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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBunch: Trump's family takes Saudi cash and deals with MBS and Netanyahu. That's troublesome.
https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/trump-liv-golf-saudi-mbs-netanyahu-20240409.htmlNo paywall link
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Its now been seven years since one of the most iconic political moments of the Donald Trump era: the 2017 photo of the then-newly elected 45th president surrounded by Saudi Arabian royals and oligarchs dressed in traditional garb, all fondling a mysterious, glowing orb.
But for Trump and his family, the afterglow from that encounter and the beginning of what fictional American emigree-to-the-Arab-world Rick Blaine would have called a beautiful friendship with the Saudis has never dimmed.
This weekend, the endless gusher of petrodollars from Riyadh left their oily mark on the dim jewel of Trumps fast-fading empire, the Trump National Doral course outside of Miami. There, the Saudi-funded LIV Golf tour brought yet another televised and star-studded tournament to a resort owned by the 45th presidents business arm.
We dont how much the LIV tour largely a creation of the massive sovereign wealth fund controlled by the Saudi dictator Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) paid the Trump Organization for the three-day event. The LIV people insist the money is nominal, but no one would argue that the widely seen tournaments are propping up Trumps coffers at a time when his hotel brand is in the loo, and the established PGA golf tour is avoiding the ex-POTUS and his 88 felony charges.
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Bunch: Trump's family takes Saudi cash and deals with MBS and Netanyahu. That's troublesome. (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Apr 9
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mopinko
(70,162 posts)1. nominal. is that like the 'discounted rate' they charged the ss, and those military guys
that ended up staying in his hotel after he ordered them to fuel planes at a station close to his hotel?
Nevilledog
(51,157 posts)2. You know the payment is anything but nominal.
mopinko
(70,162 posts)3. and it isnt just for use of the course.