As mass protests rock Israel against the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his plan to overhaul Israel’s judiciary, we turn now to look at how Netanyahu secretly tried to help Donald Trump win the 2016 election. That’s the focus of a new cover story in The Nation headlined “The Candidate and the Spy.” Longtime, award-winning investigative journalist James Bamford reveals Netanyahu dispatched a secret Israeli agent to the United States in the spring of 2016 to meet with advisers to Trump and offer to share secret intelligence with the campaign against Hillary Clinton.
The story is based in part on a series of text messages sent by the Israeli secret agent to Trump adviser Roger Stone. In one message, from August 12th, 2016, the agent wrote, quote, “Roger, hello from Jerusalem. Any progress? He is going to be defeated unless we intervene. We have critical intel. The key is in your hands!” the text read. Later, the agent wrote, quote, “October Surprise [is] coming!”
James Bamford writes, quote, “While the American media and political system fixated on Russian President Vladimir Putin and his armies of cyber warriors, trolls, and bots, what was completely missed in the Russiagate investigation of 2016 was the Israeli connection. No
— source democracynow.org | Mar 24, 2023