Trump names Massad Boulos, campaign liaison and family relative, as a senior adviser on Middle East

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Trump names Massad Boulos, campaign liaison and family relative, as a senior adviser on Middle East

Massad Boulos in Dearborn, Michigan, Friday, Nov. 1, 2024.

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President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday named Massad Boulos, a Lebanese ********* businessman who is the father-in-law of Trump’s daughter Tiffany, as a senior adviser on ***** and Middle Eastern affairs.

Boulos arranged Trump campaign efforts to engage the ***** ********* community in Michigan, organizing dozens of meetings in areas with large ***** ********* populations angered by Democratic President Joe Biden’s backing of *******’s offensives in Gaza and Lebanon. Trump won the majority ***** ********* city of Dearborn Heights on his way to sweeping Michigan and other swing states.

“He has been a longtime proponent of *********** and ************* values, an asset to my Campaign, and was instrumental in building tremendous new coalitions with the ***** ********* Community,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

Trump and Boulos said the *********** president-elect would bring peace to the Middle East, but neither has publicly offered concrete details on Trump’s plans for the region.

Boulos has previously sought office in Lebanon and has long-standing ties to political figures in the country. Other Trump picks for key national security positions are staunch supporters of ******** Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a Trump ally.

Mike Huckabee, Trump’s pick for ambassador to *******, has consistently rejected a ************ state in territories seized by *******. He has claimed “there really isn’t such a thing” as Palestinians, in referring to the descendants of people who lived in Palestine before the establishment of *******.

Trump’s pick for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, advocated for rebuilding a biblical ******* temple on the site of Al-Aqsa Mosque, one of Islam’s holiest sites.

Boulos helped capitalize on dissension within the Democratic base over support for the ******** offensive in Gaza, where more than 44,000 people have ***** since ******’ attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, according to health officials in the ******-run territory who don’t separate civilians and fighters in their totals.

Trump won Michigan by just over 10,000 votes in 2016 and Biden retook the state for the Democrats in 2020 by roughly 154,000 votes. Trump carried Michigan in November over Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, with 49.7% of the vote.

“Massad is a dealmaker, and an unwavering supporter of PEACE in the Middle East,” Trump said on Truth Social.

Trump, who has long installed family members and their relatives in key positions, is signaling that he will run his second administration the same way. On Saturday, he announced that he intends to nominate real estate developer Charles Kushner, father of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, to serve as ambassador to France.

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