Judeo-Christian Nutjob Mike Huckabee Has Meeting With Traitor Jonathan Pollard
Every now and then, someone in Trump World does something so baffling, so politically tone-deaf, you honestly have to stop and ask, “What on earth were they thinking?” That’s exactly where we are with Mike Huckabee this week. Huckabee is a good guy, and he’s been a loyal voice for years, but this move? This one is a head-shaker.
Mike Huckabee, the US Ambassador to Israel, just held a friendly sit-down inside a US government office with Jonathan Pollard, a man who betrayed the United States. And Pollard wasn’t some foreign spy sneaking around the edges. He was a US citizen and a Naval intelligence analyst who took an oath to this country and then sold us out. He caused serious damage to American intelligence and remains the only American in history to receive a life sentence for spying on behalf of an ally.
And after all that, after being granted Israeli citizenship years later, he still turned around and called President Trump a “madman who sold us down the drain for Saudi gold.”
This is the man Huckabee decided to publicly meet with. What on earth was he thinking?
Nobody knows what the meeting was supposed to accomplish, but it just looked embarrassing. By attending, Huckabee essentially handed Pollard a level of validation he absolutely does not deserve. It tells the world this guy’s opinions somehow matter. It elevates a man who openly trashed Trump, bragged about loyalty to “Israel first,” and screwed over his own country. And if all that’s not bad enough, he still defends the spying that landed him a life sentence.
But, to make this even stranger, The New York Times is reporting that this meeting wasn’t just Huckabee and Pollard. Mark Levin’s stepson, David Milstein, was also involved. Milstein is a senior figure at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, and Levin has been one of the most radical and aggressive voices pushing the Israel First line inside MAGA. So the fact that his stepson helped facilitate an off-the-record meeting with Jonathan Pollard, of all people, raises some very serious eyebrows.
Nobody knows how deep Milstein’s role goes, but the optics are awful.
Amb. Mike Huckabee, together with David Milstein (Mark Levin’s stepson), held an off-the-record meeting at US Embassy Jerusalem with Israeli spy/US traitor Jonathan Pollard, the NY Times reports.
Pollard confirmed “it was a friendly meeting” and trashed Trump as a “madman.” “Mr. Pollard said he did not regret spying for Israel, claiming the United States had cut Israel out of intelligence sharing. And he castigated Mr. Trump, calling him a ‘madman who has literally sold us down the drain, for Saudi gold,’” the Times reports.
Trump’s DOJ allowed Pollard to “make Aliyah” in Israel after ending his strict parole conditions in 2020. “After a review of Mr. Pollard’s case, the US Parole Commission has found that there is no evidence to conclude that he is likely to violate the law,” the Justice Department said.
He was then flown to Israel in 2021 on Zionist megadonor Sheldon Adelson’s private plane and given a hero’s welcome, with Netanyahu greeting him on the tarmac. “Our greatest ally” rewarded Pollard with Israeli citizenship and a pension reserved for ex-Mossad and Shin Bet agents. He gave his first interview to Adelson’s Israel Hayom paper, wherein he encourage all Jews to spy for Israel. “The bottom line on this charge of dual loyalty is, I’m sorry, we’re Jews, and if we’re Jews, we will always have dual loyalty.” He went on to give a speech labeling the Biden administration an “enemy” that must be destroyed. “What we’re talking about is Amalek, pure and simple,” he said.
This is what Mark Levin’s stepson David Milstein has been up to at US Embassy Jerusalem.
Does this sound like someone who is putting America First, or someone who has taken Pollard up on his call?
Keep in mind, President Trump’s DOJ actually showed Pollard mercy. Trump quietly declined to extend Pollard’s parole restrictions, basically clearing the path for him to return to Israel. Pollard became one of the few high-profile convicted spies allowed to leave the US and resettle abroad. Pollard repaid it by sinking his teeth into Trump the first chance he got. And now Huckabee is blessing him with a public meeting? It’s bewildering. It’s messy. And honestly, it’s a slap in the face to the country Pollard betrayed and the president who showed him mercy and whom he insulted.
Clearly, President Trump was caught off guard and had no idea this “friendly” meeting was even happening.
Ambassador Mike Huckabee, President Trump’s envoy to Israel, met at the United States Embassy in Jerusalem in July with Jonathan J. Pollard, an American who spent 30 years in prison for spying for Israel, Mr. Pollard said.
The highly unusual meeting caught some U.S. officials by surprise, and appeared to be a sharp break with years of precedent for American diplomats.
