Joe Kent: The Israel lobby created an ECHO CHAMBER around Donald Trump to convince him to start the war on Iran ‘The Israel lobby is vast and it runs very deep in Washington D.C. But speaking directly to President Trump, you have Miriam Adelson, you have quite a few other prominent pro-Israel donors in America who made major contributions to President Trump’s campaign. That gives them a certain degree of access into the White House. By the time we got to the deliberations for this war, the President’s inner circle had been shaved down a good deal. The photos that were released that night down at Mar-a-Lago that had President Trump, you know Secretary Rubio, Director Ratcliffe of the CIA, and then you know his Department of War team, Hegseth and Caine, and then Susie Wiles. That’s really the small inner circle. The Israelis are also able to go to all those individual cabinet members because they’ve cultivated long-term relationships with these individuals during their political careers. A lot of these individuals like Rubio, like Ratcliffe, basically you have AIPAC bragging that they helped get them the jobs that they currently have there. That gives members of the Israeli government and Israeli donors the ability to go point to point directly to them and say, “Hey, here’s our agenda. Here’s some intelligence we haven’t put through the regular channel” in order to get their stated objective of a regime change war in Iran across the finish line. You also have an entire ecosystem in the media, people like Mark Levin, Fox News. You have think tanks like the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies that’s constantly putting so-called experts on Fox News, the programs they know the President is consuming. It creates an ecosystem or an echo chamber, however you want to phrase it, around the President, and that’s basically the story of how we’ve gotten into this war.’ —@joekent16jan19, former Director of the US National Counterterrorism Center Watch the full interview in the quoted post below 👇