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https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-saudis-2661186735/'Former Trump lawyer gives DOJ a tip: Follow 'unholy relationships' with the Saudis'
'That is the opinion of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen who visited with MSNBC host Katie Phang early Saturday morning to discuss the groundbreaking indictment of a former president...Claiming such an inquiry could already be in the process of being pursued, Cohen told the host that Trump as well as son-in-law Jared Kushner appear to have an "unholy" relationship with the Saudis.
"I mean, this whole two plus billion dollars to an unqualified hedge funder makes no sense to me, and in light of the information that came out, that there was military information on Iran, and we all know what that Saudi Arabia has had with Iranian aggression on their mind for a long time -- who knows what was shown to them? Who knows what was discussed? Who knows what was sold? None of us."'
modrepub
(3,491 posts)we would have known what TFG was doing with classified information almost immediately. TFG is sloppy, lazy and works right out in the open. The M$M only seems to be interested in playing "both siderism" so that they get hits on their articles. Keep the masses sniping at one another to feed their coffers. To hell with actually figuring out what's going on and who the hell is out of their minds.
Marcus IM
(2,168 posts)What Wall Street wants, MSM projects.
live love laugh
(13,079 posts)Usually they broadcast things that are inevitable and unavoidablelike the indictment. Even when they do, their coverage is shallow and full of false equivalency or contextual failures.
LudwigPastorius
(9,104 posts)Well, it's starting to look like the "Iran attack plan" document that Trump crowed about was sold. Investigators can't find it.
The Saudis would surely love to have that, along with who-knows-what-else that Trump had in his possession.
Trump, his cronies, and Kushner all need to be thrown in Guantanamo until they talk.
peppertree
(21,600 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,795 posts)Big pot of gold there to buy, use and corrupt both the great and the small.
As a sidenote: The Saudis showered money on their American satraps, including the Bush family. They returned the favor with a couple of wars -- the first to keep Iraq's -- and by extension the world's -- hands off SA's oil; the second served to jack up prices and the worth of the holdings, five-fold.
Celerity
(43,107 posts)Three of these six nationsRussia, Israel, the UAEhad infiltrated deep into the Trump campaign by March 2016: Russia through Dimitri Simes; the UAE through Yousef al-Otaiba; Israel through Kushner, Groner, and Birnbaum. The campaign understood the plan these nations had.
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EXCLUSIVE: The secret yacht summit that realigned the Middle East
Arab leaders from UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Jordan plotted to counter Turkey and Iran, and replace the GCC and Arab League
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-secret-yacht-summit-realigned-middle-east
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How Trump was key to plans
The secret summit on the Red Sea took place towards the end of King Salmans first year in power, when his son MBS was only deputy crown prince. His chief obstacle to the Saudi throne lay in the form of his elder cousin Mohammed bin Nayef, who was crown prince and a favourite of Washingtons security establishment. MBS would become crown prince in June 2017, only after his father deposed Bin Nayef. Trump had only announced his candidacy months before in June 2015 when the Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton was leading in all the polls. She was thought by the Saudis and Emiratis to be more likely to ring fence the nuclear deal Barack Obama made with Iran, and to be generally more sceptical of their plans for a push back in the region.
Significantly, these Arab leaders decided in late 2015 that a wildcard presidential candidate in the shape of Trump could be the key to their plans to become the new regional hegemons. Months later, in January 2016, King Abdullah of Jordan briefed US Congressional leaders that Turkey presented the main threat to regional security. As MEE reported, the king told US congressmen in a closed meeting that Turkey exported terrorists to Europe, comments he was to deny publicly later. But Jordan then fell out dramatically with the group which had gathered on the yacht: Saudi Arabia decided that Amman did not go far enough in enforcing the blockade against Qatar, which was imposed in June last year. The split between Saudi and Jordan widened further when Jordan voted against Trumps move to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, which threatens Jordans role as custodian of the Holy Places in the city.
