New Letter to the Editor: Trump campaign sins will be discovered.

Byron York recently dismissed the importance of the “first” Trump Tower meeting stating, “unless some startling new evidence appears, the notorious Trump Tower meeting seems more like a clumsy attempt to interfere with a presidential election”. Startling new evidence was revealed on March 20th; we learned of a July 2016 Trump Tower meeting, arranged by Erik Prince, (founder of Blackwater, his private military company, now known as Academi)  for Donald Trump Jr, who met with George Nader, a gulf emissary for United Arab Emirates and Saudi crown princes, and Joel Zamel, Israeli expert in social media manipulation, who Nader supposedly paid $2 million to pitch a presentation showing how effective his marketing plan could be to influence the election.  “It is illegal for foreign governments or individuals to be involved in American elections.”  Nader is cooperating in the Mueller investigation . There are a multiplicity of sins to be discovered, and most will be.

There was the April 2017 meeting between convicted felon, Charles Kushner, Jared’s father and the Qatari finance minister in an attempt to secure investment for the financially troubled Kushner property, 666 Fifth Ave, Manhattan.  Qatar refused to invest in Kushner’s firm, then in June 2017 the White House supported a blockade of Qatar organized by Saudi Arabia, whom Trump and Kushner are strongly allied with.  Qatar is a sovereign country that hosts the biggest U.S. military base in the Middle East, and is strategically important to us.  Qatar is the world’s third largest producer of natural gas, and shares the huge North Gas Field with Iran.  “The U.S. wants to secure geopolitical control over Qatar’s gas reserves.  Russia’s geopolitical control  over gas pipelines going to Europe has been reinforced as a result of the blockade”, which continues, but there might be a resolution soon.   A deal is in the making for Charles Kushner to sell that property on which he owes $1.2 billion — to “Brookfield, a publicly traded company, headquartered in Canada, one of whose major investors is the Qatar Investment Authority.”

Whenever you think “it’s” NOT about money and oil, you’re wrong!  Fortunes are made and lost in wargames.  Israel and the Saudis are worried about Iran’s growing power.  The U.S. seeks to weaken Qatar’s relationship with Iran.  I expect THAT war to break out before the year is up.   Republican Jeff Flake recently said that “America’s biggest enemies doing the worst … couldn’t hurt us more than we are hurting ourselves”.

Trish Forsyth Voss