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| From Axios, AOC floats Trump impeachment over Iran's strikes, saying in a shocking declaration, one of the most high-profile progressives, they say considerable inter-party scorn has been heaped on reps Shri Tenadar and Al Green for floating impeachment. | ||
| Drive the news, quote, the president's disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and congressional war powers. | ||
| He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations. | ||
| It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment. | ||
| More soon. | ||
| Now, surprisingly, liberals are stunned to find that they agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene. | ||
| And of course, Donald Trump has called out Thomas Massey in a long-worded post on Truth Social. | ||
| And I'll try and read this one quickly so we can get the reaction from Rhett Massey himself. | ||
| He says, Congressman Thomas Massey of Kentucky is not MAGA, even though he likes to say he is. | ||
| Actually, MAGA doesn't want him, doesn't know him, and doesn't respect him. | ||
| He's a negative force who almost always votes no, no matter how good something may be. | ||
| He's a simple-minded grandstander who thinks it's good politics for Iran to have the highest level of nuclear weapon, while at the same time yelling death to America at every chance they get. | ||
| Iran has killed and maimed thousands of Americans and even took over the American embassy in Tehran under the Carter administration, with a spectacular military success yesterday taking the bomb right out from their hands. | ||
| And they would use it if they could. | ||
| But as usual, and despite all the praise and accolades received, this lightweight congressman is against what was so brilliantly achieved last night in Iran. | ||
| Massey is weak, ineffective, and votes no on virtually everything put before him. | ||
| Rand Paul Jr. | ||
| No matter how good something may be, he is disrespectful to our great military and all that they stand for, not even acknowledging their brilliance and bravery in yesterday's attack, which was a total and complete win. | ||
| Massey should drop his fake act and start putting America first, but he doesn't know how to get there. | ||
| He doesn't have a clue. | ||
| He'll undoubtedly vote against the great big beautiful bill, even though non-passage means a 68% tax increase for everybody and many things far worse than that. | ||
| MAGA should drop this pathetic loser, Tom Massey, like the plague. | ||
| The good news is that we will have a wonderful American patriot running against them in the Republican primary, and I'll be out in Kentucky campaigning really hard. | ||
| MAGA is not about lazy, grand-standing, non-productive politicians, of which Thomas Massey is definitely one. | ||
| Thank you to our incredible military for the amazing job they did last night. | ||
| It was really special. | ||
| Make America great again. | ||
| Well, to address this directly, we are going to be joined by Rhett Massey himself. | ||
| And I think his perspective on this is particularly important right now. | ||
| So let's pull up this. | ||
| We're loading the interview. | ||
| Here we are. | ||
| We have that. | ||
| Rhett Massey, can you hear me? | ||
| I can hear you. | ||
| How are you doing? | ||
| I'm hanging in here like a hare and a biscuit. | ||
| Like a hair and a biscuit. | ||
| The president just truthed a very long post about you. | ||
| Before we address that directly, I'm curious if you want to lay out your thoughts on the Iranian strike carried out by the Trump administration. | ||
| Well, he should have come to Congress first when we did the first Iraq war. | ||
| They came to Congress. | ||
| We debated it. | ||
| I mean, I wasn't here at the time. | ||
| I listened to it on the radio. | ||
| I remember listening to the debate about whether to go to war in Iraq. | ||
| And the Congress gave the president at the time an AUMF. | ||
| And then they did the same thing for Afghanistan. | ||
| They did the same thing for the Second Iraq War. | ||
| Now, I was here in 2013 when Obama wanted to go to war in Syria. | ||
| And he said, I'm going to go to Congress. | ||
| And we were getting all geared up to vote. | ||
| I was going to vote. | ||
| Hell no. | ||
| And they pulled the vote because they didn't want to embarrass the president. | ||
| There weren't enough votes to go to war in Syria. | ||
| So I wish the president had done the same thing here. | ||
| Anticipating that he might strike Iran three or four days before he did, Rokana and I introduced a war powers resolution to require Congress to vote on it. | ||
| And we may get a vote on that as early as July 14th. | ||
| Do you believe, as AOC has stated, this is impeachment worthy? | ||
| No, impeachment isn't a serious solution. | ||
| It doesn't solve anything here. | ||
| The attack has already been done. | ||
| I'm part of a coalition that I want to keep together. | ||
