Posted on 05/09/2025 4:27:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Qatar has been a threat to our national security since at least 1986. Their inroads into the U.S. have been subtle and persistent, which doesn’t make them any less dangerous, and the penetration is primarily into our education system:
Foreign donors have given as much to U.S. universities in the last four years as they did in the previous 40, according to a new report by the Network Contagion Research Institute shared exclusively with The Free Press. The study shows an explosion in overseas funding for American schools between 2021 and 2024, with nearly $29 billion in foreign money donated during that period.
Qatar and China are among the largest sources of funding.
Of all the universities that receive donations, Harvard has received the most funding, totaling $3.2 billion.
For the last two years following the October 7 attack on Israel, Qatar mediated the ceasefire negotiations between Hamas and Israel. The reason that Israel allowed them to participate is a mystery, since Qatar has been closely linked to Hamas for years, as well as to the Muslim Brotherhood. They were happy to provide refuge and luxurious accommodations to Hamas leaders while the negotiations were ongoing.
Qatar also provided funding for U.S. universities that chose to place campuses in Doha:
In some cases, Qatari donations to U.S. schools have been used to build campuses in Doha. The Qatari capital is home to ‘Education City,’ which hosts an outpost of Northwestern’s journalism school and Georgetown’s foreign policy school, each of which has received hundreds of millions from the wealthy Gulf state. Cornell, which built a medical school campus in Doha, has received $2.1 billion from Qatar.
Through “Education City,” Qatar can extensively influence these universities, and Qatar’s motives in providing funding in this country are not benevolent. They aim to transform
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
They found our weak points, the universities.
I was wondering: sheikah Al-Mayassa, spends most of her time in the USA. Our secret service protects her. Does Qatar pay for our secret service?
Qatar’s donations to US schools have been used to build campuses in Doha, the Qatari capital, home to ‘Education City.’
<><>Doha hosts an outpost of Northwestern’s journalism school
<><>Georgetown’s foreign policy school,
<><>each of which has received hundreds of millions from the wealthy Gulf state.
<><>and Cornell’s medical school campus; received $2.1 billion from Qatar.
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Through “Education City,” Qatar can extensively influence these universities, and Qatar’s motives in providing funding in this country are not benevolent. They aim to transform.
DC mayor Bowser withheld info that Qatar paid $61K+ for a trip to Doha for her & staff
by Scott TaylorMon, April 14th 2025 at 2:17 PM
WASHINGTON (7News) — Who is paying for D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s trips around the world? The 7News I-Team has been asking that question for months and has gotten different answers from the mayor’s office. Through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, the 7News I-Team has uncovered who paid for the mayor’s trip to Doha in 2023, and it ended up costing a foreign country $61,930 in travel expenses, but the District has no record of how the expenses broke down for the mayor or four staff members.
7News I-Team Investigative Reporter discovered the truth behind the trip to Dubai. A letter from the Embassy of Qatar to the Executive Office of the Mayor says Qatar paid $61,930 for the entire trip and called it an in-kind donation.
D.C. has no record of a Donation Agreement between the District and Qatar for the trip -— which is required by D.C. Code. D.C. has told 7News it also doesn’t have any travel expense records filed by the mayor for trips to The Master’s Golf Tournament, Las Vegas, Miami or Mar-a-Lago. All trips taken within the past three years.
ALSO READ Link | Is Mayor Muriel Bowser violating DC Code by accepting lavish trips? | I-Team
In December 2023, Mayor Bowser and four staff members, including her Chief of Staff, Lindsey Parker, took a trip to Doha, Qatar. The mayor attended the United Nations Climate Conference in Dubai. Only two travel expense records have been filed. Parker appears to be doing what’s required by the D.C. Code, but it’s not cheap. She cost taxpayers $3,500 for a 3-night stay at the Atlantis-Palm hotel in Dubai. A two-night stay at the Aloft Hotel in Dubai for $1,300 was also filed by Tomas Talamonte, D.C.’s Director of Intergovernmental Affairs.
Last year, Susana Castillo, the mayor’s Director of Communications, gave 7News wrong information twice on who paid for the Dubai trip. She claimed that D.C.’s Chamber of Commerce paid for it. We learned that was false, and then she said the U.S. Conference of Mayors picked up the bill.
7News now knows that both statements were not true. Parker also flew last May to Las Vegas to attend the International Council of Shopping Centers Convention, along with Bowser. Parker flew first class and cost taxpayers $4,500. She stayed at the Wynn Hotel and Casino for three nights, costing taxpayers $1,500.
What about Mayor Bowser? She has filed no travel expense records for her Vegas trip, saying it was paid by the Washington, D.C. Economic Partnership and two D.C. government departments.
