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Enquiring mind wrote on Oct 17 th, 2019 at 2:45pm: greggerypeccary wrote on Oct 17 th, 2019 at 1:17pm: Enquiring mind wrote on Oct 17 th, 2019 at 12:57pm: President Elect, The Mechanic wrote on Oct 17 th, 2019 at 11:13am: Once again Pelosi and Cryin Chuck do a meltdown in the Whitehouse and go running outside to the waiting media to tell them that it was actually Trump who had a meltdown... Imagine if these Liberal Lunatics were in power... They’d fire Nuclear Missiles ☢️ Getting the US into WWIII and then blame the Russians..  The US dodged a bullet when Trump was elected.. I agree, Serial. If Mr Trump wants to hand Syria over to Russia, that's up to him. He's sending those troops to Saudi Arabia to help them. Any idea what hotel they'll be staying in? Ah. Quote:Before Donald Trump even took office in January 2017, serious concerns were being raised about his nebulous business connections with Russian oligarchs, Saudi royals and other international actors. The list was long and singularly troubling, made all the more so by Trump’s flat refusal to release his tax records despite repeated promises to do just that. Now that accusations of Iranian involvement in an attack on a major Saudi oil facility are flying out of the White House, Trump’s financial connections to Saudi Arabia have once again moved to center stage.
Trump’s financial dealings with Saudi Arabia have been anything but small change. In 2001, he sold the entire 45th floor of Trump Tower to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for $4.5 million. The fact that Trump is the 45th president serves as further proof that the universe has a gruesome sense of humor.
The five apartments included 10 bedrooms and 13 bathrooms at the time of the sale,” reports The New York Daily News, “and had yearly common charges of $85,585 for building amenities, documents obtained by the Daily News show. If those common charges remain the same, Trump was paid at least $5.7 million by the Saudi government since 2001.” In 2008, that entire 45th floor of Trump Tower, according to the Daily News, “became part of the Saudi Mission to the United Nations.”
Shorter version: The government of Saudi Arabia is literally living in Trump’s house today, right now, and is paying him for the privilege.
This was not the first time Trump and Saudi Arabia crossed financial paths. Ten years before the Trump Tower deal, Trump (again) found himself hundreds of millions of dollars in debt. He was forced to hand his 281-foot mega yacht, originally purchased from the sultan of Brunei and dubbed “Trump Princess,” over to creditors. The creditors subsequently sold the boat to Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, who is a stakeholder in the Plaza Hotel in New York, another Trump property.
"They buy apartments from me,” Trump said at a rally in Alabama in 2015. “They spend $40 million, $50 million. Am I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.” Trump has ample reason to “like them very much”: After his inauguration, the Saudi government “spent $190,273 at the Trump hotel [in Washington D.C.] in early 2017, as well as an additional $78,204 on catering,” according to The New York Times. https://truthout.org/articles/saudi-arabia-owns-the-45th-floor-of-trump-tower-an...We like Mr Trump too, Greggery. Why not? " The government of Saudi Arabia is literally living in Trump’s house today, right now, and is paying him for the privilege."
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