#PrinceHarming: 20 Short Quotes About Jared Kushner

 

Although he agreed to join his father-in-law’s presidential campaign in November of 2015, Jared Kushner did not really begin to assert himself until March 28, 2016. That’s when he and his “ally,” Tom Barrack, the unctuous private equity billionaire and longtime friend of both Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, convinced Trump to replace his campaign manager, the rough-around-the-edges Corey Lewandowski, with Paul Manafort, Roger Stone’s former business partner—an old hand who was more polished, more experienced with convention-brokering, and, as we later found out, more intimately connected to the Kremlin.

Incredibly, that was ten years ago this week. Ten years!

Somehow, Jared Kushner has been in our lives for a full decade. And yet the legacy media is still no closer to grasping who he really is, what he really wants—or who he’s really working for.

In July of 2017— just six months into the first Trump Administration, two months into the Mueller investigation, and 16 months before the 2018 midterms—I ran a piece for my now-defunct blog with the provocative title: “Compromised: Is Jared Kushner Taking Orders from Vladimir Putin?” The Trump/Russia puzzle had yet to be fully assembled, but already, most of the pieces were visible: We knew about Kushner’s meeting with the Sergei Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the United States, and his bat-shit request for a backchannel through the Russian embassy. We knew about his meeting with Kremlin-spy-turned-head-of-sanctioned-bank Sergei Gorkov. We knew about his lying on his SF-86 forms. We knew about the Trump Tower meeting he attended with Donald Trump, Jr., Manafort, and various Putin cut-outs. We knew about the $267 million loan his company had received from Deutsche Bank that February. We knew that Deutsche Bank was dirty. We even knew about the shady dealings the Trump campaign had engaged in, under Jared’s dutiful watch, with Cambridge Analytica.

It was all there, in plain sight. And yet the same crack journalists who broke all of those important stories somehow failed to explain, or to even try to explain, how they fit together. I don’t know if the individual reporters simply could not see the forest for the trees, or if they were discouraged from forest-gazing by the pro-Trump forces who signed their paychecks. With few exceptions, no one was providing a Big Picture. There was no equivalent piece in the mainstream press to what I wrote on my obscure little site—what I would later rework into a chapter of Dirty Rubles.

Instead, the media trust-washed Jared Kushner. Forbes produced a glowing cover story on “Boy Wonder.” Maggie Haberman of the New York Times, whose mother’s powerful PR firm—which wields enormous influence in New York media circles—counted Kushner and his family as clients, tried her damnedest to present “Javanka” as Camelot 2.0 (Ivanka Trump was supposedly obsessed with the Kennedys). The tabloids wouldn’t touch him, ostensibly because of his close relationship with AMI’s David Pecker. And the mainstream media more or less normalized the idea that this unelected mediocrity—the president’s son-in-law, son of a shitbag felon, whose massive debts to foreign banks and fishy relationships with foreign governments meant he could not get a proper security clearance—was somehow a Voice of Reason in the West Wing, rather than a key architect of the country’s transition from republic to mobbed-up oligarchy.

Back in 2017, we didn’t know much about Kushner the man. As I wrote at the time:

Kushner is notoriously private. Secretive, even. He’s had a Twitter account for eight years and has yet to post a single tweet. He rarely gives interviews. I’ve heard his voice exactly once. He’s basically the J.D. Salinger of the Trump Administration.

I asked, of President Trump’s decision to load up his son-in-law’s portfolio,

what if Trump had good reason to give him the heavy lifting? What if Jared Kushner is far and away the most competent person in the White House? What if he can actually get shit done? And what if he’s working for the Russians?

Most of the attention on “RussiaGate” has focused on Trump, and rightly so. Trump’s Russia ties are as long as the ones around his neck, and fishy as all get out. The President is so loud, and demands so much of the spotlight, that an unassuming eminence grise like Kushner can operate in the shadows with impunity. This is troubling, because we have no clue where his allegiances lie. For all we know, Jared Kushner is the greatest threat to national security since Julius & Ethel Rosenberg. Certainly he should be viewed as such until we know for sure.

