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Jan 16 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
BREAKING: Multimillion dollar payments from ⁦⁦@LIVGolfInv⁩ , Reportedly 93% owned by MBS-Controlled Fund, to Trump Golf Resorts Raise Serious Questions about Conflict of Interest, Threats to National Security
dawnmena.org/u-s-investigat…
“The revelation that a fund controlled by Crown Prince MBS actually owns almost all of LIV Golf means that MBS has been paying Donald Trump unknown millions for the past two years, via their mutual corporate covers”
"The national security implications of payments from a grotesquely abusive foreign dictator to a president of the United States who provided extraordinary favors to him are as dangerous as they are shocking."
“Trump made no secret of endless favors he granted MBS & Saudi during his term in office, from his first state visit to the country, to vetoing legislation banning arms sales to the country, to protecting MBS by hiding the CIA's report concluding MBS ordered Khashoggi's murder”
“The absence of strong conflict of interest laws has created a dangerous & expanding threat to US national security, as former U.S. officials – even a former president – increasingly race to monetize their work for our government into lucrative contracts with foreign governments”
"Given that Trump is also planning to run again for president, his business ties to Mohamed bin Salman are a national security emergency."
The real task for Congress is to end the terrible incentives that the absence of robust conflict of interest laws have created, allowing rich tyrants to buy even American presidents.
Oh and in case you missed the revelations of #saudi infiltration of @Wikipedia followed by @Wikimedia bans on 16 admins most in Saudi:

dawnmena.org/saudi-arabia-g…
And this really isn’t about Trump. He’s just a great example. 500+ American military incl generals are now on payrolls of Gulf states (and a few others) at salaries 10x what they earned in government.

This is dangerous for all of us. Remember “us”?

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Jan 14
Revelations @LIVGolfInv owned almost entirely by MBS-controlled Saudi public investment fund suggests a direct trail of $$ from MBS to Trump (on top of $2b to his son-in-law @jaredkushner)

URGENTLY requires congressional investigation @SenWarren @ChrisMurphyCT @RepAdamSchiff
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Interview with @KenRoth for @DAWN_Journal here, first major interview since the @Kennedy_School dean's debacle... Read here!

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@KenRoth @DAWN_Journal @Kennedy_School @Omid_M "I worry about younger academics who will take the message that if they criticize Israel, they jeopardize their career. That is a terrible lesson for Harvard to be teaching." @KenRoth speaks to @Omid_M in @DAWN_Journal
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Apr 27, 2022
On #Israel #Palestine- important updates:
1) 6 months on, @StateDept is still "reviewing" non-existent "evidence" Israel provided re designation of 6 Palestinian civil society orgs as "terrorist" - but US has not agreed to so designate
state.gov/briefings/depa…
2) Israel is now implementing new regulations requiring foreigners to get *military* approval to travel to the West Bank -- this is the Gazaification of the West Bank, designed to cut Palestinians off from the world, banning Palestinians from leaving and foreigners from coming in
And apropos of this: "Six months since Israel's politicized designation of leading civil society groups as 'terrorist', Israel has not offered a shred of evidence to support its deliberate slander of these groups, and not one goverment in the world has supported Israel's findings
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Mar 1, 2022
Lightning fast decision of the ICC to open an investigation into Ukraine. Cites earlier grants of authority circa 2014 by Ukraine government
Prosecutor must seek approval from the Pre trial chamber to proceed but seems to urgent ICC State Parties to do so as a faster route.
It took *years* to get the ICC prosecutor to first agree to examine and then years more to agree to investigate the war crimes in Palestine - including Israeli settlements. The investigation is still…….. ongoing….. as baton was passed to new prosecutor.
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Jan 7, 2022
U.S.: Sanction #Egypt Officials Implicated in Spying on U.S.-based Critics of Egyptian Government dawnmena.org/u-s-sanction-e…
"In the wake of the #Saudi murder of Jamal Khashoggi and other attacks on U.S. based critics of Middle Eastern governments, we need to recognize that #Egypt's targeted spying on critics here in the U.S. puts them in grave danger of violence and harm
"That #Egypt has breached our government's trust is the least of it; this is a direct effort to threaten, harass, and intimidate the people of our country, including thousands of Egyptians who have sought asylum from persecution by al-Sisi."
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Jan 6, 2022
“The @PGA stars who assemble in #Saudi Arabia —currently includes ⁦@PhilMickelson⁩ ⁦@DJohnsonPGA⁩ , ⁦@b_dechambeau⁩ & ⁦@TheSergioGarcia⁩ García — are doing so for the paychecks. There’s no disguising the fact that it’s blood money. washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/01…
“The notion that the PIF is some independent financial authority that isn’t used to carry out murders & assassinations at the beck & call of MBS is just patently untrue.He does &has been using the PIF as a fig leaf between his face on things and Saudi Arabia’s face on things.”
“What they’re doing is taking millions of dollars from a regime that has kept alive an inexplicable civil war in #Yemen for nearly seven years with as Whitson said, “no military strategy or military gains, achieving only the starvation and destruction of a neighboring country.”
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