UAE email leak: Yousef al-Otaiba criticises Trump

Source: aljazeera

The latest round of leaked emails of the United Arab Emirates' ambassador to the United States reveal repeated criticism by the diplomat of US President Donald Trump. The Huffington Post, the US media outlet that received the latest series of emails, said they showed Yousef al-Otaiba denigrating Trump and others in communications with officials close to then President Barack Obama.

The Huffington Post said one of the emails showed Otaiba corresponding with Rob Malley, Obama's chief adviser on the Middle East, on election night. "You got room for me in Abu Dhabi?" Malley wrote to Otaiba. "This isn't funny," the UAE ambassador responded. "How/why is this happen. On what planet can Trump be a president."

In another exchange from 2016 with Judith Miller, a right-wing US commentator who reportedly sent Otaiba a series of tweets from a Saudi whistle-blower that criticised Emirati Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE diplomat said "the 7 minutes I spent reading this was the equivalent of watching 7 minutes of Donald Trump. A waste of my time."

The latest email leak comes after US media reported on Saturday that emails, released by a group called "GlobalLeaks" - not affiliated with the software developer, GlobaLeaks - showed clear collaboration between Otaiba and a pro-Israel think-tank in an attempt to discredit Qatar.



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