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How did Thomas Massie receive a donation in 2026 from Glenn Greenwald’s husband, who died in 2023?
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Trump advisor Alex Bruesewitz has been going after Laura Loomer for undisclosed paid posts. Now a day after Bruesewitz’s business partner accused him of having his own Qatari entanglements, Brues declares an end to the influencer wars. What a coincidence.
I just had a productive call with @LauraLoomer.
We agree on the need to strengthen disclosure rules for paid political content, especially content funded by foreign governments or interests. She made clear that she has never been paid by any foreign government, and I believe her.
We also discussed how the influencer ecosystem has drifted far from its independent roots and is now heavily shaped by special interests and lobbyists.
Paid political advocacy is currently the only major form of sponsored online content that does not require clear disclosure.
Promote a protein bar and you must label it as a paid partnership. Get paid to oppose the president’s tariffs or other policies, and no disclosure is required.
Both parties routinely work with influencers to advance candidates and causes, I have direct experience with this.
This is totally unregulated space. It’s time for the FTC to update its guidelines so paid political content is treated with the same transparency standards as commercial endorsements.
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"Candace Owens has influenced me above all each time she spoke I was stunned by her insights and her own views helped push me further and further into the belief of violence over the Jewish question" - Solomon Henderson, Nashville school shooter
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EXCLUSIVE:
🚨 Thomas Massie’s ex-girlfriend tells me one of the reasons why she decided to go public with her story is because he is taking money from Iranians and the Islamic lobby 🚨
Former Congressional staffer and @RepThomasMassie’s ex-girlfriend @Cyntaxed007 Cynthia West tells me Massie’s anti-Israel crusade is riddled with hypocrisy. West said Massie talked to her about his “Iranian connections” and that she became alarmed when she started looking at his donors and saw he was taking so much Islamic money from Iranians.
She told me,
“When you start looking at Joe Kiani,” West said, referring to the Iranian-born Democrat megadonor, “this is one of Thomas’s big donors.”
West said Massie appeared to be receiving money from “pro-Palestinian folks” while publicly attacking Israel.
“He’s at this fundraising event,” West said, “and it appears that he is receiving money from these pro-Palestinian folks, and then also tweeting while he’s there, saying, hey, we need to remove all aid and assistance to Israel.”
West raised an important question about Thomas Massie’s stance on Israel: “Are you a pay-to-play?” West likened Massie’s views on Israel to selling his soul.
West also called out the hypocrisy of Massie railing against pro-Israel influence while benefiting from donors and PAC money connected to Jewish and pro-Israel contributors. “You can’t be like, oh, I don’t want people getting money from AIPAC, while at the same time you’re taking money from the other side,” West said, referring to the Islamic lobby backing Massie with so much money.
Massie pretends to be some “America First” isolationist and lectures us about foreign interference while allegedly taking money from Muslim, communist anti-Israel Democrats. “You need to be principled,” West said.
But Thomas Massie isn’t principled. He’s a hypocrite and a liar.
Release the Massie Files!
@POTUS @SpeakerJohnson @GOPoversight
EXCLUSIVE:
🚨 Congressman Randy Fine @RepFine tells me he was approached by Cynthia West @Cyntaxed007 (Thomas Massie’s accuser) last year in Florida about Thomas Massie’s @RepThomasMassie alleged financial ties to Iran. 🚨
Rep. Randy Fine revealed to me that he met Thomas Massie’s ex-girlfriend, Cynthia West at a GOP event called the Florida Freedom Forum on August 2, 2025.
In an exclusive statement to @LoomerUnleashed, Fine said, “Cynthia West came up to me and told me that Massie is a total sexual creep, weirdo, and he had put her in a difficult personal situation. She told me he asked her to do things in their relationship that she felt were not appropriate. She said Massie also has direct ties to Iran. We stayed in touch.”
Additionally, Fine said Ms. West told him Massie asked her to engage in personal and sexual behaviors she felt were inappropriate, claimed emotional abuse during their relationship, and expressed concerns over the Iranian ties, which she believes are financial from what she saw and heard during the time they were dating.
