Gold Emmanuel 2 weeks ago

BREAKING: Trump taps Nigerian Lebanese-born businessman as adviser

BREAKING: Trump taps Nigerian Lebanese-born businessman as adviser

United States President-elect Donald Trump has selected Lebanon-born billionaire Massad Boulos as his senior White House adviser for Arab and Middle Eastern affairs, citing the businessman’s outreach to Arab Americans during the election campaign.

The announcement of the appointment on Sunday comes as the Trump administration continues to take shape, particularly in terms of the officials who will oversee US policy in the Middle East, although the purview of Boulos’s role was not immediately clear.

Before the selection of Boulos, who is the father-in-law of Trump’s daughter Tiffany, the president-elect tapped pro-Israel hawk Marco Rubio as his nominee for secretary of state; Mike Huckabee, a staunch supporter of illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, as his ambassador to Israel; and friend Steven Witkoff, a businessman with scant policy experience, as special envoy to the Middle East.

In a statement on Trump’s Truth Social platform, the president-elect hailed Boulos as… Read the full article.

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Author: Gold Emmanuel
02 Dec 2024 @ 16:22pm
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