Billionaire Saudi prince: Trump should end campaign

[denem]

Source: The Hill

A Saudi royal is calling for Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump to end his campaign.

“@RealDonaldTrump, you are a disgrace not only to the GOP but to all America,” Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal tweeted Friday. "Withdraw from the U.S. presidential race as you will never win.”

Bin Talal’s request follows Trump’s controversial call for a ban on admitting Muslims into the U.S. Trump has repeatedly defended the measure as necessary to prevent radical Islamic terrorism on American soil.
Forbes reported last June that Bin Talal is Saudi Arabia’s wealthiest billionaire, boasting a $24 billion personal fortune. He ranks No. 34 out of the world’s 100 richest individuals overall.


Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/262982-billionaire-saudi-prince-trump-will-never-win

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The Donald just got a get of jail free card here.

[CJCRANE]

1. Remember this: "Giuliani rejects $10 million from Saudi prince"

EXCERPT:

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Thursday the city would not accept a $10 million donation for disaster relief from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal after the prince suggested U.S. policies in the Middle East contributed to the September 11 attacks.

"I entirely reject that statement," Giuliani said. "There is no moral equivalent for this [terrorist] act. There is no justification for it. The people who did it lost any right to ask for justification for it when they slaughtered 4,000 or 5,000 innocent people."

LINK to CNN:

http://edition.cnn.com/2001/US/10/11/rec.giuliani.prince/

[Matariki]

17. Yeah, except U.S. policies in the Middle East DID contribute to the September 11 attacks.

[CJCRANE]

27. Who funded and facilitated the hijackers?

There is some kind of weird wilful ignorance going on in society.

[romanic]

2. Trump is a piece of shit.

But so is this "prince" and his vicious royal family of jihadi breeders. Fuck him.

[Katashi_itto]

3. Lol...they finance terrorism around the globe. Back a hit on us and now they worry

about the rise of a fascist emperor?

[AllyCat]

7. ^^^this^^^

My thoughts exactly. Guess they don't like competition for fueling terrorism.

[winstars]

4. Billionaire Wars, a new show coming soon to Discovery Channel....

This is a strange political year. I have had to (re)learn the correct spelling of Fascist and billionaire since apparently I have NEVER had to actually spell them before in my freaking life!

[JI7]

5. yeah but the saudi royals are a disgrace also

[denem]

6. Trump replies: Dopey Prince @Alwaleed_Talal

... wants to control our U.S. politicians with daddy’s money. Can’t do it when I get elected.

[truthisfreedom]

9. SOMEONE wants to control US politics with daddy's money

Huh, trumpet?

[AnnetteJacobs]

8. Don't the Saudis have close ties with Jeb Bush's family?

If so, this announcement is no accident.

[groundloop]

12. However, it's not like a Saudi prince is gonna' have any influence in Goper primary

This will only drive up trump's ratings among the far right. I'm seeing this with some of my relatives who normally have zero interest in politics. They're really digging on the hatred being spewed by this asshole, there will be quite a few far-right fist time voters this election cycle. Damn I can't stand to think of what will happen if many Democrats sit out the general election, it would be worse than when that half-wit B-movie actor got elected.

[Nonhlanhla]

10. Pot meets kettle. nt.

[dembotoz]

11. same saudi guy who is murdocks fox partner?

[greymattermom]

13. yep

http://bigthink.com/Resurgence/sharia-prince-owns-stake-in-fox-news-parent

[greymattermom]

14. so can this guy tell Fox news

to stop showing the Donald?

[bullwinkle428]

20. Does anyone need further proof that Fox News is the "WWE" of journalism?

[Hekate]

15. Now he's done it

[Matariki]

16. "Withdraw from the U.S. presidential race as you will never win.”

He talks as if he owns the United States Election process and not like someone making a sensible observation about mainstream America.

[LanternWaste]

24. He also talks as though he posts on an internet political discussion board.

"He talks as if he owns the United States Election process..."

He also talks as though he posts on an internet political discussion board. Change Trump to Clinton or Sanders, and his words could come straight from GD-Primaries.

[Matariki]

25. lol

so true!

[chapdrum]

18. Pot calling kettle

Don's as fundamentalist as the Prince.

Note that they didn't complain about W.

As if oil hasn't proven itself enough of a dual-edged sword, there's the wonderful overlay of having
the medieval Saudis as "allies."

Yep, Don's cut from the same cloth as Sir Prince.

[Octafish]

19. Guy owns a big chunk o' Fox, Twitter, etc.

Alwaleed, considered the richest man in the Middle East and a nephew of the late King Abdullah, is a major investor in both 21st Century Fox, in which his company Kingdom Holdings is the second-largest voting shareholder with a 6.6 percent stake, and Twitter, in which it is said to hold more than 3 percent. Earlier this year, the investment vehicle sold a stake in News Corp. valued at $190 million and reducing its holding to around 1 percent.

SOURCE: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/billionaire-fox-shareholder-calls-donald-848272

Says Drumpf's a "disgrace" which is a terrific way of putting him.

[MosheFeingold]

21. Pot meet kettle

Trump is an ass, but Saudi Arabia has accepted exactly ZERO refugees.

[former9thward]

22. The prince is a top Clinton Foundation donor.

He also enjoys throwing dwarfs.

Saudi Arabia's Dwarf-Throwing Billionaire

Worth an estimated $27 billion, the enigmatic Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has very public holdings: he is the second-largest voting shareholder in News Corp., he owns Paris’s George V hotel and part of New York City’s Plaza hotel, he is a stockholder in Apple, and he will soon own the world’s tallest building. But the private origins—and exact size—of his massive fortune are the subject of continued debate between bin Talal and prominent media outlets. So what’s the truth? And does one of the richest men on Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index—a calorie-counting cell-phone addict who loves texting James Murdoch—really spend his free time throwing dwarves?

Maybe because stories about dwarf-tossing at his desert encampments became public, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the 58-year-old Saudi Arabian financial, media, and real-estate mogul, no longer invites journalists to visit his $130 million, 460,000-square-foot Riyadh complex with 371 rooms, an 80-foot-high entrance hall, 500 televisions, and a staff of 100. The prince has traditionally been proud to show off his immense wealth, but he has also worked hard to become the Western face of Saudi finance, and slinging dwarves around like so much hash would not go down too well with a First World audience.


http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2013/03/myth-prince-alwaleed-bin-talal-saudi

[NobodyHere]

23. Fuck the prince

Fuck dictators. These guys are 10 times worse than Trump.

[WDIM]

26. The Saudi's and their brutal backwards sexist racist royal family

Need to stay out of our elections.

We need to cut all ties with that brutal barbarian narrow minded sexist racist Daesh regime.