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YouTube Pays Trump $24.5M In Court Settlement Over The President's Channel Suspension Following Jan 6, 2021 Capitol Protests
October 01, 2025
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YouTube has agreed to pay Donald Trump $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit over the suspension of his channel following the January 6, 2021, Capitol protests, marking the final major settlement in a series of legal actions Trump initiated against social media platforms.

The settlement, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on September 29, 2025, resolves a case that had been largely inactive since 2023, with Trump's legal team reviving it after his return to the presidency.

YouTube suspended Trump’s channel on January 12, 2021, citing concerns that his posts could incite violence in the wake of the Capitol protests, and prevented him from uploading new content until March 2023.

The platform reinstated Trump’s account in March 2023, stating it had carefully evaluated the risk of real-world violence and the importance of allowing major national candidates to communicate with voters during an election cycle.

Under the settlement terms, $22 million will be directed to the Trust for the National Mall to support the construction of a $200 million White House ballroom, which Trump is building, while $2.5 million will be distributed among other plaintiffs, including the American Conservative Union and author Naomi Wolf.

This settlement follows similar agreements with Meta (parent company of Facebook and Instagram), which paid $25 million, and X (formerly Twitter), which paid $10 million, both of which were also tied to Trump’s claims of political censorship.

Trump’s lawyer, John P. Coale, said that Trump’s re-election was instrumental in securing these settlements, suggesting that the companies were motivated to resolve the cases due to the political shift.

The settlement states that the payment "shall not be regarded as an acknowledgment of liability or wrongdoing" by YouTube or its parent company, Alphabet.

The case was closed in 2023 but was reopened by Trump’s lawyers after his victory in the 2024 election, with the final settlement filed just days before a scheduled October 6, US Congress hearing.

Google recently admitted that the Biden administration exerted "unacceptable and wrong" pressure on the company to censor YouTube content related to the COVID-19 pandemic and elections, leading to the permanent bans of conservative creators. The platform said it would reinstate some of  the banned accounts.

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Newly filed documents under the U.S. Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) reveal that Israel’s government has launched a covert influence campaign, codenamed the "Esther Project," through a firm called Bridges Partners LLC, paying American social media influencers up to $7,000 per post to promote pro-Israel content on platforms like TikTok and Instagram from June to November 2025.

The campaign, managed by a German division of the global PR firm Havas, is part of a broader $150 million foreign influence budget secured by Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar in late 2024, aimed at countering a significant decline in U.S. public support for Israel, particularly among younger Republicans.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly acknowledged the strategy during a meeting with influencers in New York, stating, “We have to fight back. How do we fight back? Our influencers.”

The "Esther Project" has a total budget of $900,000, allocated from June to November 2025, with payments covering influencer recruitment, concept development, content production, and agency costs. Of this, approximately $552,946 was earmarked for direct influencer payments between June and September, based on projected 75 to 90 posts. The average payout per post is estimated between $6,143 and $7,373.

The campaign is being rolled out in phases, with three to six influencers onboarded at a time, each expected to produce 25 to 30 pieces of content monthly.

Bridges Partners, owned by Israeli consultants Uri Steinberg and Yair Levi, has enlisted a former IDF spokesperson, Nadav Shtrauchler, for the project and is using legal counsel from Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, a firm previously linked to the controversial Israeli spyware company NSO Group. The firm has also partnered with Israeli content creators and U.S.-based marketing agencies.

The campaign’s name, "Esther Project," draws a parallel to "Project Esther," a controversial Heritage Foundation proposal to label pro-Palestinian activists as terrorists and justify their deportation and job loss, though no direct link has been confirmed.

This influencer campaign is one component of a larger, multi-million-dollar effort by Israel to dominate U.S. digital discourse. This includes a separate $1.5 million-per-month contract with Brad Parscale, a former Trump campaign strategist, to use AI-driven tools like MarketBrew and GPT-based chatbots to generate thousands of pro-Israel content variations.

While the FARA filings do not disclose the names of individual influencers, several participants were photographed at the September 26, 2025, meeting with Netanyahu in New York. These include Lizzy Savetsky, Ari Acker, Zach Sage Fox, Miriam Ezagui, and Joyce Chabb, all known for pro-Israel content on Instagram and TikTok. The identities of the other influencers involved in the campaign remain undisclosed in the public records.

The campaign is part of Israel’s declared "eighth front" in its current conflict, emphasizing the strategic importance of social media in shaping global narratives. The $150 million budget represents a 20-fold increase over previous hasbara (public diplomacy) spending, reflecting a significant escalation in Israel’s global communications strategy.

The use of FARA-registered firms like Bridges Partners and Havas underscores the formal, though covert, nature of the operation. The campaign coincides with a broader shift in U.S. public opinion, with recent polls indicating that Americans now sympathize more with Palestinians than Israelis for the first time in 26 years.

The campaign has sparked controversy, with Israeli critics accusing the influencers of prioritizing self-promotion over solidarity with hostage families who were also in New York during Netanyahu’s meeting.

