{"id":75154,"date":"2026-05-18T08:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=75154"},"modified":"2026-05-18T08:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:56:09","slug":"pro-israel-forces-throw-kitchen-sink-at-massie-ahead-of-tuesday-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=75154","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Israel Forces Throw Kitchen Sink At Massie Ahead Of Tuesday Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via: ZeroHedge<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Eleven months after President Trump launched an all-out political war on Rep. Thomas Massie, the Tuesday, May 19 Kentucky GOP primary is almost here. With polls showing the race going down to the wire, the anti-Massie forces — whose animus is largely driven by Massie’s refusal to vote in accordance with the Israel lobby’s wishes — have been throwing everything they can at him, from vague 11th-hour allegations of inappropriate conduct with a woman, to AI ads showing Massie entering a hotel room with progressive congresswomen, to a new round of Trump social media rants and enough money to make the contest the most expensive House primary in US history. Massie’s challenger is former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein. <\/p>\n

In just the past few days, various anti-Massie PACs have filed disclosures indicating another huge load of cash showering down on the race. The Republican Jewish Coalition is spending another $470,000. The misleadingly-named United Democracy Project, which is a PAC affiliated with the formidable American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), revealed more than $950,000 in additional spending. The MAGA Kentucky PAC — which was created solely to oust Massie and funded by non-Kentuckian Jewish billionaires Miriam Adelson, Paul Singer and John Paulsen — disclosed more than $1.6 million since May 7.<\/p>\n

As large as those sums sound, they’re just a fresh coating atop a mountain of money: The race has now seen more than $20 million dollars in “outside spending” — that is, money spent by PACs and other entities that are not part of the candidates’ campaigns or political parties. Not coincidentally, the next two most-expensive-ever primary races also featured quests by pro-Israel PACs and individuals to oust incumbents who failed to heed the Israel lobby’s voting directives. In 2024, AIPAC alone spent $14.5 million and $9 million, respectively, to successfully dislodge New York Democrat Jamaal Bowman and Missouri Democrat Cori Bush.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via: ZeroHedge: Eleven months after President Trump launched an all-out political war on Rep. Thomas Massie, the Tuesday, May 19 Kentucky GOP primary is almost here. With polls showing the race going down to the wire, the anti-Massie forces — whose animus is largely driven by Massie’s refusal to vote in accordance with the Israel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,39,43,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dictatorship","category-elite","category-florida","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75155,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75154\/revisions\/75155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}