{"id":39284,"date":"2018-10-17T08:32:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T13:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39284"},"modified":"2018-10-17T08:32:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T13:32:30","slug":"does-saudi-arabia-own-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39284","title":{"rendered":"Does Saudi Arabia Own Donald Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Post-header\">\n<div class=\"Post-image-block\">\n<div class=\"Post-featured-video-block\"><iframe class=\"Post-featured-video\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lw6SaGm6HeM?showinfo=0&amp;rel=0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Post-header-grid\">\n<div class=\"Post-header-row\">\n<div class=\"PostSocial\">\n<div class=\"Post-social-container\">\n<div class=\"Post-social\">\n<div class=\"Post-social-grid\">\n<div class=\"Post-social-row\">\n<div class=\"Post-social-block\">\n<div class=\"Post-social-inner-block\">\n<div class=\"Post-social-link-block Post-social-link-block--facebook\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Post-header-block\">\n<div class=\"Post-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"Post-title\"><a class=\"Post-title-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/10\/16\/donald-trump-saudi-arabia\/\">DOES SAUDI ARABIA OWN DONALD TRUMP?<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"PostByline byline\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Post-body\">\n<div class=\"Post-content-block-outer\">\n<div class=\"GridContainer Post-scroll-container\">\n<div class=\"GridRow\">\n<div class=\"Post-content-block\">\n<div class=\"Post-content-block-inner Post-content-block-inner--without-image\">\n<div class=\"PostContent\">\n<div>\n<p><u>ON TUESDAY MORNING<\/u>, President Donald Trump tweeted: \u201cFor the record, I have no financial interests in Saudi Arabia (or Russia, for that matter). Any suggestion that I have is just more FAKE NEWS (of which there is plenty)!\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"Tweet-header\"><a class=\"TweetAuthor-avatar  Identity-avatar u-linkBlend\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\" data-scribe=\"element:user_link\" aria-label=\"Donald J. Trump (screen name: realDonaldTrump)\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Avatar Avatar--edge\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/874276197357596672\/kUuht00m_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-scribe=\"element:avatar\" data-src-2x=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/874276197357596672\/kUuht00m_bigger.jpg\" data-src-1x=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/874276197357596672\/kUuht00m_normal.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"TweetAuthor js-inViewportScribingTarget\" data-scribe=\"component:author\">\n<div class=\"TweetAuthor-nameScreenNameContainer\"><span class=\"TweetAuthor-decoratedName\"><span class=\"TweetAuthor-verifiedBadge\" data-scribe=\"element:verified_badge\"><b class=\"u-hiddenVisually\">\u2714<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Tweet-body e-entry-content\" data-scribe=\"component:tweet\">\n<p class=\"Tweet-text e-entry-title\" dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">For the record, I have no financial interests in Saudi Arabia (or Russia, for that matter). Any suggestion that I have is just more FAKE NEWS (of which\u00a0there is plenty)!<\/p>\n<div class=\"Tweet-metadata dateline\"><time class=\"dt-updated\" title=\"Time posted: October 16, 2018 13:15:18 (UTC)\" datetime=\"2018-10-16T13:15:18+0000\"><a class=\"u-linkBlend u-url customisable-highlight long-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1052186219696803841\" data-datetime=\"2018-10-16T13:15:18+0000\" data-scribe=\"element:full_timestamp\">9:15 AM &#8211; Oct 16, 2018<\/a><\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Is this yet another barefaced lie from the commander-in-chief?<\/p>\n<p>In this video essay, I examine Trump\u2019s long history of doing deals with Saudi royals and look back at how the former reality TV star even bragged about his financial ties to the kingdom during the election campaign. I also highlight the controversial payments made by the Saudi government to Trump-owned properties since the Republican businessman entered the White House.<\/p>\n<p>With the president refusing to take a strong stance against the Saudi government\u2019s alleged murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi,\u00a0I ask: \u201cDoes Saudi Arabia own Donald Trump?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOES SAUDI ARABIA OWN DONALD TRUMP? ON TUESDAY MORNING, President Donald Trump tweeted: \u201cFor the record, I have no financial interests in Saudi Arabia (or Russia, for that matter). Any suggestion that I have is just more FAKE NEWS (of which there is plenty)!\u201d \u2714 For the record, I have no financial interests in Saudi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[7844,2779,17012,701,5567],"class_list":["post-39284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-donald-trump","tag-fake-news","tag-mehdi-hasan","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-the-intercept"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39285,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39284\/revisions\/39285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}