A year and a half later, in December of 2018—well over seven years ago—I wrote a piece for Medium called “Boy Plunder: The Many Crimes of Jared Kushner,” in which I lay out, in detail, all the times the President’s son-in-law and senior advisor might have broken the law: during the campaign, the transition, and his first two years at the White House. I opened the piece with a shot across the bow:

[I]t seems certain that Kushner is among the most corrupt and seditious figures ever to work in the White House. The son-in-law and top adviser to the president, the de facto U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia and would-be Middle East peacemaker, is no patriot. To the contrary, Kushner has shown nothing but contempt for the United States: violating its laws, lying to its law enforcement officials, and (possibly) selling its state policy for his own personal enrichment.

In addition to the crimes I’d already outlined in 2017, Kushner was alleged to have had, by the end of 2018: colluded with David Pecker to attack Trump’s enemies in the tabloid press; lobbied for a Qatari blockade, after that country would not underwrite a loan for his family’s business; provided his bestie, MBS of Saudi Arabia, with classified intelligence; and almost certainly failed to warn Jamal Khashoggi of a threat on his life that Jared simply must have known about—a story I wrote about in depth at the time, but which seemed not to resonate with the broader American public.

I also called out the supine media for whitewashing him:

Despite criminal activity breathtaking in both scope and audacity, Kushner tends to receive preferential treatment from the media, like he’s royalty or a popular celebrity and not one of the most dangerous criminals in American history.

All in vain.

The point is not to blow my own horn, or pat myself on the back. I didn’t do any original reporting. I didn’t have any sources of my own. I was merely connecting dots that were easily visible to the naked eye—remarking that, whad’ya know, that particular constellation of stars looks a lot like a giant dipper. This was all obvious to anyone who chose to look. Why was no one looking? Why did—why does—Jared Kushner get a free pass?

Needless to say, nothing was done about any of this. The Republicans, who are in bed with Trump and his Russian overlords, gleefully looked the other way. Mueller (rest in power, you true patriot) failed to indict him. Even after the Democrats took the House in January 2019, Kushner continued his activities unmolested—despite Congressman Ted Lieu being one of his earliest and most persistent critics. The media and the government both treat Jared Kushner as if he has diplomatic plates and won’t ever pay his parking tickets so why bother.

Mea culpa: With some light editing, every word of that previous section was copy-pasted from a PREVAIL piece I wrote in October of 2020, seven months into quarantine, titled “White House Slender Man: Because Jared Kushner’s Early Crimes Went Unpunished, He Remained to Sabotage the Pandemic Response.” As you can see, all of it remains relevant—and even more urgent.

Plus ça change…

For nine years, I have been writing about, and warning about, Jared Kushner. Back in 2022, one of my pieces about him even went viral on Twitter—one of two instances where I was not just trending, but featured in the headline section of the feed: Shame Cometh: The Jared Kushner Story

Shame Cometh: The Jared Kushner Story, Greg Olear

 

Since then, I’ve watched the Kushner cancer metastasize, to the point where it threatens not just our democracy, but—and this is not hyperbole—life on earth.

It was bad enough six years ago, when Jared’s decision to stymie the recommendations of his own hand-picked pandemic response team led directly to the deaths of half a million Americans who might otherwise have survived. It was bad enough more recently, when he stood by and cheered as his old family friend Bibi Netanyahu demolished Gaza, wounding 171,428 people, burying 10,000 in the rubble, and exterminating 71,662 Palestinians (three percent of the total population, which is akin to slaughtering 11 million Americans)—a number the Israeli government no longer disputes. Now his bungling in Iran may well lead to nuclear war.