American critics on social media slam the influencers for prioritizing Israel over their country, with many Christians pointing out that the Israel Defense Force(IDF) is currently committing genocide in Gaza, and that the state of Israel promotes LGBTQ, abortion and other degenerate policies antithetical to the cause of the American conservative movement.

Here are some of the paid influencers and groups

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Trump's Executive Order Guarantees Qatar Security After Israeli Airstrike

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday, pledging to defend Qatar against any external attack, including through military action, in a move likened to NATO's Article 5. The order, published on Wednesday, October 1, was a direct response to an Israeli airstrike on September 9, that targeted Hamas leaders in Doha, killing six people, including a Qatari security officer.

The order states that any armed attack on Qatar's territory, sovereignty, or critical infrastructure will be regarded as a threat to the peace and security of the United States, and the U.S. will take all lawful and appropriate measures—including diplomatic, economic, and, if necessary, military action—to defend both nations and restore stability.

“Over the years, the United States and the State of Qatar have been bound together by close cooperation, shared interests, and the close relationship between our armed forces,” reads the order. “In recognition of this history, and in light of the continuing threats to the State of Qatar posed by foreign aggression, it is the policy of the United States to guarantee the security and territorial integrity of the State of Qatar against external attack.

“The United States shall regard any armed attack on the territory, sovereignty, or critical infrastructure of the State of Qatar as a threat to the peace and security of the United States.”

The order states that "In the event of such an attack, the United States shall take all lawful and appropriate measures — including diplomatic, economic, and, if necessary, military — to defend the interests of the United States and of the state of Qatar and to restore peace and stability."

The order is unprecedented in its scope for a non-NATO ally, with its legal weight being less binding than a formal treaty, as such agreements typically require Senate approval. The U.S. designated Qatar as a Major Non-NATO Ally in 2022, recognizing its crucial support during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Qatar hosts the largest U.S. military base in the Middle East, Al Udeid Air Base, which serves as the forward headquarters for U.S. Central Command.

The Israeli strike on Doha, which occurred as Hamas leaders were reportedly considering a ceasefire, shocked Qatari officials and raised serious questions about the strength of U.S. security guarantees for its Gulf allies.

The strike has prompted regional shifts, with Saudi Arabia reportedly entering a mutual defense agreement with Pakistan, bringing the kingdom under Islamabad’s nuclear umbrella.

In response, President Trump, during a visit to Washington by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, orchestrated a trilateral phone call where Netanyahu expressed "deep regret" for the attack, apologized for violating Qatari sovereignty, and affirmed that Israel would not conduct such an attack again.

The executive order is seen as a significant strategic shift, providing Qatar with a unique security guarantee that no other Arab nation has received The move is also viewed as a political victory for Qatar, which leveraged the crisis to isolate Israel and secure a major diplomatic breakthrough.

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FBI Cuts Ties With ADL Over The Jewish Group's Targeting Of Charlie Kirk, TPUSA, Conservatives

FBI Director Kash Patel announced on Wednesday, that the FBI has severed all formal ties with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a move he attributed to the ADL's designation of Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA (TPUSA) as an extremist group and the Jewish organization's defamatory smear campaigns targeting American conservatives.

Patel condemned the previous relationship established under former FBI Director James Comey, accusing him of "disgracing the FBI" by fostering a close partnership with the ADL and embedding agents with "extreme group functioning like a terrorist organization."

The far-left Jewish group, ADL had recently removed its "Glossary of Extremism and Hate" following intense criticism from Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Donald Trump Jr., and Republican lawmakers, who argued the list was politically motivated and inaccurate.

Director Patel declared the era of the FBI's partnership with the ADL "over," stating the bureau "formally rejects Comey’s policies and any partnership with the ADL." He characterized the ADL as a "political front masquerading as a watchdog," and claimed the previous FBI operations involving the ADL were "activism dressed up as counterterrorism" that endangered Americans.

In 2014, Comey delivered a speech at an ADL conference that he later referred to as a "love letter to the ADL," praising the organization's work in combating hate and extremism. He reiterated this sentiment in a 2017 address at the ADL National Leadership Summit, where he expressed the FBI's "love" for the ADL.

These ties included embedding FBI agents with the ADL for counterterrorism efforts and using ADL propaganda materials for training and intelligence sharing. Patel criticized this relationship, which he claimed ran "disgraceful operations spying on Americans." Comey is currently facing federal charges for allegedly lying to Congress in 2020, which Patel referenced in his criticism.

The ADL's "Glossary of Extremism and Hate" described TPUSA as having ties to "a range of right-wing extremists and has generated support from anti-Muslim bigots, alt-lite activists and some corners of the white supremacist alt-right."

In response to the criticisms, the ADL removed the entire glossary from its website on Tuesday, citing outdated entries and misuse.

The controversy intensified following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the founder of TPUSA, during a campus event in Utah in September 2025. Critics, including Musk and Republican lawmakers like Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, argued that the FBI was investigating Kirk instead of his murderers.

Far-left critics of Kash's decision have accused him of politicizing the FBI, while supporters argue it restores the bureau's focus on genuine threats over ideological vendettas.

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