Tuesday, May 12, 2026

So - there’s this guy named Brad Parscale who was Trump’s data guy. He’s the Cambridge Analytica guy who basically built the digital machine that got Trump elected the first time.
Well, he’s working for Israel now.
He apparently registered as a foreign agent back in September and his company Clocktower X signed a contract with Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs that’s sitting in a Department of Justice database right now for anyone who knows where to look.
The deal started at six million dollars and has already been bumped up to nine, which works out to about a million and a half a month flowing from a foreign government into the bank account of the guy who built Trump’s data operation.
And what’s he getting paid to do?
Convince Gen Z to love Israel.
That’s the actual job description in the contract. At least 80 percent of the content has to target people under 30 on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and podcasts, and the deal requires 50 million paid impressions a month, 100 original pieces of content a month, and 5,000 variations of those pieces.
But wait it gets better.
He’s also trying to game ChatGPT.
The contract literally says Clocktower X will build websites designed to “deliver GPT framing results on GPT conversations.” It took me a minute to figure out what that meant in English.
Basically he’s setting up a bunch of pro-Israel websites and pumping them full of content because he knows ChatGPT and Gemini and Claude pull from the open internet to answer your questions. Flood the internet with one side of a story and the AI starts repeating it back to you like it’s a fact. The disinformation people have a name for it - RAG poisoning.
And guess where he works during the day? Salem Media.
That’s the conservative Christian radio empire that owns Townhall and RedState and broadcasts Hugh Hewitt, Larry Elder, and Lara Trump. He’s the Chief Strategy Officer.
The literal executive in charge of strategy at the network. And the FARA filing says - in writing - that part of the Israel contract involves “integration of narrative messaging into Salem Media Network properties.”
So the guy taking money from Israel to push pro-Israel content is also the executive deciding what airs on a network that millions of conservative Christians tune into every day. Public Citizen and the Quincy Institute have already filed complaints with the DOJ about it because FARA requires foreign-funded content to be labeled, and Salem listeners have absolutely no idea that Lara Trump’s warm thoughts on Israel were paid for by Netanyahu’s foreign ministry.
Speaking of which, Netanyahu has straight up said the information war is a national priority for his government, and you can see why. Support for Israel among young Americans has fallen off a cliff since the Gaza war started, and a Gallup poll in July found only 9 percent of people 18 to 34 support what’s happening there. So Israel did what governments do when they’re losing a demographic - they bought one.
Through Havas, the European ad agency that handles the contract on Israel’s behalf, they’ve also paid a Christian outreach firm in San Diego $4 million to evangelize churches, hired a separate firm to recruit MAGA influencers for $900,000, and quietly built out an entire ecosystem of foreign-paid American mouths.
Parscale told the Washington Examiner this isn’t a foreign influence campaign and his exact quote was that the filings are public, everything is disclosed, and nothing is hidden.
Sure. The filings are public.
The Quincy Institute had to dig them out of the DOJ database and Sludge had to investigate to figure out what was even in them, but technically, yeah, public.
You just have to know they exist.

 

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