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Trump’s “Extreme Vetting” for Muslims: Najib Exempt?
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Trump’s “Extreme Vetting” for Muslims: Najib Exempt?

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Feb 08, 2017
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At 2:30 a.m. one day in mid-November, after the election of Donald J. Trump to the presidency of the United States, the telephone rang in the official residence of Prime Minister Najib Razak of Malaysia.

Najib’s wife Rosmah Mansor answered the telephone. On the other end was businessman Syed Azman of Weststar Group, a sprawling Malaysia-based conglomerat…

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