| It's a coalition inside of the Republican Party, who I would include J.D. Vance and Tulsi Gabbard in it, frankly, who joined in support of this president because we didn't want another regime change war in the Middle East. | ||
| And so to go off about impeachment does no good whatsoever in this circumstance. | ||
| We have tools available to us to rein this back in here in Congress, and that's called the War Powers Act. | ||
| So that's what I'm using. | ||
| Do you think this conflict will escalate? | ||
| And if so, how far do you think it goes? | ||
| Well, that's a good question. | ||
| The three bomb sites to stop Iran may turn into the 2025 version of 14 days to slow the spread. | ||
| You know, you just don't know where it's going to go next. | ||
| It's really up to Iran. | ||
| Iran has as much say in this now as anybody. | ||
| And it doesn't look like the regime is being toppled by the people at the moment. | ||
| So here's my question to the president or to his advisors. | ||
| Let's say the missile defense runs out in Israel. | ||
| They run out of anti-missile defense munitions and Tel Aviv starts getting pummeled. | ||
| Would the president, in that circumstance, try to engage our military in the defense of Israel? | ||
| You know, that's a tough question, I think. | ||
| What if they shut down the Strait of Hormuz and raise the price of oil? | ||
| Is this the end of it? | ||
| And I'm worried that it's not. | ||
| And what if this regime just says, just goes underground and instead of allowing weapons inspectors into their program, just says, we're going to do a completely secret program like North Korea, and you'll have no idea how far along we are? | ||
| Or what if they go buy weapons from Russia or North Korea? | ||
| Who knows where this goes? | ||
| But we shouldn't be a co-combatant in a hot war, to say this is not an act of war is actually very laughable. | ||
| This is a hot war. | ||
| Two nations are exchanging blows every day, and we stepped into the middle of it. | ||
| J.D. Vance said, we're not at war with Iran. | ||
| We're at war with Iran's nuclear program. | ||
| And look, as much as I can respect, you know, J.D. Vance had been opposed to this from everything we've gathered. | ||
| That seems like an absurd statement to make. | ||
| You bomb a foreign country. | ||
| That's an act of war. | ||
| And you can try and claim, you know, obviously in my opinion, that we are not at war. | ||
| But I think, as you mentioned, Iran's going to say, yes, we are. | ||
| So in that regard, you tweeted out this was not constitutional. | ||
| Can you explain why this is not constitutional? | ||
| Because it's an act of war. | ||
| And, you know, authorizing the president to wage war, not the act of waging war, but the authorization to do it belongs to Congress. | ||
| The founding fathers put it there. | ||
| Congress doesn't pick the targets. | ||
| We don't pick the timing. | ||
| You know, I've heard arguments that say, well, you'd lose the element surprise if you go talk to Congress and give them a briefing. | ||
| And yeah, I've got some colleagues who are absolute bozos. | ||
| I mean, they bring their purses into the briefings with their phones in them, and then their phones start ringing. | ||
| And everybody looks at them like, all right, what are you doing? | ||
| And then they try to act like there's not a phone in their purse and it's ringing. | ||
| Any case, you can't brief Congress on everything, but the element of surprise can still be there, just like it was in both Iraq wars and the Afghanistan war. | ||
| And they could be briefing us. | ||
| And by the way, to talk about another inconsistency here, I saw Mike Johnson tweeted. | ||
| He said, hey, there was an imminent threat to America. | ||
| And so the president had to act. | ||
| Well, why were we on recess? | ||
| By the way, I submitted my war powers resolution while we were on recess. | ||
| They do something called pro forma session every three days where the house is open for like five minutes. | ||
| And you can jump in there and introduce legislation during those five minutes. | ||
| And that's when I put the war powers resolution in the hopper. | ||
| But what really should have happened is Mike Johnson should have called all of us back and we should have all been in D.C. receiving briefings and talking about what the next step should be. | ||
| What is your War Powers Act? | ||
| What does that do? | ||
| So it's a privileged resolution, which means unless Speaker Johnson does something really funky, and he could do some really funky things with the Rules Committee, unless he does something really funky, the law requires him to bring up our resolution and have a vote on whether this president is authorized to stay engaged in hostilities. | ||
| If my resolution succeeded, it would keep the president from going any further. | ||
| So basically, it wouldn't be a bad thing. | ||
| If he says he did three strikes and that's it and he's done, why not be in favor of my resolution or at least agnostic to it? | ||
| Because it just says you have to withdraw from hostilities. | ||
| It doesn't impeach him or anything or even incriminate him for something that he's already done. | ||
