Disgraced Republican Financier Accused of Secretly Lobbying for China – Mother Jones

On May 25, 2017, Elliott Broidy texted Rick Gates with a message for Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Broidy, a top fundraiser for Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee, said that China would be willing to increase its cooperation with US law enforcement if the Justice Department deported Guo Wengui, a wealthy Chinese dissident living in New York. “Mine is legitimate back channel,” Broidy wrote to Gates, a former top Trump campaign aide who Broidy had hired as a consultant. Broidy did not mention that he was in the process of receiving millions of dollars from a shady Malaysian businessman who had sought his help convincing the US government to extradite Guo. ...
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/08/elliott-broidy-rick-gates-china-malaysia/

Major Trump fundraiser caught running a shady campaign to influence US policy in the Middle East - Raw Story

A key Republican donor for President Donald Trump and the RNC was caught trying to use a former diplomat in a campaign to influence Middle East policy, the Daily Beast reported Thursday. ...
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/major-trump-fundraiser-caught-running-a-shady-campaign-to-influence-us-policy-in-the-middle-east/

AP investigation: A Trump fundraiser's secret lobbying effort to win $1B in business - NBC News

Hundreds of pages of leaked emails show how Elliott Broidy and his business partner, Lebanese-American George Nader, pitched themselves to Middle Eastern crown princes as a backchannel to the White House. ....
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/ap-investigation-trump-fundraiser-s-secret-lobbying-effort-win-1b-n876206

How a Witness for Mueller and a Republican Donor Influenced the White House for Gulf Rulers - The New York Times

Hundreds of pages of correspondence between the two men reveal an active effort to cultivate President Trump on behalf of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, both American allies. ....
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/21/us/politics/george-nader-elliott-broidy-uae-saudi-arabia-white-house-influence.html