Misc Saudi Media Claim Billionaire Saudi Prince Delivered ‘Knockout’ to Trump

fairbanksb

Freedom Isn't Free
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/01/31/saudi-media-claim-trump/

by Aaron Klein and Ali Waked31 Jan 201690

Tel Aviv, Israel — Tweets from Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal have already delivered a knockout blow to Donald Trump’s presidential hopes, according to a Saudi newspaper.

“Knockout: Alwaweed Bin Talal caused a decline in Trump’s popularity,” said the headline, with a photoshopped picture of Trump glaring at the Saudi Royal.

‘The American people now realize that Donald Trump is irresponsible, not particularly clever, made many misguided decisions, and unless the Saudi prince came to his rescue he would end up broke,” the Sabq newsite reported. “The last thing they want is a president who would sell off everything to cover his debts.”

The article follows a second round of trash-talk between the two billionaires.

Trump started the second round Jan. 28 by retweeting an image of Fox News personality Megyn Kelly photoshopped into a picture of bin Talal and his sister.

That tweet was likely aimed at Fox, not Alwaleed. Prior to the debate, Breitbart reported that Google and Fox had invited a young, female Islamic-advocate, plus a young attractive female 1994 illegal immigrant, to pitch questions, likely aimed at Trump. The top leaders of both Google and Fox favor profit-boosting large-scale immigration. But Trump dodged the likely Fox News ambush and instead hosted a benefit for veterans in a nearby building.

But the Saudi responded with a taunt that he had earlier saved Trump from bankruptcy.

The first tweet-fight happened in December, when the Saudi used Twitter to demand the Trump quit the race after Trump announced he would bar Islamic immigration until the the jihadi problem has been solved.

In response, Trump dismissed Al-Waleed’s bankruptcy claim.

Alwaleed did not respond to Trump’s “daddy’s money” tweet.

In an Jan. 28 interview with the Daily Mail after the taunt from Alwaleed, Trump also shoved back at Alwaleed’s new bailout tweet.

‘No, no,’ Trump insisted. ‘He didn’t bail me out. Let me tell you – he needs bailing out right now, if you look at where he’s going. He needs bailing out. He needs big bailouts.’
‘Nope. Never been a fan of his. Never been a fan. Never liked him.’
Asked if he had ever met Alwaleed personally, the man on whom he had just heaped a helping of billionaire scorn, Trump paused for a moment.
‘No. Never liked him. Never met him,’ he said.
‘Don’t know him, just never liked him. Never liked his style.’

In February 2015, Alwaleed sold almost half of his shares in Murdoch’s companies, He still holds a 1 percent stake in Murdoch’s News Corp. and a 6.6 percent state in Murdoch’s entertainment business, 21st Century Fox. Alwaleed also owns roughly 5 percent of Twitter.

In 1991 and 1995, the Alwaleed also bought parts of Trump’s business. “In 1991, when Donald Trump was in debt, Alwaleed bought the real estate mogul’s yacht Trump Princess — a former James Bond prop — for $281 million. In 1995, the prince bought a majority stake in the Plaza Hotel as Trump was sinking into bankruptcy,” the Mail reported.

Despite polls that show Trump with a huge lead in polls, the Saudi-based Sabq news website insisted that Alwaleed tweets have devastated the billionaire’s White House prospects.

“Prince bin Talal’s tweet, in which he said he bailed Trump out twice and will probably do so a third time, was covered extensively in the US media,” Sabq claimed. “They realized that the candidate is not financially robust and may end up penniless again.”

The paper concluded that the “Americans were struck by bin Talal’s revelations that send Trump’s chances on a downward spiral.”

Aaron Klein is Breitbart’s Jerusalem bureau chief and senior investigative reporter. He is a New York Times bestselling author and hosts the popular weekend talk radio program, “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio.” Follow him on Twitter @AaronKleinShow. Follow him on Facebook.
 

Wise Owl

Deceased
fairbanks........you taking over dissing Trump for JGF now? Be careful who you quote. A whole lot of stuff said about Trump has already turned out to be false.

Did you watch his rally in Iowa this afternoon where he and Jerry Falwell Jr. gave away another $100,000 to another veteran charity that trains and provides service dogs to vets who are disabled? That was just part of the $6 million that still is getting given to VETTED charities. Ones that actually do a real service to our disabled vets.

So, tread carefully. We are watching.
 

