Fmr Congressman Reveals What Happens at Closed-Door AIPAC Events

Plus: Do masked men with big guns scare you? You could get deported if the answer is yes

“I remember my first AIPAC reception,” said former Congressman Matt Gaetz on a podcast this week.

“You get there and you wear this name badge and there’s a QR code on it. We were supposed to go talk to donors and then if they liked you, they scanned your QR code to make a donation on the spot. Can you just imagine how demoralizing that is? To be told that your job is to go chat people up, hoping they would scan you like a can of tomato soup.”

And yet they claim the Russians are the foreign agents meddling in US society while Israeli lobbyists are literally buying US politicians auction-style. If media and politicians had the integrity to call out the actual foreign-interference campaign, we’d instead be talking each week about Israelgate.

But that’s not the only way Israel weaseled itself into this week’s Thursday Throwdown: on the 2-year anniversary of October 7, NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani released a statement calling out Israel for committing genocide, but began it with a loud condemnation of Hamas, incorrectly claiming that Hamas killed 1,100 people on October 7.

And even with the wishy-washy disclaimer, CNN was NOT happy with even the notion of harsh words against Mother Israel. And on October 7 of all days!