| And by the way, Tim, I hear people saying, oh, well, the president had the authority to do this without Congress. | ||
| And they cite the War Powers Act, the very legislation that I'm using to bring this bill to the floor. | ||
| Well, there is a situation in which the president doesn't need to come to Congress that's outlined in the War Powers Act. | ||
| It says if there's an imminent threat to America. | ||
| Now, there was no such imminent threat to America. | ||
| The reason they put that in there is they anticipated situations where they couldn't get Congress assembled in time to respond to something or something was a kinetic situation that needed to be reacted to. | ||
| But even in that circumstance, Tim, guess what? | ||
| The War Powers Act requires within 60 days the president stop all hostilities and come to Congress for a vote. | ||
| He can get a 30-day extension, but that's it. | ||
| There's going to be a vote on this. | ||
| And I'm going to lead that effort. | ||
| And even if it's not the process that I think could get me to the floor by July 14th, there will be a vote on this. | ||
| But is there any, do you have any real fear of Iran getting access to a nuclear weapon, be it just a warhead to launch from a missile or even dirty bombs and smaller, more disastrous weapons? | ||
| Well, I mean, presumably they could buy one from North Korea or from one of the there's probably some floating around from where the Soviet Union dissolved, and maybe with enough money you could pick one of those up on the black market. | ||
| I don't know how they would get one at this point, but I am concerned that American troops and America in general is under greater threat. | ||
| Iran doesn't have a ballistic missile that can reach the United States. | ||
| They could reach some of our bases. | ||
| They can reach Israel. | ||
| They can reach parts of Europe, parts of Eastern Africa, Russia, India, Pakistan, but their missiles don't go beyond that. | ||
| I'm not worried about a direct attack, if you will, from missiles, but they could obviously hit one of our assets in the Middle East. | ||
| There's a report that Russia, a former president of Russia, said other nations are already lining up to sell nuclear weapons or the means to make them to Iran because of this attack. | ||
| And there are some rumors that Iran may have met with Pakistan. | ||
| So it seems like, additionally, Telegraph as well as the New York Times have reported following the strike, the U.S. is not sure where the fissile material went. | ||
| Some 400 kilograms of enriched uranium was smuggled out days before the strike. | ||
| I'm curious your thoughts on this. | ||
| If Trump comes to Congress and says, here's the satellite imagery, they're dispersing weapons-grade uranium. | ||
| We have to stop them now. | ||
| Would you still say no to U.S. involvement? | ||
| Well, first of all, let me say this, and this should be obvious to everybody. | ||
| I don't want Iran to have a nuclear weapon. | ||
| Okay, that's obvious. | ||
| But is our policy going to be over the next five or 10 years, we're going to bomb anybody that has access or has acquired a nuclear or could acquire a nuclear weapon? | ||
| I'm as concerned about artificial intelligence five years from now. | ||
| you put in the prompt, hey, how can I make a nuclear weapon 10 times as quickly as it's been done in the past with only these resources which are inside of my country and it pops out the answer? | ||
| Does that mean we're going to bomb everybody that has an AI that's smart enough to do that? | ||
| This is a never-ending chase. | ||
| I think we should bolster our own missile defense. | ||
| We've watched some lessons there, I think, in Israel. | ||
| Hopefully we've learned from that and our missile defense is better now than it was. | ||
| But I suspect ours isn't good enough and could be overwhelmed at some point with enough missiles. | ||
| And so we should be working on defensive strategies instead of just pretending we can blow up everybody and every project that's a danger to the United States anywhere on the globe anytime we want. | ||
| So Trump put out this very long truth social post. | ||
| He called you weak. | ||
| He said MAGA should dump you. | ||
| You should be primaried. | ||
| And he's going to be working very, very hard to see that you lose your next election. | ||
| I'm curious your thoughts. | ||
| I assume you read it. | ||
| Can you put the post on the screen? | ||
| It's like a dissertation. | ||
| I know he went to Wharton, but I bet he never wrote a paper that long when he was at Wharton. | ||
| But it's amazing that the president of the United States, the guy who launched seven V-2 bombers to the other side of the planet to bomb targets over there and returned them, he got up and spent 15 minutes writing a tweet about a Republican, not a Democrat, a Republican congressman from Kentucky. | ||
| I responded to that tweet. | ||
| I actually quoted it. | ||
| And I just said, you know, President Trump's declared so much war on me in the last day that it should require an act of Congress at this point. | ||
