How Israel is Buying Influence in America

The vice president went on with Joe Rogan this week, and he called attention to this, and here's him doing that in part in SOT 6. I definitely think you have seen this very discreet, extremely well-funded campaign to try to derail the negotiation and try to derail the deal. Again, there's this Time article that came out yesterday. A friend sent it to me. It's worth reading because it lists a bunch of people who have quite literally been paid by a former Trump campaign person, who was himself paid by certain elements within the Israeli government. Those people are attacking me viciously for quite literally trying to accomplish the negotiation objective that the president set for the country. What is their position? Are they attacking you? How? It's social media posts. They're leaking to reporters. They're attacking me obsessively saying that we should not be negotiating with Iran. We should just keep the military campaign going indefinitely. That is their explicit position. This is a reference to this Time magazine piece, which focuses in on Brad Parscale. Brad Parscale was in part responsible for getting Trump elected in 2016. He worked for Ivanka. He was promoting her through social media, her brands and things like that. Then he got drafted over, if memory serves, into working for the Trump campaign. He was selling merch. I interviewed him a few times while at Fox. He talked about how he noticed on the merch sales that Trump was really trending in certain areas that they didn't expect to see as the Trump campaign. They would then redirect their efforts or send the candidate himself to these towns where he would gin up unexpected support in swing states or get the voting couch potatoes off the couch. They could tell that they were motivated. They were buying Trump merch and so on for the first time. Sure enough, Trump won. He had a hand in that, no question. He knows what he's doing when it comes to social media manipulation. Then came 2020. He was helping the Trump campaign then. It was going less well. Ultimately, he got fired from the campaign in 2020. Then he had a personal crisis that made the news. Brad Parscale has a bit of an unfortunate history. You're probably even too young to remember this, Alex, because you're very young. The police were called to Brad's home down in Florida. There's videotape of it. His wife accused him of beating her. She would later recant the allegations, but the police were called to the scene and would report on the bruises that they found on his wife. I'll just read it to you. This is a political article from September of 2020. Father Timothy Skaggs reported seeing bruises on Candace Parscale's arms, which she said had occurred a few days ago during a physical altercation with her husband. Stephen Smith, a SWAT team member who responded to the residents, said in his report that when I asked how she received the bruising, Candace Parscale stated Brad Parscale hits her. When asked if he made the markings today, she said no, that it had happened a couple of days ago. But she said today he did forcibly smack her phone out of her hand when she was attempting to call Brad Parscale's father. They report that he lost his job as Trump's campaign manager in July amid questions about his leadership and the failed optics of one of Trump's campaign rallies. They reported to the House in the midst of this because he was having a mental health issue and was threatening suicide, reportedly. He was ranting. He was pacing, according to Candace. She heard what she thought was a gunshot. She was afraid he had shot himself. She later concluded he had not because she continued to hear him ranting and pacing through the house. They showed up. They found him wearing only a pair of shorts wearing and holding what appeared to be a beer being thrown to the ground by police after he agreed to come outside with a gun. There's videotape of part of this. Here it is. Came back out of his office, like, caught his handgun and went back inside. And so then I saw him. I saw him, like, open the blinds in the front yard and he closed them. And then I heard what I thought was a gunshot. To the ground, man. I didn't do anything. I didn't do anything. I didn't do anything. I didn't do anything. So he was, according to the wife, talking about shooting himself, that he drinks and suffers from some sort of PTSD. He was committed to a hospital after under Florida's after this. And so I feel for Brad Parscale. He's had he's had some troubles. And I understand that a lot of a lot of people have troubles. These are pretty extraordinary ones. Again, to reiterate, the Candace took back her allegations of abuse, notwithstanding what the police reported after speaking with her on site. So Brad Parscale and I always got along. He went on to become a senior executive at Salem Media, which is the company that produces, I think, Hugh Hewitt's podcast. What else do they do, Alex? Oh, Scott Jennings, right? His show. Town Hall with Katie Pavlich. They own that publication, I believe. Red State. So big in conservative media. And amazingly, like stunningly to me, I have to say, this is the same guy who now has taken 45 million dollars a year from Israel in order to peddle the Israeli interests into American politics. And if those conflict with the agenda of his former boss, Donald Trump, so be it. Yes. So I want to remark quickly on the incident that took place in 2020. I don't want to get in the mud or make certain personal remarks around him. I believe he went through some personal traumatic experiences during that time. And so the claims of PTSD, I do believe he tragically lost his two children shortly after they were born. And so I can only imagine how difficult that was. And I don't want to excuse any of the behavior that he's been accused of. But I also do want to highlight that I genuinely believe he's become a Christian. He stopped drinking. And as a Christian, I do not hold his past allegations and accusations against him. However. Nor do I, Alex. And I've been defensive of Brad Parscale for 10 years. However, it is a piece of his story and it's relevant because he's had some serious troubles. And to work on behalf of a foreign country is potentially a reckless move. And I think we're seeing the results of that right now in our in our politics. I really do. I think Brad Parscale, in my opinion, is now working to divide Americans from one another when he should be working to unite us, as opposed to helping get the president elected and pursue his agenda the way he did in 2016 and tried to in 2020. He now is appears to be undermining the president's agenda with this influence campaign if it if it doesn't dovetail with what Israel wants. And we are divided from Israel right now. At the moment, we're picking this war back up with Iran. But Israel's been all over President Trump for the past month as he tries to put this war to bed. So in the same way that Brad Parscale and his influencer campaign wouldn't hesitate to try to destroy you or me or anyone who speaks up against Israel, we're going to get really clear on Brad Parscale's issues to unabashedly and unafraid. For the first time since World War Two, our national debt has exceeded the gross domestic product. America's reckless government spending keeps catching up with us. Higher inflation, higher prices, higher cost of living expenses and higher interest payments on the national debt. Every dollar Washington spends on interest is a dollar it has to tax, borrow or print. Smart retirement planners prepare for potential setbacks, and they can do that by diversifying with a time tested asset known for weathering the storm. Consider Physical Gold from Birch Gold Group. 