‘Go to Hell’: JD Vance Rages At Israeli ‘Influencer Campaign’ Trying to Tie Him to Tucker Carlson

Vice President JD Vance fumed to Joe Rogan in a Wednesday interview about a report that a former Trump campaign manager is working on behalf of Israel to wage an online influence campaign against his Iran negotiations.

“But 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 told Rogan.

On Tuesday, Time magazine reported that Brad Parscale, who briefly ran Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign, and his company Clock Tower X are being paid by Israel to conduct an influence campaign, according to US Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) filings.

“And those people are attacking me viciously for quite literally trying to accomplish the negotiation objective that the president set for the country,” Vance added.

“So what is their position? They’re attacking you. How?” Rogan pressed.

“Oh, 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,” Vance claimed, adding:

And coming after me, saying that, you know, people have come after me and said that I’m influenced by Qatar, that I am influenced by foreign governments, that I take my marching orders from Tucker Carlson — there’s just so much bullshit out there, when what I’m actually trying to do is accomplish what the President of the United States told me to accomplish, which is a settlement of this that accomplishes our objectives: Iran doesn’t have a nuclear weapon, and we have the free flow of oil and gas.

And I should be clear — and, you know, I don’t actually mind that certain elements of the Israeli government want to criticize the deal or have disagreements about the deal. I don’t even mind an effort to try to influence — you know, foreign governments try to influence the United States all the time. Israel does it, other countries do it — it’s just sort of the nature of the beast. What bothers me is actually when Americans — meaning American leadership — allow that influence to affect their judgment and to affect what they are advocating for. That’s what really bothers me.

People are always going to try to influence the United States of America, whether they’re allies of ours or whether they are enemies of ours.

But again, when I open up the pages of Time magazine and I see that there’s a literal foreign influence campaign being funded to tank the very deal that I was pursuing — and, oh, by the way, many of the people who were receiving that money were actually attacking me in completely dishonest ways — my response to that is: well, go to hell. I’m going to do what I have to do for the American people. I represent Americans first.

Watch the clip above.

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