Nader the go-between
Nader has recently emerged as a key back channel between Bin Zayed and Trump. The New York Times has reported that Mueller is actively chasing financial links in order to establish whether the Emiratis illegally contributed funds to Trumps presidential campaign. It reported that in recent weeks Muellers investigators have questioned Nader and pressed witnesses about any possible attempts by the Emiratis to buy political influence by directing money to Trumps presidential campaign. On Friday, reports emerged of a slew of convictions that Nader had on charges of sexually abusing underage boys and possessing child pornography. Newsweek reported that Nader had been sentenced to six months on child pornography charges in Virginia. According to federal court records seen by Newsweek, Nader was convicted of bringing child pornography into the US from Germany. This was in addition to a conviction on 10 counts of sexually abusing underage boys in the Czech Republic for which he served one year in prison in 2003.
Despite this criminal history, Nader was actively used by Trump. He attended a meeting with Jared Kushner, Trumps son-in-law, and Steve Bannon, his chief political strategists at Trump Tower in New York in December 2016. A month later Nader, Erik Prince, the former head of Blackwater, and a Russian banker all attended a meeting in the Seychelles with Bin Zayed. Nader has long-standing connections with Israel. During the presidential elections bin Zayed sent Nader to meet Israeli officials to discuss how the two states can co-operate, a source told MEE. Nader established ties with Israel through an American Jewish fundraiser, Elliott Broidy, who is close to the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
According to the NYT, Broidy owns a private security company with hundreds of millions of dollars of contracts with the UAE. Broidy was removed as chairman of the Tel Aviv-based Markstone Capital Partners after admitting paying nearly $1m in bribes to pension fund managers in New York State. Broidy became deputy chairman of Trumps fundraising campaign. Citing a memorandum made by Broidy, and passed to the newspaper by someone critical of the Emirati influence in Washington, the NYT reported that Broidy lobbied Trump to meet Bin Zayed in an informal setting, to back the UAEs policies, and to push him to fire his secretary of state, Rex Tillerson. In response to the leaking of his memorandum, Broidy accused registered and unregistered agents of Qatar for the hacking. Broidy made the accusation through his press spokesman and in a letter to the Qatari ambassador in Washington.
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Israeli, Saudi, and Emirati Officials Privately Pushed For Trump To Strike A Grand Bargain With Putin
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/israeli-saudi-and-emirati-officials-privately-pushed-for-trump-to-strike-a-grand-bargain-with-putin
https://archive.ph/QPfJW
During a private meeting shortly before the November, 2016, election, Mohammed bin Zayed, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, floated to a longtime American interlocutor what sounded, at the time, like an unlikely grand bargain. The Emirati leader told the American that Vladimir Putin, the Russian President, might be interested in resolving the conflict in Syria in exchange for the lifting of sanctions imposed in response to Russias actions in Ukraine.
Current and former U.S. officials said that bin Zayed, known as M.B.Z., was not the only leader in the region who favored rapprochement between the former Cold War adversaries. While Americas closest allies in Europe viewed with a sense of dread Trumps interest in partnering with Putin, three countries that enjoyed unparallelled influence with the incoming AdministrationIsrael, Saudi Arabia, and the U.A.E.privately embraced the goal. Officials from the three countries have repeatedly encouraged their American counterparts to consider ending the Ukraine-related sanctions in return for Putins help in removing Iranian forces from Syria.
Experts say that such a deal would be unworkable, even if Trump were interested. They say Putin has neither the interest nor the ability to pressure Iranian forces to leave Syria. Administration officials have said that Syria and Ukraine will be among the topics that Trump and Putin will discuss at their summit in Helsinki on July 16th. White House officials did not respond to a request for comment.
The special counsel, Robert Mueller, and his F.B.I. team, tasked with probing Russias interference in the 2016 election, have been investigating whether the U.A.E. facilitated contacts between Trumps team and Russian officials and sought to influence U.S. politics. Nine days before Trumps Inauguration, Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater and a confidant of Steve Bannon, met at M.B.Z.s resort in the Seychelles with Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russias sovereign wealth fund, whom the Emiratis used as a go-between with Putin. (An April, 2017, Washington Post story that I co-wrote revealed the Indian Ocean encounter and stated that the UAE agreed to broker the meeting in part to explore whether Russia could be persuaded to curtail its relationship with Iran, including in Syria, a Trump administration objective that would be likely to require major concessions to Moscow on U.S. sanctions.)