It feels futile, I realize, to keep talking about this. The legacy media continues to honor Jared’s “Epstein diplomacy” and leave him in peace. True, there is, finally, some movement on Capitol Hill, as this week’s Senate Finance Committee press release indicated:

Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Robert Garcia (CA-42) demanded answers today from the White House following reports that Jared Kushner has been soliciting billions of dollars from Middle Eastern state sovereign wealth funds for his private equity firm, Affinity Partners, while simultaneously co-leading the Trump Administration’s negotiations in the Middle East. Ranking Member Garcia and Senator Wyden also wrote to Affinity Partners to investigate what safeguards are in place to ensure Kushner’s government work is fully separated from his fundraising and foreign business activities.

But that is unlikely to motivate federal law enforcement. Pam Bondi’s DOJ and Kash Patel’s FBI are too busy covering up the Epstein Files to bother investigating their boss’s son-in-law, who may well be the second coming of Jeffrey Epstein.

Even so, it’s critical to call attention to this dangerous, insipid mediocrity. (Seriously—if ChatGPT were a person, it would be Jared Kushner.)

In that spirit, I present a decade of “Boy Plunder,” in 20 quotes:

1.

I am on 150 most powerful New Yorkers list in the Observer. Thank God I am friendly with the owner Jared Kushner!

—Peggy Seigal, email to Jeffrey Epstein, December 22, 2010

Seigal is a powerful Hollywood publicist who wound up in Epstein’s orbit. In 2010, 29-year-old Jared and his buddy, the presidential-pardoned scumbag Ken Kurson, were in the process of running the venerable New York Observer into the ground.

I include this quote because it’s one of the only mentions of Jared Kushner in the Epstein emails. For sure, it may be that Jared wasn’t connected with Epstein at all. But given all their mutual friends, their connections to Israeli intelligence, their shared ability to evade law enforcement or consequences, and the rumors of Kushner being Epstein 2.0, that seems unlikely, if not impossible. The more logical explanation is that any Epstein-Kushner communications have yet to be released by Pam Bondi’s dirty DOJ.

2.

—Tom Barrack, email to Emirati ambassador, May 2016

At one point I flew to California to meet with Tom Barrack, a real estate giant whose firm was one of our creditors. I expected him to be hostile and jockeying for the kill, but after our meeting, he became an ally.

—Jared Kushner, Breaking History, September 2022

Wait—this Tom Barrack? The one writing billets-doux to Jeffrey Epstein?

 

The one who sent Epstein photos of himself “and child” to “make [Epstein] smile?” That Tom Barrack?

 

The same Tom Barrack who downloaded Signal so he could send encrypted messages to his child-sex-trafficking buddy? That Tom Barrack?

 

The Tom Barrack who Jeffrey Epstein tells the private secretary to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia—on November 9, 2016—is the “POINT person” to set up a call between the king and the President-Elect? That Tom Barrack?

 

The Tom Barrack who told Kushner to hire Paul Manafort? The Tom Barrack whose trusty former deputy, Rick Gates, was working for Manafort in 2016? The Tom Barrack who was indicted for being an unregistered foreign agent? That Tom Barrack?

Just making sure we’re talking about the same guy.1

3.

[I]f it’s what you say I love it.

—Donald Trump, Jr., email to Rob Goldstone, June 9, 2016

The infamous June 9, 2016 Trump Tower meeting was attended by Don Junior, Paul Manafort, the Kremlin attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya, some of her associates—and, yes, Jared Kushner.

Natty V supposedly had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton, which delighted the Trump campaign to no end. Once Kushner realized that said “dirt” was not forthcoming, he left the meeting early. But he was still, you know, there.

4.

It’s hard to overstate and hard to summarize Jared’s role in the campaign. If Trump was the CEO, Jared was effectively the chief operating officer.

—Peter Thiel to Forbes, November 2, 2016

Um, how would Peter Thiel know this? Did it come up in his Antichrist research?

If true, it means the COO of the Trump campaign was meeting on the regular with Russians—and brought in a Kremlin darling to run day-to-day operations.

5.

Jared Kushner and Russia’s ambassador to Washington discussed the possibility of setting up a secret and secure communications channel between Trump’s transition team and the Kremlin, using Russian diplomatic facilities in an apparent move to shield their pre-inauguration discussions from monitoring, according to U.S. officials briefed on intelligence reports.

