It seems marrying into the Trump household is an effective technique to get a political appointment. After the president-elect chosen Charles Kushner, father of Ivanka Trump’s husband Jared Kushner, as his nominee for ambassador to France, Donald Trump introduced he’ll nominate Massad Boulos as his advisor on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs. Boulos is Tiffany Trump‘s father-in-law.
Trump made the announcement on Truth Social. “I’m proud to announce that Massad Boulos will function Senior Advisor to the President on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs,” Trump wrote. “Massad is an completed lawyer and a extremely revered chief within the enterprise world, with intensive expertise on the International scene.”
Boulos, a Lebanese American billionaire, performed a task in Trump’s marketing campaign as an unofficial consultant to Arab American and Muslim American communities, assembly with them in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere to shore up votes for Trump.
“Trump will probably be a powerful president,” Boulos advised Saudi broadcaster Al-Arabiya in October, based on The Los Angeles Times. “He’s the one president who can obtain peace [in Lebanon] and a everlasting answer to the Palestinian downside.”
Boulos grew up in Lebanon in the course of the nation’s civil warfare however got here to the U.S. the place he obtained a level in worldwide regulation from the University of Houston. He married a Lebanese entrepreneur’s daughter who received him a place working SCOA Motors in Nigeria, which manufactures and distributes vans and busses. Boulos launched an unsuccessful run for parliament in Lebanon in 2018. His son, Michael Boulos, married Tiffany Trump in a 2022 ceremony at Mar-a-Lago. Tiffany is presently pregnant with their first youngster.
According to The Times, many Lebanese consider Boulos can push Trump to finish the warfare between Israel and Hamas and Hezbollah. Israel launched an offensive on Lebanon and Hezbollah within the fall of this 12 months.
Sources advised Reuters that Boulos has been in latest contact with Hezbollah in addition to different Lebanese leaders, together with the Lebanese Forces Party, a Christian group that opposes Hezbollah.
“Boulos’ Lebanese political previous provides no actual indication of a geostrategic and even nationwide imaginative and prescient, nevertheless it demonstrates ambition and a set of political allies that can stand out in Trump’s circle like a sore thumb,” Century Foundation fellow Aron Lund advised Reuters.