Rep. Fine told @LoomerUnleashed,
“I am particularly troubled by the allegation that Thomas Massie used his power to get his then girlfriend a taxpayer funded position position in Rep. Victoria Spartz’s @RepSpartz office shortly after they began dating in late 2024, only to have her fired shortly after in what West described as retaliation after her breakup with Massie when she no longer wanted to entertain his creepy sexual demands.”
Separately, Fine noted that in May 2025, Iranian-born billionaire Joe Kiani @JoeKiani, an Iranian born donor and the founder of medical technology giant Masimo Corporation and Willow Laboratories, allegedly hosted a fundraiser for Massie that raised $100,000, during which Massie reportedly bashed Israel while the event was underway. Joe Kiani is an Iranian born Democrat mega donor. In 2021, he was appointed by Joe Biden to serve on the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), a move that was widely viewed as an alleged pay for play position by House Oversight Republicans.
Source: oversight.house.gov/release/…
Kiani has reportedly donated millions of dollars to Democrat causes and candidates, including $1 million to the Biden Foundation in 2017, $750,000 to the pro-Biden super PAC Unite the Country, and $1 million to the Biden Inaugural Committee. In addition to receiving an appointment to PCAST, Mr. Kiani’s company Masimo received over $3 million in federal government contracts under Biden’s regime.
Source: nypost.com/2024/05/17/us-new…
Read the full letter from the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform here:
oversight.house.gov/wp-conte…
In August 2024, Joe Biden vacationed at Kiani’s $37 million ranch in California.
Source: nypost.com/2024/08/20/us-new…
I have obtained this photo of Massie and Cynthia West from the time they were dating, proving she isn’t lying about their romantic relationship, which began roughly two months after Massie’s wife of 30 years died. Cynthia tells me Massie dated at least one other woman before her, just a couple weeks after his wife mysteriously died.
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp:
"If you're anti-war, in my humble opinion, looking at any part of history, you have to have a strong military.
So the idea that you're going to weaken the military and have more peace is a fantasy of people who are half idiots or actually who want war."
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In 1997, Alexander Dugin wrote out the plan: inflame every ethnic, social and racial conflict in America and back isolationism on the right. Read it yourself, then look at who's pushing it today. #Russia #Dugin #InformationWarfare
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This is correct and one of the reasons I'm so pushed why this is coming out now. This has been known for some time so NYT/FT good for you but this was literally the opposite of breaking news scoop....so why now?
Jensen/Alice Huang update
An anonymous Taiwanese semiconductor industry insider, who previously held a general manager-level management position, told BBC Chinese that this matter was already reported in Taiwanese media in 2024, and people in the industry had long heard about it. "With Jensen Huang's fame, it is very difficult to hide from the media and public view," he said.
He believes that Huang Le's main task was not to steal Nvidia secrets, but to use his relationship with Jensen Huang to urge him to exert influence to loosen Nvidia's chip export restrictions to China.
This industry insider believes that Jensen Huang's moral flaws have a significant impact on Nvidia. In the past, Huang made almost all major company decisions alone, with a flat management structure, direct and highly efficient decision-making, and outstanding performance. But after this incident, his leadership credibility has been damaged, and he may no longer be able to have the final say as before. The company's internal momentum may decline.
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Tucker Carlson: Original one to push Vivek Ramaswamy as a politician.
Also Tucker: "They pushed Vivek Ramaswamy on you like you're idiots."
Watch what a PHONY Tucker Carlson is. Now complaining that the GOP forced Vivek Ramaswamy on voters: “How about no!” Conveniently LEAVING OUT...
That Tucker himself spent YEARS promoting and praising Vivek, including during Vivek's run for president.
Vivek even launched his presidential campaign on Tucker’s Fox News show!
Tucker previously called Vivek a “leader,” “worth listening to,” and someone who had “flowered as a political figure.” When you talk to him, "you realize there's hope."
ROLL THE TAPE.
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Ahmed Moor was a journalist in Lebanon for a publication called "The Electronic Intifada" and then worked in financial services in Jordan, i'm sure his concern is really working class Pennsylvanians.
