{"id":70351,"date":"2026-02-02T12:31:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T12:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=70351"},"modified":"2026-02-02T12:31:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T12:31:38","slug":"inside-the-187m-deal-between-the-trump-family-and-the-uaes-spy-sheikh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=70351","title":{"rendered":"Inside The $187M Deal Between The Trump Family And The UAE&#8217;s &#8216;Spy Sheikh&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Trump family reportedly received $187 million from an Abu Dhabi royal-backed investment firm four days before Trump\u2019s inauguration and months before the UAE secured access to 500,000 advanced AI chips annually.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sheikh Tahnoon Invests $500M In WLFI<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/policy\/spy-sheikh-secret-stake-trump-crypto-tahnoon-ea4d97e8?st=bqLGvD&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink\">According<\/a> to the Wall Street Journal, Sheikh <strong>Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan<\/strong>, the UAE\u2019s national security adviser, backed a $500 million investment for 49% of <strong>World Liberty Financial<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"WLFI\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/WLFI-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: WLFI)<\/a> through his firm Aryam Investment 1 on January 16, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Trump signed the agreement. Trump family entities received $187 million of the first $250 million installment.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, $31 million went to <strong>Steve Witkoff\u2019s<\/strong> family entities and another $31 million went to co-founders <strong>Zak Folkman<\/strong> and <strong>Chase Herro<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The timing raised red flags.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Weeks earlier, the administration named Witkoff U.S. envoy to the Middle East, marking the first time a foreign government official bought a major stake in an incoming president&#8217;s company.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The AI Chip Push<\/h3>\n<p>Sheikh Tahnoon\u2014called the \u201cspy sheikh\u201d\u2014oversees a $1.3 trillion empire spanning AI and surveillance operations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His top priority &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/02\/50294630\/inside-the-187m-deal-between-the-trump-family-and-the-uaes-spy-sheikh?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Inside\" the deal between trump family and uae sheikh>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump family reportedly received $187 million from an Abu Dhabi royal-backed investment firm four days before Trump\u2019s inauguration and months before the UAE secured access to 500,000 advanced AI chips annually. Sheikh Tahnoon Invests $500M In WLFI According to the Wall Street Journal, Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE\u2019s national security adviser, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-70351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}