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Showing Original Post only (View all)Whistleblower says Saudi Arabia & the Emirate of Abu Dhabi bought the 2016 election for Donald Trump [View all]
Andy Khawaja: The whistleblower
Andy Khawaja is charged with campaign finance violations. He says theres a bigger story
Paul Wood
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They fucked me, Paul, they fucked me. First, they destroyed my business. Now theyre coming after me. Andy Khawaja believes hes being persecuted because of what he knows. And what he knows, he tells me, is that Saudi Arabia and the Emirate of Abu Dhabi bought the 2016 election for Donald Trump.
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Khawaja claims the Saudis and the Emiratis illegally paid tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars to the Trump campaign in 2016. He says that to keep it secret, they disguised the money as small donations from Americans, using stolen identities and virtual credit cards or gift cards donations of less than $200 do not have to be reported to the Federal Election Commission and made public. He claims the Saudis and the Emiratis were able to make thousands of such small donations at a time using the latest payment processing technology. Khawaja knows this, he says, because he sold the know-how to their middleman, George Nader, who will be the central character in this story.
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The Khawaja legend is that he grew up poor in Lebanon during the civil war, picking up bullet casings from the street to sell for scrap. He escaped at the age of 14, made his way alone to the United States and found his first job in a Wendys in New Jersey. Although his real first name is Ahmad, hes been Andy ever since he arrived. He worked as a cashier in a supermarket and eventually moved on to selling jackets on Rodeo Drive in Los Angeles. Realizing that it was hard for shops to take payments from foreign credit cards, he then started a company, Allied Wallet, to make it easy. Payment processing is Khawajas business. He knows credit cards and he knows how to move money. He may also know how to move money secretly.
In early 2016, Khawaja wanted to create an online shopping mall for the Middle East, an Arab Amazon. He needed investors. Enter George Nader. Like Khawaja, Nader is Lebanese-American. His name might be familiar because he was a witness in the Mueller inquiry. In January 2017, Nader set up a meeting in the Seychelles that he apparently hoped would establish a back channel between the Trump administration and the Kremlin. Hes now awaiting sentence in the US, a convicted pedophile.
More: https://spectator.us/whistleblower-andy-khawaja-micropayments/
Andy Khawaja is charged with campaign finance violations. He says theres a bigger story
Paul Wood
... snip
They fucked me, Paul, they fucked me. First, they destroyed my business. Now theyre coming after me. Andy Khawaja believes hes being persecuted because of what he knows. And what he knows, he tells me, is that Saudi Arabia and the Emirate of Abu Dhabi bought the 2016 election for Donald Trump.
... snip
Khawaja claims the Saudis and the Emiratis illegally paid tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars to the Trump campaign in 2016. He says that to keep it secret, they disguised the money as small donations from Americans, using stolen identities and virtual credit cards or gift cards donations of less than $200 do not have to be reported to the Federal Election Commission and made public. He claims the Saudis and the Emiratis were able to make thousands of such small donations at a time using the latest payment processing technology. Khawaja knows this, he says, because he sold the know-how to their middleman, George Nader, who will be the central character in this story.
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The Khawaja legend is that he grew up poor in Lebanon during the civil war, picking up bullet casings from the street to sell for scrap. He escaped at the age of 14, made his way alone to the United States and found his first job in a Wendys in New Jersey. Although his real first name is Ahmad, hes been Andy ever since he arrived. He worked as a cashier in a supermarket and eventually moved on to selling jackets on Rodeo Drive in Los Angeles. Realizing that it was hard for shops to take payments from foreign credit cards, he then started a company, Allied Wallet, to make it easy. Payment processing is Khawajas business. He knows credit cards and he knows how to move money. He may also know how to move money secretly.
In early 2016, Khawaja wanted to create an online shopping mall for the Middle East, an Arab Amazon. He needed investors. Enter George Nader. Like Khawaja, Nader is Lebanese-American. His name might be familiar because he was a witness in the Mueller inquiry. In January 2017, Nader set up a meeting in the Seychelles that he apparently hoped would establish a back channel between the Trump administration and the Kremlin. Hes now awaiting sentence in the US, a convicted pedophile.
More: https://spectator.us/whistleblower-andy-khawaja-micropayments/
From Dec 2019
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Whistleblower says Saudi Arabia & the Emirate of Abu Dhabi bought the 2016 election for Donald Trump [View all]
MelissaB
Feb 2020
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DOJ already indicted this guy and several others in Dec 2019 for illegal contribs and lying to FBI
wishstar
Feb 2020
#11
But he and Nader were charged with making $3 billion in foreign donations to HILARY.
hedda_foil
Feb 2020
#24
Seth Abramson has been yelling about their involvement for a long time. Seems few listen; certainly
triron
Feb 2020
#13
Could we please have a Congressional investigation?? Appears to warrant one.
Evolve Dammit
Feb 2020
#26
They should at least be doing regular press conferences. Dems need messaging/ PR help.
Evolve Dammit
Feb 2020
#33