Mixin

Veteran Member
These articles Fairbanksb posts are usually good for at least one laugh.

“They realized that the candidate is not financially robust and may end up penniless again.”

Please... :lol:

As for the tweet Trump put out with the pic of Alwaleed and Megyn Kelly, it was obviously photoshopped. That's Trump's way of shining a light in a dark corner he wants people to check out. We have 2 posts here about the Alwaleed/Fox entanglements.
 

JF&P

Deceased
Arabs and Politicians have one thing in common, if their mouth is moving, they are lying.
 

fairbanksb

Freedom Isn't Free
fairbanks........you taking over dissing Trump for JGF now? Be careful who you quote. A whole lot of stuff said about Trump has already turned out to be false.

Did you watch his rally in Iowa this afternoon where he and Jerry Falwell Jr. gave away another $100,000 to another veteran charity that trains and provides service dogs to vets who are disabled? That was just part of the $6 million that still is getting given to VETTED charities. Ones that actually do a real service to our disabled vets.

So, tread carefully. We are watching.

Gee, are you trying to shame me. LOL. Are stories posted on Brietbart off-limits now. I guess you need to ask Dennis to limit Political Forum posts to only pro Trump posts.

The story is also posted in, The New Yorker magazine which has a link to a Businessweek article from 1995 alos confirming the Saudis buying Trumps properties.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/a-saudi-prince-burns-donald-trump
http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/a-saudi-prince-burns-donald-trump This link goes to the Businessweek article
 

fairbanksb

Freedom Isn't Free
Here's an article from Sept. of last year. Same info.

Debt-Ridden Donald Trump Lost His “Ship Of Jewels” To A Saudi Prince

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/set-an-open-course-for-the-virgin-sea#.rsAX1w1zGa


Donald Trump has made a habit of criticizing the United States for allowing foreign countries to continue “eating our lunch,” a message he has pushed for nearly-thirty years.

In 1991, however, it was Trump’s lunch that was eaten by a foreign competitor, when the real estate mogul, in debt to the tune of $900 million, ceded his 281-foot super-yacht Trump Princess over to creditors.

The yacht was then purchased by Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz al Saud, mogul and member of the Saudi royal family. He also happens to have a stake in another forsaken Trump property: the Plaza hotel in New York.

The Donald had a strange affinity for the swanky yacht he purchased in 1988 from the Sultan of Brunei for $29 million, which at the time was one of the largest in the world. According to former Trump executive John R. O’Donnell, the real estate mogul sailed on it only once, its maiden voyage from the Azores to the New York harbor.

“It so terrified him when they weighed anchor — the movement convinced him it was sinking — that he would never sleep on it,” wrote O’Donnell in his book Trumped!. “All the time it was docked at the marina, he went on board only to watch boat races or occasionally to entertainment important customers or business associates.”

Still, he wrote, “Donald took pleasure in showing off the boat.”

President Ronald Reagan even sent a telegram of congratulations on the boats docking.

In his book, Surviving at the Top, ironically released while The Donald was in the midst of massive debt, there’s a chapter entitled: “Ship of Jewels: The Trump Princess.”

And it was during this time that Trump had to sell the property.

“Faced with massive debts and increasing cash-flow problems, Trump has been forced to get rid of large chunks of his empire to stay afloat. Among properties he is ceding to creditors are his 282-foot Trump Princess yacht, a 49% stake in New York’s Grand Hyatt Hotel, the Trump Shuttle airline and his 27% stake in Alexanders Inc., a department store chain,” read a Reuters story in 1991 on Trump’s restructuring of his considerable debts.

“I bought the boat in the high 20s. I sold the boat essentially for the mortgage that was on the boat. Forty to forty two million, that was the amount of the loan that was on the boat,” The Donald told the Boston Herald in 1991 when they heard his boat repossessed by mortgage-holder Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co.

Trump told the Herald it was “totally incorrect,” he was behind on his payments and he said the transfer of the yacht was “friendly.” From there, the boat made it’s way to Alwaleed.

Today, the boat renamed “Kingdom 5KR,” docks in France.

The Trump Princess wouldn’t be the last property that Alwaleed came to hold. He would take a controlling stake in the Plaza in 1995.

“The deal is subject to approval by the consortium of banks, led by Citibank, that has controlled the Plaza since 1993, after Trump was unable to make loan payments,” wrote Newsday in 1995 on the properties sale.

