Saudi Prince Photoshopped With Megyn Kelly Burns Trump: I Bailed You Out!

Saudi business magnate, investor, philanthropist Al-Waleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz al Saud, who is also a member of the Saudi royal family, has arrived in the Croatian capital Zagreb on board his own private Boeing 7... Saudi business magnate, investor, philanthropist Al-Waleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz al Saud, who is also a member of the Saudi royal family, has arrived in the Croatian capital Zagreb on board his own private Boeing 747 Zagreb, CROATIA-07/08/2014. The Saudi Prince, who is currently staying in the presidential suit at the luxury Esplande Hotel, has arrived unannounced without any fanfare. Al-Waleed (59), whose estimated wealth of 21.4 billion USD makes him the 30th richest person in the world, arrived in Zagreb to check out some possible investment opportunities. /CROPIX_1721.03/Credit:Damir Krajac/CROPIX/SIPA/1408081727 (Sipa via AP Images) MORE LESS
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The Saudi Prince who was photoshopped in an image with Megyn Kelly dissed Donald Trump for retweeting the picture.

In a tweet Thursday, Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz al Saud reminded Trump that he had “bailed out” the presidential frontrunner multiple times in the past.

Thursday morning, amidst his beef with Fox News, Trump retweeted the picture of Prince Al-Waleed and his sister — supposedly posing with Kelly — that bore the claim that Al-Waleed was a Fox News co-owner. The image was quickly debunked as obviously fake, and Politifact concluded that while Alwaleed owns a major stake in Fox News’ parent company News Corp, he is “more of a passive major shareholder” than an active owner.

In his tweet Thursday, Al-Waleed included a link to a Business Insider article debunking the image as well as Buzzfeed and Mic stories from last year recounting how Alwaleed “bailed out” Trump financially in the 1990s.

The stories recounted the pieces of the then-struggling Trump empire that the New York businessman had to sell to the Saudi prince in order to stay afloat, including his 282-foot yacht, stakes in hotels he owned and portions of his other businesses.

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  1. Oof! Pwned by a sheik! Oh, the humanity!

    You’ll always have that casino in Atlantic City, Donal–wait, no I guess that went belly up. Too bad Prince Al Waleed didn’t bail you out then too!

  2. There aren’t but so many bridges a man can burn before he goes up in smoke.

  3. Avatar for pine pine says:

    “The stories recounted the pieces of the then-struggling Trump empire
    that the New York businessman had to sell to the Saudi prince in order
    to stay afloat, including his 282-foot yacht, stakes in hotels he owned
    and portions of his other businesses.”
    Even had to sell the yacht ? Oh No say it aint so ! LOL!

    Yep its true" the same people you meet on your way up are the same ones you meet on your way down ".

    BTW,with this info from the Sheik,Meygn Kelly must be LHAOROTF.

  4. Avatar for johnrm johnrm says:

    Oh great, The same country that funded 9/11, are now funding ISIL, AND own a nice chunk of Fox News have also bailed out the GOP front runner twice…now that’s telling…

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