—Ellen Nakashima, Adam Entous, Greg Miller, Washington Post, May 26, 2017

The Russian ambassador to the U.S. during the 2016 campaign season, the multi-chinned Sergei Kislyak, was almost certainly moonlighting as an intelligence officer. He met several times with Kushner during the campaign, including a covert December 2, 2016 get-together that also included Mike Flynn. At that meeting, Kushner famously proposed a Russian embassy backchannel to avoid the bother of disclosing communication between the camps going forward—a proposal that even shocked Kislyak, who’d seen some things.

The first time Kushner met Kislyak, as far as we know, was at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, on April 27, 2016. That was during Candidate Trump’s first major foreign policy speech, when he promised a “good deal” to Russia. Kushner arranged that meeting with help from its sponsor, Dimitri Simes—the head of the nonprofit Center for the National Interest, and a Russian national who most observers, including former KGB officer Yuri Shvets, believe was working for Russian intelligence. After meeting with the Mueller team—the chapter on him in the Mueller Report is longer than most people realize—Simes hightailed it back to the Motherland to host (you can’t make this stuff up!) a pro-Putin TV gameshow.

Kushner met Simes through—hold on to your hat—Henry Kissinger. Because that malevolent vampire couldn’t be content to ruin American foreign policy in the 20th century. Oh no, he just had to fuck us in the 21st century, too.

6.

Let’s be clear: #Kushner lied on his first SF86 security clearance form. Then he LIED AGAIN on his revised form. These are 2 federal crimes.

—Ted Lieu, Twitter, May 27, 2017

Congressman Lieu harped on this for many months, to no avail. Kushner flagrantly violated federal law, and because Jared was Trump’s son-in-law—and shared Jeffrey Epstein’s knack for avoiding any serious scrutiny at all by either the legacy media or law enforcement—nothing was done about it.

 

7.

We’re not going to comment on Jared. We’re just not going to comment.

—Gary Cohn, director, National Economic Council, press conference, May 27, 2017

Cohn, the former Goldman Sachs exec, said this right after the stories broke about Kushner’s secret meetings with various high-placed Russians that Jared had failed to disclose on his SF-86 form. He said it like he meant business.

The Trump people never did comment.

But they didn’t need to. Four months into Trump’s first term, the media got the message and stopped asking questions about Jared Kushner.

8.

Basically, VEB operates like Putin’s slush fund. It carries out major Kremlin operations that Putin does not want to do through the state budget.

—Swedish economist Anders Åslund to the Washington Post, June 1, 2017

Sergei Gorkov, a former KGB officer, is the head of Vnesheconombank, or VEB, a Russian state-owned bank that has been on the U.S. sanctions list for years. That did not stop Kushner from meeting with him in December of 2016, at the Carlyle Hotel in New York. VEB later claimed that the meeting “was conducted with Kushner in his role as the head of his family’s real estate business,” according to the Washington Post. The Trump White House, meanwhile, described it as a “diplomatic meeting,” whatever that means.

We’re still not sure what exactly was discussed. What we do know is, immediately after the rendezvous, Gorkov flew directly back to Russia to see Putin, halfway around the world, ostensibly to report back in person. Why the urgency, if all they had talked about was real estate?

9.

—Unnamed White House transition aide to Politico, June 28, 2017

This is from an FBI CHS Report from October 19, 2020:

Captioned Confidential Human Source (CHS) was asked by the handling agent about information he/she may be aware of related to improper domestic or foreign influence over the electoral process in the U.S. CHS already provided some of this information documented in previous reports, but he/she expanded on several matters, as described below:

One of the matters involved Jared’s hijacking of the State Department:

(U)CHS stated [redacted] Renda Tillerson (Renda)…Renda is the wife of Rex Tillerson (Rex), former Secretary of State for Trump. Renda told CHS about smears in the New York Post and how Jared was running a rival State Department operation. Rex affirmed Renda’s claim. Renda was introduced to CHS by Daren Blanton (Blanton). Renda and Rex both told CHS they had been under intense surveillance. Renda told CHS she can’t wait for the FBI to call her, so that she can tell them everything she knows.

