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A foreign “spy sheikh” secretly bought an “unprecedented” stake in a Donald Trump company, the Wall Street Journal reveals. The report was obtained through “leaks from within”.
For the first time in US history, a employee of a foreign government acquired “important shareholder participation in the company of an American president about to take office”, according to a report published on Saturday by the newspaper.
According to the WSJ report, a “spy sheikh” signed an “unprecedented” deal to buy part of Trump’s company for 500 billion of dollars.
According to the report, “four days before the inauguration of Donald Trump last year, lieutenants of a member of royal family of Abu Dhabi secretly signed an agreement with the Trump family to acquire 49% of yours at the incipient height cryptocurrency company for $500 billion, according to company documents and people familiar with the matter.”
“Buyers would pay half in advancefunneling $187 million to Trump family entities. The agreement with World Liberty Financial, which had not previously been reported, was signed by Eric Trumpson of the president”, says the report.
According to documents obtained by the WSJ, “at least 31 million dollars were also allocated to entities linked to the family of Steve Witkoffwhich weeks before had been appointed US envoy to the Middle East,
“The investment was supported by xeque Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyana member of the Abu Dhabi royal family, who has been pressuring the United States to obtain access to artificial intelligence chips rigorously protected,” says the WSJ.
Tahnoon, sometimes referred to as the “spy sheikh“, is the brother of the president of the United Arab Emirates, the government’s national security advisor, as well as leader of the largest wealth fund in the country.
“The sheikh supervises a empire worth more than 1.3 billion dollarsfinanced by his personal fortune and state money that ranges from fish farms to AI and surveillance, making him one of the most powerful individual investors in the world”, says the WSJ.
The release of the report provoked outrage among political figures and analystsnote or .
“Calling this the most corrupt administration in history America does not truly do him justice, because no previous president, Republican or Democrat, hasa fraud on this scale would not even be conceived“, no X Gregg CarlstromMiddle East correspondent for The Economist.
To a former Republican representative Barbara Comstock also in X, which “when Trump’s corruption story is in the WSJ… the leaks will come from inside the house?…”
“Corruption at an unimaginable level under any previous administration. And the people were furious that Hunter Biden sold some paintings mediocre”, the political scientist Brendan Nyhan.
Tennessee Holler asked: “So…a bribe? Trump got $500 million and the UAE got ‘tightly protected’ AI chips. How is this not exactly a bribe?”
“Almost every day a real corruption scandal emerges of Trump that is billions beyond even the most creative fantasies about Hunter Biden. The power and US influence traded to enrich Trump and his family”, the activist and former world chess champion Garry Kasparov.
Nothing new to the West.
