But news of the Qatar solicitation marks the first time Cohen is believed to have pitched his influence directly to a foreign government. Cohen spoke to him again at Trump Tower when the two men were outside the meeting between Foreign Minister Mohammed al-Thani and Flynn. Early this week, he tweeted a photograph of Cohen and Rumaihi, taken on the day of the December 2016 Trump Tower meeting. Its government was deeply interested in continuing close relations, and there was, the people knowledgeable about the meeting said, a lot to talk about at the Dec. 12 Trump Tower meeting. The day after the Trump Tower meeting, the Qatari government announced in Doha that it would invest $10 billion in the infrastructure program.

Source: Washington Post May 16, 2018 22:07 UTC