Kushner Abandoned Trump to Cash in on Saudi Contacts
What? The "Abraham Accords" Weren't About Peace?
The New York Times reports today that son-in-law and member of two crime families, Jared Kushner, did not wait for Big Orange Daddy to be declared the loser in 2020 to announce to his wife, Ivanka, that they were getting out of Dodge.
On Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020, barely 24 hours after President Donald J. Trump claimed in the middle of the night that “frankly, we did win this election,” Jared Kushner woke up in his Kalorama mansion and announced to his wife that it was time to leave Washington. “We’re moving to Miami,” he said.
What? So quick? What was the rush?
While the president’s son-in-law had arguably been the most influential adviser to the president through four years, he chose at that pivotal moment to focus instead on his personal project of Middle East diplomacy. He returned to the region to meet with figures who would also be helpful to him later in making money after leaving the White House.
And now, according to the Washington Post, Kushner has raised at least $2 billion from Saudi leader Mohammed Bin Sultan (the guy who ordered the killing and dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi) for his personal investment fund. No collateral necessary; Kushner already put up his stake through his hard work keeping the US government in line for MBS for the previous four years.
Obviously the Kushner-brokered Abraham Accords are working just the way they were intended. They ended the ancient Biblical conflict between Israel and…Bahrain. And Orthodox Jewish boys from New Jersey can now get billions from the most antisemitic regime on the planet, the one nation in the world that is officially Jew-free (judenrein as the Nazis liked to say). That’s progress!
And Israel, the Jewish state, gets to sell its spyware to MBS so he can continue to crush dissent or dismember it. (To be fair, Israel is not limiting the sale of its spying- on-dissidents app to Saudi Arabia. It is also selling it to Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Hungary, India, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Morocco, Rwanda, and the United Arab Emirates. Who next? AIPAC?)
It’s beautiful. Muslim, Jewish, Israeli, Saudi, and Emirati billionaires are all coming together in big, beautiful business and dissident-squashing deals. Abraham would be so proud.
The Times again:
TEL AVIV — Israel secretly authorized a group of cyber-surveillance firms to work for the government of Saudi Arabia despite international condemnation of the kingdom’s abuse of surveillance software to crush dissent, even after the Saudi killing of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, government officials and others familiar with the contracts said.
After the murder of Mr. Khashoggi in 2018, one of the firms, NSO Group, canceled its contracts with Saudi Arabia amid accusations that its hacking tools were being misused to abet heinous crimes.
But the Israeli government encouraged NSO and two other companies to continue working with Saudi Arabia, and issued a new license for a fourth to do similar work, overriding any concerns about human rights abuses, according to one senior Israeli official and three people affiliated with the companies.
Since then, Saudi Arabia has continued to use the spyware to monitor dissidents and political opponents.