Since the 1995, Alwaleed’s stake in the Plaza has varied over the years.

Earlier this year, Trump tweeted at an Alwaleed parody account, “Saudi Arabia should be paying the United States many billions of dollars for our defense of them. Without us, gone!”

Alwaleed’s son, Khaled bin Alwaleed, replied, ” lol wrong Twitter user. Just FYI.”
 

Be Well

may all be well
Wow, Trump's yacht was bought by Alwaleed. Obviously Trump is now the slave of Saudi Arabia.
 

Buick Electra

TB2K Girls with Guns
Gee, are you trying to shame me. LOL. Are stories posted on Brietbart off-limits now. I guess you need to ask Dennis to limit Political Forum posts to only pro Trump posts.

The story is also posted in, The New Yorker magazine which has a link to a Businessweek article from 1995 alos confirming the Saudis buying Trumps properties.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/a-saudi-prince-burns-donald-trump
http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/a-saudi-prince-burns-donald-trump This link goes to the Businessweek article

The last link you provided - the one that links to Business week, does in fact state the following...

With his studied approach, Alwaleed is as different from those high rollers as Buffett is from Donald Trump, whose 283-foot yacht the prince bought at the knockdown price of $18 million from Trump's creditors in 1991.
http://www.businessweek.com/1995/39/b34431.htm So if the prince bought it from Trump's creditors instead of Trump himself, I doubt Trump had any personal interaction with him. Having been raised in an affluent family, I know my father would write his 57' yacht off as a "business expense" therefore, as savvy as Mr. Trump is, I would expect he would do the same, so that would fall into his "business bankruptcies" rather than personal bankruptcy.

The first link, linked to a forbes article does not mention anything about the prince purchasing anything of trumps (4 pages) http://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryad...case-of-kingdom-holding-stock/3/#2f1636576fb0
 

fairbanksb

Freedom Isn't Free
The last link you provided - the one that links to Business week, does in fact state the following...


http://www.businessweek.com/1995/39/b34431.htm So if the prince bought it from Trump's creditors instead of Trump himself, I doubt Trump had any personal interaction with him. Having been raised in an affluent family, I know my father would write his 57' yacht off as a "business expense" therefore, as savvy as Mr. Trump is, I would expect he would do the same, so that would fall into his "business bankruptcies" rather than personal bankruptcy.

The first link, linked to a forbes article does not mention anything about the prince purchasing anything of trumps (4 pages) http://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryad...case-of-kingdom-holding-stock/3/#2f1636576fb0

I never said he did. I was just posting an article and was accused of posting things that are false. I was just providing other links to the with the same info. The Saudi is the one saying he bailed Trump out. Whether directly or indirectly he did seem to help Trump out of a tight spot by purchasing those properties.
 

Buick Electra

TB2K Girls with Guns
I never said he did. I was just posting an article and was accused of posting things that are false. I was just providing other links to the with the same info.

I understand that and I am not accusing you of anything.


The Saudi is the one saying he bailed Trump out. Whether directly or indirectly he did seem to help Trump out of a tight spot by purchasing those properties.
Agreed. Here on page 2 of a 4-page article on his bankruptcies is the deal with the prince http://www.thestreet.com/story/13286068/2/the-backstory-on-donald-trump-s-four-bankruptcies.html
 

fairbanksb

Freedom Isn't Free
In February 2015, Alwaleed sold almost half of his shares in Murdoch’s companies, He still holds a 1 percent stake in Murdoch’s News Corp. and a 6.6 percent state in Murdoch’s entertainment business, 21st Century Fox. Alwaleed also owns roughly 5 percent of Twitter.
These articles Fairbanksb posts are usually good for at least one laugh.



Please... :lol:

As for the tweet Trump put out with the pic of Alwaleed and Megyn Kelly, it was obviously photoshopped. That's Trump's way of shining a light in a dark corner he wants people to check out. We have 2 posts here about the Alwaleed/Fox entanglements.

In February 2015, Alwaleed sold almost half of his shares in Murdoch’s companies, He still holds a 1 percent stake in Murdoch’s News Corp. and a 6.6 percent state in Murdoch’s entertainment business, 21st Century Fox. Alwaleed also owns roughly 5 percent of Twitter.

I would hardly consider a 1% stake in News Corp. as being an entanglement. He owns a bigger stake in Twitter so he must really control what Twitter puts out.
 
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