Middle Eastern Monarchs Look at the Trumps and See Themselves — Foreign Policy
[{"sender": "Kathy Ruemmler", "recipients": ["jeevacation@gmail.com"], "timestamp": "5/28/2018 10:56:02 PM", "subject": "Middle Eastern Monarchs Look at the Trumps and See Themselves — Foreign Policy", "body": "http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/05/28/middle-eastern-monarchs-look-at-the-trumps-and-see-themselves/amp/\n\nMiddle Eastern Monarchs Look at the\nTrumps and See Themselves\n\nAmerica's Arab allies have always wanted to buy direct access\nto U.S. foreign policy, and they finally found a seller.\nMay 28, 2018\n\nIvanka Trump andJared Kushner at the presentation of the Order of Abdulaziz al-Saud\nmedal at the Saudi Royal Court in Riyadh on May 20, 2017..MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty\nImages)\n\nAlmost 20 years ago when I was a graduate student living in Cairo, I published an article in\na Washington-based journal called Middle East Insight. The magazine had a solid\nreputation, with a knack for scoring interviews with important people. (In the same edition\nas my piece, titled “Egypt’s Next Generation,” there was an interview with Gamal Mubarak,\nson of long-term Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who had already begun his rise —\nthough not yet his eventual fall — as heir apparent.) A few years later, Middle East Insight\ndisappeared. When I heard the news, I figured the magazine was too niche for an expanding\nmedia environment, shrugged my shoulders, and went on with life.\n\nI hadn’t thought about Middle East Insight until its onetime publisher, George Nader,\nrecently exploded into the news as an international man of mystery at the center of an\napparent attempt to covertly influence the outcome of the last American presidential\nelection. It seems that in the span of not quite two decades, the guy who ran a small, likely\nnot profitable, but influential policy magazine become a conduit between Crown Prince\nMohammed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan of the Abu Dhabi, Saudi Crown Prince\nMohammed bin Salman, and Donald Trump’s closest inner circle, both after, and —\ncrucially for special counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing criminal investigation — before\nTrump’s election as U.S. president."}]