Donald Trump wanted Moammar Gadhafi’s money
Source: Portland Press Herald
Donald Trumps relationship with the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is under scrutiny this week.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee recently acknowledged that he made a deal with Gadhafi in 2011 to allow the Libyan leader to set up a tent on Trumps estate while visiting New York. The deal eventually fell through, though it still netted him a lot of money, the business mogul told CBS in an interview that aired this weekend.
A report from Buzzfeed paints a somewhat different picture, however. Reporters Daniel Wagner and Aram Roston said Trump spent years trying to develop a business relationship with the Libyan regime, requesting a face-to-face meeting with Gadhafi and even taking Libyas U.S. ambassador golfing.
Gadhafi, who died in 2011, controlled Libya for four decades, quashing all opposition with a fervent brutality. Buoyed by oil wealth, he had been a major backer of terrorism, including the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed 189 Americans. He had been a prototypically cruel and bizarre dictator before Libyans rose up against him in 2011, prompting a civil war that eventually led to his death.
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Read more: http://www.pressherald.com/2016/06/08/donald-trump-wanted-moammar-gadhafis-money/
birds of a feather, etc.
yup
Wilms
(26,795 posts)snip
Mission Accomplished?
Of the 3,000 emails released from Hillary Clintons private email server in late December 2015, about a third were from her close confidante Sidney Blumenthal, the attorney who defended her husband in the Monica Lewinsky case. One of these emails, dated April 2, 2011, reads in part:
Qaddafis government holds 143 tons of gold, and a similar amount in silver . . . . This gold was accumulated prior to the current rebellion and was intended to be used to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar. This plan was designed to provide the Francophone African Countries with an alternative to the French franc (CFA).
In a source comment, the original declassified email adds:
According to knowledgeable individuals this quantity of gold and silver is valued at more than $7 billion. French intelligence officers discovered this plan shortly after the current rebellion began, and this was one of the factors that influenced President Nicolas Sarkozys decision to commit France to the attack on Libya. According to these individuals Sarkozys plans are driven by the following issues:
A desire to gain a greater share of Libya oil production,
Increase French influence in North Africa,
Improve his internal political situation in France,
Provide the French military with an opportunity to reassert its position in the world,
Address the concern of his advisors over Qaddafis long term plans to supplant France as the dominant power in Francophone Africa
Conspicuously absent is any mention of humanitarian concerns. The objectives are money, power and oil.
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/13/exposing-libyan-agenda-closer-look-hillarys-emails
Pastiche423
(15,406 posts)Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Note that Trump's goal was enlarging his wealth. Mrs. Clinton's goal was results beneficial to the country.
Wilms
(26,795 posts)HRC helped to destabilize a nation. "Not anywhere near the same thing", indeed.
AzDar
(14,023 posts)63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)to argue against the Democrat nominee? It is a thread concerning the disaster which is the Republican nominee.
Wilms
(26,795 posts)It's one thing to break a glass ceiling. Quite another to live in a non-crystalline amorphous solid house.
63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)to respond to every negative statement about Trump with a negative statement about Hillary?
Wilms
(26,795 posts)I have made no "negative statement".
63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)If Hillary is, in fact, the nominee, who you voting for?
Wilms
(26,795 posts)63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)who demonstrates the character you have in this thread?
Wilms
(26,795 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Response to jpak (Original post)
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PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)and since there is still a Nomination to get to I don't see them stopping. But more or less I don't see it as entirely an attack but hey Hillary should be prepared when Trump brings up the VIDEO that is out there of her Cozying up to Moam's Son before she killed him.
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)with someone who was basically retired and his son. This isn't exactly shocking. At first my old Airwolf childhood days said yeah alright. but then quickly turned to dismay as it's now Daesh controlled.
Little Tich
(6,171 posts)Source: Wikipedia
In connection with the civil uprising in Libya in February and March 2011, the links between LSE and the Gaddafi regime, and the conduct of individual members of LSE's staff, came increasingly to be questioned. As a result of the revelations, the LSE's Director, Sir Howard Davies, resigned on 3 March 2011, citing "errors of judgement". In a New York Times op-ed piece on 7 March 2011, Roger Cohen wrote, in reference to events that had transpired at the School, "It may be possible to sink to greater depths but right now I can't think how. ...The Arab Spring is also a Western Winter. ...How did we back, use and encourage the brutality of Arab dictators over so many years? To what degree did that cynical encouragement of despots foster the very jihadist rage Western societies sought to curb?"
Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_School_of_Economics_Gaddafi_links
A rich dictator is a popular dictator...