The following article by Max Greenwood was posted on the Hill website May 19, 2018:
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) dubbed the Trump campaign “absolutely crazy” after The New York Times reported on Saturday that President Trump‘s eldest son met with a Gulf emissary in 2016 who offered to help the real estate mogul win the presidency.
“To be fair this is pretty standard for a Presidential campaign,” Schatz tweeted, referencing a Vox article about the Times’s reporting. “I’m kidding. It’s absolutely crazy.”The tweet came hours after the Times reported that Donald Trump Jr. met in August 2016 with Joel Zamel, an Israeli political strategist specializing in social media manipulation, and George Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman and a self-styled emissary to the crown princes of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Continue reading “Democratic senator: Trump Jr. meeting with Gulf emissary ‘absolutely crazy’”