Jive-talkin’ Cong Crockett has long accepted big bucks from foreigners:
<><>Between Feb. 21-27, 2023, Crockett embarked on a trip to tour Doha, the capital of Qatar,
<><>congressional records show it cost over $17,000, was paid for by the US-Qatar Business Council,
<><>the US-Qatar Business Council is a trade association with links to the Qatari government.
<><>Sheikha Mayes bint Hamad Al Thani, of Qatar’s royal family, is the Qatari managing director
<><>the US-Qatar Business Council partners with “Gulf Times,” a Qatari state-run news outlet.
<><>During her comped trip to Doha, Crockett stayed at the Waldorf Astoria Lusail Doha,
<><>Waldorf Doha, is a five-star waterfront resort boasting seven luxury restaurants and a waterpark.
<><>the Qatar Council arranged multiple meetings between Crockett and high-ranked govt figures.
<><>Crockett also went on several “cultural exchange” trips
<><>her family members were reportedly also invited on the trips.
<><>these trips were paid for by the Indian and Emirati govts, official records say.
<><>“Cong Crockett files financial disclosures and documents as per federal law,” her COS said.
<><>no word on whether Crockett jive-talked Quatari officials or spoke plain English.
Bkmk
Mark Levin did a piece on this last night. The “clubs” and there are 100s at universities across the USA, that support Hamas/Marxist programs make no bones about it - they want Israel and America to cease to exist and capitalism to be destroyed. They announce it daily.
Qatar is fittingly pronounced as Gutter. /spit
“Qatar has been a threat to our national security since at least 1986.” In reality, Qatar has been a threat to the West since its ruling al-Thani family provided a home to the outlawed Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the early 1970s. It later for decaades provided a home to Qaradawi, the Brotherhood ideologue. In fact, the al-Thani are quite smart. They have romanced our Pentagon, the Clintons, the Democrat Party, Brookings and NGOs and countless American politicians. Most recently they have spent money suborning American universities, and Uncle Sugar has just gone along to get along. It now looks like Orange Man is prpared to play their game.
Hows about we deal with the very clear and very present danger our Deep State poses first, then worry about Qatar...
We invaded the wrong countries in 2004. GWB should have taken out these piss ant Arab countries in a 24 hour operation.
Did somebody say Qatar?:
This is a Democrat hit piece but it looks like she did lobby for Qatar.
More:
https://www.newsweek.com/pam-bondi-qatar-lobbying-attorney-general-1990130
The problem is that Qatar and the Deep State are deeply intertwined—like a horse and carriage.
....is our military still involved with the huge Al-Udeid Air Base over there...? our Air Force outfit was sent there in the early 2000s and it was huge...the Qataries hate America but they love the millions if not billions of dollars we pour into that country every year...and, yes, the proper pronunciation of that country is “cutter” so we were told before we got there....
Biden crime family 2017 Deal with Qatar Undermined Trump
See Letter on Hunter Biden’s infamous Laptop
Breitbart ^ | 7 Oct 2022 | EMMA-JO MORRIS
Posted on 10/7/2022, 8:52:47 PM by E. Pluribus Unum
A letter on Hunter Biden’s infamous abandoned laptop shows the Biden family pursuing a deal with Qatar, undermining the Trump Administration and appearing like an effort at a shadow foreign policy.
The letter — retrieved from the “Laptop from Hell” by Congressman Darrell Issa’s (R-CA) office after being in a previously unreadable format — shows James Biden, President Biden’s brother, making an overture to an associate of Qatari Sheikh Abdulla Bin Mohammed Al Thani.
They say, “my family could provide a wealth of introductions and business opportunities at the highest levels,” despite unfavorable policies of the “fractured” and “beleaguered” then-Trump administration for Qatar.
The letter, dated August 1, 2017, to be relayed to the Sheikh, criticizes the Trump administration as having a “fractured nature” and as being “beleaguered by major issues that are not soon to be resolved” — offering to help in “effectuating the vision” of the Sheikh.
“I would be honored to assist in effectuating the vision of His Excellency but would be remiss in not pointing out the fractured nature of our current administration,” the missive begins.
“This administration is beleaguered by major issues that are not soon to be resolved,” Biden’s brother says of the Trump White House.
