Media Ignores Khizr Khan’s Connections with Clinton Foundation, Saudi Arabia


In addition to donating considerable amounts of money to the Clinton Foundation, Khan’s firm Hogan Lovells, LLP lobbied extensively on Saudi Arabia’s behalf. This is a country that, mind you, forbids women from driving and executes homosexuals as a matter of policy, stances that Clinton and her supporters dishonestly ascribe to their opponents but are silent about when practiced by the Saudis. Surely this has nothing to do with the fact that, like Khan and his old firm, the Saudi government has made generous donations to the Clinton Foundation:

“Khan, according to Intelius as also reported by Walid Shoebat, used to work at the law firm Hogan Lovells, LLP, a major D.C. law firm that has been on retainer as the law firm representing the government of Saudi Arabia in the United States for years. Citing federal government disclosure forms, the Washington Free Beacon reported the connection between Saudi Arabia and Hogan Lovells a couple weeks ago.

‘Hogan Lovells LLP, another U.S. firm hired by the Saudis, is registered to work for the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia through 2016, disclosures show,’ Joe Schoffstall of the Free Beacon reported.

The federal form filed with the Department of Justice is a requirement under the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, which makes lobbyists and lawyers working on behalf of foreign governments and other agents from abroad with interests in the United States register with the federal government.

The government of Saudi Arabia, of course, has donated heavily to the Clinton Foundation.

‘The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has given between $10 and $25 million to the foundation while Friends of Saudi Arabia has contributed between $1 and $5 million,’ Schoffstall wrote.

Trump, of course, has called on Hillary Clinton to have the Clinton Foundation return the money.

‘Saudi Arabia and many of the countries that gave vast amounts of money to the Clinton Foundation want women as slaves and to kill gays,’ Trump wrote in a Facebook post back in June, according to Politico. ‘Hillary must return all money from such countries!’

‘Crooked Hillary says we must call on Saudi Arabia and other countries to stop funding hate,’ Trump posted in a separate Facebook posting at the time. ‘I am calling on her to immediately return the $25 million plus she got from them for the Clinton Foundation!’

Of course, to this day, Hillary Clinton and her Clinton Foundation has kept the money from the Saudi Arabian government.

Schoffstall’s piece in the Washington Free Beacon also notes how Hogan Lovells lobbyist Robert Kyle, per Federal Election Commission (FEC) records, has bundled more than $50,000 in donations for Clinton’s campaign this year.

Khan’s connections with the Hogan Lovells firm run deep, according to a report from Law.com written by Katelyn Polantz.

‘Many lawyers at Hogan Lovells remember the week in 2004 when U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan lost his life to a suicide bomber,’ Polantz wrote. ‘Then-Hogan & Hartson attorneys mourned the death because the soldier’s father, Khizr Khan, a Muslim American immigrant, was among their beloved colleagues.’

Polantz wrote that Khan worked at the mega-D.C. law firm for years.

‘Khan spent seven years, from 2000 to 2007, in the Washington, D.C., office of then-Hogan & Hartson,’ Polantz wrote. ‘He served as the firm’s manager of litigation technology. Although he did not practice law while at Hogan, Khan was well versed in understanding the American courts system. On Thursday night, he described his late son dreaming of becoming a military lawyer.’

But representing the Clinton Foundation backing Saudi Arabian government and having one of its lobbyists bundle $50,000-plus for Clinton’s campaign are hardly the only places where the Khan-connected Hogan Lovells D.C. mega-firm brush elbows with Clinton Cash.

The firm also handles Hillary Clinton’s taxes and is deeply connected with the email scandal whereby when she was Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton set up a home-brew email server system that jeopardized classified information handling and was ‘extremely careless’ according to FBI director James Comey.

‘A lawyer at Hogan & Hartson [Howard Topaz] has been Bill and Hillary Clinton’s go-to guy for tax advice since 2004, according to documents released Friday by Hillary Clinton’s campaign,’ The American Lawyer’s Nate Raymond wrote in 2008, as Hillary Clinton ran for president that year. ‘The Clintons’ tax returns for 2000-07 show combined earnings of $109 million, on which they paid $33 million in taxes. New York-based tax partner Howard Topaz has a broad tax practice, and also regularly advises corporations on M&A and executive compensation.’