| Oh, with Rand Paul even and the Big Beautiful Bill, I know that you were both opponents of it to varying degrees. | ||
| I know you agree with some of it and you disagree with some of it and you want changes. | ||
| Trump is going after Republicans on this one. | ||
| Is it because he doesn't feel like he can, you're not going to convince a Democrat? | ||
| So any Republican who breaks from the party line is a threat? | ||
| What is this about? | ||
| Well, I think he's going after me in particular to keep other Republicans from breaking, whether it's his support for Israel's war or whether it's his zeal for the deal on the big, beautiful bill that has lots of issues with it. | ||
| When he sees me say something that's absolutely true about it, notice that the president has never refuted any of the things that I've said. | ||
| His press secretary does, but he hasn't. | ||
| And that just shows you that he's coming after me to show the other Republicans in Congress, hey, that horse got out of the barn and we're whipping that horse as hard as we can. | ||
| You can't withstand that kind of whipping. | ||
| You better stay in the barn. | ||
| And I've had interactions with President Trump going all the way back to 2020. | ||
| Some of them have been cordial. | ||
| Some of them have been adversarial. | ||
| What he does know is I'm not changing my mind on this stuff. | ||
| Rand Paul said that he knows he's going to get a call from the president. | ||
| He's going to yell at him for an hour. | ||
| And, you know, Rand's going to say, here's what we need to make happen for the Big Beautiful Bill. | ||
| But Rand did say that if it came down to it, he was the deciding vote, he would vote in favor of it. | ||
| Would you do that for the Big Beautiful Bill? | ||
| Would you do the same thing? | ||
| No. | ||
| No. | ||
| I won't. | ||
| And in fact, I would love to have that opportunity because you know what happens if we take down the Big Beautiful Bill? | ||
| We write a better for better, more beautiful bill that doesn't have the warts and canker sores that this bill has, one that doesn't bankrupt the country. | ||
| Like negotiations, Trump knows this, negotiations don't start until one side says no. | ||
| And the reason the blue state Republicans got what they wanted in the House version of the bill and the Freedom Caucus did not is the Freedom Caucus wasn't willing to vote no. | ||
| They weren't willing to go against what they presume President Trump wants. | ||
| But those blue state Republicans were willing to go no. | ||
| And so they got what they wanted. | ||
| Now, the Senate says they're taking that blue state giveaway that would enrich actually sanctuary cities and states like California and New York. | ||
| The Senate says they're taking that out now. | ||
| So that'll set up an interesting dynamic when this bill comes back to the House. | ||
| That was the salt, the state and local tax deductions. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It means if you live in a sanctuary city that has super high real estate taxes and you're affluent and you itemize your taxes, that you don't have to pay as much tax as somebody who lives in Kentucky and has the same income but has lower property taxes. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So do you think, where are we at with that? | ||
| Is that that's coming up for a vote in a couple weeks? | ||
| Well, they're going to play brinksmanship with it. | ||
| Let's talk about that. | ||
| The Senate is, you know, they're taking their sweet time and they have every right to be deliberative and go through this bill one by one. | ||
| And they actually might make it better. | ||
| I don't know if they can make it better enough that I would vote for it. | ||
| There's a possibility. | ||
| I'm not an absolute no on something I haven't read. | ||
| And it seems like they are making it a little bit better. | ||
| So when they send it back over, that could be something that I vote for, but they're going to play brinksmanship with it. | ||
| Here in the House, we had just a few hours to read the big beautiful bill before it passed. | ||
| And I think they're going to do the same thing, but they're going to use the pressure of the debt limit expiring and having a default on our national debt. | ||
| And they're going to try to use that pressure sometime in July when all that expires. | ||
| So I think they've picked a deadline and they're really just wasting time until we get to that deadline so they can use that crisis to motivate even more votes for that bill. | ||
| Well, Trump says in that post that taxes are going to go up by 68%. | ||
| You know, there's a lot of Americans who see that short-term tax relief, no tax on tips. | ||
| And then you got the gun rights people. | ||
| They love the short and the Hearing Protection Act in there. | ||
| The issue of the deficit, deficit spending and the debt is a bit more foreign to the average person. | ||
| They don't understand how it's going to negatively impact them. | ||
