House Democrats on Tuesday shed more light on a yearslong lobbying campaign in which Saudi Arabia and the US nuclear industry worked with some of President Donald Trump’s key allies to secure a favorable civil nuclear agreement.
The House Oversight Committee released a new tranche of documents — obtained from Trump administration whistleblowers — indicating that the president’s longtime friend and campaign inauguration chairman, Tom Barrack, had solicited Saudi and Emirati funding in his bid to buy the US nuclear reactor firm Westinghouse even as he pushed the White House to reach a nuclear deal favorable to Riyadh.
