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The former first son-in-law is poised to receive a very large check from his Saudi pals, and all he had to do was let them get away with murder.
BY BESS LEVIN
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
A little something you’re no doubt keenly aware of is that as a senior adviser to the president of the United States, Jared Kushner was extremely bad at his job. That prolonged government shutdown over the wall? Kushner‘s fault. The Middle East peace plan described as the “Monty Python sketch of Israeli–Palestinian peace initiatives”? That was our boy again. Cutting medical professionals out of the government’s pandemic response and scrapping nation-wide testing because the virus was primarily affecting Democratic states? Wherever you look, you find a Kush.
There was one thing Ivanka Trump’s husband was good at, though, and it was cozying up to authoritarians and excusing their heinous human rights abuses. In particular, Kushner was a big fan of Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, whom the then president’s son-in-law reportedly texted regularly via WhatsApp and vociferously defended even though U.S. intelligence agencies determined the guy had approved the killing of Saudi dissident (and U.S. resident) Jamal Khashoggi. (Kushner, according to The New York Times, urged Donald Trump to “stand by the prince” and argued that the whole grisly bone-saw murder would soon blow over.)
And now, it would appear the Boy Prince of New Jersey’s loyalty is about to pay off!
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Article URL : https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/11/jared-kushner-affinity-saudi-arabia-investment