| So what is your concern with those issues? | ||
| Well, first of all, I'm the chairman of the Second Amendment Caucus here in the House of Representatives. | ||
| I couldn't be more excited that there won't be attacks on suppressors. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| That is excellent. | ||
| I would take it off of all of the NFA weapons. | ||
| I would take them all out of the registry. | ||
| I would repeal the 1934 NFA. | ||
| Wait, wait, wait. | ||
| Tell them you want that in the bill and you'll vote on it. | ||
| Yeah, right. | ||
| So, yeah, maybe we can get even sweeter here with that, with the gun provisions, but I'm in favor of that. | ||
| And also as far as extending the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017, that wouldn't be a hard vote for me. | ||
| I voted for the 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| But there's a reason all of those tax cuts expire this year, and that's because they couldn't make the budget balance and keep those tax cuts going on forever. | ||
| So they set up a situation in 2025 where they knew this would be an issue. | ||
| Guess what they're doing inside of this bill again? | ||
| They're going to extend the Tax Cut and Jobs Act for 10 years, but the no tax on tips, the tax break for seniors, and the no tax on overtime is only going to last three years. | ||
| And conveniently, that means when it all expires, Trump's not going to be president. | ||
| There will have been two Senate elections and two House elections between now and then. | ||
| So a lot of these people won't be around. | ||
| And the people who inherit this are going to call those expiring provisions a fiscal cliff. | ||
| And so they will renew those tax cuts. | ||
| Also, what will expire is there's $100 billion more of military spending in this big, beautiful bill, but it's all in the first three years. | ||
| And so when that expires, they're going to say, oh my gosh, you're going to decimate our military. | ||
| They'll call it a fiscal cliff. | ||
| And so those savings, the way they get these 10-year budgets to balance is they spend like drunken sailors in the first five years. | ||
| They give everybody all the goodies they want in the first five years. | ||
| And then in the second five years, they take the goodies away and they keep a lot of this spending in and it never does balance. | ||
| I want to go back to Iran because there are a lot of people when Donald Trump was running for his reelection, they said Trump is the no-new wars president. | ||
| And I particularly appreciated that. | ||
| I did not vote to have strikes in Iran. | ||
| I'm not going to go so crazy and say Trump should be impeached like AOC or anything like that. | ||
| I hope it works out for the best. | ||
| But there are a lot of people that are just immediately on board, many prominent personalities. | ||
| I'm curious your thoughts on that phenomenon where many people who touted this no-new wars are now saying, Trump's doing it. | ||
| I trust Trump. | ||
| Great. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| Well, some of them are my friends, like J.D. Vance. | ||
| He was very skeptical of the war in Ukraine. | ||
| He and I had private meetings over at a building near here about how to wind down the war in Ukraine when he was a U.S. Senator. | ||
| Tulsi Gabbard and I had a lot of conversations on the floor of the House about how we didn't need to be at war in Syria and we shouldn't be doing the covert operations that were going on there. | ||
| So I know that coalition still exists. | ||
| They cannot be as vocal now in the jobs they have as I think they would be otherwise. | ||
| Marjorie Taylor Greene is, she's staying true to the course here on the MAGA promise of no new wars, no regime change. | ||
| A lot of us are getting whiplashed, though, because the president has changed course. | ||
| I think even some of his advisors and spokespeople, they go out one day and say this isn't about regime change. | ||
| And then the next day he blows all that up with a tweet. | ||
| That's always been what he does. | ||
| He put out that truth post saying regime change. | ||
| But it sounds like what he's saying. | ||
| I think J.D. Vance asked about this. | ||
| He's saying internally they should remove their government, not U.S. boots on the ground. | ||
| How do you do that? | ||
| I mean, cross your fingers and made a win. | ||
| And then here's what else happens. | ||
| You take out a government, the country collapses and it devolves into anarchy and civil war. | ||
| And you've got all these adversarial ethnic groups inside of Iran, similar to Iraq, and they'll be vying for power. | ||
| It won't be obvious what evolved from that. | ||
| And somebody has to step in and restore some kind of semblance of structure in the meantime. | ||
| And that's where you get bogged down. | ||
| Then we're going to look the biggest. | ||
| Do you know what? | ||
| This isn't like a Tucker Carlson. | ||
| Do you know the population of Iran? | ||
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| 92 million. | ||
| Yes, I'll give you the answer. | ||
