President-elect Donald J. Trump introduced on Sunday that he would title Massad Boulos, a Lebanese American businessman and the father-in-law of his daughter Tiffany, as a senior adviser overlaying Arab and Center Jap affairs.
It was the second time this weekend that Mr. Trump provided a place in his administration to an in-law, coming in the future after he tapped Charles Kushner, his daughter Ivanka’s father-in-law, to function ambassador to France.
In an announcement that didn’t point out the household connection, Mr. Trump praised Mr. Boulos’s enterprise expertise and his contributions to his presidential marketing campaign.
“Massad is an accomplished lawyer and a highly respected leader in the business world, with extensive experience on the International scene,” Mr. Trump stated on social media. “He has been a longtime proponent of Republican and Conservative values, an asset to my Campaign, and was instrumental in building tremendous new coalitions with the Arab American Community.”
Earlier than the election final month, Mr. Boulos performed a significant unofficial position within the Trump marketing campaign, courting Arab American voters who Republican strategists hoped would help Mr. Trump out of frustration with President Biden’s help for Israel. Regardless of Mr. Trump’s personal defiantly pro-Israel insurance policies throughout his first time period as president, Mr. Boulos labored to construct help for him in closely Arab American and Muslim corners of Michigan.
By means of his connection to the Trump household, Mr. Boulos has already served as one thing of a casual liaison between Mr. Trump and Center Jap leaders. In September, Mr. Boulos met with Mahmoud Abbas, the chief of the Palestinian Authority, on the sidelines of the United Nations Normal Meeting in New York. He additionally helped ship a letter from Mr. Abbas to Mr. Trump in July, wherein Mr. Abbas wished Mr. Trump properly after an tried assassination that month.
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