MASSIE: “The bad thing about being that the nail that sticks up is it's a — the force of the whole swamp has come down on me. And it’s billionaires, it's not a grassroots-funded thing. It’s not like a bunch of MAGA, you know, activists have said, 'I'm gonna send $20 to this guy in Kentucky so he can beat Thomas Massie. It's predominantly three billionaires who are upset that I’ve never voted for foreign aid, particularly foreign aid to Israel. And they’re also upset that I vote against the wars. And so, these billionaires are funding a super PAC called MAGA Kentucky. They are not MAGA and they’ve never been to Kentucky. They're hedge fund managers and gambling magnates. There will be $6 million spent this week on TV and radio and mail, so I apologize to the folks here in Cincinnati who have to watch the ads about this race in Kentucky. But — and some people ask me, 'Well, surely, Congressman Massie, now you would be against Citizens United, which allows unlimited spending and super PACs.' And it’s a double-edged sword. Let me tell you why I’m not against it. There are reforms that I could go for. Let me give you a reform. Maybe what if you just said the only money you can spend in Kentucky and a race in Kentucky is from the people of Kentucky. I don’t believe that would hinder your First Amendment. But the issue of the super PACs, what’s happened is Fox News, which is sort of the — they've got a monopoly on the screens in a lot of Republican houses, particularly people between the ages of 65 and 75, for the last 18, months they’ve not invited me on a single show. And why are they doing that? Because they are afraid, if they give me a vineyard to speak, that the White House will shut them out, and they want access more than anything. They need access in this Trump presidency, whether it's with cabinet secretaries to come on their shows at the drop of a hat, or to get a special scoop on something. That’s what Fox wants. And so to keep that special access, they had blacklisted me. So I can’t get on TVs in the living rooms of the people that vote in this election unless I can buy TV ads. Otherwise, it'd be hard to get on Fox. You know, I have to pay to be on Fox now with my ads."

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