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Exclusive: Jeffrey Epsteins investment in an Israeli start-up reveals a myriad of links to Donald Trump and Israeli spies.
https://narativ.org/2019/07/27/building-big-brother/
Its been thirty-two years since the Pollard Affair pierced the seemingly impenetrable facade of U.S.-Israeli relations. Now, two suspected Israeli agents are in jail indicted on separate charges of sex trafficking of minors. Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on July 6 and charged with trafficking minors across state lines. George Nader a key witness for Robert Mueller was arrested last month for possession of child porn and transporting a minor for sex from Europe.
Epstein and Nader share a personal network that includes Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, Erik Prince, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and his UAE counterpart, Mohamed Bin Zayed. But their association goes further than powerful friends and proclivities for teenage boys and girls. Epstein and Nader are believed to be agents for Israeli Intelligence. Narativ has independently confirmed with two separate sources who were in a position to know that Epstein worked for Israeli military intelligence.
Both men also have ties to a burgeoning Israeli tech sector which is bringing Mossad-style military intelligence to the private sector and endangering the global balance of power. The Haaretz newspaper has previously reported that Epstein, who was Donald Trumps friend through the 80s and 90s, partnered in an Israeli start-up alongside former Israel Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
Barak is seeking to unseat Benjamin Netanyahu as Israeli Prime Minister in the upcoming re-run elections scheduled for September. Since 2015, he has been the front-man for Carbyne, an Israeli start-up which purports to be a high-tech solution for 911 emergency call centers, but the platforms architecture and investors raise serious privacy concerns. Narativ undertook an extensive investigation into Carbyne, and can now reveal a myriad of troubling connections between the start-up and people connected to Donald Trump.
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erronis
(15,181 posts)Thank you for including the reference links.
Since I don't allow twitter content on my systems, those links are less helpful (unless I open in private windows.)
Celerity
(43,107 posts)Prince Mohammed bin Zayed expanded the U.A.E.s power by following Americas lead. He now has an increasingly bellicose agenda of his own. And President Trump seems to be following him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/02/world/middleeast/crown-prince-mohammed-bin-zayed.html
https://archive.is/OlWeX
Celerity
(43,107 posts)erronis
(15,181 posts)Did you have to get each from twitter, snapshot it and copy to an image storage service, and then paste into DU?
If so, or in any case, that's a helluva job.
Seth Abramson has been a good source for this material although he has had detractors. He now seems extremely prescient. I don't see much of him cited recently here.
Celerity
(43,107 posts)As for the tweets, I posted the articles backing it all up. It has all been a matter of public record for years.
here is Gyazo:
https://gyazo.com/en
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2naSalit
(86,330 posts)moondust
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Amid Blinken visit, top Saudi diplomat says kingdom seeks U.S. nuclear aid
Civilian? And how difficult is it to convert "civilian" to "military"?
SayItLoud
(1,701 posts)The Kushner company was going to be bankrupt due to their failing investment in what I call the devil building 666 Park Ave, NYC. They were months away from this fate because no one or companies would lease in the building which was old and needed a lot of upgrading. Then after meetings in Saudi Arabia with Kushner and team, tRUMP giving MBS a "he's an OK guy"....suddenly someone in the middle east leased that building for 1 Billion dollars. This prevented the bankruptcy.
No banks will load to tRUMP Org. but Saudis make him part of LIV Golf. Kushner gets 2 Billion.
IT's WHAT WE DON'T KNOW that we should be concerned about.
Follow the money anytime and every time one of the dirty rotten tRUMPS or Kushners get an infusion of cash.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)since Jared got the $$ quote a while ago. That doesn't mean he didn't share info back then tho. I mean really, what would be the difference between then and non-president now?
MOMFUDSKI
(5,433 posts)griping about HIM not getting $$$ from the bone saw guy? Right
mgardener
(1,812 posts)But days later the full board of the $620 billion Public Investment Fund led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabias de facto ruler and a beneficiary of Mr. Kushners support when he worked as a White House adviser overruled the panel.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/10/us/jared-kushner-saudi-investment-fund.html#:~:text=Six%20months%20after%20leaving%20the,the%20merits%20of%20the%20deal.
Jared Kushner got his money from the same people that are buying the PGA?
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/06/pga-tour-agrees-to-merge-with-saudi-backed-rival-liv-golf.html