(1) Phares was named in a major Center for American Progress report, Fear Inc, as one of the “validators” that made up an Islamophobia network in America.
(2) One example is Trump’s appointment of Walid Phares as an adviser to his foreign policy team.
(3) More worryingly an email sent to activists by Act bragged that it now has “a direct line to President-elect Trump through our allies such as … Walid Phares”.
(4) Phares is also a former board member of the anti-Muslim propagandist organisation the Clarion Project, and a contributing editor to the anti-Muslim online publication Family Security Matters .
(5) Importantly Phares sits on the board of advisers of America’s largest anti-Muslim organisation, Act for America.
(6) Phares suggested the main intended recipient of the White House message was Moscow.
(7) President Trump’s warning to the Assad regime not to use chemical weapons against Syrians is based on intelligence submitted to the administration about such [a] possibility,” Walid Phares, a Trump adviser on the Middle East during the campaign, told the Guardian.