Through his family’s “deep and wide” relationships, which he boasts have “lasted through many years and many administrations,” Biden proposes partnership for a “different vision” than the Trump government’s of American interest and U.S.-Qatari relations.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Joe Biden’s Brother Sought Qatari Money to Fund Distressed Health-Care Company: Ntl Review Report
pic——James Biden, brother of President Joe Biden, leaves the Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. Federal Building after being deposed by the House Oversight Committee behind closed doors, Feb 21, 2024.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
By James Lynch, April 29, 2024 1:28 PM
President Joe Biden’s brother partnered with Qatari government-linked officials to raise funds for his rural hospital venture, according to newly unearthed testimony by his former business partner. James Biden sought to raise money from Qatari sources to fund Americore, a distressed health-care company he joined following Joe Biden’s vice presidency, Politico reported based on bankruptcy court testimony and accompanying documents from former business partner Michael Lewitt. Two companies they worked with were partially owned by “members of the Qatari government.”
The outlet previously obtained other public records and internal emails showing James Biden invoked his brother’s name while fundraising and attempted to work around international investment restrictions. House Republicans have sought to interview Lewitt for the impeachment inquiry into the Biden family’s foreign business dealings. It’s unclear if an interview has been scheduled. Lewitt and the Securities and Exchange Commission settled a fraud case against him and he is banned from the securities industry for five years.
James Biden testified in February for the impeachment inquiry and insisted his brother was not involved with his foreign business dealings. Joe Biden’s son Hunter, whose business dealings are the primary focus of the impeachment inquiry, similarly insisted his father did not participate in his business dealings, despite significant evidence to the contrary. Hunter and James Biden worked together on a lucrative joint venture alongside Chinese infrastructure conglomerate CEFC that existed from August 2017 through 2018 to facilitate U.S. energy deals for CEFC. None of the U.S. deals materialized, a former business partner testified.
Americore became part of the impeachment inquiry due to a $200,000 payment James Biden sent his brother on the same day he received the money from the health-care company in March 2018. The payment is classified as a loan repayment, but James Biden testified he did not have documentation for the loan from Joe Biden.
Bankruptcy court documents indicate James Biden suggested his last name could “open doors” for Americore and promised a sizable investment from the Middle East. The investment did not materialize and Americore eventually fell apart. Lewitt, Biden, and Florida businessman Amer Rustom, CEO of the Platinum Group, to fundraise for Americore through Middle Eastern sources, primarily in Qatar. A former Americore executive told Politico James Biden and his business partners said Qatari officials were interested in putting more money into the U.S. health-care sector.
Americore was trying to fundraise $30 million to keep the company afloat, and in the meantime Lewitt’s hedge fund sent Americore $30 million in bridge loans, $600,000 of which went into James Biden’s pocket. Biden’s wife Sara emailed a draft presentation to a Platinum Group executive in March 2018 where James Biden was described as “Brother and Campaign Finance Chair of former Vice President Joe Biden,” according to internal emails previously obtained by Politico.
The Platinum Group executive, Julie Lander, emailed Jim Biden about fundraising and appeared to refer to a meeting with a Qatari government official. In June 2018, Lewitt emailed Biden and Americore CEO Grant White discussing his efforts to move money into Qatar and mentioned a trip to Doha to meet with the Arab nation’s then-finance minister Ali Sharif Al Hamadi. The former Americore executive recalled Lewitt and Biden taking a trip to Doha in mid-2018 but it’s unclear if the meeting took place.
Lewitt later wrote an email to Biden suggesting his $30 million worth of loans to Americore would be paid off with Qatari money. “Nothing else changes in terms of what I will be doing re Americore,” Lewitt said, “since I will be just as responsible for the Dubai$$$ with the added worry of being driven around the desert….LOL,” he added.
The fundraising trio of Biden, Lewitt, and Rustom also pursued investments from the Qatar Investment Authority for separate healthcare ventures, Politico reported based on documents disclosed in a federal court case in Tennessee. In 2019, the businessmen, Sara Biden, and Rustom’s brother Azzam opened another company, Platinum Global Partners LLC, to land Qatari investments for infrastructure projects and hotels.
“I was looking for investments from Qatar, again, in infrastructure projects. They were building hotels in Miami. They were building hotels, you know, I mean, you know, all over, you know, the United States,” Biden testified of the Platinum Global venture.The company was dissolved in 2020 and the Qatari investment proposals fell through.
Americore was struggling to stay afloat.
<><>Lewitt’s hedge fund sent Americore $30 million in bridge loans,
<><>$600,000 of which went into James Biden’s pocket.
James’ wife Sara ramped up the Biden influence peddling to Mach One speed.
<><>she emailed a presentation to a Platinum Group executive in March 2018
<><>Sarah described James Biden as “Brother and Campaign Finance Chair of former VP Joe Biden.”
It was a remarkable use of Biden’s presidential power: None of those pardoned had been charged with any crime, and the move was designed to guard against possible retribution.
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