Here's how the Saudi power players — and Trump — connect to each other

CNBC ^ | November 5, 2017 | Everett Rosenfeld, Nyshka Chandran, Javier David and Reuters

[2ndDivisionVet]

It can be hard to keep up with the headlines flying out of Saudi Arabia.

Several members of the royal family and important Saudi businessmen were suddenly and unexpectedly arrested in a broad roundup over the weekend. And the president of the United States is dashing off late-night tweets, trying to get the Kingdom to bestow a tremendous, highly anticipated stock offering to Wall Street.

Here's the background:

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal is one of the most internationally famous members of the Saudi royal family — but that doesn't necessarily make him popular at home. In fact, reports indicate he was arrested over the weekend along with other top Saudis in a supposed anti-corruption crackdown.

Bin Talal is a billionaire investor who runs Kingdom Holdings and owns large stakes in companies like Twitter and News Corp. He comments regularly on Western television, speaking to CNBC just in October about the future of bitcoin and electric vehicles.

The billionaire is U.S.-educated and a philanthropist: In 2015, Bin Talal announced he would donate his entire fortune to help build a "better world of tolerance, acceptance, equality and opportunity for all."

Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman

Although Saudi officialdom is characterizing the weekend's arrests as part of a fight against corruption, many see the surprise detentions as a power play by Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman....

[2ndDivisionVet]

Take it with a big grain of salt.

[texas booster]

I saw that this was from CNBC and immediately thought, “so this is the official progressive and Dem position on Saudi Arabia”.

[txhurl]

Teasing the Clintons out of world geopolitics necessarily requires some broken eggs for a very different omelette than most of the planet ordered.

[red-dawg]

Lets' see if I have this right:

Saudi Prince Megabucks gives "donation" to the Clinton Foundation and HE gets arrested?

And The Hildabeast still walks free?

Okaaaaay then.

[9YearLurker]

Looks pretty much like what has been reported elsewhere.

[bitt]

‘In addition to having likely orchestrated Trump’s trip to Saudi Arabia, Bin Salman has reportedly developed a relationship with White House advisor Jared Kushner — the husband of the president’s daughter and another 30-something man who has ridden family connections to the center of the world stage.’

barf

[catnipman]

whenever i hear the words "Crown Prince", I think of these:

[drpix]

So the leftwing narrative requires that the good-guy must be the Saudi Prince (bin Talal) who...

1) Helped Obama get into Harvard Law school
2) Had his $10 million donation to 911 relief returned, by Rudy Giulliani, because he blamed US policies for the attack
3) Donated millions to the Clinton-Foundation/Global-Inititive
4) Is a serial anti-Trumper

That should be no surprise. What would be surprising is that anyone would believe another Democrat/Leftwing false narrative.

[SunkenCiv]

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