President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday announced the appointment of a top lawyer at the Trump Organization to the role of special representative for international negotiations in his incoming administration.
Jason D. Greenblatt currently serves as executive vice president and chief legal officer at the Trump Organization. During Trump’s campaign, he advised the then-candidate on Israel and defended his boss against charges of anti-Semitism among his supporters.
Trump praised Greenblatt in a statement as one of his “closest and most trusted advisors” with “a history of negotiating substantial, complex transactions on my behalf, as well as the expertise to bring parties together and build consensus on difficult and sensitive topics.”
Greenblatt will work on international negotiations “of all types” and trade deals, according to a press release from Trump’s transition team. He is expected to work primarily on the Israel-Palestine peace process and the United States’ relationship with Cuba, according to a CNN report published Friday, which cited an anonymous source familiar with his appointment.
No. No conflicts or appearance of corruption there.
Nothing like a little baksheesh before the negotiations begin. He acts like he doesn’t know the US has teams of lawyers that specialize in this work. Hundreds of lawyers who do this for a living.
And if you’re not familiar with the term baksheesh, the mafia term is vig, short for vigorish.
Per the Guardian
Aside from his work for Trump, Greenblatt practiced law at the firm of Fried Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson, and also formed a business called The Credit Workshop in 1992 with his brother, Joseph Greenblatt, who is currently serving up to 18 years in New York prison for fraud.
A real estate lawyer to handle international negotiations. It all is making such wonderful sense now. And he is Jewish, so of course that makes him an expert on Israeli policy. How long does this guy get to punk us like this? How long before one of his moronic picks steps into some real shit on behalf of the country? I am having a hard time distinguishing between Trump’s desire to reward everyone who has supported him from just a general plot about how to destroy the country as quickly as possible.
Not to worry, Don’s got his best Jews on it. They’ll be exempted from the camps. For a while, anyway.
He’s very respectful of Jewish sensibilities. He’s like a bull in a china shop (which we know from Mythbusters won’t break a thing).
Greenblatt has “a history of negotiating substantial, complex transactions on my behalf,” and will continue in that capacity for the business enterprise being run by my kids under a sham blind trust in which I have no interest other than being its sole beneficiary. The pretext of being the SoS will give him access to opportunities around the world and unlimited leverage to make me even richer than I pretend to be.