Posted on 01/28/2016 6:30:28 PM PST by Kaslin
Earlier today GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump retweeted an obviously fake photo featuring a woman in a burqa, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly and Saudi Prince Al-Waleed Talal.
Prince Talal noticed and issued a response.
It's not clear what bailouts Talal is referring to, but this certainly is a rocky start to diplomatic relations should Trump win the White House. This isn't the first time the two have feuded. In the past, Trump referred to Talal as a "dopey" prince.
Prince Talal noticed and issued a response.
It's not clear what bailouts Talal is referring to, but this certainly is a rocky start to diplomatic relations should Trump win the White House. This isn't the first time the two have feuded. In the past, Trump referred to Talal as a "dopey" prince.
Cruz is a globalist, so he would continue the tradition of kissing saudi a$$.
Cool. Thanks.
It figures that’s a photoshop. I doubt that Prince Talal would have stood for Megyn’s amount of exposed skin for one minute.
Donald Trump would make the Saudis his oil slaves forever, just about the time that they start getting really poor from selling oil far below cost.
Yeah, that’s not true.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/21/ted-cruz-vows-vote-tpp-trade-deal-iowa/
Exactly right ...Saudi’s = 9/11
I just noticed I typed creepers. That was a typing mistake, not an insult.
Cruz flip-flopped once he stuck his finger in the wind ... nice try though
If Presidential refers to the behavior of our presidents since Reagan, I’ll take Not Presidential.
Name any leftist legislation that Trump has sponsored or signed while in elective office and I’ll promptly discontinue my support for him.
It also claims that Prince Alwaleed is a “co-owner of Fox.” In fact, a company the prince controls only owns a 6.6 percent share of Fox News’ parent company.
Let’s first dispense with the photo, though. It’s fake. Here’s the original, showing Kelly at a Hollywood Reporter party, from which the picture of Kelly was lifted:
And if that wasn’t proof enough, we reached out to a Fox News spokeswoman, Dana Klinghoffer, who confirmed “it’s doctored.”
Trump has been feuding with Kelly since the first Republican debate in August, when Kelly asked a pointed question about disparaging names Trump has called various women. Trump announced on Jan. 26 that he would be skipping the Jan. 28 Fox News/Google debate, which Kelly again will moderate.
The bogus tweet also targets another Trump adversary, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a nephew of Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz and the grandson of King Abdulaziz Alsaud, the founder and first ruler of Saudi Arabia.
The two have been feuding on Twitter. Alwaleed called Trump a “disgrace” and called on the Republican to withdraw from the presidential race after Trump’s call in December for a temporary ban on all Muslim travel to the U.S. Never one to back away from a skirmish, Trump responded by called Alwaleed “dopey” and said Alwaleed “wants to control our U.S. politicians with daddy's money.”
The bad blood between the two appears to go back even farther. Prince Alwaleed's company, Kingdom Holdings, bought the landmark Plaza hotel in New York City from Trump in 1995 after Trump's bankruptcy. Kingdom Holdings still owns the famous hotel. Alwaleed also bought Trump Princess, the world's third largest yacht at the time, from Trump in 1990.
So what about the graphic’s claim that Alwaleed is the “co-owner of Fox News”?
Prince Alwaleed is the chairman of Kingdom Holding Co., and holds a 95 percent stake in the company. Kingdom Holding reported it owns a 6.6 percent share of Twenty-First Century Fox, according to a Feb. 4, 2015, corporate press release. (Kingdom Holding’s shares were worth approximately $1.7 billion when the press release was issued.)
The Fox News Channel is owned by Twenty-First Century Fox, which is a publicly owned company headed by Rupert Murdoch's son, James, who is the chief executive officer and director. Rupert Murdoch is executive chairman of the Twenty-First Century Fox board.
An annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission showed that as of June 30, 2015 the Murdoch Family Trust owned 39.1 percent of the Class B voting stock - a little less than it did in 2014. It does not mention other investors.
An earlier to Twenty-First Century Fox Inc., shareholders lists major investors as of February 2014. At that point, the Murdoch Family Trust owned 38.4 percent and Rupert Murdoch owned 39.4 percent of the Class B stock. The only other investor listed, at 6.6 percent, is Alwaleed.
In other words, Prince Alwaleed is a part owner of Fox News’ parent company. But it’s a minority share. He doesn’t own a controlling interest.
Although Trump retweeted the image on Jan. 28, it has been circulating around the web since at least August, when our fact-checking colleagues at Snopes.com first debunked it.
This isn’t the first time we have flagged a bogus retweet from Trump. In November, we wrote about a graphic Trump retweeted that purported to show the percentage of whites killed by blacks and other homicide data delineated by race. Almost every figure in the graphic was wrong.
Correction, Jan. 28: An earlier version of this story wrongly said the graphic purports to show Fox News host Megyn Kelly posing with Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and his wife. The graphic claims it is Alwaleed’s sister.
Yes, Trump has never been involved in legislation. By the same measure, Trump has never kept a single campaign promise. No even one.
The Iranians are the dogs that bark and the Saudis are the dogs that sneak up behind you and bite you in the leg. One is an enemy—the other is a treacherous frenemy.
Not the same.
It is a dumb and ignorant thing to do.
Oh, you put the qualifier “while in elective office”, like Hillary Clinton would do when answering about emails?
He donated to Schumer’s pac and Hillary’s foundation, both of which lobbied for the most extreme leftist bills on the ballot. You need to understand who you’re supporting, and fast.
world leader? LOL!
You can say that again
Only rewteeted? His account; he published it to his followers. So we have moved to Clinton level defense arguments, have we?
Publicly dissing of a world leader is childish and irresponsible for someone who wants to be a world leader.
I am sure several of the Trump supporters who are dismissing their trashed Obama for giving the Queen an iPod
I knew it was a fake photo because the guy on the right with a cheesy mustache has an italian tablecloth on his head.
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