Massie Rakes In Cash Despite Trump Wrath

Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie announced that his campaign raked in over six figures over the past week despite President Donald Trump vowing to back a primary challenge against him.

After facing repeated public criticism from Trump, Massie’s campaign reported Thursday that it raised $177,394 on X — a figure that the campaign said had increased to over $230,000 by Friday. After recently bucking party leadership on Trump’s Iran strike and the president’ sweeping budget bill, Massie has faced immense criticism from the president, but these attacks have only seemed to have mobilized donors who view him as an outsider standing up to pressure.

“Will lobbyists for a FOREIGN country be able to buy a seat in Congress? That’s the question in my re-election. 1,900 of you donated $177,394 this week to make sure I can hold this office to represent American interests, not foreign interests,” the Massie campaign wrote on Thursday.

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is also trying to defeat the congressman. In an exclusive interview with the Daily Caller, Massie alleged that AIPAC is seeking to suppress dissent in Congress by maintaining leverage over lawmakers through the threat of primary challengers should they stray away from a strong pro-Israel stance.

The congressman told Fox News Digital that “the biggest impact of Trump getting involved on the other side of a race is usually diminished fund raising” but that in his case “we’re seeing the opposite effect.”

He also claimed that the people donating to him strongly believe lawmakers should vote in the interest of voters rather than being “a rubber stamp for the President or beholden to foreign interest groups like AIPAC.”

Massie was also one of two Republicans to