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"MBS was accepted by the previous administration ..." I would like to paint Trump as the only bad apple, but the Saudis have likely paid off every American Pre
by AtlasBarfed 5y ago
"MBS was accepted by the previous administration ..."
I would like to paint Trump as the only bad apple, but the Saudis have likely paid off every American President in the last 40 years with a flood of shadow money. He was accepted by the previous administration because Trump got a healthy dose of that shadow money (there's a half-dozen on the front page of google search results alone).
There's a half dozen stories about this for Trump. Here's one for Obama:
https://www.denverpost.com/2019/10/29/middleman-helped-saudi-give-obama-inaugural/ https://www.denverpost.com/2019/10/29/middleman-helped-saudi...
We now know the inauguration fund is a big shadow slush fund for presidents. So is the presidential library, and the usual post-term speech circuit and "consulting".
These people and power structures exist because of concentrated oil wealth, and we should move towards alternative energy and BEVs to bankrupt these corrupt regimes and the corruption they exert on our country.