Posted on 05/19/2018 12:13:17 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
WASHINGTON — Three months before the 2016 election, a small group gathered at Trump Tower to meet with Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son. One was an Israeli specialist in social media manipulation. Another was an emissary for two wealthy Arab princes. The third was a Republican donor with a controversial past in the Middle East as a private security contractor.
The meeting was convened primarily to offer help to the Trump team, and it forged relationships between the men and Trump insiders that would develop over the coming months — past the election and well into President Trump’s first year in office, according to several people with knowledge of their encounters.
Erik Prince, the private security contractor and the former head of Blackwater, arranged the meeting, which took place on Aug. 3, 2016. The emissary, George Nader, told Donald Trump Jr. that the crown princes who led Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were eager to help his father win election as president. The social media specialist, Joel Zamel, extolled his company’s ability to give an edge to a political campaign; by that time, the firm had already drawn up a multimillion-dollar proposal for a social media manipulation effort to help elect Mr. Trump.
The company, which employed several Israeli former intelligence officers, specialized in collecting information and shaping opinion through social media.
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A lawyer for Donald Trump Jr., Alan Futerfas, said in a statement that “prior to the 2016 election, Donald Trump Jr. recalls a meeting with Erik Prince, George Nader and another individual who may be Joel Zamel. They pitched Mr. Trump Jr. on a social media platform or marketing strategy. He was not interested and that was the end of it.”
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I heard that Trump Jr. once googled “Vladimir Putin”. We should appoint another special council. /S
yawn.
A Trump supporter met with a few other powerful Trump supporters to help Trump. 99.99999999% of all the other powerful supporters met with with Clinton supporters to help her. The End.
I thought it was the Russians...
This —— is never going to stop. If they can’t take Trump down before he leaves office they will pounce afterwards. They will spend day after day destroying him. They will put him in prison if possible. When he’s dead they will spend day after day destroying his memory and his family. He absolutely must be erased from time like a close friend of Stalin.
Here comes the “dust storm” strategy.
That is exactly the impression I have. I think you are spot on.
And how they view legal proceedings to be bad while ignoring all the crimes committed by those trying to insure Hillary's win and now to destroy a sitting President....
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