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turbinetree

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Wed Dec 4, 2024, 09:23 AM Dec 4

Trump offers key Pentagon job to billionaire whose firm trained Khashoggi's murderers [View all]

By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams
Published December 4, 2024 8:41 AM ET

President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly offered the number-two Pentagon job to a secretive billionaire investor with close ties to the military-industrial complex, potentially introducing additional conflicts of interest to an incoming administration that is set to be rife with corporate executives and lobbyists.

Stephen Feinberg is co-founder and co-CEO of the private equity behemoth Cerberus Capital Management, which owns a firm that provided paramilitary training to members of the elite team that murdered Saudi journalist and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.

Trump drew global outrage for publicly defending the Saudi regime in the wake of the assassination, even after U.S. intelligence agencies established that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman authorized Khashoggi's murder.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-offers-key-pentagon-job-to-billionaire-whose-firm-trained-khashoggi-s-murderers/

Did trump get the memo that Jamal Khashoggi was a "US " resident.............oh yeah he did.............

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