For Trump and his billionaire Zionist handlers, Thomas Massie is a threat. The Republican representative from Kentucky voted against funding for Israel’s demonstrably ineffective Iron Dome, refused to vote along party lines to condemn BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israel), was the only Republican to vote against a House resolution supporting Israel’s military actions in Gaza, and has spoken out against AIPAC and the Israel lobby. In July 2024, Massie was the only Republican to boycott Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress. He posted the following to X on May 29, 2025:
“Nothing can justify the number of civilian casualties (tens of thousands of women and children) inflicted by Israel in Gaza in the last two years. We should end all U.S. military aid to Israel now.”
Trump has repeatedly attacked Thomas Massie, calling him “totally ineffective” and a “disaster for the Republican Party,” in addition to denigrating him as a “loser” and “disloyal” to the United States. Trump intensified his attacks when Massie supported the Epstein Transparency Act, which aimed to release documents related to Jeffrey Epstein.
On May 6, 2026, during an interview with Tucker Carlson, he warned that his political career may come to an end in November due to overwhelming oppositional funding from the Republican Jewish Coalition, AIPAC, Christians United for Israel, Miriam Adelson, Paul Singer, and John Paulson. The pro-Israel opposition supports Ed Gallrein, a 67-year-old dairy farmer and decorated military veteran. Israel lobby groups showered the candidate with nearly $2 million in funding. In contrast, the “Massie Moneybomb,” as of May 7, 2026, received $358,498.
Gallrein has refused to debate Massie on several occasions. “I’m debating him every day. Please look at the social media and the places I’m being, what I’m—I’m talking right to the American people just like the president does with no middleman,” he said during an interview with WKRC.
Enter Chris LaCivita, Political Wrecking Ball
Carlson said the Israeli billionaire Miriam Adelson is bankrolling Chris LaCivita to eliminate congressional candidates opposed to the money ($6.82 for FYI 2024) given to Israel every year. LaCivita was a senior adviser to Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign. He is a political consultant, a “battle-tested campaign strategist,” and former partner in FP1 Strategies, a consulting and political advertising firm. “Chris LaCivita is the archetype of the modern political operative who has turned campaign management into a high-margin business model.”
LaCivita operates Preserve America PAC, a single-candidate Super PAC that supported Donald Trump in the 2024 election. Miriam Adelson, with a net worth over $37 billion, donated $100 million to the PAC. She owns and publishes Israel Hayom, the largest daily newspaper in Israel. “The mission,” a recent Israel Hayom headline declared, is “Convincing people that Zionism does not have colonial roots.” During an appearance on Tucker Carlson’s podcast, Massie said, “Miriam Adelson is the gambling magnate who ironically makes money from Chinese gambling. She’s literally an Israeli… She’s given over $200 million to the president. He puts her on the stage. She’s trying to buy a congressional seat in Kentucky.”
The Republican Jewish Coalition was created in 1985 by Miriam’s late husband, Sheldon. In addition to funding Make America Great Again, Inc. ($1,743,500), the PAC has donated to the campaigns of Ted Cruz, Randy Fine, Rick Scott, and other staunch pro-Israel politicians.
Christians United for Israel (CUFI) is the largest pro-Israel organization in the United States. It bills itself as “the foremost Christian [Zionist] organization educating and empowering millions of Americans to speak and act with one voice in defense of Israel and the Jewish people.” CUFI began a “grassroots movement in 2006 with 400 pastors and ministry leaders who were committed to unifying Christians across all denominational and cultural boundaries in support of Israel.” The leader of CUFI is the televangelist John Hagee. He described the “Jewish people and Israel” as a “chosen people… above all the people on the face of the earth, that includes the United States of America.”
Paul Singer, a hedge fund manager and “activist investor” with a net worth $6.7 billion, is behind The Philos Project, a pro-Israel Christian organization. He is a “longtime supporter of hawkish pro-Israel causes” and a major funder of the Israel-first neocon think tank Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “During the debate over the Iranian nuclear deal, Singer used his fortune to support opponents of the agreement, including by founding an anti-deal Christian group.”
John Paulson, also a hedge fund manager and the leader of Paulson & Co., a New York-based investment management firm, is considered “one of the most prominent names in high finance.” He is infamous for shorting the US housing market during the subprime mortgage crisis of 2007. Paulson served as a top economic adviser to Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and contributed $831,370 to Trump’s 2020 bid.
According to Massie, Paulson is implicated in the Epstein Files. “John Paulson, one of the three billionaires [who fund Ed Gallrein], was in Epstein’s phone book,” Massie told Carlson. “He also was implicated in these files as … reaching out to Jeffrey Epstein to get money from him to honor Howard Lutnick,” Trump’s Secretary of Commerce. Mr. Lutnik suffers from memory issues. On May 6, he told a congressional commission he could not recall why he and his family had lunch on Jeffrey Epstein’s private island.
