With Trump and Witkoff sons in the Gulf, “unprecedented conflicts of interest”
While Donald Trump will travel to Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, and Qatar in mid-May, his son Eric is already in the region preparing the groundwork. He is supported by Zach Witkoff, who announced that an Emirati company will use a Trump family cryptocurrency for its transactions. This is a "blurring of boundaries," denounced in particular by The New York Times.
The Gulf petromonarchies “believe in growth” and “ambitious projects,” Eric Trump boasts, as the Saudi daily Asharq Al-Awsat headlines . The son of the American president, currently on tour in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, is also being honored by the Emirati newspaper The National , which published an interview in which he explains how his father defied attempts to “kill him by any means, financially, politically, legally, and finally with a bullet,” in reference to the assassination attempt that targeted Donald Trump in July 2024.
The least we can say is that, financially, he is doing rather well, recalls the British business daily Financial Times . And this, in particular, thanks to these same petromonarchies. Because Eric Trump's trip comes not only two weeks before a tour by the American president to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, but also in a context where "the Trump family is expanding its business in the region" .
The Trump company thus concluded an agreement on Wednesday, April 30, for the development of a golf complex in Qatar with a Saudi company. It also “launched this week a
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