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RIYADH: Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said on Twitter that he had bailed the Republican presidential hopeful out twice and suggested that Trump might need his help a third time Huffington Post reported.

The exchange was initiated by Trump, who had retweeted a badly Photoshopped image showing the prince with Fox News host Megyn Kelly and called him a co-owner of the network. The reply from Bin Talal was “Trump: You base your statements on photoshopped pics? I bailed you out twice; a 3rd time,maybe?”

The prince’s tweet included news stories showing that he had bought Trump’s yacht in 1991, which had been turned over to creditors when he was $900 million in debt, according to the New York based internet media company website Buzzfeed.

The prince also included a link to a story showing that he was part of the group that bought New York City’s Plaza Hotel from Trump in 1995. As part of the deal, bin Talal paid off Trump’s debt on the hotel in what the New York Times newspaper said was “a defeat for the real estate developer.”

Trump’s tweet also claimed that Bin Talal was co-owner of Fox News. While the prince is an investor in the news corporation, his stake is worth only one per cent, according to CNN. Trump and Bin Talal also tangled on Twitter last month. After Trump’s incendiary call to ban the Muslims from entering the United States, Bin Talal had urged him to quit the race. His tweet read, “You are a disgrace not only to the GOP but to all America. Withdraw from the US presidential race as you will never win.”

Trump responded, “Dopey Prince @Alwaleed_Talal wants to control our US politicians with daddy’s money. Can’t do it when I get elected. #Trump2016”

At the end of their news report, the Huffington Post also left a note for their readers as follows:

“Note to our readers: Donald Trump is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist, birther and bully who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the US.”