Abu Dhabi royal known as ‘spy sheikh’ secretly bought massive stake in Trump family’s crypto firm: report

Cristiana Gigina

An Abu Dhabi royal known as the “spy sheikh” reportedly bought a massive stake in the Trump family’s crypto firm for half a billion dollars in secret just four days before President Trump took office. Two months later, the Trump administration allowed the United Arab Emirates access to 500,000 of the most advanced AI chips each year – a sharp reversal from Biden-era export curbs, according to The Wall Street Journal . Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan – a bearded, wiry man almost never seen