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In fact this asset could be given a quite precise price. A remarkable investigative report from the Associated Press describes what appeared to be a particularly brazen quid pro quo:
He had ingratiated himself with crown princes from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, who were seeking to alter U.S. foreign policy and punish Qatar, an archrival in the Gulf that he dubbed the snake.
To do that, the California businessman had helped spearhead a secret campaign to influence the White House and Congress, flooding Washington with political donations. Broidy and his business partner, Lebanese-American George Nader, pitched themselves to the crown princes as a backchannel to the White House, passing the princes praise and messaging straight to the presidents ears.
Now, in December 2017, Broidy was ready to be rewarded for all his hard work. It was time to cash in.
In return for pushing anti-Qatar policies at the highest levels of Americas government, Broidy and Nader expected huge consulting contracts from Saudi Arabia and the UAE, according to an Associated Press investigation based on interviews with more than two dozen people and hundreds of pages of leaked emails between the two men.
Those consulting contracts, according to Broidys own correspondence, were what the December 2 meeting was about. And, a few days later, Broidy got his payoff: The U.A.E. awarded his company a deal worth up to $600 million over the next five years.
Here is some additional context that now seems especially noteworthy: Just two days before that meeting, on November 30, Broidy wired $200,000 from his Bank of America account to Real Estate Attorneys Group, a California firm. On December 5, REAG transferred that money to attorney Keith Davidson. Davidson was at the time supposedly representing the legal interests of Shera Bechard, a Playboy model with whom Broidy now claims to have had an affair. (Bechard fired Davidson shortly afterward, when she became convinced that Davidson was actually working in concert with Michael Cohen, Donald Trumps personal attorney, to protect Cohens clients interests rather than hers.) That $200,000 was supposed to be the first of eight quarterly payments that David Dennison agreed to make to Bechard, in order to buy her silence about an affair and a subsequent abortion. All this was laid out in an NDA recovered from Michael Cohens office when it was raided last month.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/more-evidence-that-broidy-was-covering-for-trump-in-affair.html
Alethia Merritt
(147 posts)If so, Trump and his administration are seriously putting their lives in danger.
OnDoutside
(19,968 posts)Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)The Qataris actually invited us to put a base there.
The spot that I visited for a few days in 2004 was just filled with unused equipment. There were rows and rows and rows of tanks, brads, paladins, etc. I believe it was mostly to be used as a staging area in the event that a quick military response was needed. Troops could just fly in easily and use the tanks and whatnot there instead of having to prepare, load, and transport their equipment to the Middle East which could take a month or more to do.
Louis1895
(768 posts)Did David Dennison sign this NDA or was that line left blank like in the Stormy Daniel case?
global1
(25,263 posts)The affair and subsequent abortion was with the Playmate & Trump and not Broidy?
But Broidy took the fall for Trump because he got the big U.A.E. deal - quid - pro - and quo?
Did I get this right?
DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)From link:
The AP exposé only strengthens the evidence for my hypothesis: The first payment from Broidy came two days before the meeting that apparently helped him ink a nine-figure deal with a foreign country a deal based in no small part on his access to, and influence on, Trump. If its difficult to imagine Broidy being willing to take the fall for Trumps affair with Bechard and then paying her a seven-figure sum, its much simpler to imagine it simply as a perfectly timed and fantastically profitable bribe.
The oddities are the Daniels/Clifford and Bechard NDAs both use the same psuedonyms for the man and woman and that both include a clause about paternity.
global1
(25,263 posts)He knocks a Playmate up and he uses (OPM) other peoples money as hush money. Kinda like getting Mexico to pay for the Wall. Now that's the kinda person I want as a pResident. (sarcasm)
This could be the reaction his 'deplorables' have about this incident.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Be interesting to see the reaction of very righteous, aggressive anti-abortion evangelicals, if Trump gets thoroughly exposed as the actual Broidy playmate impregnator/nda, etc. See how much TrumpDump crap the evangelicals can swallow.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)the rich boys are paying for mega-church stained glass windows, private jets for preachers, and lots of trips to the Holy Land.
And, they each get little plaques with their names engraved on them on a wall in the church.
........
empedocles
(15,751 posts)I like your Acton quote. Appropo to our times.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)(snips from Wikipedia)
In 1870, along with his mentor Döllinger, Acton opposed the moves to promulgate the doctrine of papal infallibility in the First Vatican Council, travelling to Rome to lobby against it, ultimately unsuccessfully. Unlike Döllinger Acton did not become an Old Catholic, and continued attending Mass regularly; he received the last rites on his deathbed. The Catholic Church did not try to force his hand. It was in this context that, in a letter he wrote to scholar and ecclesiastic Mandell Creighton, dated April 1887, Acton made his most famous pronouncement:
It's good stuff for me to read periodically to knock me off my mental high-horse........
magicarpet
(14,160 posts)... lard ass Broidy porked a Playboy 🐰, but they claim Broidy used tr Dump's penis. And then the Playboy 🐰 got pregnant and they claim it was Pence's sperm. Then they paid the Playboy 🐰 a couple of million dollars to keep all this quiet and get an abortion so Pious Mike did not have to explain to "Mother" what a naughty thing he had done.
This Playboy 🐰 needs to have her brains examined to even hang out and party with this den of vipers and snakes.
Did she finally get all the money owed her. Is the NDA null and void ? How are we hearing about all this tawdry affair and palace intrigue. This Reality TV presi-Duncey is like an elaborate and convoluted soap opera with thrills and drama queens poping up at every bend and turn - day after day after day.
Does anyone else find this nauseating ? This is not how you run a government.
This is like reading and living the script of a D Rated pornographic movie. I want to soak in bleach and scrub myself with a wire brush after reading about this bullshit.
How did we as The United States of America allow ourselves to sink into such shameful and embarrassing depths of chicanery and buffoon-dumb-sum-ery ?
Team trDump is a clear and present danger to this country.... does anyone else recognize the approaching and impending risk with "The Donald" acting as our Head of State ? This guy and his criminal gang of vipers needs to be gone - yesterday maybe too late.
MyOwnPeace
(16,937 posts)the stories of Italy's crooked Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and being amazed that anybody could let someone that sleazy and crooked become the leader of a country.
Boy, did I have a lot to learn!
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)........
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Sad.
Vinca
(50,302 posts)because, in their little minds, he has repented and been redeemed which makes him the next best thing to the Almighty himself (definitely a "him" in their world). As I've said before, I think many of them believe Don is the second coming. Maybe that sinkhole on the White House lawn will swallow them all up so we can get back to whatever normal was.
SayItLoud
(1,702 posts)$ 10 million to do him. Not a chance this woman had the affair and got pregnant via Broidy. Another tRUMP NDA; speak up Evangelicals....It's abortion time.
global1
(25,263 posts)mainer
(12,023 posts)so Broidy couldn't be the father of the aborted baby. But he also cautioned that as yet his info is unconfirmed.
PubliusEnigma
(1,583 posts)They only made the first payment to her, so the deal for silence is not complete.