| Guess where the biggest embassy in the world, not just the biggest U.S. embassy, the biggest embassy in the world by acreage, by cost. | ||
| It's in Iraq. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Like we're going to end up building a giant, if there's like regime change in Iran, we'll probably build a Tajma embassy in Iran. | ||
| And then nobody wants to see on the evening news pictures of the embassy being overrun like we saw in Libya. | ||
| So they build a really big one. | ||
| These are like anchors that keep us there forever. | ||
| That's what I'm concerned about. | ||
| That's if the people who've been in charge in the deep state, you know, in the part of the government that doesn't change when you have elections, if they have their way, we'll be there forever. | ||
| And the military-industrial complex is, you know, they're just going to be giddy that we're blowing up all these missiles right now. | ||
| Well, last question, just real quick. | ||
| You know, J.D. Vance, Tulsi Gabbard, they don't want war. | ||
| They were, I mean, even J.D. Vance was critical of hitting the Houthis. | ||
| Is this, you know, Donald Trump has been saying for decades, Iran can't have a nuclear weapon. | ||
| Is this strike now a product of Donald Trump adamantly refusing the advice of those around him? | ||
| Or is the deep state saying, you got to do this? | ||
| I think it's the deep state. | ||
| I think it's Israel, the lobbyist from Israel. | ||
| I think it's the military-industrial complex. | ||
| He may think in some way this helps the economy. | ||
| This also, you know, it may help his popularity rating, frankly. | ||
| It's unpopular to be against a president who's at war. | ||
| The founders knew this, and that's why they didn't want the executive to have the authority to declare war, because the laurels go to the commander-in-chief. | ||
| So I'd say there are a lot of different reasons for it. | ||
| I don't want to say he's insincere. | ||
| He probably does want to take out any nuclear capability of Iran. | ||
| It's just not clear that we're going to be able to do that and that we're not on a treadmill now where every year you have to bomb something based on some report from some foreign government's intelligence. | ||
| I think the media is going to be on board. | ||
| I think we might start seeing articles pop up saying Trump has never been more presidential. | ||
| Their ratings are going to skyrocket from this. | ||
| Look, that's the irony. | ||
| All of the media who hates Trump is going to like him for this. | ||
| The Bushes and the Cheneys who have Trump derangement syndrome, he's like their favorite president now. | ||
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Bolton praised him for doing this attack. | |
| There are people who, by the way, Liz Cheney, Max donated to my primary opponent. | ||
| And now she's happy as can be with Donald Trump. | ||
| And if I could, before we run out of time, I do want to say something about my next primary, which is joking with that. | ||
| So I've been, you can't run to the right of me in Kentucky. | ||
| There is no room to the right of me. | ||
| So for three primaries in a row, people have tried running to the Trump of me. | ||
| They say I'm not Trump enough. | ||
| But the reality is when you dig down into it, I'm the original America First Congressman. | ||
| That has always been my platform, even when it cost me in popularity. | ||
| And so over 12 years, I've developed that understanding with my constituents. | ||
| And so I think it's going to be hard to come at me from the right, but the president now, the cronies that are around him, the leeches that make money off of his political enterprise, they say they're starting a super PAC now whose sole purpose is to take me out of office. | ||
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| And then you have APAC, which is the Israeli lobby, spent $400,000 against me last cycle. | ||
| I would say a lot of the money that those leeches that are around Trump are going to use is probably going to be Israeli lobby money because what American would waste their money trying to take out an America first congressman? | ||
| So that's what you're going to see. | ||
| It's going to be a hell of a fight. | ||
| I mean, I've never got less than 75% in any of my primaries. | ||
| I'm not saying that's going to be the case this time. | ||
| I'll probably have millions and millions of dollars spent against me. | ||
| They still haven't found a candidate yet who wants to try this. | ||
| And trust me, they're searching hard in my district. | ||
| Eventually, they'll find some schmuck to be in the TV commercials who has no record whatsoever. | ||
| And they'll try to make him out to be, you know, the next Ronald Reagan or something. | ||
| But I need money and I've been raising money every time the president attacks me. | ||
| And trust me, I would prefer not to have the president attack me. | ||
| People are like, oh, Massey's just doing this to raise money. | ||
| That is not a fact. | ||
