Democratic Congressman Jamin Ben "Jamie" Raskin has not forgotten about the $2 billion paid to Jared Corey Kushner by the Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund. You shouldn’t either.
When Donald John Trump Jr. was in office, the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud boasted he had Jared Corey Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, "in his pocket” and that Kushner may have provided him a classified “kill list” of political opponents.
Kushner was not able to secure a security clearance because he was deemed comprised by national security officials, but he was nonetheless given access to our nation's highest-guarded secrets by Trump, who allowed Kushner to serve in key government posts on a de facto basis. While holding government positions in the White House, Kushner and wife Ivanka Trump made up to US$640 million.
Congressman Raskin has not forgotten these facts and wants to make sure the American people have not either.
New AP/NORC poll shows that 53% of Americans say they would definitely not support Donald John Trump Jr, if he is the Republican nominee. Another 11% say they would probably not support him in November 2024.
Jared Corey Kushner spent much of his White House tenure cozying up to MBS & Saudi Arabia. From Day 1, a smash-and-grab Presidency, and there is absolutely nothing surprising that the last thing Trump did was grab the most sensitive national security secrets he could in the hopes he could sell them to Saudi Arabia, Putin, or anyone else.
Years ago, horror in Riyadh. Mohammed bin Salman told his close aides that Trump had given his explicit support for a power grab, which involved the arrests of 11 princes and hundreds of officials and businessmen in midnight raids across the kingdom.
Salman 'bragged' about his cozy relationship with the U.S. president and his son-in-law, Jared Corey Kushner, claiming that the president backed Salman's takeover.
The claim closely matches an insider account in Michael Wolff's explosive book 'Fire and Fury' that the president told his friends, 'We've put our man on top!' – implying that he and Kushner had engineered the Saudi coup.
Imprisoned in luxury: This picture, in the days after the round-up, shows how 11 princes and billionaires being held in the Riyadh Ritz Carton. They have now reportedly been moved to a real prison
MbS, who posed happily with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump at the Saudi royal family's Murabba Palace in Riyadh, has boasted that he has approval from Trump for his round-up of princes, billionaires and businessmen and his demands for their cash
Jared Corey Kushner and MBS bonded staying up until 4am in the morning during one visit. He stood with the couple as the national anthem was sung when the president and his entourage arrived in Riyadh - while his father King Salman stood beside Melania Trum
Now, Trump tried to hide the documents, and when he was subpoenaed to return the documents, he ignored the subpoena. It should never be forgotten that the crux of the Trump campaign’s lies was the scary black women. That was the foundation for their lies and to rile up the base. The scary minorities.
A president accepting a special counsel investigating his son’s potentially criminal actions—a federal prosecutor who was appointed by a previous president of the other party, no less— shows a serious commitment to impartial rule of law.
Let me repeat that. Trump tried to hide the documents and ignored a subpoena. Trump could've argued that the documents were accidentally transported to his home; his people were incompetent. However, the fact he was given multiple opportunities to return the documents demonstrates he knew what he was doing. The DOJ will indict Trump.
Six months after leaving Washington, his private equity firm landed $2 billion in investments from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund. A panel that screens investments for the main Saudi sovereign wealth fund cited concerns about the proposed deal." "Days later the full board of the $620B Public Investment Fund — led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman...overruled the panel.
In March 1st 2019, The White House chief of staff at the time, John Kelly, wrote a contemporaneous internal memo about how he had been “ordered” by the president to give Jared Kushner the top-secret clearance. Some Trump allies had warned senior GOPers to scale back the attacks on the DOJ and FBI because the fact set that would ultimately emerge could be problematic for Trump.
*Jared Kushner departed to Saudi in Jan 6th 2021. Via his book, “Breaking History”
Every GOPers needs to be on record of whether they're fine with Trump and Kushner selling our nuclear secrets to the Saudis. Because at minimum, they tried to. The Saudis hired a law firm (with ties to Trump) to lobby on behalf of Saudi nuclear aspirations. King & Spalding, an international law firm headquartered in Atlanta that reportedly has worked for Trump’s real estate concerns, disclosed that Saudi Arabia was paying the firm up to $450,000 for a 30-day period.
With salary €160 million for 2 years to play for Al Hilal Saudi, Brazilian superstar Neymar arguably to be 3rd current biggest salary on football / soccer after Messi (assume his salary + Apple deal exclusive worth €320 million) and Cristiano Ronaldo (€200 million). Unstoppable Saudi. Roberto Mancini was heavily criticised for his decision especially following reports that he was set to accept a mega-money move to Saudi. But Mancini said that he stepped down as Azzurri coach because of disagreements with the head of Italy's football federation Gabriele Gravina, in particular over his decision to make changes to his coaching staff.
If Mancini agree to works for Saudi National Team, Mancini and also Neymar to become the latest and saddest passenger on the Saudi gravy train.
The disclosures were made in a filing with the Justice Department, as required by the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). Since leaving office, the Saudis have "invested" $2 billion with Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and paid Trump untold sums to host two professional golf tournaments at his properties.
Saudi Arabia invested in the LIV-Golf tournament too. In February 2019 (3,5 years ago), Whistleblowers raised grave concerns with the Trump Administration’s efforts to transfer sensitive nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia.
Certain nuclear information would have very high economic value to Saudi Arabia, Russia, and other governments. The search of Mar-a-Lago triggered shockwaves across Russia, with outraged Kremlin propagandists claiming that hundreds of FBI agents and packs of dogs were involved in the raid of Trump's estate, predicting civil war in the US and threatening to pitch in. Former National Security Adviser under the Trump Administration, Michael Flynn, pushed a project to share nuclear power technology with Saudi Arabia despite the objections of ethics and national security officials, according to a new congressional report citing whistleblowers within the administration. It’s as if some intel showed Trump had sold some secrets to foreign adversaries, making the need to secure them an emergency requiring immediate action.
"I've never seen somebody get two-thirds of their money from a single investor. Usually, a single investor might be a few percent of the fund, might be 5 percent, occasionally 10 percent," presenter Ratnner said. While Kushner has hired some people for his fund, "I've seen nothing else about what he's actually done with the money," Rattner continued.
"It is normal to invest this money over a period of several years, so I don't think we can draw a firm conclusion yet. But, again, we're going back to a guy who's a real estate guy, and frankly, not a particularly good one at that, who's suddenly got $3 billion trying to do private equity deals competing against people who've been in this business for a long time. And I wouldn't, if I were the Saudis, count on making a lot of money from this any time soon," he said, adding: "U.S. private equity firms still raise the vast bulk of their money from U.S. investors. This is extraordinary — unprecedented — I've never seen anything like it."
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