We’ve always known that Jared Kushner is a sleaze. His felonious, pussy-grabbing father-in-law would never have given him a position in his first administration if he wasn’t. Now, a Vanity Fair excerpt from a new book, “Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East,” provides some details into just how sleazy Kushner is.
The intro to the Vanity Fair article is shocking. In late spring 2020, when Kushner was supposedly working on our government’s response to the Covid outbreak, a source informed journalist and author Matthew Cole that the Dutch government had hacked into Kushner’s phone and found that he had transferred “significant amounts of money” from a Dubai-based bank account to, among others, “a warlord, a mercenary and a one-time hit man.”
As crazy as it sounded, it turned out to be true.
The Dubai account was essentially “a foreign policy slush fund,” The New Republic explained. While Kushner was a signatory, the account was owned by a government-funded charity “used to fund the UAE government’s covert intelligence operations overseas, as well as its secret weapons-purchasing programs, one confidential source told Cole.”
But that wasn’t the only secret account. UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (MBZ) deposited $1 billion in an account at Israel’s Central Bank that was apparently for Kushner’s “personal benefit,” Cole said. There was a third account, too, that Cole described as “something like a rainy-day defense fund” from which Israel would defend the UAE from an attack from Iran.
“Combined, the three accounts represented a secret foreign policy negotiated by Kushner with the leaders of Israel, the UAE and Saudi Arabia,” Cole wrote.
It looks like Boy Blunder Kushner broke some laws with these shenanigans. “Regardless of whether he was a signatory or the owner, Jared was required by federal government regulations and the Internal Revenue Service to disclose his access to the account,” Cole said. Needless to say, he didn’t.
In fact, Cole’s reporting found Kushner may well have kept his boss and father-in-law in the dark. Four senior Trump administration officials, including a former CIA director, told Cole they were unaware of any presidential authorization for Kushner to access any foreign government bank account.
“By giving him access to roughly $2 billion, regardless of how the money was used, MBZ and [Mohammed bin Salman] were paying for his influence within the US government,” Cole noted. “If Kushner promised anything in return “even if it was just speaking to his father-in-law—he may have violated federal bribery laws.”
If Democrats take back even one chamber of Congress, they must put Kushner on their list of people to investigate.