Why was Jared running a “rival State Department” that, among other sneaky activities, left the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense in the dark when Saudi Arabia led a blockade of Qatar? That’s when Trump, going against what Rex Tillerson and James Mattis advised, denounced our Qatari allies as “funders of terrorism.”

On June 27, 2017, Mark Perry of the American Conservative provided more detail:

A close associate of the secretary of state says that Tillerson was not only “blind-sided by the Trump statement,” but “absolutely enraged that the White House and State Department weren’t on the same page.” Tillerson’s aides, I was told, were convinced that the true author of Trump’s statement was U.A.E. ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba, a close friend of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner.2 “Rex put two-and-two together,” his close associate says, “and concluded that this absolutely vacuous kid was running a second foreign policy out of the White House family quarters. Otaiba weighed in with Jared and Jared weighed in with Trump. What a mess.” The Trump statement was nearly the last straw for Tillerson, this close associate explains: “Rex is just exhausted. He can’t get any of his appointments approved and is running around the world cleaning up after a president whose primary foreign policy adviser is a 36-year-old amateur.”

Tillerson once called Donald Trump “a fucking moron.” One wonders what words the former CEO of Exxon would use to describe Jared Kushner.

10.

—Alex Emmons, Ryan Grim, Clayton Swisher, The Intercept, March 21, 2018

Kushner is BFFs with Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, a psychopath who ordered—and may even have watched via close-circuit TV—the brutal execution of journalist Jamal Khashoggi (which plot Kushner probably knew about in advance). For the first few years of the Trump presidency, Kushner was the de facto ambassador to the Kingdom. He was instrumental in making Saudi Arabia the first foreign nation President Trump visited. (I wrote about this at length in 2018.)

Before all of that, MBS was a youthful royal trying to lead his country into modern times. You know: more women driving cars, fewer beheadings. He came to Hollywood and Silicon Valley, looking to diversify the Saudi sovereign fund.

One of these wealthy California investors was Ari Emanuel, the head of William Morris Endeavor (WME), on whom the Entourage character Ari Gold is based. WME took some $400 million from the Saudis. After the Khashoggi assassination, Emanuel had to give it back. He knew just who to blame, too. He didn’t call Trump, his former client, to complain. He rang up Jared Kushner and gave him an earful. It’s telling that the King of Hollywood bypassed the president, whom he knows well, to talk to Kushner.

11.

I can’t say enough good things about Jared and Ivanka. Jared is such a hidden genius that no one understands…..They do a lot of things behind the scenes that I wish more people knew about, because we’re a better country because they’re in this administration.

—UN ambassador Nikki Haley, Oval office press conference, October 9, 2018

I’m still not exactly sure what Haley meant with her cryptic comment. But for some context, it’s helpful to look at the timeline:

November 26, 2016
Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who in his long career had been seen as friendly to the regime, is banned from Saudi media—no more articles in newspapers, no more TV appearances, no more conferences—reportedly because he is critical of Trump.

May 20, 2017
Donald Trump’s first state visit as president is to Riyadh, where he announces a $110 billion U.S.-Saudi arms deal. Past presidents have avoided visits to the Kingdom, on account of Saudi Arabia’s dreadful human rights record. In the delegation is Jared Kushner, who reportedly pushed for the trip. While there, Kushner and Steve Bannon meet with officials from Saudi Arabia and Qatar about a potential blockade of the latter country.

June 21, 2017
MBS is named Crown Prince—heir to the throne of Saudi Arabia.

June 2017
Saudi Arabia organizes a blockade of Qatar, with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Egypt also participating. Kushner leads the extreme minority view in the West Wing to support the aggressive action against the Middle Eastern country whose sovereign wealth fund had, coincidentally I’m sure, had just declined to help the Kushner Companies restructure the loan at 666 Fifth Avenue that threatened to bankrupt the business. To the consternation of the State Department, as discussed, Donald Trump praises the move.

