BREAKING: Gulf royals reportedly sent at least $2 billion into secret accounts for Jared Kushner while he worked in the White House
A senior White House adviser. Secret bank accounts overseas. Billions from foreign royals. Kushner says none of it happened.
According to a new report, Kushner logged into a bank account at First Abu Dhabi Bank in the UAE that had received hundreds of millions of dollars from a bank in Azerbaijan. At the time, he was a senior adviser to the president and director of the Office of American Innovation in Trump’s first term.
The account was reportedly overseen by the bank’s chairman, Tahnoon bin Zayed, brother of the UAE’s ruler. It allegedly grew out of a plan by bin Zayed and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to create a slush fund to help the Trump administration with its foreign policy goals. The plan fizzled, but the two royals allegedly put at least $2 billion into two accounts for Kushner.
A second account was reportedly used by the crown prince to transfer $1 billion. One source says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu learned about the money and urged Kushner to deposit it in the Israeli Central Bank instead.
Kushner denies all of it:
“The allegations made by this author are completely insane and never happened.”
He says no bank statements, wire records or account numbers were provided and calls the report “outrageous fabrications.”
The report comes from Vanity Fair’s Matthew Cole and has not published documents. It says the accounts were discovered because Russian military intelligence had hacked Kushner’s phone and Dutch spies later found their way in.
The questions are the part that matters. Why would foreign royals with business before the U.S. government put billions into accounts for the president’s son-in-law? What did they expect in return? And who was he working for while he held a job on the president’s team?
Today Kushner is one of Trump’s top negotiators in the Middle East. He and Steve Witkoff met with Putin at the Kremlin on September 5.
These are allegations, and Kushner has the right to answer them. But if public servants take money from foreign governments, voters have a right to know.-Really American