US Vice President JD Vance fumed on Wednesday at a reported Israeli government-funded influence campaign aimed at criticizing the efforts of President Donald Trump’s administration to negotiate an end to the Iran war.

“There was this Time article that came out yesterday… It lists a bunch of people who have been paid by a former Trump campaign person who was himself paid by certain elements within the Israeli government, and those people are attacking me viciously for trying to accomplish the negotiation objective that the president set for the country,” Vance said during an interview with podcaster Joe Rogan, calling it a “very discreet, extremely well-funded campaign to try to derail the negotiations.”

Time revealed on Tuesday that Trump’s former campaign manager has been leading a pro-Israel influence campaign directed and funded by the Israeli government, targeting young Americans within Trump’s MAGA base.

Brad Parscale and his company, Clock Tower X, were tapped last September by an ad agency to conduct an influence campaign on behalf of Israel. Time cited the US Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) filings in its report.

Officially, the influence campaign was aimed at tackling rising antisemitism online, though Time cited an Israeli Foreign Ministry official familiar with the campaign as saying its real goal was to “preventing young conservatives from turning against Israel.”

While the official aim may have been antisemitism, the Trump administration reportedly identified posts published simultaneously by conservative influencers that criticized last month’s memorandum of understanding to end the Iran war, which Time suggested were part of Pascale’s campaign.

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Parscale admitted that the goal of the campaign was to stop young Americans from turning against Israel, but pushed back on the idea that the effort extended to tarring the administration’s diplomacy with Iran.

Vance brought up the story unprovoked during his Rogan interview.

“It’s social media posts, it’s leaking to reporters — they’re attacking me obsessively, saying that we should not be negotiating with Iran. We should just keep the military campaign going indefinitely,” he claimed.

“People have come after me and said I’m influenced by Qatar, that I’m influenced by foreign governments, that I take my marching orders from Tucker Carlson, and there’s just so much bullshit out there,” he said.

“Foreign governments try to influence the United States all the time. Israel does it. Other countries do it… What bothers me is when American leadership allows that influence to affect........

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