Thread: Jared Kushner gets 25 million a year from Saudis.

Wasn't sure where to put this.
Next time some retard brings up Hunter Biden mention this. Republicans are the biggest hypocrites and gaslighters it's possible to image.

Former first son-in-law Jared Kushner received a $2 billion investment from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund — with expected annual management fees of $25 million, according to a New York Times report.


Kushner’s firm, Affinity Partners, made the deal shortly after President Donald Trump left office, despite a Saudi Public Investment Fund review panel’s concerns about “inexperience” and a due-diligence review that was “unsatisfactory in all aspects,” according to minutes of a June meeting reported by the New York Times.


Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman leads the fund’s board, which overruled the skeptics. A letter written by fund staff to a board member who dissented cited “aims to form a strategic relationship with the Affinity Partners Fund and its founder, Jared Kushner” in going ahead with the deal, according to the report.

Kushner worked as a top Trump White House aide and built a relationship with the crown prince while in office — including while working on the Abraham Accords that led to four Arab states establishing diplomatic relations with Israel.


Trump is openly teasing a possible 2024 bid, and Kushner’s arrangement sparked ethics concerns from some of the same experts who have criticized the overseas business ventured of Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden.


Walter Shaub, director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics during the Obama administration, tweeted that he was concerned about the possibility that Kushner may have influenced U.S. policy during his time in office to benefit potential future business plans.

Jared Kushner scores $2 billion investment from Saudi Arabia: report - MarketWatch

“Makes you wonder if Jared did something with his official authority for MBS before leaving government to earn that investment,” Shaub tweeted.

U.S. spy agencies have assessed that the crown prince ordered the 2018 operation that resulted in the death and alleged dismemberment by bone saw of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, a U.S. resident who died after being lured to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Trump, after initial criticism of the alleged murder, said the U.S.-Saudi relationship was too important to jeopardize by breaking with the prince, the country’s de facto ruler. (The following year Trump hailed the crown prince as a friend and adopted a pointed silence on Khashoggi’s death.)


As a White House employee Kushner also helped broker $110 billion in weapons sales to Saudi Arabia and helped shield those transfers against congressional outrage over the murder of Khashoggi and other matters.


“This is corruption,” wrote Brookings Institution fellow Norm Eisen, a former Democratic official and co-founder of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, on Twitter.

Originally Posted by Iceman123

I have no love for Kushner, but is it just because it is him that the problem?

...definitely: Saudis project their understanding of family ties onto others...Jared and Ivanka are direct lines to an important past and possibly future power center. They've bought access to influence and might even make a profit...alarm bells should have rung as soon as this rather cynical transaction took place...