Fox Reporter Asks Karoline Leavitt If Trump Agrees With JD Vance’s Criticism of Israeli Influence Operation

Fox News’ Aishah Hasnie asked White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt whether President Donald Trump backs his vice president’s condemnation of an Israeli “influence operation” targeting MAGA.

Leavitt held her first White House press briefing since returning from maternity leave and she was quickly hit with a question about Vice President JD Vance’s three hour interview with Joe Rogan, which dropped the day prior.

“On Iran, the vice president, JD Vance, went on this podcast with Joe Rogan yesterday, talked about Israel, in which he said that there are some people within their system that we know beyond a shadow of a doubt who are manipulating and trying to change American public opinion to keep the war going on indefinitely. Does the President agree with that statement?” Hasnie asked Leavitt.

“I think the President would certainly agree that yes, foreign countries certainly do try to persuade American public opinion. There’s no doubt about that. I think it’s just a basic fact,” Leavitt said.

Vance discussed this “influence operation” on Rogan’s podcast where he referenced a Time report about Brad Parscale, who briefly ran Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign, and his company Clock Tower X being paid by Israel to conduct an influence campaign on social media.

“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. And there was, 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,” Vance said.

The vice president claimed the goal is to undermine peace negotiations with Iran.

“It’s social media posts. It’s, you know, they’re leaking to reporters. They are attacking, obsessively saying that we should not be negotiating with Iran, that we should just keep the military campaign going indefinitely. And that is their explicit position,” he said.

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