What Does Thomas Massie REALLY Think About AIPAC?

Everyone wants to know, so Tucker Carlson took the time to find out. I don’t like to just embed videos and say, Here, listen to this, or, Here, watch this. So here are two teaser transcripts of passages:

And, you know, it used to be just me voting against some of these resolutions, but recently where they tried to ban passages in the New Testament, I think we got like almost two dozen Republicans who said, ‘Wait, hold on. There is a question. No, there's a fundamental question.’

So the Biden administration has put a bunch of people in jail for violating something called FARA, the Foreign Agent Registration Act, 1936 ish. It's been on the books for, you know, 90 years. And it's never been enforced ever until recently, until really the Trump era and Biden era. So but the law requires people who lobby on behalf of foreign governments to register. Was that simple?

And this is the largest lobby in the United most effective lobby in United States on behalf of a foreign government. Are they registered with FARA? They are not, but they should be. Well, how can that how can that be? How can they put Paul Manafort in jail, which they did on a FARA violation and a bunch of other people in jail on FARA violations. But the largest and most effective and most feared foreign lobby working for a foreign government doesn't have to register under the law. That's insane.

Insane—or, part of a plan of some sort. We’d know if Massie answered some of the intriguing questions he raises.

Everybody but me has an AIPAC person. What's that mean? An AIPAC person? It's like your babysitter. You AIPAC babysitter who is always talking to you for AIPAC. They're probably a constituent in your district, but they are, you know, firmly embedded in AIPAC. And every member has something like this. Every. I don't know how it works on the Democrat side. But that's how it works on the Republican side. And when they and when they come to DC, you go have lunch with them and they've got your cell number and you have conversations with them. So I've had like four members of Congress say, I'll talk to my AIPAC person. And like that's clearly what we call them, my AIPAC guy. I'll talk to my AIPAC guy, see if I can get them to, you know, dial those ads back.

Tucker: Why have I never heard this before? [Tucker being cute.]

It doesn't benefit anybody. Why would they want to tell their constituents that they've basically got a buddy system with somebody who's representing a foreign country? It doesn't benefit the congressman for people to know that. So they're not going to tell you that that’s it.

Tucker: Have you seen any other country do anything like this, like Russia? Russia obviously determines the outcome of our elections.

We keep hearing that. Does anyone have a Putin guy that they talk to? Not only do they not have a Putin guy. Look. They don't don't have a Britain guy. They don't have an Australian guy. They, you know, they don't have a Germany dude. Like [Israel is] the only country that does this.

Other countries do do stuff like this, but they’re agents have to register as foreign agents—so that they can’t bribe our reps. Israel is the only exception. So they can bribe our reps. Unless I’m misunderstanding something.