The Unseen Israeli Election Fix in 2016
The Unseen Israeli Election Fix in 2016 While the media chased shadows in Moscow, Israeli agents operated in plain sight at Trump Tower. José Alberto Niño For years, American media fixated relentlessly on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, yet FBI documents reveal a parallel story of Israeli contacts with the Trump campaign that received virtually no scrutiny despite evidence of attempted foreign intervention. This operation involved high-ranking Israeli officials, secret agents, and a sustained effort to provide Donald Trump’s campaign with what one participant called “critical intel” to defeat Hillary Clinton. The story only emerged through heavily redacted FBI search warrant documents released in 2020, more than four years after the events occurred. According to these documents, examined extensively by intelligence expert James Bamford in The Nation , Israeli officials conducted a months-long operation attempting to establish ...