenda, if you dare oppose endless war funding, and if you dare call out the influence of AIPAC and the Israel lobby, the full weight of the political machine will be dropped directly on your head.

THE KENTUCKY ELECTION WAS RIGGED BY A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT!

Openly.

A foreign government openly rigged a US election and installed a puppet candidate. Even the President of the United States promoted and greenlighted this unbelievable, treasonous act. I do not care if you are conservative, liberal, libertarian, or an anarchist–this is WRONG. The American people were denied the opportunity to select their representative because the US government prioritizes Israel.

The media keeps pretending this was some normal Republican primary battle between conservatives. That is nonsense. Ed Gallrein was virtually unknown nationally. The man avoided the national spotlight, opted out of interviews, and suddenly had millions pouring into his race from outside interests aligned against Massie. Before Israel intervened, Massie was one of the most discussed politicians in the US. Gallrein received around 95% of his funding from AIPAC. The man is not an American candidate.

This became the most expensive House primary in American history. Think about that carefully. Not for a Senate seat. Not for president. For one congressional district in Kentucky. Reports estimated spending exceeded $25 million and climbed beyond $32 million by election day.

Only 100 people from Kentucky actually funded Gallerin. Read that again. The people and Super PACs funding this campaign did not come from the state level. Why? Because Thomas Massie committed the unforgivable sin in Washington. He refused to bow to the neocons, Israel, and AIPAC.

Massie opposed endless foreign aid and wars. He criticized the bipartisan obsession with dragging America deeper into foreign conflicts while the United States itself drowns in debt, inflation, crime, collapsing infrastructure, and a disappearing middle class. Most importantly, he openly criticized the influence of AIPAC and the Israeli lobby over Congress.

“Congratulations to US Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein for defeating anti-Israel incumbent Thomas Massie!” the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) posted to X after the election. The organization openly celebrated pouring millions into Massie’s opposition. In other words, a foreign lobby is OPENLY buying seats in the US government.

Foreign nationals, their puppets, painted Massie as anti-Semitic for condemning the most influential foreign lobbyist group in US history. This is a textbook tool of political propaganda: demonize the enemy.

“No country is special, and no country deserves my constituents’ taxpayer dollars,” Massie told reporters at CBS. “So I have never voted for foreign aid to Egypt, to Syria, to Israel, or to Ukraine – but the ones in Israel, since they’re the biggest recipients of it, that makes them a little bit mad.” He discussed on Tucker Carlson exactly why he opposed the group.

“Their position is more war, it’s more strife, it’s more bombs, it’s more foreign aid, and those are the things that I’ve been voting against. So the real reason that this race is a serious race, and I may lose, is because a foreign lobby has fully funded to the extent that they’ve never done in any Republican race ever before,” Massie said.






“Why would they care what happens in a Republican primary in Kentucky?” Carlson asked of the pro-Israel groups and billionaire backers. “If I lose on May 19, I’ll be out of Congress on January 3 next year, and nobody’s gonna follow my Twitter, nobody’s gonna go to my Facebook page to see what’s going on. I won’t be invited down into the secret SCIFs to read the secret interpretations of the laws that the executive branch is using to spy on you. The one whistleblower, if you will, in Congress, will be gone,” Massie responded.

We are now at the point where foreign lobbying organizations openly flex their ability to remove sitting members of Congress who do not support their agenda strongly enough. Nobody even hides it anymore.

The PRESIDENT of the United States sided with the foreign lobbyists against the people of Kentucky. The same Trump who once promised to “drain the swamp” now marches shoulder-to-shoulder with the same donor networks and lobbying interests the MAGA movement once claimed to oppose. It is absolutely shameful to see how far Trump has fallen in line with Bibi.

Trump called Massie the “worst and most unreliable Republican Congressman.” Yet, a few years ago, before he was under Bibi’s thumb, Trump praised Massie and encouraged MAGA to back him.

Then came perhaps the most disgraceful moment of all. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth literally campaigned against Massie while the United States sits on the edge of major geopolitical escalation worldwide. Reuters reported Hegseth stepped away from Pentagon duties to campaign for Gallrein personally. Think about the insanity of that.

America faces rising tensions with Iran, Russia, China, collapsing debt markets, border chaos, and growing instability globally, yet the Secretary of Defense found time to fly into Kentucky to help destroy a congressman whose primary crime was opposing endless war and foreign entanglements. That tells you everything you need to know.

Washington no longer belongs to the American people. It belongs to donors, lobbying groups, defense contractors, intelligence networks, and foreign policy interests that operate completely outside the will of ordinary citizens. Republicans and Democrats scream at each other on television every night, but the second anyone questions Israel funding, NATO expansion, war spending, or foreign lobbying influence, suddenly the entire establishment unites instantly.

Massie was one of the very few Republicans willing to challenge the war machine publicly. Whether people agreed with him or not is irrelevant. The point is that Congress is now openly being shaped through financial intimidation campaigns funded by outside lobbying interests. Politicians watch what happened to Massie and understand the message clearly: obey or be destroyed.

This is exactly how republics rot from within. Not from invasion. Not from foreign armies. From corruption, money, lobbying, intimidation, and politicians who increasingly represent outside interests before their own citizens.

USA Watchdog: Economy Floating on Many Non-Sustainable Games, Catherine Austin Fits

[8:30] Catherine Austin Fitts talks about Thomas Massie.

https://usawatchdog.com/economy-floa...e-austin-fits/

https://rumble.com/v7axcpy-economy-f...stin-fits.html

Summary
Catherine Austin Fitts (CAF), publisher of “The Solari Report,” is worried about a US economy “floating on non-sustainable games.”

Let’s start with the global debt that just hit a fresh record of $353 trillion.

CAF says, “Too many sovereign nations are in a debt trap. That is what is giving the Anglo and American alliance the ability to run things and pull their chains. So, the debt trap continues to get worse and worse, and at the same time, we are making it much harder to earn dollars by shutting down the energy system worldwide.”