Larry Ellison Vetted Marco Rubio for Fealty to Israel
Geplaatst: 04 okt 2025 18:43
Larry Ellison Vetted Marco Rubio’s Allegiance to Israel, Hacked Emails Reveal 
In early 2015, Ellison was emailing Ron Prosor, who was serving in the tail end of his time as Israeli ambassador to the United Nations; he currently serves as the Israeli ambassador to Germany.
At the time, Rubio was seen as a strong challenger in a GOP presidential field that would ultimately include underdog candidate Donald Trump. The emails show the Israeli diplomat and Ellison arranging to meet with one another, with Prosor soliciting Ellison’s views on Rubio as a potential candidate who would advocate on behalf of Israel.
# 1 On April 26, 2015, Prosor sent Ellison an email titled “Rubio speech,” asking the Oracle founder and CTO to send him a copy of a speech from the then-candidate. (The emails don’t specify which speech, but Rubio had kicked off his campaign (https://time.com/3820475/transcript-rea ... gn-launch/) a week earlier with a speech that criticized the Obama administration’s “hostility to Israel.”) The next day the two traded messages indicating that Prosor and Ellison had had dinner together, and that Ellison would soon be meeting Rubio directly.
#2 On (https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_ ... 46x700.png) April 30, Prosor sent another message to Ellison to follow up, sharing his phone number and thanking him again for the evening they spent together. “How was the conversation with Mario Rubio. Did he pass your scrutiny? Did you have a chance to talk about Israel?”
#3 A few hours later Ellison responded in the affirmative. “Hi Ron. Great meeting with Marco Rubio. I set him up to meet with Tony Blair,” adding, “Marco will be a great friend for Israel.”
#5 Follow-up email exchanges between Prosor and Ellison in April 2015 discussing previous meeting.
A month later, Ellison, who had backed Mitt Romney in 2012, hosted a fundraiser for Rubio at his mansion in Woodside, California. That would be only the beginning of a broader range of support that the tech billionaire would offer in attempting to bolster Rubio’s campaign. Over the course of the 2015-2016 primary Ellison plowed $5 million into the Conservative Solutions super PAC which supported Rubio, who, as Ellison privately hoped, advocated vocally for Israel throughout the course of his presidential bid and beyond.
Ellison’s support for Rubio perplexed some political observers at the time. The CEO of the political crowdfunding platform CrowdPac (now known as Crowdblue) Steven Hilton, told the San Francisco Chronicle that that (https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/ar ... hatgpt.com) he found it “interesting” that Ellison, who was not then well-known as a supporter of right-wing causes, “should support a candidate as conservative as Marco Rubio,” speculating that it could “reflect Rubio’s past effort to implement immigration reform, a crucial issue for Silicon Valley leaders like Ellison.”
Requests for comment about the exchange to Ellison, the U.S. State Department, and the Israeli Embassy in Germany where Prosor is currently stationed were not returned.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/larry-el ... ron-prosor
In early 2015, Ellison was emailing Ron Prosor, who was serving in the tail end of his time as Israeli ambassador to the United Nations; he currently serves as the Israeli ambassador to Germany.
At the time, Rubio was seen as a strong challenger in a GOP presidential field that would ultimately include underdog candidate Donald Trump. The emails show the Israeli diplomat and Ellison arranging to meet with one another, with Prosor soliciting Ellison’s views on Rubio as a potential candidate who would advocate on behalf of Israel.
# 1 On April 26, 2015, Prosor sent Ellison an email titled “Rubio speech,” asking the Oracle founder and CTO to send him a copy of a speech from the then-candidate. (The emails don’t specify which speech, but Rubio had kicked off his campaign (https://time.com/3820475/transcript-rea ... gn-launch/) a week earlier with a speech that criticized the Obama administration’s “hostility to Israel.”) The next day the two traded messages indicating that Prosor and Ellison had had dinner together, and that Ellison would soon be meeting Rubio directly.
#2 On (https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_ ... 46x700.png) April 30, Prosor sent another message to Ellison to follow up, sharing his phone number and thanking him again for the evening they spent together. “How was the conversation with Mario Rubio. Did he pass your scrutiny? Did you have a chance to talk about Israel?”
#3 A few hours later Ellison responded in the affirmative. “Hi Ron. Great meeting with Marco Rubio. I set him up to meet with Tony Blair,” adding, “Marco will be a great friend for Israel.”
#5 Follow-up email exchanges between Prosor and Ellison in April 2015 discussing previous meeting.
A month later, Ellison, who had backed Mitt Romney in 2012, hosted a fundraiser for Rubio at his mansion in Woodside, California. That would be only the beginning of a broader range of support that the tech billionaire would offer in attempting to bolster Rubio’s campaign. Over the course of the 2015-2016 primary Ellison plowed $5 million into the Conservative Solutions super PAC which supported Rubio, who, as Ellison privately hoped, advocated vocally for Israel throughout the course of his presidential bid and beyond.
Ellison’s support for Rubio perplexed some political observers at the time. The CEO of the political crowdfunding platform CrowdPac (now known as Crowdblue) Steven Hilton, told the San Francisco Chronicle that that (https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/ar ... hatgpt.com) he found it “interesting” that Ellison, who was not then well-known as a supporter of right-wing causes, “should support a candidate as conservative as Marco Rubio,” speculating that it could “reflect Rubio’s past effort to implement immigration reform, a crucial issue for Silicon Valley leaders like Ellison.”
Requests for comment about the exchange to Ellison, the U.S. State Department, and the Israeli Embassy in Germany where Prosor is currently stationed were not returned.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/larry-el ... ron-prosor