What I suspect we'll learn either from House investigation subpoenas or the discovery process from the emoluments clause case making its way through the courts, is that through this whole diplomatic crises MBS has been dumping money into Trump business interests. Saudis are experts at playing the bribery game, and we already know they've been actively doing this with Trump. It was reported last summer Saudis were responsible for 13% of Q1 revenue of Trump International Hotel in NYC spent during a 5 day visit by Saudi officials in March.
And lets face it, there's no way Trump acts the way he's acting right now towards the Saudis without having a personal stake in the game. The pattern is just too familiar with how we've seen him act over Russia. Once again he's siding with the word of a foreign autocrat over his own intel agencies; flatly lying about their conclusions "we'll never know" and "it is what it is".
What's interesting is how CIA anticipated he would do this and leaked its confidential report MBS was directly responsible to preempt him the day before Trump's announcement. Whenever a highly politically sensitive classified report is leaked in advanced to the press, especially when it will contradict and undermine a president's words, the agent leaking it is seriously sticking their neck out and risking their career. Someone high up in IC has to be seriously pissed.
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6 years ago
What I suspect we'll learn either from House investigation subpoenas or the discovery process from the emoluments clause case making its way through the courts, is that through this whole diplomatic crises MBS has been dumping money into Trump business interests. Saudis are experts at playing the bribery game, and we already know they've been actively doing this with Trump.
And I think we've got BINGO! Couldn't agree with you more.
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