Jared Kushner’s Middle East Peace Plan Involves Nations Giving Him Billions of Dollars

Jared Kushner and Steve Mnuchin traveled through the Middle East in the weeks before Trump left office, ostensibly to raise money for the Abraham Fund, which was supposed to fund various development initiatives in the region. The New York Times reported on Monday, however, that the fund was essentially a shell, that it dissolved after the former president left office, and that Kushner and Mnuchin’s own firms went on to land hundreds of millions of dollars from the nations they visited while working in the White House.

Kushner has since pitched investing in his firm, Affinity Partners, as a way to uphold the Abraham Accords, the 2020 peace agreement between the U.S., Israel, and the UAE that inspired the creation of the Abraham Fund, according to the Times (rolling stone/nyt)

ElwoodBlues · M

Seems right wingers LOVE corruption, as long as it's committed by fellow right wingers. SAD!!!

Northwest · M

$2B to be exact, for the Kushner fund and $500M for the Mnuchin fund. Both from the Saudis. Kushner used the $2B to attract another $500M, for a total of $2.5B, which is the entire size of his fund.

Drain the swamp.

Carla · 61-69, F

Mnuchin made eighteen trips to the mid east in the time he was in office. Compared to the ten times over the previous ten years by other treasury secretaries.
Eighteen times.