December 6, 2018
"JAMAL WHO?":
Saudi-funded lobbyist paid for 500 rooms at Trump's hotel after 2016 election (David A. Fahrenthold and Jonathan O'Connell, December 5 , 2018, Washington Post)
Lobbyists representing the Saudi government reserved blocks of rooms at President Trump's Washington, D.C., hotel within a month of Trump's election in 2016 -- paying for an estimated 500 nights at the luxury hotel in just three months, according to organizers of the trips and documents obtained by The Washington Post.At the time, these lobbyists were reserving large numbers of D.C.-area hotel rooms as part of an unorthodox campaign that offered U.S. military veterans a free trip to Washington -- then sent them to Capitol Hill to lobby against a law the Saudis opposed, according to veterans and organizers. ][...]Some of the veterans who stayed at Trump's hotel say they were kept in the dark about the Saudis' role in the trips. Now, they wonder if they were used twice over: not just to deliver someone else's message to Congress, but also to deliver business to the Trump Organization.
Posted by Orrin Judd at December 6, 2018 12:04 AM