September 2017
Three months after leaving the Kingdom for the Beltway, Jamal Khashoggi begins writing for the Washington Post.

Late October 2017
Jared Kushner pays an unannounced visit to Riyadh, where he stays up until the wee hours talking “strategy” with MBS, his new BFF. He allegedly gives MBS an “enemies list” culled from the classified President Daily Brief. MBS brags that Kushner is “in [my] pocket.”

November 4, 2017
MBS orchestrates a purge of the disloyal, imprisoning members of the royal family who oppose him and seizing their considerable assets. The most prominent is Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, the 45th richest man in the world and a Trump foil. Khashoggi reports that the amount seized from Al-Waleed is $110 billion—which is, coincidentally, the same amount as the U.S.-Saudi arms deal.

March 2018
MBS has a state visit with President Trump in Washington. The night after the official visit, he has dinner with his bestie Jared Kushner.

August 6, 2018
Kushner Companies finally “unload” 666 Fifth Avenue, in a deal with Brookfield Properties, a subsidiary of the Canadian multinational Brookfield Corporation. As far as anyone can tell, none of the money originates with the Saudi sovereign wealth fund.

October 2, 2018
The U.S. intelligence community become aware of a plot by MBS to lure Jamal Khashoggi back to the Kingdom, and there to detain him. Trump and Kushner are almost certainly told of this. Neither lift a finger to help the journalist.

Khashoggi goes to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, to secure documents that would allow him to marry his fiancee, a Turkish national. He is detained, and a Saudi kill squad with intimate ties to MBS tortures him, kills him, and dismembers his body. The Saudis deny that he is still in the building.

October 8, 2018
The Saudi assassination of Jamal Khashoggi is confirmed by the media.

October 9, 2018
Nikki Haley abruptly resigns from the Trump cabinet.

Maybe she said hidden genius because Jared shows no visible evidence of genius?

12.

The weekend following Comey’s May 3, 2017 testimony, the President traveled to his resort in Bedminster, New Jersey. At a dinner on Friday, May 5, attended by the President and various advisors and family members, including Jared Kushner and senior advisor Stephen Miller, the President stated that he wanted to remove Comey and had ideas for a letter that would be used to make the announcement.

—Mueller Report, April 18, 2019

It was reportedly Jared’s bright idea for Trump to fire James Comey, the FBI Director. The Hidden Genius reasoned that because the Democrats were pissed at Comey for writing the memo that had handed Trump the election, they would overwhelmingly support the move.

Incredibly, Jared miscalculated.

The day after Comey got the axe—remotely, because Trump is too chickenshit to fire anyone face to face, despite having years of practice on his stupid reality show—Donald hosted Sergei Kislyak and the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, in the Oval Office.

 

13.

The political folks believed that because it was going to be relegated to Democratic states, that they could blame those governors, and that would be an effective political strategy.

—A public health expert to Katherine Eban, Vanity Fair, July 30, 2020

As Eban revealed six (!) years ago, in her damning Vanity Fair piece, Jared Kushner, tasked by Trump in March 2020 to figure out a plan for the federal pandemic response, formed a team of “Morgan Stanley bankers liaising with billionaires,” a group that included his college roommate, to tackle the problem. None of them had a background in public health. By some miracle, the team managed to devise a workable plan that called for aggressive, widespread, centralized testing—only to have it go “poof into thin air” in April, as one participant told Eban. This is how come:

President Trump had been downplaying concerns about the virus and spreading misinformation about it—efforts that were soon amplified by Republican elected officials and right-wing media figures. Worried about the stock market and his reelection prospects, Trump also feared that more testing would only lead to higher case counts and more bad publicity. Meanwhile, Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House’s coronavirus response coordinator, was reportedly sharing models with senior staff that optimistically—and erroneously, it would turn out—predicted the virus would soon fade away.

