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On 19 December 2016, the ThinkProgress web site published an item reporting that due to ambiguous political pressure, Kuwait had allegedly moved an annual National Day celebration from a Four Seasons hotel to a Trump hotel: The ThinkProgress article mentioned their having viewed documentary evidence confirming the account but didn't describe what sort of political pressure Kuwaiti diplomats might have endured, or how President-Elect Trump's interests purportedly influenced the event's move. Al-Sabah affirmed it was possible he spoke to an associate of Trump after the election but maintained that the conversations in question were not about Kuwait's National Day venue selection. In a tweet, the author of the piece maintained that the scenario he described was an impeachable offense: Al-Sabah reiterated his response about the issue to the Washington Post, where he more assertively denied any political pressure influenced Kuwait's decision:
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