Perfect Match: Wedding of Lebanese Corruption with Trump White House

Lebanon is a breeding ground for corruption. It has plagued the country since the 1970s when the Sunni Arabs, led by Saudi Arabia, decided to dismantle the Lebanese State using Yasser Arafat's armed Palestinian guerillas as their militia. The Lebanese state is, by virtue of the National Pact agreement between the various constituent religious sects, headed by a Maronite Christian president, a Shiite Speaker of Parliament and a Sunni Prime Minister. This system worked very well between the 1940s and 1970s and the country prospered.

In the 1970s, the Sunni Arabs, with their newly emerging oil wealth, in the Gulf (Saudi, Kuwait, Emirates, etc.), across north Africa (Egypt, Libya, etc.) and in the Levant (Syria, Iraq), frustrated by their continued defeats by Israel, decided to avenge their honor by attacking the other "aliens" in their midst, the Lebanese Maronite Christians. Having pacified their own borders with Israel (Syria 1974, Egypt 1979, and later the PLO 1993 and Jordan 1994), the Sunni Arabs funded and armed an uprising by the Lebanese Muslims (Sunnis, Shiites, Druze, Alawites etc.) against their own state and army, which became known as the Civil War of 1975.

The net outcome of that war, with the contribution of course of the criminal Zionists south of the border, and the treacherous blessings of successive American administrations of Reagan and the Bushes, was three-fold:

- The Lebanese Sunni Prime Minister now held the main executive powers while the Maronite Christian president became a figurehead dummy, and

- All militias were disarmed and disbanded, except the Iranian militia Hezbollah (which is today the object of a major crisis), whom both the Saudis and the Iranians supported even though Hezbollah murdered 243 US Marines and 58 French paratroopers in Beirut in Oct 1983,

- The Syrian army of the Assad dynasty occupied and raped Lebanon since 1976 and through 2005.

During that long period of 50 years, and as the Lebanese Sunnis first (with Rafik Hariri), then the Shiite Lebanese (with Nabih Berri) ruled the country, corruption and mismanagement became the norm, sending the country's economy from its high of a Maronite Christian-led prosperity and wealth to a Muslim-led cesspool of corruption and degradation, through successive crises culminating in the default on its debt in 2019.

The reason I relate this brief history of the country is to give a background for the story below, in which superior Lebanese corruption, as the legacy of Muslim rule over the country and aided by Saudi Arabia, has reached the White House in the person of MOSSAD BOULOS, a Lebanese in-law of the Trump clan.

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Democrats launch probe into Trump son-in-law over alleged wedding deal
Rebecca Beitsch
Fri, August 29, 2025


Democrats launch probe into Trump son-in-law over alleged wedding deal

Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are launching a probe into Michael Boulos, the son-in-law of President Trump, following reports he and his cousin brokered a deal with a Saudi businessman to provide the appearance of access to the Trump family.

A spokesperson for Boulos previously denied reporting from The New York Times that found Boulos, through his cousin, discussed an invitation to his wedding to Tiffany Trump for Saudi businessman Abdulelah Allam in exchange for $100,000.

President Trump attended the wedding, held on Nov. 12, 2022, at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, along with other members of his family.

“This revelation, if accurate, would represent a corrupt and reckless attempt by the Trump [Boulos?] family to leverage proximity to Donald Trump for personal enrichment. Further, it raises serious questions as to whether financial conflicts of interest have influenced the administration’s foreign policy at the expense of American national security,” House Oversight ranking member Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) wrote in a letter obtained by The Hill.

“The Committee demands to understand the details of this arrangement and whether you are continuing to leverage your position to sell access to President Trump.”

Boulos, his cousin James Frangi, and Allam met in June 2022 to discuss the financial arrangement, according to the Times. All three men dispute this reporting in some capacity.

Reporting from the Times includes text messages between Frangi and Allam, who had significant property assets seized by his country’s government in 2017.

According to the Times, Frangi discussed plans to “soften up” Saudi officials by apparently showing the businessman as close to the Trumps.

“We have a month and a half to get everything started before the wedding,” Frangi wrote, according to the Times.

The men have given differing accounts about the exchange of funds.

A spokesperson for Boulos told the Times that Frangi owed him money, with Allam settling the debt between the cousins. A spokesman for Allam told the outlet the money was a loan to Boulos. Frangi reportedly referred to the exchange of funds as both a loan and the settling of a debt.

None of the men immediately responded to request for comment from The Hill.

“The Committee is further concerned by the conflicting explanations provided about the purpose of this payment,” Garcia wrote.

“Given these glaring inconsistencies, the Committee seeks to understand the underlying reason for the $100,000 transfer and whether the transaction was intended to purchase influence with the Trump family. These actions raise serious questions about whether corrupt financial interests are influencing American policy and whether President Trump is for sale to those willing to pay.”

The letter asks for all documents and communications, including bank records, regarding the payment.

While the Times said Allam never attended the Trump-Boulos wedding, the panel also asks for any documents related to the “possible attendance at Mr. Boulos’s November 12, 2022, wedding.”

The investigation is the latest in a line of Oversight probes into presidential family members.

Under the first Trump administration, House Democrats reviewed Trump’s business dealings as well as that of his children. That includes after their exit, when son-in-law Jared Kushner signed a $2 billion investment deal with the Saudis.

Under President Biden, the panel’s Republicans probed the finances of the Biden family, with ample scrutiny to the business dealings of son Hunter Biden.