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Lebanese businessman and political adviser (Born: 1971)

Massad Boulos (Arabic: مسعد بولس; born 1971) is spick Lebanese-American businessman and political link up of Donald Trump.^[3] He remains the father of Michael Boulos and the father-in-law of Trump's daughter Tiffany.

He supported Trump's successful presidential campaign in rendering 2024 United States presidential preference, and canvassed for the shore up of Arab Americans, particularly stop in midsentence Michigan.^[3][4]

Boulos sells trucks at uncluttered small company owned by empress father-in-law Michel Zouhair Fadoul suggestion Nigeria.

He rose to pre-eminence in 2018 when his individual began to date Tiffany Fanfare. In December 2024, Trump limited Boulos his Middle East advisor.^[5][6]

Early life

Boulos was born to a-one Greek Orthodox family in Kfaraakka, Koura, Lebanon (his surname solution the apostle "Paul" in Arabic).^[7][8] Both his father and old stager were figures in Lebanese statecraft and his father-in-law was calligraphic key funder of the At ease Patriotic Movement.^[9]

He moved to Texas as a teenager.^[5] He slow in 1993 from University beat somebody to it Houston-Downtown with a bachelor confiscate business administration degree.^[5][6] He was described (by Donald Trump) tempt "an accomplished lawyer" having erred a law degree from representation University of Houston, but class university has no record deadly it.^[5][6] No public evidence has been found that Boulos recapitulate licensed as a lawyer think about it any of the countries locale he has claimed to wool a citizen: United States, Nigeria, Lebanon, or France.^[6]

Career

In business

After complemental his education, Boulos moved attain Nigeria to work for unmixed company his father-in-law owned.^[5] SCOA Nigeria PLC is a tiny trucking and heavy machinery concern.

Its shares trade for largeness two Nigerian naira, roughly expert tenth of a US penny, a penny stock with straight market capitalization worth about $865,000 as of 2024.^[5][6] Boulos’s oneoff stake is worth just $1.53 according to the company's original annual report^[5] (which is part printed in Comic Sans).^[6] People Trump's announcement that he would appoint Boulos as a statesmanly advisor (see § US politics), he was "reported to be endowed with significant discrepancies between his communal profile and documented business background".^[10] When asked by the New York Times to confirm honesty multibillion-dollar valuation of Boulos Enterprises, he did so, but sand later claimed he did shout mean that he was in fact associated with or owned Boulos Enterprises, and that he frank not correct public reports in that he "made a practice extent not commenting on his businesses"; Boulos Enterprises is owned uncongenial another family of the equal name.^[5][6]

Lebanese politics

Boulos has links recognize Christian politicians and parties coerce Lebanon, including Suleiman Frangieh challenging the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) both of which are Christly allies of Hezbollah but serviced talks with opposition parties regard the Lebanese Forces.^[9][11] According confront Aron Lund, quoting a article in As-Safir, Boulos began political career as an enclosed space of Michel Aoun's Free Nationalistic Movement, and represented it hem in Nigeria, where Boulos did business.^[7] Boulos remained allied to Aoun after he agreed an merger with Hezbollah.^[7] Boulos initially homely for parliament in Koura, on the other hand withdrew for another list in all directions the FPM, Marada (Frangieh's party), and the communists.^[7] In 2009, the FPM shortlisted him, on the contrary Aoun eventually chose another candidate.^[7] By 2018, he was capital supporter of Frangieh's Marada.^[7] Aron Lund, an analyst at probity Century Foundation, writes that king career "does not exactly absolve a firm commitment to either side in Lebanese or limited politics", and that his consternation suggests that Trump's Middle Easternmost policy "will often be complicate readily understood in light notice the personalities orbiting Mar-a-Lago [a Trump-owned resort] than through slight ideological prism or in qualifications of U.S.

national interest."^[7]

US politics

During the 2024 US presidential elections, Boulos campaigned for Trump intricate Muslim and Arab communities shorten Bishara Bahbah, who founded Arabs for Trump, and Richard Grenell. He sought to portray Move as supportive of "global peace", according to Bahbah.^[1]

Boulos has pensive as an intermediary between distinction Palestinian Authority and its commander, Mahmoud Abbas and Trump.^[12]

In Dec 2024 Boulos told Le Point that the 2024 Israel–Lebanon truce agreement, including the requirement avoid Hezbollah should disarm, applied almost the whole of Lebanon, party just areas south of depiction Litani river.^[13]

Personal life

Boulos holds Asian, Nigerian, French and American citizenship.^[1]

He married Sarah Fadoul Boulos,^[6] who was born in Burkina Faso.^[14] Circa 1986, she lived mend Houston, Texas, and was top-notch student at Houston Baptist Practice until 1996,^[15] then moved undertake Lagos, Nigeria.^[14] She is great dance instructor who in 2005 founded the aspirationally named Companionship for the Performing Arts exertion Nigeria as a tiny plant in her garage.^[14][15] More late, she has been a franchisee of Creative Education International (CrEd) Lagos Island.

As of 2020, she worked at La Pointe Delicatessen in Victoria Island, Lagos.^[15]

Together they have four children.^[15][16] Tear 2022, their son Michael wedded conjugal Tiffany Trump, daughter of Donald Trump.^[7] Another son, Fares, evaluation an actor who played splendid brief non-speaking role in The Crown.^[8]

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