Alina and new 29 y/o Turkish husband.
Posted on 10/12/2026 12:31:00 PM PDT by Miami Rebel
When President Trump’s former personal lawyer, Alina Habba, married a Turkish businessman last month, the lavish ceremony cemented their status as a power couple.
Ms. Habba, 42, a longtime Trump loyalist, and Turhan Mildon, 29, an investor, hosted some of Washington’s most powerful people, including Attorney General Todd Blanche, the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, and Will Scharf, the White House counsel.
At that point, his patrons could no longer protect him. Mr. Maduro was not only out of power, but sitting in an American jail. Mr. Saab, Mr. Mildon’s most powerful ally in Venezuela, was arrested and extradited to the United States.
But there was a bright spot: Mr. Mildon had met Ms. Habba, one of Mr. Trump’s most prominent legal defenders.
It was a striking official entry into Trumpworld for Mr. Mildon, who nearly a year ago faced the loss of his extensive business interests in Venezuela because of his ties to the inner circle of Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan leader who was captured by U.S. commandos in January.
Before the United States captured Mr. Maduro, aides to Mr. Trump expressed concern about Mr. Mildon’s work with the Maduro government, according to multiple people briefed on the matter. Mr. Mildon had spent months trying to build ties between Alex Saab, one of Mr. Maduro’s closest confidants in Venezuela, and Republicans in Mr. Trump’s orbit. The Trump administration had considered placing sanctions on Mr. Mildon, two people involved in the discussions at the time said.
Once Mr. Maduro was out of the picture, things for Mr. Mildon got even worse.
Venezuela’s interim leader, Delcy Rodríguez, ordered an audit of the state-owned cement plants that Mr. Mildon was operating. In June, she issued an order revoking his contract altogether, citing a failure to meet investment targets.
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The Turk made his first fortune by mingling with, advising, and cashing in on deals involving the elites of Congo. (He even had a Congolese passport.) Entering Venezuela in 2023, he managed to quickly entrench himself in the Maduro regime, winning the concession for production and export of shrimp (!) from western Venezuela.
By 2025, he offloaded his first wife and became engaged to the daughter of a Venezuelan admiral (yes, an admiral) who was operational head of Venezuela's military and who is now under sanctions for corruption and human rights abuses.
For a 29-year-old, he's certainly had an upward trajectory to his (grifting) career.
The administration would be well advised to keep him at arm's length.
This is from the New York Times. I use tons of salt while reading it. The New York Times has almost no credibility left.
Perhaps they have credibility “on the Left”, but otherwise, their credibility has been squandered on Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Am I reading that right? A 42-year-old woman marries a 29-year-old man?
It's basic math I think. 29 goes into 42 more times than 42 into 29.
You ARE reading this right.
A story came out a few days ago
Eric Prince / Blackwater in the Congo
Ambushed and 20 killed or wounded
“A Trump Loyalist, a Turkish Investor and ...”
I was expecting a joke. Where’s the joke?
Alina and new 29 y/o Turkish husband.
“I was expecting a joke. Where’s the joke?”
__________________________________________________________
The biggest joke was the white wedding gown.
The beauty of the internet is that it’s pretty easy to discredit fake news. I haven’t found anything to contradict the Times’ reporting on this story, but have at it.
From the International Business Times:
“ Mildon, 29, is a member of a prominent business family and a close ally of Turkish President Recep Erdogan. His companies have won major projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo and expanded into Venezuela. Mildon has largely stayed out of the public eye in Turkey and avoided the media.”
From the New York Post:
“ Through his business, which specializes in energy, construction and mining, Mildon has reportedly developed close ties to government leaders in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Venezuela, including interim President Delcy Rodriguez.” [Curiously, no mention of shrimp]
This dude is a character in an Evelyn Waugh novel.
The International Business Times has a significantly different slant than the comment in the first paragraph.
Mildon is a third generation businessman whose family business was already prominent in Turkey when he represented the family business in the Congo. It is not as if he came from nowhere.
I am sure there is a lot of politics going on with his family and various governments. Standard operating procedure in most of the world. (does not make it good, necessarily)
Here is a link to the wikipedia article about him:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turhan_Mildon
I find it odd that a 29-year-old billionaire marries a twice divorced mother of two who is 13 year older than he is.
They (he?) spent a million dollars on the wedding.
“They (he?) spent a million dollars on the wedding”
Sounds like a lot for a wedding.
Chelsea Clinton spent 3 to 5 million of The Clinton Foundation Haiti Fund on her wedding.
As I looked more closely, it was 10 million which was quoted, not 1 million!!
Not that much if you are a billionaire, I guess.
I wondered: What does Turhan Mildon get out of this? A 42 year-old-wife, who will not bear him children?
Then, an obvious thing struck me. Turhan Mildon will obtain United States citizenship...
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