{"id":11890,"date":"2025-08-01T00:17:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T00:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/donors-to-trump-allies-anti-massie-super-pac-revealed\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T00:17:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T00:17:04","slug":"donors-to-trump-allies-anti-massie-super-pac-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/donors-to-trump-allies-anti-massie-super-pac-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Donors to Trump allies\u2019 anti-Massie super PAC revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>GOP megadonor Paul Singer was the largest donor to a super PAC seeking to oust Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) last month, according to a filing submitted to the Federal Election Commission on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The group, MAGA KY, raised $2 million between its launch in late June and the end of the month:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$1 million from Singer<\/li>\n<li>$250,000 from hedge fund manager John Paulson<\/li>\n<li>$750,000 from Preserve America PAC, a super PAC tied to Miriam Adelson that backed President Donald Trump last year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Trump allies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/06\/22\/trump-massie-congress-2026\" target=\"_blank\">launched the super PAC<\/a> last month after Massie voted against Trump\u2019s signature \u201cBig, Beautiful Bill.\u201d The Kentucky lawmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/06\/25\/kentucky-thomas-massie-primary-trump-00422377\" target=\"_blank\">has also criticized the president on a range of other issues<\/a> including war powers and the Epstein files. MAGA KY has spent $1.2 million so far on ads opposing Massie, according to AdImpact, as the group aims to take him out in next year\u2019s primary.<\/p>\n<p>Massie, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/07\/09\/thomas-massie-donald-trump-kentucky-libertarian-conservatism-00441983\" target=\"_blank\">who has staved off primary challengers before<\/a>, has raised just over $1 million this year, and he ended June with $1.7 million in the bank. It is not yet clear which Republican might be favored by Trump to challenge him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP megadonor Paul Singer was the largest donor to a super PAC seeking to oust Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) last month, according to a filing submitted to the Federal Election Commission on Thursday. The group, MAGA KY, raised $2 million between its launch in late June and the end of the month: $1 million from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}