Breitbart News’ Patrick Howley, in a deep investigative piece on Hillary Clinton’s email scandal, late last year uncovered how Topaz’s firm—which employed Khan while Topaz did Hillary Clinton’s taxes—is also connected to the email scandal.

‘Topaz was a partner at Hogan & Hartson, which later merged to become known as Hogan Lovells, where Topaz continues to practice. The firm’s lawyers were major donors to Hillary Clinton’s first presidential campaign,’ Howley wrote.”

But this was not the story the media decided to go after: instead, they have wasted all of their time bloviating about how nasty and mean Donald Trump is for responding to Khan’s attack on him. So deep is their ignorance of the man’s ties to both Hillary and Saudi Arabia that a number of reporters have expressed befuddlement when confronted about them head on, as was shamefully seen on CNN earlier today:

Earlier on Monday, as CNN host Kate Bolduan stacked a panel with three anti-Trump analysts against Scottie Nell Hughes—the only Trump supporter present—Bolduan admitted she has not done basic research about Khan.

‘I have no idea what you’re talking about, what law firm he’s connected to,’ Bolduan, a CNN anchor, plainly admitted on live television on Monday during a discussion with Hughes.

Hughes was pressing the very easily publicly accessible information that Khan worked at Hogan & Hartson, the firm that would eventually become Hogan Lovells LLP—a firm that as Breitbart News has demonstrated is highly connected with the Clinton apparatus and with the Saudi government. And Bolduan was proving she had no idea what she was talking, quite literally—as her direct quote admits.

A CNN spokeswoman referred Breitbart News to Bolduan’s personal spokesman when sent a list of detailed questions on the matter. That spokesman has not replied to Breitbart News’ detailed questions by press time:

1.) Kate Bolduan admitted on live television today — see approximately 3:20 in this video:

when Bolduan says of Khizr Khan: ‘I have no idea what you’re talking about, what law firm he’s connected to.’ — that she did not do any basic journalistic research on the subjects she was hosting a panel on. Is that acceptable by CNN standards?

2.) Does CNN plan to, in the future, have a discussion about all of Khizr Khan’s various connections to the law firm that A) prepared Hillary Clinton’s taxes, B) helped with various aspects of Hillary Clinton’s illicit homebrew email server, C) is paid by the government of Saudi Arabia for representation here in the United States, among other things?

3.) Does CNN plan to, in the future, focus on the fact that Khan now runs a law firm that financially benefits from opposition to Donald Trump’s policies on migration — specifically that he aims to represent aspiring EB5 visa holders, who pay large sums of money to enter the country, a program that the Senate Judiciary Committee has uncovered as having major flaws?

4.) Has anyone at CNN done any work digging into any of this? You’re aware it’s all publicly available with a simple Google search and would have taken a junior producer less than an hour to find it all out?

Meanwhile, hours after Breitbart News presented this information publicly in a coherent report on Monday, others in media engaged in willful distortion of the story’s origins.

New York Times reporter Nick Confessore, at 3:25 p.m. ET on Monday, Tweeted out a link to the Bretibart News report with this commentary attached to his link to Breitbart News: ‘First oppo dump on the Khans.’

Less than three minutes later, Huffington Post politics editor Sam Stein Tweeted out a link also using the phrase ‘oppo dump.’

‘And, the predictably gross oppo dump on the Kahn family has begun,’ Stein Tweeted with a link to the Breitbart News report. ‘again, their kid DIED fighting for America.’

A few minutes after that, New York Magazine reporter Annie Lowery, at 3:59 p.m. ET Tweeted out her own link to the Breitbart News report, also using the apparently choreographed talking point ‘oppo dump.’

‘I’ve never seen a thinner oppo dump in my life,’ Lowery Tweeted with the link.

All three, sent a detailed list of questions from Breitbart News, wouldn’t answer specifically where they got this from—and specifically if someone associated with the Clinton campaign, or one of its outside allies, circulated the Breitbart News piece with the coordinated messaging phrase ‘oppo dump.’

For the layman reading this piece, an ‘oppo dump’ refers to opposition research provided to a media outlet by a campaign or political operative. Said research is usually negative facts, provided to put together a counter-narrative in the media more beneficial to the provider’s cause.”

Source: Breitbart



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