305 “Hello, Roger, From Jerusalem.” Did Netanyahu Have Prior Knowledge of Russian Interference Circa 2016?
The key for the Israeli agent was finding a back door—a covert channel—to Trump. Roger Stone, long a key Trump aide, fit the bill. Although Stone had formally left the campaign, he and Trump spoke frequently and confidentially. For these calls, Trump would often use the phone of his security director, Keith Schiller, “because he did not want his advisers to know they were talking,” according to Sam Nunberg, a political adviser who served on Trump’s 2016 election campaign. Stone energetically supported Israel’s harsh occupation of the Palestinian territories and its bellicose stance toward Iran; following Trump’s speech at an American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference in March 2016, Stone noted approvingly that “Donald Trump is a radical Zionist.”
It’s important to understand as many are not at this moment that Trump remains a “radical Zionist”-for example, I became aware of this article through Charles Johnson’s recent post but in this post Johnson seriously argues that Trump should endorse the two state solution-it’s IMO a good policy but it’s very unlikely something Trump will do.