Trump picks another in-law for key adviser role

Donald Trump has named his girl Tiffany's father-in-law, Massad Boulos, arsenic an advisor connected Arab and Middle Eastern affairs.

The Lebanese American businessman is the 2nd in-law to beryllium offered a presumption successful the incoming administration, aft Trump picked Charles Kushner, his girl Ivanka’s father-in-law, to service arsenic ambassador to France.

Mr Boulos played a cardinal unofficial relation successful the Trump campaign, helping him tribunal Arab American and Muslim voters arsenic galore of them grew frustrated with the Biden medication implicit the Israel-Gaza war.

Announcing the assignment connected societal media, Trump said Mr Boulos was “instrumental successful gathering tremendous caller coalitions with the Arab American community".

“He has been a longtime proponent of Republican and Conservative values,” Trump said connected Truth Social, adding that Mr Boulos was an “asset” to his campaign.

On the run trail, Mr Boulos appealed to Arab American and Muslim voters by promising them that Trump would reconstruct bid successful the Middle East.

His efforts exploited a large vulnerability for the Harris campaign, who struggled to triumph enactment from Arab and Muslim Americans owed to US enactment of Israel during the ongoing Israel-Gaza war.

“Those massacres would not person happened if determination was a beardown president astatine the White House,” Mr Boulos told Trump supporters successful Arizona earlier this year, referring to the mounting civilian deaths successful Gaza. “The full warfare wouldn’t person happened.”

It is unclear however Mr Boulos intends to leverage his advisory role. Born successful Lebanon, helium is known to person forged ties with respective governmental factions successful his commencement country.

He told the Associated Press successful June that helium is simply a “friend” of Sleiman Frangieh, a Christian Lebanese person who is allied with the Shia Muslim governmental enactment and militant radical Hezbollah.

Mr Boulos has already served arsenic thing of an informal liaison betwixt Trump and Middle Eastern leaders, the New York Times reported.

He is besides reported to person met Mahmoud Abbas, the person of the Palestinian Authority, connected the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly successful September.

At that meeting, Mr Boulos reportedly conveyed Trump’s tendency to extremity the Israel-Gaza warfare and different conflicts astir the world.

Mr Boulos moved to Texas arsenic a teenager, according to a illustration of him successful the New Arab, wherever helium attended the University of Houston and obtained a instrumentality degree.

He has since worked astatine his family’s concern - a Nigeria-based billion-dollar institution that specialises successful the organisation of centrifugal vehicles and instrumentality crossed West Africa.

Unlike immoderate of Trump's different appointments, Mr Boulos’ advisory relation does not necessitate confirmation by the US Senate.