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https://thegrayzone.com/2025/04/09/aipac-access-trump-natsec-officials-leaked/

AIPAC leader boasts of special ‘access’ to top Trump natsec officials in leaked audio

During an off-the-record panel, AIPAC’s CEO detailed his organization’s grooming of Trump’s top national security officials, and how his group’s “access” ensures they continue to follow Israel’s agenda.

The Grayzone has obtained audio of an off-the-record session from the 2025 Congressional Summit of AIPAC, the main US lobbying arm of the state of Israel. Recorded by an attendee of the panel discussion, the audio features AIPAC’s new CEO, Elliott Brandt, describing how his organization has cultivated influence with three top national security officials in the Trump administration – Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Director Mike Waltz, and CIA Director John Ratcliffe – and how it believes it can gain “access” to their internal discussions. ...

With the cameras off, AIPAC leadership provided unusually candid details of their activities. In one revealing admission, Brandt explained how he and his lobbying organization groomed the future CIA director and other top Trump officials as pro-Israel assets.

Elliot Brandt was promoted to Executive Director of AIPAC in 2024, making him one of the most powerful lobbyists in Washington. Though he is largely unknown to the American public, Brandt has spent around three decades building relationships on Capitol Hill. This was the key, he suggested, to cultivating the future leaders of America’s national security state as loyal servants of Israel.

Referring to Trump’s Secretary of State Marco Rubio, his National Security Director Mike Waltz, and Elise Stefanik, whose nomination to serve as the US ambassador to the United Nations was suddenly withdrawn to preserve the GOP’s majority in the House of Representatives, Brandt explained to AIPAC members, “Those three people have something in common: they all served in Congress.”

After relying heavily on pro-Israel donors to fuel their campaigns for office, “they all have relationships with key AIPAC leaders from their communities,” said the AIPAC CEO. “So the lines of communication are good should there be something questionable or curious, and we need access on the conversation.”

Brandt’s comments corroborate Representative Thomas Massie’s claim that each member of Congress is expected to answer to an “AIPAC person.”

Qatar and China are giving BILLIONS and BILLIONS to US Ivy League schools turning students in to radical Marxist anti-Semites.

And some people on the Right are worried about AIPAC?

socal2 says

Qatar and China are giving BILLIONS and BILLIONS to US Ivy League schools turning students in to radical Marxist anti-Semites.

And some people on the Right are worried about AIPAC?

Both are bad. Qatar and China are going after students, but AIPAC is going after elected politicians.

AIPAC is going after elected politicians.

Where does AIPAC's money come from?

US Citizens.

Patrick says

The ACZ was forced to register because they mixed foreign donations with domestic ones and the founder had held an Israeli government position before.

However, already in 1959 various domestic pro-zionist groups created what became AIPAC. All of AIPAC's money is from US Citizens, and it didn't become a major influence group until the 70s-80s. AIPAC is #191 of all lobbyist groups in the USA.

socal2 says

And some people on the Right are worried about AIPAC?

Just Sino-Iranian malfeasance, backed by Koch-Soros-Rockefeller as well.

I love how Iran is running 3 militant groups in 3 foreign countries (Lebanon, Israel, Yemen) and basically running Iraq while claiming they just wanna be left alooooooone.

And how the role of Turkey and Qatar in Syria is studiously ignored by "Influencers"