it raised eyebrows a few years ago when Jared Kushner, fresh out of his job overseeing Mideast policy in Donald Trump’s White House, founded an investment firm that quickly collected $2 billion from a Saudi wealth fund at the direction of the country’s de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
But it turns out that this giant size kitty isn’t the only way Riyadh is bankrolling Trump’s son in law
https://open.substack.com/pub/spytalk/p/kushner-raking-in-saudi-dough-targeted
@ecksmc He's been all up in Serbia with Ric Grenell lately.
@ecksmc Good article in pointing out the Dem’s exposure to House of Saud influence as well.
“Whether West will return to Uber after the election—or take a top job in a Harris White House or Justice Department—remains at this stage necessarily unclear…
One of its big investors: the Saudi sovereign wealth fund controlled by MBS, the very same one that has invested in Kushner’s firm… $3.5 billion… about $1.5 billion more than MBS gave Kushner several years later.”
They play both sides.