By R. Cort Kirkwood (The New American)
The Israeli government appears to be subsidizing GOP Senator Ted Cruz’s super Pac by purchasing ads on the Israel-First lawmaker’s podcast.
The ad campaign is appropriately titled “I Am Israel.”
While Responsible Statecraft explains that Israel is drumming up tourist revenue because Israel’s never ending wars have kept prudent tourists away from the country, the effort might also be tied to declining support for Israel among young Americans.
Since 2022, the IHeartMedia empire has syndicated Cruz’s podcast, Verdict With Ted Cruz, RS noted.
But lobbying regulations forbid the company from lining Cruz’s deep pockets with advertising revenue. Thus, another way had to be found to funnel money to the senator, or at least to his interests.
“Under an unusual licensing deal, iHeartMedia agreed to donate revenue “associated with (the show’s) advertising sales” to the Truth and Courage PAC, a super PAC dedicated to ‘ensuring that Ted Cruz is reelected to the United States Senate,’” the website disclosed:
The company has given at least $1,738,000 of “digital revenue” to the Truth and Courage PAC since 2023, according to Federal Election Commission filings.
A complaint to the Federal Election Commission was futile. The agency rules that Cruz did nothing wrong because it had “no available information to indicate that Cruz solicited, directed, received, transferred, or spent the funds iHeart paid to the PAC.” He did not, FEC, ruled, “direct or solicit any funds.”
Maybe not, but the Israelis know a good deal when they see one. And with Cruz’s top priority in the Senate being support for Israel, as he told Tucker Carlson, the government funneled a boatload of cash to the super PAC through the IHeartMedia cutout.
Read the rest here: https://thenewamerican.com/us/politics/report-is-israeli-govt-funneling-big-bucks-to-cruz-through-radio-syndicate/
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