Spectator: Saudi Arabia and the UAE have funded the 2016 Trump campaign in exchange for its cancellation of the nuclear deal with Iran

Spectator revealed in a report to Paul Wood the details of the involvement of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in the 2016 US presidential elections in favor of the current US President Donald Trump.

The report's author, Paul Wood, says Lebanese billionaire Andy Khawaja has told him he is now being prosecuted because of what he knows about the issue, which is that Riyadh and Abu Dhabi funded the 2016 elections for Trump.

Wood recounts how he communicated with Khawaja, and the stories he told, and shows them with pictures taken here and there and videos.

Khawaja claims that the Saudis and Emiratis illegally paid tens - or even hundreds - of millions of dollars for Trump's campaign in 2016.

Small donations
To keep it a secret, Khawaja says they passed the money in the form of small donations from ordinary Americans, using stolen ID cards, "virtual credit cards", or gift cards, noting that donations valued at less than two hundred dollars did not reach the extent that It must be reported to the FEC, and therefore made public.

He adds that the Saudis and Emiratis were able to make thousands of these small donations at the same time using the latest internet payment technologies, stressing that he was aware of that because he had sold the necessary technical expertise to the Saudi and Emirati mediator George Nader, who would later emerge as the central figure in this story .

Here, the author pointed out that all those involved in this matter either denied his authenticity or preferred not to comment, including Nader's lawyer, the Saudi and Emirati embassies in Washington, the Trump campaign and the National Committee of the Republican Party; and the Stripe company that undertook the fundraising.

The writer quoted Khawaja as saying that he had tried and failed to push the FBI into investigating this case, as he had spoken to a member of the National Security Council, a congressman, a senator, and a former general, and that was not all found, while life was shattered Khawaja, and his company is destroyed.

The writer goes on to detail the details of Khawaja's life since he fled to the United States at the age of 14, and changed his name from "Ahmed" to "Andy", to start after his private company "Allied Walt" company specialized in facilitating online payment, and possibly transferring money secretly , According to the writer.

Arabic Amazon
In early 2016, Khawaja wanted to create an online shopping center for the Middle East, to serve as "Amazon Arabia", and he needed investors, and here Nader was included in his project.

Nader Al-Madkour, who is awaiting a verdict against him in America on charges including sexual exploitation of children, worked for the UAE Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed.

Khawaja says that Nader told him that he found an investor for the online mall, another member of the ruling family in the UAE, and told Khawaja this sheikh that he would need half a billion dollars to build “Amazon Arabia.” The Sheikh replied - who later turned out to be a senior official in the UAE intelligence service - By asking to send the details saying, "And we will invest five hundred million dollars in full."

Khawaja adds that he was surprised by this quick positive response, but that amount never reached him, to die as a result of the said shopping center project.

Online payment machine
Instead, Khawaja reveals that Nader offered to buy the "payment machine" he developed, which enables him to take credit card payments online, indicating that he agreed to the offer.

He adds that in September 2016, Nader revealed to him why he bought this machine, saying that Abu Dhabi wanted to help make "small online payments" in large quantities that reach the Trump campaign and the Republican Committee.

Khawaja describes a rare request for help to make his aspirations successful, saying, "How can we generate electronic financial payments on online donation sites? I would like you to show us how we can do this?"

Funding reason for the campaign
Khawaja recalls his colleague, Nader, explaining why they funded the Trump campaign. He says, "I met the Trump campaign ... We have a deal with Trump; my president, His Highness, has reached an agreement that says that if we help Trump win the elections, he will be tough on Iran, and he will cancel The nuclear deal reached with the administration of his predecessor Barack Obama, and this will paralyze the Iranian economy, and will impose a ban on the sale of Iranian oil, which will make it difficult for them to compete in the oil market, and this is worth a hundred billion dollars, and we cannot allow Hillary Clinton to win no matter what it costs us to do so. You must lose. "

Khawaja adds that Nader told him that the Saudis will pay the money, while the Emiratis will manage the process using data they bought from China, saying, "We have data of ten million American consumers, and we have inexhaustible money, and I also met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and he is with us that Clinton must To lose. "

Pictures with leaders
Khawaja has a rare photo with Putin, with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, as well as with Emirati Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed.

Wood comments on those pictures, saying they do not prove a conspiracy to fund the Trump campaign in secret, but it shows that Nader has the ability to communicate with these big characters.

Khawaja says that Nader paid him five million dollars out of the ten million he agreed with as the price of the electronic payment machine, but he indicates that he left him before the elections and did not communicate until he later heard Trump's success in those elections.

Khawaja recalls that Nader told him that Trump's first foreign visit would be to Saudi Arabia to celebrate with Mohammed bin Salman and Mohammed bin Zayed for his victory, because of their decisive role in his success, and he added that he also told him that Saudi Arabia and the UAE would announce a blockade of Qatar, and that Trump would support them.

Wood comments on this by saying that Trump's first overseas visit was to Riyadh and that he really supported the Qatar blockade, which began in early June 2017.

He says that the US Department of Justice has another story about the millions Nader Khawaja has given, accusing Nader and Khawaja of having paid three and a half million dollars in illegal contributions, but not to Trump, but to Hillary Clinton.

"Whether we believe Khawaja or the US Department of Justice, both accounts of events demonstrate that the UAE has used its wealth to buy influence in America," Wood notes.