Against that background, the prospect of launching a large-scale national plan was losing favor, said one public health expert in frequent contact with the White House’s official coronavirus task force.

Most troubling of all, perhaps, was a sentiment the expert said a member of Kushner’s team expressed: that because the virus had hit blue states hardest, a national plan was unnecessary and would not make sense politically. “The political folks believed that because it was going to be relegated to Democratic states, that they could blame those governors, and that would be an effective political strategy,” said the expert.

That logic may have swayed Kushner. “It was very clear that Jared was ultimately the decision maker as to what [plan] was going to come out,” the expert said.

In other words, Jared Kushner deliberately exacerbated a global pandemic by kiboshing the national testing plan his own buddies had come up with, apparently hoping for a blue state genocide that, in his twisted calculus, would help Trump win re-election. To be clear: we don’t know the inner workings of Kushner’s dim mind, and can’t say for certain what motivated him to stand down. But why else would he kill the proposal he himself commissioned, if not to serve his own family’s interests?

In early April 2020, it should be noted, when the Jared Roommate Plan was scuttled, two of the hardest-hit states were New York and New Jersey—the two states Kushner’d lived in all of his life until moving to the District in 2017. To him, those Empire and Garden State residents were apparently disposable, expendable. That population not only included me and most of my extended family—it included most of Jared’s extended family and many of his friends as well.

That’s what a stand-up guy Kushner is. He was perfectly willing to let friends and family die to get what he wanted. He is the living embodiment of the “banality of evil.”

14.

And yet, donald won’t fire him. Ever. He only hands him more power. Why? Why is donald afraid of Jared?

—Stephanie Koff, @lincolnsbible, Twitter, August 5, 2020

Everyone in donald’s orbit is so afraid of Jared. Why? WHY?

—Stephanie Koff, @lincolnsbible, Twitter, October 26, 2020

Maybe Jared got some Epstein dirt on his father-in-law from a primary source? Someone who was in the orbit of the pedophiles who ran the “modeling” agencies back in the 90s? Someone who was close with Trump, and with creepy John Casablancas, and who knew Jeffrey Epstein? Someone the legacy media also steers clear of? Someone who is the mother of his children?

Or maybe Donald’s Kremlin whoremasters instructed him to stand down?

We still don’t know.

15.

We are witnessing the last vestiges of what has been known as the Arab-Israeli conflict.

—Jared Kushner, Wall Street Journal op-ed, March 14, 2021

Here on Earth One, we witnessed no such thing.

16.

This investment aims to form a strategic relationship with the Affinity Partners Fund and its founder, Jared Kushner.

—Saudi wealth fund manager, letter to board member, July 2021

Kushner and his wife banked nine figures during his four years working at the White House. Per a financial analysis by CREW, the couple made between between $172 million and $640 million in outside income (which is approximately $172-640 million more than Hunter Biden made during his father’s lone term, but that’s another story).

In April of 2021, three months after Jared spent J6 hiding in the shower, the Kushners plunked down $24 million for a home in Indian Creek Village, Florida—an exclusive gated community on an artificial barrier island eight miles from South Beach, where their neighbors include Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Tom Brady, Carl Icahn, and, most recently, Palantir CEO Alex Karp. Larry Page, Sergei Brin, and Peter Thiel own properties in nearby Miami-area enclaves.

“The 1.8-acre estate sits along the island’s eastern waterfront, with direct bay views and a long private drive,” reports a post from the Jills Zeder Group, a local real estate firm, on the Kushner manse. “Since purchasing the property, they’ve completed a full two-year renovation, transforming it into a modern estate. The updates were kept quiet, but aerial shots show clean lines, white stonework, and a layout designed for privacy.”

Kushner then started up a “global” investment company, Affinity Partners, with $2 billion in capital from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF). This was, as Daniel Stone of the Center for Economic Policy Research notes,

despite objections from the fund’s own advisers. The Saudi screening panel cited “the inexperience of the Affinity Fund management,” concerns that the kingdom would bear “the bulk of the investment and risk,” operations that were “unsatisfactory in all aspects,” and “public relations risks” from Kushner’s prior role in the Trump administration. Days later, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman personally overruled the panel and approved the investment.

