Rattled White House fears ex-aide took millions for op now working against Trump: report

Systemic Error Podcast · Aug 11, 2026 · 5m

Power Bought the Messenger, Then Pretended Not to NoticeA Time report says Brad Parscale, Trump’s former campaign manager, took a multimillion-dollar contract from the Israeli government through his firm, Clock Tower X, to run an online pro-Israel influence operation. According to the reporting, the effort ran into trouble as Trump moved to end the war with Iran, and both Trump officials and Israeli officials ended up furious at the result. That is the surface story. The real story is how proximity to presidential power gets monetized, then dressed up as “messaging” when it is plainly…