President Donald Trump is evidently
a disquieted man over recent revelation that his son, Donald Trump Jr. met with
an emissary representing two Middle Eastern princes who offered Trump illegal
assistance in winning the 2016 election.
Reported
the story, The New York Times wrote
:
Three months before the 2016
election, a small group gathered at Trump Tower to meet with Donald Trump Jr.,
the president’s eldest son. One was an Israeli specialist in social media
manipulation.
Another was an emissary for two
wealthy Arab princes. The third was a Republican donor with a controversial
past in the Middle East as a private security contractor.
Erik Prince, the private security
contractor and the former head of Blackwater, arranged the meeting, which took
place on Aug. 3, 2016.
The emissary, George Nader, told
Donald Trump Jr. that the crown princes who led Saudi Arabia and the United
Arab Emirates were eager to help his father win election as president.
The social media specialist, Joel
Zamel, extolled his company’s ability to give an edge to a political campaign;
by that time, the firm had already drawn up a multimillion-dollar proposal for
a social media manipulation effort to help elect Mr. Trump.
It was more than Russia illegally
helping Trump. [End]
New York Times, therefore, called
for the special counsel’s Russia probe to “STOP!”
The
meeting shows that the Trump campaign was open for business. It wasn’t just
Russia that was interested in interfering in the US presidential election.
What
the Middle Eastern princes want is to guide US policy in their region. They
also represent nations that are enemies of Iran.
Since
winning the election, Trump’s White House orbit has taken money from these
Middle Eastern nations and the US has pulled out the Iran nuclear deal, and
hinted that military action against Iran is possible.
There
were more nations involved in illegally funneling gifts and money to the Trump
campaign than Russia.
Word
got out very quickly that Trump was open for business, and US foreign policy
was for sale.
Reacting,
some U.S. media suggested
that this is criminal corruption on a level, both foreign and domestic, that
the United States has never seen before.
They,
therefore, concluded that Trump and his entire family have engaged in illegal
activity, and suggested that their next stop should be a federal supermax
prison.
TRUMP SLAMS NY TIMES REPORT ABOUT
ANOTHER TRUMP JR. MEETING
Reacting to the allegation though, President Trump in a series of tweets on Sunday called New York Times names as “Failing and Crooked”.
He blasted the media firm over the report that his son, Trump Jr. met three months before the election with an emissary from two Arab princes
He tweeted:
Things are really getting ridiculous. The Failing and Crooked (but not as Crooked as Hillary Clinton) @nytimes has done a long & boring story indicating that the World’s most expensive Witch Hunt has found nothing on Russia & me so now they are looking at the rest of the World!
The newspaper reported that Trump’s oldest son met at the Trump Tower in August 2016 with George Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman.
Nader claimed he was representing the crown princes of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and that they wanted to help his father win the election.
Joel Zamel, an Israeli political strategist, also attended the meeting and talked about how his company could benefit the campaign.
The sitdown was reportedly arranged by Erik Prince, a private military contractor and brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
A lawyer for Donald Jr. told the newspaper the meeting was about a marketing pitch that his client rejected.
Trump’s son and campaign officials – including Jared Kushner and former campaign chairman Paul Manafort – met with a Kremlin-connected lawyer offering dirt on Hillary Clinton at the Trump Tower in June 2016.
In another Tweet, the president continued to lash out at special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the election and any collusion on the part of Trump’s campaign associates, calling it a “Witch Hunt.”
“Republicans and real Americans should start getting tough on this Scam,” he concluded.
Mueller, a Republican, was appointed to head the FBI by President George W. Bush in 2001, and was named as special counsel in May 2017 by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, a Trump appointee.
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