EXCLUSIVE — Brad Parscale, President Donald Trump‘s 2020 campaign manager, rejected criticism raised by Vice President JD Vance, alleging that the Israeli government specifically asked him to orchestrate an American influence campaign to undermine diplomatic negotiations with Iran.Vance, who until recently had been leading the Trump administration’s peace talks with Iran, said on The Joe Rogan Experience that Parscale’s firm, Clock Tower X, had contracted with the Israeli government to operate a “very discreet, extremely well-funded campaign to try to derail the negotiation and try to derail the deal.”Vance claimed that influencers paid through that campaign had been attacking both him directly and the peace talks. He did not mention Parscale or Clock Tower by name but referenced a Time magazine article published Monday outlining the contract.
Parscale fully rejected Vance’s claims in a statement to the Washington Examiner.“Claims that I attacked the [peace deal] or the Administration are false,” he wrote Thursday morning. “I welcome professional journalists who examine the facts instead of drawing conclusions from speculation or manufactured connections. Everything I created and did is publicly disclosed through the FARA process. There isn’t a single shred of evidence that I acted against the Administration.”Parscale noted that his effort began three years ago, during the Biden administration, because he “saw a rise in Jewish hatred, not because of any government agenda.”“My goal has always been to strengthen relationships, not damage them,” he concluded.Vance’s office declined to comment.Clock Tower filed a Foreign Agents Registration Act statement with the Justice Department in September 2025, months before the Iran conflict began.The filings show that Clock Tower had contracted with Havas Media on Israel’s behalf to “provide strategic communications, planning, and media services in support of Havas’ engagement by the State of Israel to develop and execute a nationwide campaign in the United States to combat anti-Semitism.” The initial filings show that Clock Tower was receiving $1.5 million per month for its work.VANCE ACCUSES ISRAEL OF PAYING INFLUENCERS TO UNDERMINE IRAN CEASEFIRE TALKSRep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), a critic of both the Trump administration and the Israeli government, told the Washington Examiner that Vance was “complaining about” similar treatment, referencing coordinated efforts by pro-Israel groups to oust him this election cycle.“First of all, Israel is paying for influencers to go after anybody on policy or public messaging that threatens their welfare, their subsidies for their genocide and their war, and so I think JD Vance might be getting a taste of what I got, which is millions of dollars in an online influence campaign,” he told the Washington Examiner. “The difference is, I’m genuinely opposed to funding the genocide, and he’s just trying to put some daylight between himself and the bad policy of this administration so that he’ll be viable in 2028.”
