{"id":235994,"date":"2024-06-30T07:20:49","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T11:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=235994"},"modified":"2024-06-30T07:21:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T11:21:07","slug":"rep-thomas-massie-tells-tucker-carlson-every-gop-member-of-congress-has-an-aipac-babysitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=235994","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Rep. Thomas Massie tells Tucker Carlson every GOP member of Congress has an \u2018AIPAC babysitter\u2019<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Deep-State-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-235995\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Deep-State-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Deep-State-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Deep-State-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Deep-State.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>News Editors<br \/>\nNaturalNews.com<\/p>\n<p>Kentucky Rep Thomas Massie (R) revealed to Tucker Carlson in an interview released Friday that every GOP congressman has an &#8220;AIPAC babysitter&#8221; who guides them on how to vote in the interests of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>(Article by Chris Manahan republished from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.informationliberation.com\/?id=64483\">InformationLiberation.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Congressman Thomas Massie reveals to Tucker Carlson that his Republican colleagues have an \u201cAIPAC babysitter\u201d to ensure they vote in the interests of Israel at all times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the only country that does this,\u201d Massie adds.<\/p>\n<p>Follow:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AFpost<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zNOA35t32u\">pic.twitter.com\/zNOA35t32u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AF Post (@AFpost)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFpost\/status\/1799160371615506812?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody but me has an AIPAC person &#8212; like your AIPAC babysitter, who is always talking to you for AIPAC,&#8221; Massie said. &#8220;They&#8217;re probably a constituent from your district but they&#8217;re firmly embedded in AIPAC.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every member has something like this?&#8221; Tucker Carlson asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every Repub&#8211;, I don&#8217;t know how it works on the Democrat side, but that&#8217;s how it works on the Republican side, and when you come to DC you go have lunch with them and they&#8217;ve got your cell number and you have conversations with them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s crazy,&#8221; Carlson responded.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, I&#8217;ve had four members of Congress say, &#8216;I&#8217;ll talk to my AIPAC person&#8217; &#8212; that&#8217;s literally what we call them, &#8216;my AIPAC guy,'&#8221; Massie said, laughing. &#8220;&#8216;I&#8217;ll talk to my AIPAC guy and see if I can get them to, you know, dial those ads back.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why have I never heard this before?&#8221; Carlson said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t benefit anybody,&#8221; Massie said, &#8220;why would they want to tell their constituents that they&#8217;ve basically got a buddy system with somebody who is representing a foreign country, it doesn&#8217;t benefit the congressmen for people to know that so they&#8217;re not going to tell you that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Massie told Carlson no other country does this: &#8220;Not only do they not have a Putin guy, they don&#8217;t have a Britain guy, they don&#8217;t have an Australian guy, they don&#8217;t have a Germany dude, it&#8217;s the only country that does this!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Carlson for some reason feigned ignorance about all this and went on a tangent about how much he loves the country of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full interview below (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=omBSEuFTYEo\">or on YouTube<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Rep. Thomas Massie doesn\u2019t care what you think of him, which is pretty great.<\/p>\n<p>(3:19) Where Does US Debt End?<\/p>\n<p>(10:32) Why Massie Voted 15 Times Against Funding Israel<\/p>\n<p>(14:53) AIPAC<\/p>\n<p>(34:04) Mitch McConnell<\/p>\n<p>(42:25) Area 51<\/p>\n<p>(50:32) Massie&#8217;s Relationship with Trump<\/p>\n<p>(57:09) Kill\u2026\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VBOiWjq056\">pic.twitter.com\/VBOiWjq056<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TuckerCarlson\/status\/1799124990643626065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Though Massie said he doesn&#8217;t know if the situation is the same for Democrats, the late Democratic Congressman James Traficant of Ohio said similar in 2009 during an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I served in Congress for 17 years,&#8221; Traficant said, &#8220;I&#8217;ve seen members question bills and votes on &#8212; &#8216;How does Israel feel about this?&#8217; &#8212; I must have heard that every time there was a significant vote!&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"Video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2xMzb-SvWcE?si=sx0Iijyvx_15ci_Q\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;To suggest as you&#8217;re doing here tonight that they control our Congress that quote, &#8216;They are influencing and the sole control of influencing of our domestic policy,&#8217; is an absurdity, it sounds like you are a kook!&#8221; Hannity protested.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sean, I&#8217;m not suggesting it &#8212; I&#8217;m telling it,&#8221; Traficant responded.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.informationliberation.com\/?id=64483\">InformationLiberation.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/2024-06-10-gop-members-of-congress-have-aipac-babysitter.html\">https:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/2024-06-10-gop-members-of-congress-have-aipac-babysitter.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}