The New York Times learned of the meeting from three U.S. officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information. When The Times asked Mr. Pollard about the meeting, he confirmed it.
Mr. Pollard said it was the first time that a U.S. official had hosted him at an American government office since his release a decade ago.
“It was a friendly meeting,” Mr. Pollard said in a phone interview on Wednesday.
The meeting with Mr. Pollard, a former naval intelligence analyst, was kept off Mr. Huckabee’s official schedule, two of the U.S. officials said. The fact that it occurred alarmed the Central Intelligence Agency’s station chief in Israel, three of the officials said.
The C.I.A. declined to comment. The White House was not aware of the meeting in advance, according to a White House official and two people briefed on the matter. The White House official also said that senior officials there were alarmed when they learned it had taken place.
Asked about it on Thursday, the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said that the White House had not been aware of the meeting, but added that “the president stands by our ambassador.”
And just when you think this story can’t get any murkier, the State Department piece makes it even worse. Nobody seems to know who approved this meeting or whether it was cleared through any channels whatsoever.
Red flag.
The New York Times piece goes on:
It was unclear whether officials at the State Department had signed off on Mr. Huckabee’s meeting with Mr. Pollard in advance. The State Department did not respond to a request for comment. In a statement, the U.S. Embassy said Mr. Huckabee had “meetings with numerous people, and as a matter of general policy, we do not comment as to the content of conversations.” It also claimed The Times’s reporting for this article was “filled with inaccuracies.”
Mr. Pollard, 71, was convicted of spying for Israel and sentenced to life in prison in 1987 in one of the most notorious espionage cases of the Cold War. While many Americans viewed him as a traitor, some Israelis, especially those on the right, considered him a hero and lobbied for him until he was released on parole in 2015. Five years later, he moved to Israel, where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave him a hero’s welcome on the tarmac at Ben Gurion Airport.
It is unclear why Mr. Huckabee and his senior adviser, David Milstein, agreed to meet Mr. Pollard. Mr. Huckabee and Mr. Milstein have made efforts to cultivate ties with the Israeli right, with whom Mr. Pollard identifies. Image
But maybe Huckabee’s meeting with Pollard isn’t such a mystery after all. A 2011 Jerusalem Post article shows that Mike Huckabee and actor Jon Voight were both pushing for leniency for Pollard, even calling criticism of this convicted spy “anti-Semitic.” Huckabee urged Obama to release Pollard as an act of “friendship.”
American Actor Jon Voight, who came to Israel with likely Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, called Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard’s life sentence Tuesday “beyond injustice” and “a clear case of anti-Semitism.”
Huckabee told The Jerusalem Post on Monday that US president Barack Obama should release Pollard as a gesture of friendship.
“Right now we don’t need anything that reflects that we are anything but an absolute ally of Israel,” Huckabee said. “[Freeing Pollard] would send the right message to the rest of the world, that America is not pulling back on its friendship and relationship with Israel but it is accelerating it and making sure that we are taking every step possible to solidify those bonds.”
In another eye-opening moment from 2011, Huckabee once again publicly rallied for Pollard’s release. It’s clear Mike Huckabee has spent years fighting on behalf of this convicted spy.
Visiting United States Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee expressed his support on Tuesday for the release of Jonathan Pollard, who has served 25 years of a life sentence for passing classified information from the U.S. to Israel. Huckabee noted that senior figures, such as former Secretary of State George Shultz and former CIA director James Woolsey, had also called for Pollard’s release.
It’s important to point out that Pollard wasn’t some harmless figure. He was a very dangerous spy who did real damage to the United States.
According to publicly available records, here are some of the most serious things Pollard did to harm the country:
Leaked volumes of U.S. signal-intelligence methodology, including the National Security Agency’s ten-volume manual on how the U.S. gathers its signal intelligence.
Disclosed the names of thousands of U.S. intelligence-community cooperators and sources.
Compromised U.S. “sources and methods” — the most sensitive intelligence category. A former Defense Secretary described it as “greater harm to national security” than most other espionage cases.
His work set off lasting damage to the U.S.–Israel intelligence relationship, causing Americans to suspect there were other penetrations and eroding trust.
Is this really the type of person who should be having friendly meetings with US ambassadors inside government buildings? Mike Huckabee has some explaining to do, and he should be upfront about what this meeting was actually about. The American people deserve transparency.
We’ll leave you with this post from Jack Posobiec, which sums Pollard up perfectly.