Former Trump Campaign Manager Registers as Foreign Agent for Israel

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Brad Parscale, the former manager of President Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign, registered this month as a foreign agent for Israel as part of a new $6 million deal to create pro-Israel content targeting young Americans.

Parscale signed a Foreign Agents Registration Act form this month, informing the Department of Justice that he and his business Clock Tower X LLC were now representing Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs “to develop and execute a nationwide campaign in the United States to combat antisemitism.”

In another registration form, Parscale also disclosed his partnership with Germany’s HAVAS Media Network as part of the arrangement.

Asked whether the agency was “supervised by a foreign government, foreign political party, or other foreign principal,” Parscale ticked the box “Yes,” explaining that the agency was being “supervised” by the “State of Israel.”

According to the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, Israel has enlisted Parscale to create content “tailored to Gen Z audiences across platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, podcasts, and other relevant digital and broadcast outlets,” with a goal of reaching at least 50 million hits per month.

Parscale will also reportedly work to influence AI models such as ChatGPT.

Parscale served as the Trump campaign’s digital media director in 2016, before going on to become Trump’s campaign manager in 2020.

Following his September 2020 arrest and accusations of domestic violence, Parscale withdrew from the Trump campaign, and after the January 6, 2021 Capitol riots, Parscale told former Trump spokesperson Katrina Pierson he felt “guilty for helping him [Trump] win.”