Kushner and Bannon Knew About the Qatar Blockade Two Days Before it Happpened

The Qatar blockade was sparked by an Internet hack into Al  Jazeera computers on 23 May 2017. But on 20 May, the same moment Trump was supposed to have been meeting in Riyadh with Arab leaders to discuss international anti-terrorism policy, Kushner and Bannon had a meeting in Washington DC with "rulers of Saudi Arabia and the UAE." Then Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had no knowledge of this at the time. This explains the White House's deeply confused immediate response, where it seemed that they were unaware of the presence of the US CENTCOM anti-terrorism base in Dohar, Qatar.

Rex Tillerson was a former ExxonMobil CEO and was involved in Exxon's business in Yemen.

In 1995, he became President of Exxon Yemen Inc. and Esso Exploration and Production Khorat Inc

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Tillerson approved Exxon negotiating a multibillion-dollar deal with the government of Iraqi Kurdistan, despite opposition from President Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, both of whom argued it would increase regional instability.

It seems highly likely that Tillerson has close ties to Bush and The Hunt Oil Company. See Iran False Flags. So quite why Trump chose him as Secretary of State is not clear.