Massie gets into confrontation with Fox digital reporter

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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) confronted a Fox News digital reporter and asked him if he likes “gay porn” as part of a video he posted online over the weekend.

“So let me ask you, I heard that you like gay porn, is that true?” Massie asks the reporter in the video he posted on the social platform X.

“Congressman, I’m not … I just wanted to give you a chance to give your side of it, that’s all,” the reporter, Nicholas Ballasy, said.

As the reporter began to walk away, Massie, who was defeated in a primary earlier this year by a Trump-backed challenger, pressed him and followed him, saying, “I’m giving you a chance to give your side.”

“Are you a real news organization or not?” Massie continued. “No come back, man. All you got to say is you don’t like it, that you haven’t been to those websites.”

“Of course I don’t like it,” the reporter said. “But thank you.”

“Oh really?” Massie responded. “That’s not what I heard.”

Ballasy posted his own video of the confrontation online, showing him asking Massie about allegations from an ex-girlfriend that Massie offered her money and asked her to sign a nondisclosure agreement.

After Massie asked Ballasy what outlet he was with, the reporter told him Fox News Digital.

“It’s all false,” Massie said. “When did y’all become a tabloid? Seriously dude.”

Ballasy, in a subsequent post on X, wrote of the altercation: “Congressman Massie made up that question on the fly — it’s based on nothing and it’s pretty sick that was the first thing on his mind.”

“I was asking him about allegations about him made by an ex on the record and giving him a chance to respond,” the reporter said. “I deny the allegations he made up about me.”

Massie lost his primary race to a Trump-backed opponent earlier this year, after the president had sought to oust Massie from Congress.

The Republican has not ruled out a run for office again in 2028.

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