{"id":215654,"date":"2020-10-28T06:08:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T06:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=215654"},"modified":"2020-11-01T08:16:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T08:16:28","slug":"adelsons-got-a-lot-from-trump-for-75-million-but-media-wont-tell-you-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=215654","title":{"rendered":"Adelsons got a lot from Trump for $75 million \u2014 but media won\u2019t tell you what"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philip Weiss and James North \u2013 Mondoweiss Oct 16, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Donald Trump, his most generous backer Sheldon Adelson and Adelson’s wife Miriam. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

The news late yesterday was that Sheldon and Miriam Adelson poured $75 million in September into a new super PAC that supports Donald Trump. Way more money than other donors, on either side.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many news outlets have now reported the outsized sum, which is plainly important to Trump\u2019s flailing campaign. Oddly, none of them is reporting the Adelsons\u2019 number one issue, Israel, or the fact that Miriam Adelson is Israeli, or that the Adelsons are close to Netanyahu, or that our transactional president has done just about everything Israel wants. Nope, the big story is still Russian influence.<\/span><\/p>\n

AP has a sizeable story<\/a><\/strong><\/span> on the donation with Sheldon Adelson\u2019s name in the headline, but a neutral characterization:<\/span><\/p>\n

A major funder of Republican causes, Adelson has donated over $250 million to GOP candidates and super PACs since 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

CNN has the Adelsons in their headline<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, but the donation seems to be about Miriam\u2019s Presidential Medal of Freedom.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2018,\u00a0Trump bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u2014 the country\u2019s highest civilian honor \u2014 on Miriam Adelson, citing her philanthropic work.<\/span><\/p>\n

Politico\u2019s report<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, titled \u201cAdelsons pour $75 million into last-ditch effort to save Trump,\u201d says nothing about Israel but counts up all the Adelsons\u2019 largesse:<\/span><\/p>\n

The money for Preserve America brought the Adelsons\u2019 giving to Republican candidates and committees to a whopping $176 million for the 2020 election cycle, according to FEC data.<\/span><\/p>\n

In two reports, NPR also failed to say a word about the Adelsons\u2019 agenda, though it also cited the medal<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>and another angle: \u201cin April of this year\u00a0[Trump] appointed<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Sheldon Adelson, the CEO of Las Vegas Sands, to his council of business leaders who would advise him on reopening the country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As Trump himself said last month<\/strong><\/span>,<\/a> his foreign policy has been \u201cgood for Israel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

I withdrew from the last administration\u2019s disastrous Iran nuclear deal. So good for Israel. So good that we did that.<\/span><\/p>\n

His list of pro-Israel actions includes moving the embassy to Jerusalem, defunding the UN refugee agency serving Palestinians, closing down the Palestinian mission in Washington, recognizing Israel\u2019s annexation of the Golan Heights, giving legal validity to Israel\u2019s colonization of the West Bank, lately harsh sanctions and belligerent language aimed at Iran, and on and on. It\u2019s obvious that all these actions are what Adelson wants. He helped found<\/strong><\/span><\/a> the organization One Jerusalem to stop a Palestinian state, says Palestinians are not a people but are actually \u201csouthern Syrians\u201d, and called on the last president<\/strong><\/span><\/a> to nuke Iran. He has been in attendance at major Trump policy announcements on the issue.<\/span><\/p>\n

When Trump trashed the Iran deal in 2018, Eli Clifton was blunt about his reasons<\/strong><\/span><\/a>: \u201cthree billionaires paved the way,\u201d including Adelson, Bernard Marcus, and Paul Singer, all Israel supporters. A recent NY Times retrospective on the 2016 campaign<\/strong><\/span><\/a> was also more frank about Adelson\u2019s interest: \u201cgambling magnate, Republican megadonor and strident voice for Israel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

But today Adelson is in the headlines, at a crunch time in the presidential campaign, when voters are scrutinizing Trump\u2019s record, and alleged Russian influence is in the news every day\u2013 and the media avoid the Israel influence like a hot stove.<\/span><\/p>\n

Adelson himself is brash about his interest. He says he wished he\u2019d have served in the Israeli army not the American one, he owns a leading Israeli newspaper and funds an organization for free Jewish American tourism to Israel so that young Jews will marry Israelis. He calls Trump all the time, per Alan Dershowitz<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, and has told Trump, \u201cthe biggest thing you did for Israel\u201d was breaking the Iran deal, Trump himself said<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

We understand why the media are squeamish about the issue. They don\u2019t want to feed the antisemitic claim that rich Jews control politicians. But in the Adelson case, there\u2019s no trope. He\u2019s not working behind the scenes. He openly loves Israel, is married to an Israeli, and Trump has even acknowledged his influence. Adelson has gotten what he paid for. It\u2019s appalling that there\u2019s been no coverage of this angle. At least AP tried to call Adelson.<\/span><\/p>\n

And we can only imagine what these Israel supporters are giving Trump in October\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

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