John Kiriakou

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The American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, AIPAC, is incredibly well-funded, and they will run candidates against you if you are not 100% pro-Israel.

And five times out of six, at least in the last election, they would win those races.

And so would you rather take...

Would you rather take $150 million for your campaign from wealthy donors and tow the Israeli line?

Or do you want to risk having them run a candidate against you and then not winning re-election?

Most American politicians fall into line.

You know, these ideas finally came to a head.

During the presidency of someone who could be pressured by Benjamin Netanyahu, where previous presidents couldn't.

And now we're in this war.

I'll give you two answers.

The first one, the easy one is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal asked President Trump two weeks ago.

who is your closest advisor on these politico-military issues?

And his answer was, I don't have an advisor.

I just trust my gut.

That is very, very dangerous.

You need a team of rivals.

You need the best and the brightest.

You need to surround yourself with the smartest thinkers on these issues.

And he hasn't done that.