“We normally stay at the Hay-Adams hotel,” Kasnazan, 50, said in a recent interview with a Post reporter in Amman, Jordan, where he lives in a gold-bedecked mansion and summons his servants by walkie-talkie. [Saudi-funded lobbyist paid for 500 rooms at Trump hotel after 2016 election]A few weeks before Kasnazan checked in, a pair of exiled Thai prime ministers spent the night. Suites at the Trump hotel range from about $1,000 to $2,000 per night; at the Hay-Adams, they are about $840 to $1,840 per night. The next day, 9 executives had reservations at Trump’s hotel.] During his recent stay in Washington, Kasnazan said, he socialized with some of the State Department’s Middle East experts outside of the hotel.

Source: Washington Post June 06, 2019 12:11 UTC