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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSaudi-funded lobbyist paid for 500 rooms at Trump's hotel after 2016 election
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/saudi-funded-lobbyist-paid-for-500-rooms-at-trumps-hotel-after-2016-election/2018/12/05/29603a64-f417-11e8-bc79-68604ed88993_story.htmlLobbyists representing the Saudi government reserved blocks of rooms at President Trumps D.C. hotel within a month of Trumps 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.
At first, Saudi lobbyists put the veterans up in Northern Virginia. Then, in December 2016, they switched most of their business to the Trump International Hotel in downtown Washington. In all, the lobbyists spent more $270,000 to house six groups of visiting veterans at the Trump hotel, which Trump still owns.
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The Washington firm Qorvis/MSLGroup, which has long represented the Saudi government in the United States, paid the organizers of the veterans fly-in trips, according to lobbying disclosure forms. The firm declined to comment.
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.
At first, Saudi lobbyists put the veterans up in Northern Virginia. Then, in December 2016, they switched most of their business to the Trump International Hotel in downtown Washington. In all, the lobbyists spent more $270,000 to house six groups of visiting veterans at the Trump hotel, which Trump still owns.
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The Washington firm Qorvis/MSLGroup, which has long represented the Saudi government in the United States, paid the organizers of the veterans fly-in trips, according to lobbying disclosure forms. The firm declined to comment.
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Saudi-funded lobbyist paid for 500 rooms at Trump's hotel after 2016 election (Original Post)
Roland99
Dec 2018
OP
You think Trump is going to interrupt that kind of cash flow for a mere journalist?
gratuitous
Dec 2018
#2
To me, this is a huge story. Surprised not getting many comments here.
Laura PourMeADrink
Dec 2018
#7
sandensea
(21,529 posts)1. Emoluments must be Cheeto's middle name by now.
Tip of the iceberg, no doubt.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)2. You think Trump is going to interrupt that kind of cash flow for a mere journalist?
Unlikely.
demmiblue
(36,751 posts)3. K&R (about to be discussed on All In). n/t
Roland99
(53,342 posts)5. Thanks. Just fired up the SiriusXM app!
malaise
(267,823 posts)4. Chris Hayes is discussing this now n/t
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,103 posts)6. Nothing to see here
cries Drumpf
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)7. To me, this is a huge story. Surprised not getting many comments here.
Veterans were truly getting duped. The first question we were asking was how they got the veterans on board with respect to being against 9/11 families suing the Saudis. In this reporting it shows they were told that the law was bad because it included the ability for other countries to sue u.s. military members for actions taken in other countries.