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Investment plans in Sazan, the Democratic Congressman accuses Trump's son-in-law: This is real corruption

2024-03-17 15:20:25Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Investment plans in Sazan, the Democratic Congressman accuses Trump's
Donald Trump and Jared Kushner

Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner was immediately accused of "corruption" by Congressman Robert Garcia, a Democrat from California, after news of the real estate investment deals broke.

Kushner, former President Trump's son-in-law who was a senior White House official in the Trump administration and worked on Middle East policy, posted photos of "design renderings" for his new development projects in Albania and Serbia during Friday.

The proposed projects include luxury buildings on the coast of Albania and in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, writes the American magazine "Newsweek ". "We are very excited," Kushner told the New York Times on Friday.

"We haven't finalized these deals, so they may not happen, but we've been working hard and we're very close." The deals will be made through Kushner's investment firm, Affinity Partners, which he founded after leaving the White House.

The firm received $2 billion from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF). However, his company told the newspaper that it has not yet determined whether Saudi funds for the project will be used. Kushner told the Times that he worked on the new deals with Richard Grenell, who served as acting director of national intelligence in Trump's cabinet from February 2020 to May 2020.

However, the former president's son-in-law has received criticism for the arrangements. Jared Kushner is back to brokering big deals with foreign governments, according to new reports. We have already exposed his $2 billion investment fund with the Saudis and are working hard to ensure this issue gets the attention it deserves. This is real corruption," Garcia wrote in X.

Newsweek reached out to Affinity Partners via online form and Garcia's office via email for comment. 

Meanwhile, Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen, which tracked business deals it deemed conflicts of interest during Trump's presidency, told the NYT.

"At this point in the election cycle, Jared Kushner should freeze any new investment plans. This particular investment plan seems to embody the worst of every corrupt tendency of the Trump administration and the Trump family," he says. Kushner dismissed any suggestion that he was getting special treatment because of his government connections, telling the Times, "No one is handing me deals."

He said his deals are in no way related to Trump and that he was not planning to return to government if Trump wins the presidency in November. During the Axios BFD summit in Miami last month, Kushner denied having any conflict of interest with the PIF and dismissed concerns about the Saudi crown prince accepting funds, calling the Arab country "one of the most prestigious investors in the world." "

At the summit, Kushner was asked whether he believed Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, with whom he has done business since leaving the White House, was responsible for the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Kushner replied: “I know the person I'm dealing with. I think he is a visionary leader. I think what he has done in that region is transformative."

Khashoggi, a US-based journalist critical of the Saudi leadership and bin Salman, was killed at a Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October 2018. A month later, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) concluded that the crown prince the Saudis had ordered his assassination, challenging claims by the Saudi leadership that they were not involved in the killing.

Trump, who was president at the time of the assassination, denied the findings and blocked the release of an unclassified report identifying anyone involved in the case. While Biden is campaigning for re-election, House Republicans continue their impeachment inquiry. Biden has been accused of being involved in and profiting from the foreign businesses of his son, Hunter Biden.

The White House has repeatedly denied that Biden ever had anything to do with his son's relationships, and Biden called the impeachment inquiry a "baseless political stunt." Trump is the Republican presidential nominee for 2024 and is likely to face President Joe Biden, the Democratic incumbent, again in November.


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