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| Donald Trump wanted Moammar Gadhafi’s money | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jun 9 2016, 01:44 PM (364 Views) | |
| Dem4life | Jun 9 2016, 01:44 PM Post #1 |
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http://www.pressherald.com/2016/06/08/donald-trump-wanted-moammar-gadhafis-money/ |
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| Dem4life | Jun 9 2016, 01:44 PM Post #2 |
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Donald Trump’s 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 Trump’s 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 Libya’s 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. Yet, as distasteful as the idea of a wealthy American businessman and future presidential hopeful desperately seeking a business relationship with Gadhafi is, it was not exactly unique at the time. Trump was just one of many Americans hoping to make money from Libya before the 2011 uprising. And perhaps the most notable thing about Trump’s attempts to do business with Libya wasn’t that they were made. It’s that they failed. |
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| Che On The Rocks | Jun 9 2016, 02:08 PM Post #3 |
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Donald Trump is friend of Mauricio Macri. Nuff said. |
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Free Milagro Sala! What happened to Santiago Maldonado? What happened to ARA San Juan? Mapuche Lives Matter! Stop the political persecution in Argentina! Stop the looting of Argentina! | |
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| mysysail | Jun 11 2016, 08:57 AM Post #4 |
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Global_Hick
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To be fair: Half the World did business with Gadhafi. |
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| Robert Stout | Jun 11 2016, 07:22 PM Post #5 |
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Libya now realizes they were better off with Kaddafi and Trump...Democrats are the destroyers of worlds........
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| Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid | |
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| 70-101 | Jun 11 2016, 10:02 PM Post #6 |
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Only a complete idiot would involve themselves financially and likely politically with that lunatic Gadhafi - even with State Dept. approval. |
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| Robert Stout | Jun 12 2016, 04:32 AM Post #7 |
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That did not stop George Bush's grandfather with doing business with Hitler...............
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| Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid | |
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