Doha, Qatar – December 5, 2025 Donald Trump Jr. will arrive in Doha this weekend to deliver a keynote address at the Doha Forum 2025, rubbing shoulders with Hillary Clinton herself - an ironic twist, given the shared Gulf monarchies' deep pockets that have lined both families' coffers. Just months after the Trump Organization and its extended family network secured an estimated $7 billion in cumulative direct financial ties with Qatar, the event highlights a bipartisan rot in American politics: foreign influence peddling that turns public office into a family ATM, shaping U.S. foreign policy for decades to come while politicians and their kin profit time and again.
The staggering figure, compiled from public disclosures and corporate announcements, includes:
- $5.5 billion – Trump International Golf Club & Villas, a luxury resort and golf resort project in Qatar developed in partnership with Qatari Diar, the real estate arm of the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA). The development, part of the larger Simaisma beachside masterplan 40 minutes north of Doha, features an 18-hole Trump-branded golf course, exclusive clubhouse, and beachfront villas. Don Jr. and brother Eric personally promoted the deal during visits to Doha earlier this year, with Eric attending a high-profile signing ceremony on April 30 alongside Qatari Diar CEO Ali Mohamed al-Ali and Qatar's Minister of Municipality Abdullah Al Attiya; Eric hailed it as an "exceptional collaboration" reflecting the Trump brand's "prestige and timeless elegance," while Don Jr. amplified the project during his concurrent Middle East speech tour and crypto events in Dubai, calling it a "game-changer for luxury golf in the region."
- $1.5 billion - Qatar Investment Authority’s 2024 investment into Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners private-equity fund.
- $1.1 million - Qatari government and QIA-linked rental payments and hotel spending at Trump properties between 2017 and 2021, including office space in Trump-owned 555 California Street in San Francisco and stays at Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.
But let's not pretend this is a Trump exclusive, it's the Clinton playbook on steroids. The Clinton Foundation, that supposed beacon of global good, raked in between $1 million and $5 million from Qatar during Hillary's tenure as Secretary of State, including a shady $1 million "birthday gift" in 2011 for Bill that wasn't even disclosed to the State Department as required by her own ethics pledge. Overall, the foundation pocketed over $40 million from four Arab states, including Qatar – cash from a Hamas-hosting regime that Hillary's leaked emails once slammed for bankrolling ISIS. Fast-forward to 2025: Hillary's jet-landing in Doha to pontificate on "Gaza reckoning" and Gulf-EU ties, while the foundation's "humanitarian" halo conveniently masks the pay-to-play stench. Critics rightly torch the Trumps as tone-deaf for schmoozing Qatar's Hamas enablers, but the Clintons? Same game, different decade, undisclosed millions funneled through a "charity" that greased access to power.
Don Jr.’s appearance at the high-profile forum, where he will share the stage with Hillary Clinton, Bill Gates, Tucker Carlson, and senior Qatari officials – comes as Qatar continues to play a central mediation role in the Gaza ceasefire and hostage negotiations. Critics on both the left and the MAGA right have called the trip tone-deaf, pointing to Qatar’s hosting of senior Hamas leaders and its past financial support for the Muslim Brotherhood. Yet in the end, it's all theater: Political and foreign influence run deep in America, twisting policy into personal enrichment schemes that screw over taxpayers and allies alike. Trumps and Clintons aren't rivals here – they're co-stars in a rigged system where Qatar's billions buy influence, and America's future gets auctioned off to the highest bidder.
Trump Organization spokesperson Kimberly Benza defended the relationship, stating: “The Trump Organization does not conduct business with any government entity” and emphasizing that deals like the Qatar golf project are with private partners such as Dar Global, a U.S. ally that hosts the largest American military base in the region.
As the Trump family’s business empire expands deeper into the Gulf much like the Clintons' foundation did before it, Don Jr.’s weekend visit underscores a grim truth: Personal, political, and financial interests aren't just intersecting on the global stage; they're hijacking MAGA, with politicians profiting time and again at the expense of everything else.
If you don't lie you NEVER have to remember what you said. All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.-Galileo
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