Thomas Massie spotted strumming a banjo with self-proclaimed antisemite: report

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) posted a video of himself playing the banjo with some other musicians to his campaign account on Monday, ahead of a primary in which he is fighting for his political life.

"Pickin and grinnin!" said the post.

The Right Wing Watch social media account flagged the identity of the figure Massie was playing with.

"The guitar player on the far-left in the white shirt is self-proclaimed antisemite David Reilly, who said last year that one thing he likes about Boise, Idaho is 'there aren't any Black people here,'" said the account.

Reilly, who participated in the infamous 2017 "Unite the Right" neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, was also a GOP-endorsed school board candidate in Post Falls, Idaho, in 2021.

Massie, a libertarian-leaning Republican lawmaker who helped spearhead the movement to release the Jeffrey Epstein case files, has a history of butting heads with President Donald Trump on key issues, enraging the president to the point he has endorsed his primary opponent, former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein, who ironically has his own history of opposing Trump in his early years.

The primary has turned ugly, with virulent attack ads that veer into lewd satire and antisemitism.