Zionist Billionaires Desperate to Sabotage Massie
“Three billionaires from New York City and Las Vegas have funded a superPAC deceptively named Kentucky MAGA to run millions of dollars of negative ads against me because I vote against foreign aid for Israel and needless wars in the Middle East,” Massie posted to X last August.
In June, the Preserve America PAC produced a $1 million ad targeting Massie. The ad tried to link the Kentucky representative to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, since assassinated by Trump and Netanyahu, and also Democrat Senator Bernie Sanders and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “Thomas ‘Little Boy’ Massie will be fired,” boasted LaCivita.
Despite a state law prohibiting the use of AI in political advertisements, a “deep fake” video, designed to resemble CCTV footage, depicts Massie holding hands with Democrats Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar as they check into a hotel room. The ad was produced by MAGA KY PAC, a political action group said to be independent of the Gallrein campaign. “It’s always the losing campaign that does the crazy crap, and that is so ridiculous that I think it could backfire on them,” Massie said.
In 2024, Massie told Carlson he banned AIPAC from visiting his office. AIPAC is “like your babysitter. Your AIPAC babysitter who is always talking to you for AIPAC,” he said. “They pay for trips for congressmen and their spouses to go to Israel.” The Jewish state “is far and away the No. 1 destination for privately sponsored foreign travel by members of the House and their aides,” reports Politico. “That’s more trips to Israel than to the entire Western Hemisphere and the continent of Africa combined.”
Trump and the Epstein Class
In May, Thomas Massie appeared on an episode of the Tucker Carlson Show. In addition to discussing AIPAC, Massie also mentioned the Epstein Class, referring to the wealthy and influential social circle surrounding Jeffrey Epstein. This reference served as a broader critique of the impunity and privilege associated with the case.
Massie said the Epstein Class “is above party” and does not “associate as Republicans or Democrats [and] they don’t mingle with the public.” Furthermore, they consider themselves above the legal system. He lauded Marjorie Taylor Greene for taking on Trump and the Epstein Class.
Massie mentioned Lauren Boebert, a Republican representative for Colorado’s 4th congressional district. Then Attorney General Pam Bondi and and FBI Director Kash Patel “took her into the situation room and tried to whip her into taking her name off of the {Epstein files] discharge petition.” Boebert resisted the pressure and the petition successfully secured the necessary 218 signatures in November 2025 to move forward on a vote.
Ari Ben-Menashe, said to be the former Israeli handler of Ghislaine Maxwell’s father, the Mossad agent Robert Maxwell, wrote in Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales, that Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell operated a pedophile blackmail operation for Israeli intelligence. Ben-Menashe also said Epstein was involved with former Israeli PM Ehud Barak. The “American Government is trapped by the Israelis,” he said. “Jeffrey Epstein was one of their tools to trap them.”
“I’m no longer in Congress because I did not bow in obedience to AIPAC and to the Zionists that control Washington DC,” Marjorie Taylor Greene, the representative from Georgia that resigned in 2025 following a feud with Trump over the Epstein files and his foreign policy. “I wouldn’t take any of their money. I voted to defund American tax dollars going to Israel. I voted to release the Epstein files, which is linked to Israel. You have a hard time existing or fighting for your political career if you aren’t part of that.”
The fallout from the Epstein files and Trump’s unwavering support for Israel have fractured the MAGA movement. Resistance to releasing the documents, as required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act, has alienated a growing number of Trump supporters. The movement is also experiencing disarray over resumed arms support for Ukraine, anger over a debt-increasing spending deal, and backlash in response to strikes on Iran.
Trump’s raging narcissism will not allow him to consider the complaints of former faithful MAGA supporters worried about a deteriorating economy and expanding wars. The president said his critics—he name-dropped Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones—should “see a good psychiatrist” for daring to criticize his complaisance to Israel and the Zionist nation’s long-standing insistence that Iran must be destroyed by the United States.
“Israel has no interest in a ceasefire, much less an agreement that satisfies any of Iran’s demands,” the political scientist John Mearsheimer told the Judging Freedom podcast on April 15.
Israel would prefer to wreck Iran, much the way Syria was wrecked. And Israel and its enormously powerful lobby have the means to make Trump dance to their tune, as they have demonstrated repeatedly since Trump moved back into the White House in January 2025. The only circumstance where Trump might stand up to Israel and the lobby is if the world economy is on the verge of disaster, and the president feels that eventuality would be so dire that he has no choice but to stand up to Israel.
Doing so will be difficult considering, as Thomas Massie pointed out, that Israel and AIPAC exercise inordinate leverage over both Trump and the majority of Congress.
However, there is a slim chance that the trajectory toward disaster could change if Trump is impeached after the midterms. It’s important to acknowledge that J Street, a liberal Zionist lobbying group founded in 2008, holds significant influence over Democrats. A Democrat victory in the midterms, coupled with the possibility of a Democrat taking over the White House in 2028, won’t necessarily end support for Israel, despite the growing opposition from younger voters.
Article posted with permission from Kurt Nimmo
