AP Breaking: Trump back channel is for sale and seller is Eliot Broidy

[MyNameIsKhan]

https://www.apnews.com/a3521859cf8d4c199cb9a8567abd2b71/The-princes,-the-president-and-the-fortune-seekers

Broidy and his business partner, Lebanese-American George Nader, pitched themselves to the crown princes as a backchannel to the White House, passing the princes’ praise — and messaging — straight to the president’s ears.

Now, in December 2017, Broidy was ready to be rewarded for all his hard work.

It was time to cash in.

In return for pushing anti-Qatar policies at the highest levels of America’s government, Broidy and Nader expected huge consulting contracts from Saudi Arabia and the UAE, according to an Associated Press investigation based on interviews with more than two dozen people and hundreds of pages of leaked emails between the two men. The emails reviewed by the AP included work summaries and contracting documents and proposals.

The AP has previously reported that Broidy and Nader sought to get an anti-Qatar bill through Congress while obscuring the source of the money behind their influence campaign. A new cache of emails obtained by the AP reveals an ambitious, secretive lobbying effort to isolate Qatar and undermine the Pentagon’s longstanding relationship with the Gulf country.

[bearsfootball516]

1. Pay. To. Play.

[iluvtennis]

15. Exactly. Everything Don the Con was doing (eg pay for play). He

Was doing bigly. Talk about projection... trump’s number one ploy

[salin]

16. Far beyond what in the past has been pay to play. Now - use the US govt - as a personal profit

center.

Without any concern for the good of the US citizens. There is a new phrase needed for this more extreme version of pay to play.

[BigmanPigman]

20. There is a great, detailed article on DU under Good Reads...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016207055
Broidy is incredibly arrogant. The whole thing is CORRUPTION to the Nth degree. The Dems should run on "corruption". I think I read on DU that the party has decided this would be a winning strategy...drain the swamp. Since Fux Ruse and RW hate radio hasn't told anyone anything about the incredible amount of corruption taking place in this admin and the GOP it is up to the Dems to educate them somehow. The swamp is swampier more than ever.

[NightWatcher]

2. This is why Broidy was all too happy to take the blame for trump's abortion and quit his post w RNC

[MyNameIsKhan]

4. Now it is making sense, the deals are worth $1 Billion, everyday this man disgusts me

[GrapesOfWrath]

5. Bingo

+1

[MyNameIsKhan]

6. So Broidy takes blame for impregnating Playboy model in exchange of $1 bill contracts and anti Qatar

policy, Repugs will still say so what ! its ok...

[enough]

11. Yes. NT

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Holy Batshit.

Talk about some nasty crap.

[riversedge]

7. "The cache also reveals a previously unreported meeting with the president and provides the most det

....The AP conducted an exhaustive review of the emails and documents, checking their content with dozens of sources, and determined that they tracked closely with real events, including efforts to cultivate the princes and lobby Congress and the White House.

The cache also reveals a previously unreported meeting with the president and provides the most detailed account yet of the work of two Washington insiders who have been entangled in the turmoil surrounding the two criminal investigations closest to Trump.

Lobbying in pursuit of personal gain is nothing new in Washington — Trump himself, in fact, turned the incestuous culture into a rallying cry when he promised to “drain the swamp.”

“I will Make Our Government Honest Again -- believe me,” Trump tweeted before the election. “But first, I’m going to have to #DrainTheSwamp in DC.”

Broidy’s campaign to alter U.S. policy in the Middle East and reap a fortune for himself shows that one of the president’s top money men found the swamp as navigable as ever with Trump in office......................


......Summaries written by Broidy of two meetings he had with Trump — one of which has not been disclosed before — report that he was passing messages to the president from the two princes and that he told Trump he was seeking business with them.................

[MyNameIsKhan]

8. And Nader is pedophile! Like men have company ....

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Broidy & Cohen ran Republicon National Committee finances. Republican Party is in deep. . . . nt

[magicarpet]

10. Creatures of the swamp around every bend and turn.....

... of the trDump White House.

[Scurrilous]

12. K&R

[Uncle Joe]

13. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread MyNameIsKhan

[gordianot]

14. It is all about cashing in, does not matter too much who or what you represent.

Russia, China, Saudi, Qutari, Phillipino, Turk, Israeli, North Korean etc. etc. have money and are you a despot; then you can play. Trump is a damned “For Sale” sign.

[Roland99]

17. Didn't drain the swamp. Filled it. Sold it off and it filled it up again!

[sfwriter]

18. Treason

“The AP has previously reported that Broidy and Nader sought to get an anti-Qatar bill through Congress while obscuring the source of the money behind their influence campaign. A new cache of emails obtained by the AP reveals an ambitious, secretive lobbying effort to isolate Qatar and undermine the Pentagon’s longstanding relationship with the Gulf country.”

[flibbitygiblets]

19. Broidy's biz partner, Nader, is a Mueller cooperating witness as of March 2018

So whatever he knows, Bob knows too.