Carl Icahn is one of the people who bank-rolled Donald Trump when he was facing bankruptcy in Atlantic City way back in the early 1990s. However, the story of Trump and Icahn's on/off relationship is long and twisted, as well as being far from over.
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-names-billionaire-carl-icahn-special-advisor-regulation-vows-shred-n698866
Blog readers will no doubt remember how Mr. Icahn (the largest owner of effectively-valueless 'Herbalife' shares) has recently been appointed to the unofficial (new) post of President-Elect Trump's special adviser on regulatory reform. This would seem to be the equivalent of appointing a notorious pyromaniac to be a special adviser on fire prevention and on the choice of who should be Fire Chief.
It takes quite a lot to shock me these days, but the above video (which begins to detail Messrs. Icahn and Trump's Indonesian connections) made my jaw drop.
Donald Trump began to flaunt his Indonesian connections during his Presidential campaign.
https://www.revealnews.org/article/trumps-indonesia-hotel-deals-hint-at-his-form-of-foreign-relations/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/02/donald-trumps-indonesian-business-partner-considers-running-for-president
Carl Icahn is the largest share-holder of Freeport McMoRan Inc. - a company which owns around 90% of the truly-staggering Grasberg Mine in Indonesia and which is Indonesia's largest corporate tax-payer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasberg_mine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeport-McMoRan
David Brear (coptright 2017)
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