Michael Glassner is the deputy campaign manager for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and the president of his own consulting firm, C&M Transcontinental.
In 2014, Glassner joined the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a group that works to strengthen American ties to Israel. In February 2016, Glassner said, "My interest in pro-Israel politics had grown exponentially. Particularly since 9-11, which represented a real credible threat to all Americans and in particular as a Jew, I felt very strongly about the threat of radical Islam and so I became more and more involved with AIPAC." At AIPAC, Glassner was the Southwest regional political director.

Jared Kushner (Trump's son-in-law, and publisher of the weekly New York Observer, which recently applauded Gov. Cuomo's executive order to divest state funds for any business supporting BDS against Israel--calling the pro-BDS crowd 'anti-Israel and anti-Semitic.'

For the presidential campaign of his father-in-law Donald Trump, Kushner has helped as a speechwriter and been charged with working to establish a plan for Trump's White House transition team should he be elected.