Tucker Responds to the Israel Lobby Defeating Thomas Massie and Killing MAGA

TL;DR

Tucker argues the Israel lobby spent $35 million to defeat Thomas Massie — the only Republican never funded by AIPAC — proving foreign interests now control U.S. elections.

Key Points

• 1.Tucker witnessed Miriam Adelson bypass security at Trump's inauguration, calling it an omen. The Israeli-born casino billionaire widow of Sheldon Adelson walked past everyone in line at St. John's Church on January 20, 2024, signaling her privileged access to the new administration.
• 2.Tucker and Charlie Kirk sat together in church believing Trump was a genuine America-first leader. Both were jubilant that Trump had been elected, convinced he would reorient the Republican Party toward serving American citizens above all foreign interests.
• 3.Tucker claims Trump has pivoted 180 degrees from his inauguration promises. He argues Trump went from pledging to end endless wars and drain the swamp to cheerleading regime change in Iran, covering up the Epstein files, and bragging about 99% approval in Israel while polling 35% at home.
• 4.The Epstein files were Tucker's first signal of Trump's betrayal. When Trump reacted hysterically to Epstein questions last summer — telling supporters on Truth Social to leave — Tucker saw it as evidence Trump was protecting the very corruption he was elected to expose.
• 5.Thomas Massie is the only Republican among 217 who has never taken money from the Israeli lobby. His principled opposition to all foreign aid, including to Israel — rooted in America's debt crisis — made him a unique and isolated voice in Congress.
• 6.Over $35 million was spent to defeat Massie in a Kentucky House primary, the most expensive in U.S. history. Pollster Rich Barris noted that a typical Republican primary in that district costs $500K to $2 million — making the spending 'insane' for a non-major media market.
• 7.AIPAC publicly bragged within minutes of Massie's loss that it had defeated him. Their tweet stated 'Pro-Israel Americans are proud to help defeat anti-Israeli candidates,' confirming what Tucker calls a demonstrable fact rather than a conspiracy theory.
• 8.CBS News asked Massie twice if he was an anti-Semite, ignoring his substantive answers. Massie responded that Miriam Adelson — whom even Trump called more loyal to Israel than the U.S. — was spending millions in his race, and that conflating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism harms Jewish Americans.
• 9.Mark Levin's critique of Massie was identical to CBS News's, calling his supporters 'radical jihadis.' Tucker argues this alignment of ostensibly far-right and liberal media exposes a unified pro-Israel establishment narrative that labels any dissent as anti-Semitism.
• 10.Massie's opponent Ed Gaulrn/Golrin won on mail-in ballots but had an almost empty victory party. Tucker notes the winner's only campaign pledge was reinstating the draft, and questions whether tens of millions in outside money bought something beyond legitimate democratic expression.
• 11.Tucker declares this the death of MAGA and the end of the Republican Party as conceived on inauguration day. He calls it a pyrrhic victory for the Israel lobby because it has now publicly confirmed — even in Israeli newspaper Haaretz — that a Kentucky primary was 'the most consequential Republican primary for Israel.'