Miriam Adelson Shaped Trump's Israel Strategy, Newsweek Discovers Money Buys Influence
Newsweek highlighted Miriam Adelson's pivotal role in shaping Trump's Israel strategy, detailing her family's significant financial contributions and their alignment with right-wing Israeli politics. What the piece dances around, of course, is the sheer scale of that shaping. Sheldon and Miriam Adelson, in 2020 alone, poured an estimated $180 million into Republican campaigns, making them the
largest GOP donors. This wasn't merely 'influence'; it was an investment in a foreign policy agenda, one that saw the moving of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem and the recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, policies directly championed by the Adelsons. We are consistently asked to believe that politicians accept millions from foreign-aligned donors out of ideological purity, not
transactional benefit. Newsweek gently suggests Adelson 'shaped' policy, as if she suggested a tasteful throw pillow arrangement, rather than funding the very architecture of it. How much 'shaping' does $180 million buy? Apparently, enough to redefine U.S. foreign policy right before our very eyes, while mainstream media reports it like a cozy profile piece, rather than an exposé of bought
governance.