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The Wall Street Journal the next day said it's been actually closer to 45 million dollars that he's been paid, which makes it the largest contract for one entity in FARA history. And I've been pretty critical of this contract. I have been probably for the past month because I have a lot of questions around it. If you read the initial draft contract on FARA's website between his firm Clocktower X and an organization out of Germany called Havas Media Group, it showcases a set of deliverables. And some of those deliverables include language that is reminiscent of the language that he puts in contracts for his influencer marketing campaigns, including the guaranteed of 50 million impressions, thousands and thousands of pieces of content being delivered each month. And I had a lot of questions and concerns around another part of language in there that said he's going to integrate narrative messaging into Salem media properties. And so I've been raising awareness about this. I was on Tucker Carlson's podcast, which I had a unique response from certain people online. And and I've been raising awareness about this. I've been asking Brad, can you please provide some transparency around what you're actually doing with this money? And Brad has denied that he's been paid to undermine the administration's efforts on social media, specifically related to opposing the MOU. And he's denied it in the Time article. He denied it on social media. And actually, last night he called me. I think he learned that I was coming on your program and he called me. And again, he denied it to me. We ended up speaking for a substantial period of time and we discussed kind of the ins and outs of the contract. He said that the he after submitting that initial contract to the nation of Israel, he learned that he actually couldn't deliver those services. He said that he can't legally integrate messaging into Salem properties. He said if he were to pay influencers through this hot through this hobbyist media group contract, he would need to disclose every single payment made. And he said that through this particular contract with the nation of Israel, he has not paid influencers. So I said, well, Brad, can you understand why people would have questions related to your draft contract? Because there's no other contract out. And he obviously understanding of where I was coming from. And I said, Brad, can you please explain to me the services that you're providing? And he said, we are simply only doing SMS text messaging. And so there's there's certain texts that are going out to Americans on behalf of Israel where they are, they were supposed to be combating anti-Semitism. But and I pushed back on Brad on that. I said, Brad, well, I received a text a couple of days ago from your entity that was basically trying to coach Americans into supporting more of a prolonged conflict. So how can how can you say that only your texts are your texts are only going to combat anti-Semitism? And we had a back and forth discussion for about an hour. He holds the position that he does not pay influencers through this contract. So the Time magazine piece is totally wrong. So he should sue them. I'm not saying that the Time magazine piece is totally wrong because the Time magazine piece. No, no, no. If he's right, then the Time magazine piece is wrong. It doesn't actually. It also highlights that Brad has been paid by and firms of his have been paid by pro-Israel pro-Israel groups and pro-Israel influencers have been paid for pro-Israel content through Brad's firms, just not necessarily through this contract. And so Brad can't. So this is what we call splitting hairs. So I understand why people are confused. I'm also confused by this. There was one influencer in particular who was identified in the Time magazine piece. His name's Eyal Yacobi. And he was identified as one of the influencers who has been compensated by Brad's firm in the past for promoting Israel related issues, according to the Time magazine piece. And so I think there's a lot of transparency questions and concerns that are still lingering. And just because I had a conversation with Brad last night doesn't mean I'm going to pull off of this. I'm very well aware that there is a heavily funded coordinated effort online to undermine efforts in the administration. This heavily funded coordinated effort, I've also been tracking for over a year because it's been used to attack voices on social media who were critical of the war. And I think that you are a target of this. Absolutely. I think Tucker was a target of this. Absolutely. And to be honest, I have strongly disagreed with a lot of the things that you have said and that Tucker has said. But I also don't think it's right to have these heavily funded, manipulated campaigns trying to discredit you or attack you on a regular basis. And so that's why I didn't speak out about it for the first year. And I'm sorry about that. But again, I disagree with a lot of what you've said. But I spoke out about it about a month ago after the vice president appeared on your program. And when the vice president came on your program, all of these influencers who I've been tracking as part of this coordinated effort all pushed the same talking points. How, oh, the vice president's great, but you can't talk to Meghan. This is a major mistake, dah, dah, dah, dah. And he kept talking over and over again. And then shortly after that, all of these same influencers started attacking the president's MOU. And so I asked Brad about that. And Brad agreed with me, and he's an expert on this, that what we're witnessing is not organic. He just says that he is not funding it through his contract with Israel. And he admitted that he's paid folks like Yael Yacobi. But he said that they haven't been paid for some time. So we're still deeply investigating this. There's certainly money that's floating around. And these influencers who are being compensated, I believe they're violating many CFTC laws by not being transparent around their compensation. But join the community by becoming a subscriber. We really, really value your input and your support. We may not always agree, but we are always going to talk about it and respect it. No BS, no agenda, no fear.