1. Trump's candidacy for president raises the prospect of a major party nominee that is effectively on the payroll of a foreign government.

Since leaving the White House, Trump and his family have received BILLIONS from Saudi officials

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2. The LIV golf tour, which is run by the Saudi Public Investment Fund, held two of its eight tournaments on Trump courses, including the season-ending championship at Trump Doral in Florida.

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3. How much did the Saudis pay to use Trump's courses. That hasn't been disclosed by Trump was very happy.

"It’s big time and it’s big-time money," Trump said in October. "It’s unlimited money."

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4. The Saudi Public Investment Fund also "invested" $2 billion with Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

Kushner has no experience with private equity

Kushner's most significant business experience was nearly bankrupting his family real estate company

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5. The committee at the Saudi Public Investment Fund responsible for vetting investments recommended rejecting Kushner.

The committee was overruled by the Crown Prince

Under the deal, Kushner will receive a $25 million annual management fee, plus a percentage of any profits.

6. Earlier this week, Trump "struck a deal with a Saudi-based real estate company to license its name to a housing and golf complex that will be built in Oman."

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7. Under the arrangement, Trump will receive "a cut of condo sales or golf course revenue in exchange for allowing its name to be used."

It's a $1.6 billion project.

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8. Trump has simply ignored these kinds of conflicts before, but the situation is even worse than before. Trump is much more dependent on his business relationship with one country, Saudi Arabia.

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@juddlegum Jared has no problem doing business with the butcher
@juddlegum Nothing fishy... Nothing at all...
@juddlegum let's not forget he supposedly is doing a licensing deal with a Saudi company for their golf courses. Awful.
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I just joined Mastodon, and you are my first choice to commuicate with. Via email, maybe in an up and coming article you could give info on how this works! e.g., what does the star represent? is that how to "like"?
Hopefully, this venue can replace all that's wrong with Twitter, especially if Twitter quits!
@juddlegum It's good to have frenz. 👓
@juddlegum when you lie down with murderers, you wake up covered in blood money
@juddlegum The prince of death is paying for the nuclear secrets trump gave him. Cannot be more clear.
@juddlegum But it's Trump talking, so we could be looking at millions, or $1000 bucks.
@juddlegum A season ending championship that no one noticed or remarked on.
@juddlegum My hypothesis: LIV is a shell company to hide background transactions, including certain documents that were uncovered.
@juddlegum These are quite extraordinary sums of money. There's surely a lot going on behind the scenes that need investigating. Could this be connected with the restricted documents that Trump stole & stashed away? I trust someone is following this up? Where's USA's national security?
@juddlegum don’t you mean it raises this prospect *again*?
@juddlegum 😂 Wait, are we *still* playing the "foreign agent" conspiracy game? If three years of fabrications don't cut it, just start over with a new evil nexus, lol.
@juddlegum The Founding Fathers thought such things would be self-correcting - they believed that a nation, when presented with a scoundrel, wouldn't elect one. Oh dear.
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It's refreshing to see I'm not alone in pit yelling about the Saudi-Trump connection.
Of course Jared.
Of course Russia.
@juddlegum Every republican politician clamors over the next so their servility will garner an "employee of the month" award from a billionaire.
@juddlegum the USA is already bought by Saudi Arabia and China and Russia among others. Here in Arizona Saudi Arabia owns water rights to grow alfalfa for its cattle. Wrong
@juddlegum no doubt the money trail leads to the ant hil rather than the actual individuals. The problem will be getting over the barrier that proves personal culpability.
@juddlegum same question, different foreign government.
@juddlegum And so we have Emoluments writ large?
@juddlegum This is being overlooked by all those who cowtail to him and his ego, at the risk of our democracy.
@juddlegum @davetroy This is an absolutely crucial point that people don't register: Foreign governments understand the value of Trump's *platform* as a presidential candidate. Remember he was running around in 2015-16 shifting the national conversation on Putin's 2014 invasion of Ukraine ("Wouldn't it be nice if we got along w/Russia?") at the same time Putin was dangling a Trump Tower Moscow deal. Trump doesn't have to win to be their tool. He's already for sale as a social media influencer.
@juddlegum should he be registered fara? As a matter of fact the whole fam damily should 😬
@juddlegum Trump's entire run via the GOP is a threat to the GOP structure.
Basically he's saying give me the nomination or I'll leave and burn you down.
@juddlegum doesn't a lot of that go toward the interest on Deutsche Bank and Russian mafia loans?