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A lot of you need a American Middle East Policy primer (the countries America protected that Trump is claiming will pay are the Gulf States)
So here goes:
Q1: IF THERE WAS NO ISRAEL, WOULD US POLICY IN MIDDLE EAST BE DIFFERENT?
The answer may surprise you:
No. It wouldn’t really.
Q2: WHAT IS OUR PRIMARY POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST?
Protecting the independence of the Gulf Oil Kingdoms
Q3: WHY PROTECT THEM?
1. Our economy is very sensitive to price of oil. Gulf Kingdoms are reasonably reliable trading partners
2. In exchange for our protection, Gulf Oil Kingdoms settle their oil trades in dollars. This strengthens the dollar and makes things more affordable to ordinary Americans (it’s a large part of why we aren’t europoor)
Q4: PROTECT THEM AGAINST WHO?
They face a number of enemies who would like to seize their wealth
1. For most of Cold War period, Arab Nationalists saw Gulf oil wealth as the patrimony of Arab people wanted to seize it. Saddam, who invaded Kuwait, was the last of these nationalists. We ended the threat of Arab Nationalism during the Gulf War (which as everyone knows we fought for israel /s)
2. Muslim Brotherhood / “radical” Islamists see gulf oil wealth as rightfully belonging to their aspired Caliph / fueling their renewed global Jihad. Overthrowing the Saudis was Bin Laden’s primary objective. Currently Qatar is primary manifestation that threatens rest of gulf. Trump 45 tried to address, failed and the family (Jared and Jr) seem mostly bought off for now.
3. Iranian Regime which has been threatening / proxy fighting and of late directly bombing Gulf States far more than it has Israel. Trump has been pretty clear in his postings that Gulf has had strong influence on his decisions throughout current war.
4. (Emerging) Turkey is evincing colonial ambitions which may ultimately reach the gulf.
Q5: WOULD ORDINARY AMERICANS BE BETTER OFF IF WE SHIFTED POLICY
Tom Barrack for example seems to be arguing we should support Turkey’s imperial ambitions
Barack Obama, Shadi Hamid and Abdulrahman (D - MI) all think we should support the Muslim Brotherhoods
Those options might bring a degree of stability (should they entirely succeed in their ambitions) but no Caliphate would be our friend and it would hold dangerous leverage over us
Q6: HOW DOES ISRAEL FIT INTO THIS?
Israel has a de facto alliance with the Gulf States (made more formal in Abraham Accords) & is a useful source of regional intelligence and increasingly a force multiplier
It’s also been a useful prop for our policy — “supporting israel” has historically been more politically popular than “supporting Saudi Arabia” or anti-Muslim Brotherhood regime in Egypt. The ultimate aim of many of the folks trying to divide US and Israel is to weaken our protection of the Gulf States
On the other hand, we don’t really want Israel to go too far in a way that empowers extremists Islamic narratives (it’s why the bushes eg made it sit out the Gulf Wars)
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Anyways id like to hope this will help a bit but most of you are too dense and not really America First to begin with
🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 Trump tells 60 Minutes that Israel will pay U.S. back for the Iran war:
“[The Iran War] was not very expensive, and at the end of this whole thing, those countries that we’ve protected are going to pay us back any and all costs that we had for the war.
Because without us, they wouldn’t exist. Without us, Israel wouldn’t exist.”
America has been giving Israel free money for years… getting refunded is a pipe dream of epic proportions!
As far as the other countries that host U.S. bases, the only reason they were threatened in the first place is because the U.S. and Israel were launching a war from their respective countries.
Writer: Jamie
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When stories like Jensen's Huang break, for every Jensen there are multiple think tanks and people trying to influence discussion the exact same way taking the exact same money. I won't mention the individuals, think tanks or universities by name but they deserve the same scrutiny
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🚨 JUST IN: Katie Miller just QUIT her job at SpaceX and SOLD her shares so her husband, new White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, can work on AI, space, and more without restrictions — The Atlantic
PATRIOT. Public service! 🇺🇸
The White House says Stephen is no longer recused from AI, space, and Paramount issues. Katie also exited her Paramount contract over the weekend
Stephen had stepped back from those issues because of Katie's work and stock tied to Elon Musk's xAI, which merged into SpaceX
Now there's nothing left for the media to complain about! Other than how EFFECTIVE Stephen is 😅
Katie gave up a big payday so Stephen can go all in on President Trump's agenda.