| But once I get attacked, I have to raise money. | ||
| When Trump attacked me the first time this year, I raised almost 400,000. | ||
| The last time I raised 50,000. | ||
| And in the last 24 hours, I've received $100,000. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| And that's off Twitter. | ||
| I don't have campaign consultants that are doing a lot of work out there. | ||
| This is just people sending me money because they know on X that I'm in trouble. | ||
| So I just wanted to point out that that's how this works. | ||
| I'm not grifting. | ||
| I'm just trying to stay in office so I can promote the true America First agenda. | ||
| Where can people find more? | ||
| Well, since I'm in my congressional office, I am not going to give out my campaign website because I got the capital back here. | ||
| And people would love to catch me up on that one. | ||
| But you can tell them after I get off the screen. | ||
| They can follow your X account, can't they? | ||
| Yeah, I've got an official and a campaign account. | ||
| So my official account is at rep Thomas Massey. | ||
| Follow me there for official news. | ||
| And, you know, that's my day job. | ||
| That's what I do to fight for the American people. | ||
| Well, Representative Massey, I appreciate you joining me, explaining all of this. | ||
| Thank you very much, and we'll see you next time. | ||
| Thanks, Tam. | ||
| Take care. | ||
| That, of course, is Representative Thomas Massey, who I think is the best we have in Congress. | ||
| I'm a huge fan. | ||
| I think he's principled. | ||
| I think he does a good job. | ||
| I think Trump attacking him is not the apocalypse. | ||
| I don't see him losing. | ||
| And I don't completely agree with him. | ||
| I like Rand Paul as well. | ||
| Rand said if he's the deciding vote on the bill, he's going to vote for it. | ||
| I think it's the right thing to do. | ||
| But there are a lot of people that want to rag on Massey because Trump's ragged on Massey. | ||
| But Massey does a good job. | ||
| He's a man of honor and principle, and I respect it. | ||
| Even when I disagree with it, and I hope that's what we get more of in Congress. | ||
| I don't actually know his website. | ||
| I can just probably search for it. | ||
| His campaign website? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I Googled it. | ||
| It didn't pop up. | ||
| Sorry, Red Massey. | ||
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| Massey.house.gov. | ||
| You guys can learn more. | ||
| Maybe you disagree with him. | ||
| Maybe you agree with Trump. | ||
| That's fine. | ||
| I was thinking it would be great to get his perspective on these things as they were going. | ||
| So now we're going to get that raid for you guys and send you to hang out with Russell Brand, who is gearing up to go live right now. | ||
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| Share the show with everyone. | ||
| You know, you can follow me on X and Instagram at Timcast. | ||
| Thank you guys so much for hanging out. | ||
| And shout out to Rhett Massey. | ||
| And we had Senator Paul on last week. | ||
| It's been good hearing their perspectives. | ||
| I don't know, guys. | ||
| I'm fairly moderate. | ||
| I trust Trump in this regard. | ||
| I think he knows things we don't. | ||
| I begrudgingly say okay to what's going on. | ||
| I don't like it. | ||
| I'm not for it. | ||
| I think it's a stain on his presidency. | ||
| I will criticize it. | ||
| I will say what I can. | ||
| But I think Trump has done too good of a job. | ||
| He has done so many good things in his first term and his second term that I view it largely as just good, just generally good. | ||
| I said the other day that I view this as this brings his presidency into a net negative territory. | ||
| Let me clarify that. | ||
| I'm saying if this goes beyond the scope of what we expect it to be right now, we're in trouble. | ||
| We're in net negative territory. | ||
| As of right now, where we're at, we're teetering on the line, in my view. | ||
| That's just me. | ||
| I don't know everything. | ||
| I'm just saying striking Iran could open the door to devastating price increases, destabilization in the region, loss of human life. | ||
| American soldiers are at risk right now. | ||
| It's such tremendous risks to this. | ||
| But I recognize I don't know the real security ramifications of what happens if Iran is giving out fissile material to lunatics. | ||
| That's why I say it's a rock and a hard place. | ||
| I would just vote no. | ||
| Prove it to me before we drop bombs in a foreign country without going to Congress. | ||
| Prove it to me. | ||
| I don't think they did that. | ||
| That's why I'm pissed. | ||
| I feel like we were misled. | ||
| But we'll see, my friends. | ||
| We've got more segments coming up. | ||
| Smash that like button. | ||
| Share the show with everyone. | ||
| You know, as I said, you can go to TimCast.com, join our Discord server. | ||
| Explain to us why I'm right, why I'm wrong, whatever it is you think, and join the community. | ||
| Thank you all so much for hanging out. |