There has been an eruption of umbrage at Donald Trump’s temporary suspension of travel and immigration. For the record the EO stipulates that refugee resettlement program be suspended for 120 days and the travel suspension runs for 90 days from seven countries in a list compiled by the obama administration.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) mustered up some fake tears in hammering Trump over the temporary action, despite his past entertaining the notion of a temporary pause in immigration not so long ago.
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The motivations ascribed to Trump’s action are fanciful. Mostly they accuse Trump of protecting his business interests. News organizations were quick to seize upon this notion.
The list does not include Muslim-majority countries where the Trump Organization does business, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. In financial disclosure forms during the presidential campaign, he listed two companies with dealings in Egypt and eight with business in Saudi Arabia. And in the UAE, the Trump Organization is partnering with a local billionaire to develop two golf courses in Dubai.
There is a real problem with this. As we noted, the list was compiled by the obama administration, not by Trump. But there might be a different motivation for this specific list- the protection of clinton business interests.
The list of “countries of concern” went into law in December of 2015, well before Donald Trump became the nominee of the Republican Party in July of 2016. It really makes no sense that barack obama would assemble of list of countries of concern that would intentionally omit countries in which Donald Trump had business interests, but the possibility of obama leaving out countries that the clinton’s had a vested interest in is an intriguing and far more realistic possibility. Let’s check on these countries. Who is not on the list? Saudi, Morocco, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman and the UAE.
All are donors to the Clinton Foundation. To the tune of about $100 million. Bill Clinton personally pocketed a million bucks in speeches from the UAE.
As for Turkey, the Clinton’s are alleged to have had a pay for play scheme ongoing there:
Sources close to the Turkish government have explained to WND on the condition of anonymity their concern that a Clinton Foundation pay-to-play scheme is behind the Obama administration refusal to extradite Gulen, the radical Turkish imam the Turkish government considers the mastermind behind the failed July 15 coup.
The Turkish Gulen network are contributors to the Clinton Foundation:
The connections between the Gulen movement and Clinton are not the first to be revealed. They also add to questions about what it is the Gulenists want from Clinton and whether the Democrat has rewarded their financial support with favors.
Last year The Daily Caller reported that numerous Gulen followers have donated to Clinton’s various political campaigns and to her family charity. One Gulen movement leader, Recep Ozkan, donated between $500,000 and $1 million to the Clinton Foundation.
As senator from New York, Clinton gave a keynote address at the Turkish Cultural Center’s annual banquet.
In Egypt, hillary clinton backed the Muslim Brotherhood as she actively supported the overthrow of a sovereign government. And there’s more:
The Clinton Foundation seems to have tolerated extremist Islamists in their Middle East offices. An Egyptian court sentenced a former top Clinton Foundation employee, Gehed el-Haddad, to life imprisonment in April 2015 for “inciting violence” and supporting an Islamist protest against the military-led ousting of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.
From 2007 to 2012 el-Haddad was a Cairo city director of the Clinton Foundation in Egypt and ran its in-country office as well as directed communications.
El-Haddad had a well-known reputation for promoting radical Islam. He formally joined Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party in May 2011 as a senior adviser for foreign affairs, overlapping for more than a year during his tenure with the Clinton Foundation, according to his Linked-In social media page.
It seems pretty clear. When obama compiled his list of “countries of concern” he did not have Trump in mind. As he fully expected hillary to win the election, he may well have had the business interests of the clinton’s foremost in mind.
Or maybe it’s just what Trump says it is.
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