THAT is a power couple putting America First 🇺🇸
@KatieMiller @StephenM
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The (totally 100% made up) allegations about data centers and water, like the Epstein stuff, are a profound blackpill.
The American populace really is turning into 19th century Russian peasants. I assume it's a combination of demographic change, pot, and brain-melting algorithms.
It's not just the stupidity, it's the defensive crouch against anything, the resentment, the incuriosity, the easy anger and venom... Real "moral basis of a backward society" vibes.
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It appears that the @washingtonpost hit piece on me this week was just a big attempt to distract from other stories.
This story just came out in the @nytimes.
In a lawsuit filed on Monday, Alex Bruesewitz’s @alexbruesewitz former business partner of 9 years accused him of being paid approximately $500,000 by “individuals associated with Qatar” for what he described as “an undisclosed business or consulting arrangement.”
The suit claims that any payments to Alex Bruesewitz could have possibly violated federal law.
Very interesting. I wonder how this will play out.
nytimes.com/2026/11/09/busin…
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For example, if two Qatari billionaire brothers accused of funding millions to Al-Qaeda and ISIS allegedly sponsor your honeymoon at the “Waldorf Astoria Maldives Ithaafushi, a luxury resort developed by a company controlled by the Al-Khayyat family and constructed by their Qatar-based construction business, UCC Holding…” Alex Bruesewitz seemingly has no problem with that.
If an “influencer” wants to take a sponsored trip to another country, I have no problem with that. Want to promote how great the food is there or how beautiful a foreign city skyline is? Amazing. You do you.
But if you take that same sponsored trip and then use your platform to push for America to send more arms or weapons to a foreign country or to remove tariffs on that nation, that shouldn’t be allowed.
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The Founders required seven years of citizenship to serve in the House and nine to serve in the Senate. They feared foreign loyalties inside Congress and wrote that fear into the Constitution. Today we elect foreigners who openly despise this country, and pledge to use their seats to weaken it. Our Founders warned us.
As I explained on CNN, voters sent a clear message this Election Day: they no longer want our government subsidizing Israel’s wars and genocide.
Even President Trump is responding to this growing demand. But simply talking about cutting the $3.8 billion in annual U.S. aid to Israel isn't enough. This is a moral imperative, not just a question of fiscal savings.
We must end U.S. imperialism and our government’s complicity in atrocities around the world, and redirect those resources toward meeting the needs of our communities. Our tax dollars should be used to improve lives, not destroy them.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio @SecRubio has made the correct decision in ordering Lebanon’s consul general in Detroit, Ibrahim Charara, to leave the U.S. immediately for his posts praising the 1983 Hezbollah bombing of U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 241 Americans.
We do not tolerate terrorists or their sympathizers as diplomats to the United States.
This disgusting rhetoric should be condemned by the Lebanese government.
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This was a brilliant appearance from Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
On The View, Sanders CLAPPED BACK after Ana Navarro tried to twist her words on immigration:
“No. You're not going to twist my words around.”
Moments later, Sanders brought up Jennifer Ann Morton, a pediatric nurse in her state who was killed by an illegal alien from Honduras.
Sanders made sure the panel, the audience, and ABC’s executives heard every word.
SANDERS: “I can tell you the story...everybody likes to talk about and use examples and there was a woman, Jennifer Ann Morton, she is a pediatric nurse in my state.”
“She should be alive today, if it had not been for an illegal immigrant that killed her on her way to work because they were driving drunk.”
“That shouldn't have happened.”
“That person was deported during Trump one, came back under the Biden administration, and now she is no longer living in my state, taking care of some of the most vulnerable children in our state.”
“That shouldn't happen.”
The cast of The View loves preach about humanity and morality...but Sanders just put a face to the consequences of the immigration system they support.
Well played.