The terms reveal a pay-to-play scheme: On a $2 billion investment, Saudi Arabia pays Affinity Partners $25 million annually in asset management fees, plus a share of profits. This structure guarantees Kushner income regardless of investment performance. Since 2021, Affinity Partners has collected at least $112 million in fees from Saudi Arabia and other international investors but has yet to yield any profits for the governments funding the firm. Following a 2024 Senate investigation, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) concluded that Affinity Partners “may not be motivated by commercial considerations, but rather by the opportunity for foreign governments to pay members of the Trump family.”

We don’t even have to wonder why the Saudis decided to give Jared so much seed money. One of the wealth managers explicitly stated that it was to curry favor with Kushner, and through Kushner, with Trump.

There’s a word for that. The word is “bribe.”

 

17.

When Donald Trump was president, we had a peaceful world. Everyone said if he was elected, we would have World War III. Meanwhile, he gets elected, and he not only is the first president in decades to not start any wars, he’s making peace deals.

—Jared Kushner, interviewed by Lex Fridman, October 2023

Ah, but now we’re on the brink of World War III because Trump attacked Iran without a coherent war objective, without an exit strategy, and without notifying Congress or any of our allies (except for his partner in crime Netanyahu, that is).

18.

We think this could be done in two, three years. We’ve already started removing the rubble and doing some of the demolition. And then: New Gaza.

—Jared Kushner, presentation at Davos, February 2, 2026

We knew a Gaza real estate deal was coming. I wrote about it in Rough Beast, published in May 2024: “And if you don’t like what Netanyahu is doing to the Palestinians right now, wait until you see how he behaves when given the green light by a president who cares more about building Trump Tower Gaza City than reining in Bibi’s more extreme impulses.” Verily, and sadly, this has come to pass.

Must be nice, if you’re a real estate developer, to have the IDF do demo for you.

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Humbled by the complexity of the task, I orchestrated some of the most significant breakthroughs in diplomacy in the last fifty years.

—Jared Kushner, Breaking History, September 2022

[The Iranians] said, “We have the inalienable right to enrich.” They bragged about having 60 percent enriched fuel, enough for 11 bombs. They told me and Jared, “We’re not going to give you diplomatically what you take militarily.”

—Steve Witkoff to the press on Air Force One, March 7, 2026

The situation was very quickly approaching the point of no return….based on what Steve and Jared and Pete [Hegseth] and others were telling me…I thought they were going to attack us. Within a week, [Iran was] going to attack us, 100 percent. They were ready. They had all these missiles, far more than anyone thought, and they were going to attack us.

—Donald Trump, press conference, March 9, 2026

Why did Donald Trump make the fatally stupid decision to join his fellow criminal sleazebag Netanyahu and bomb Iran? Because he put his trust—all his trust—in the two nincompoops he dispatched to Geneva to negotiate with the Iranians: Steve Witkoff, whom Jim Stewartson accurately describes as a “Bronx strip-mall developer,” and Hidden Genius Jared Kushner.

Branko Marcetic at Responsible Statecraft has a nice summary of the buildup to war that’s worth reading in its entirety—although, trigger warning, it is both depressing and infuriating. Some experts, he writes,

have concluded that the war may have started because of Witkoff and Kushner’s “lack of nuclear knowledge” and because they “lacked the technical expertise to even understand what the Iranians were offering in negotiations.” Indeed, the Trump administration opted against including nuclear experts in the negotiating team, a fact which reportedly confused the Iranians.

Others privy to the talks have made more serious allegations, directly challenging Witkoff and Kushner’s account of what transpired. Witkoff’s claim that the Iranians had boasted about having enough enriched uranium for 11 nuclear bombs simply never happened, third parties present at the negotiations told MS NOW. One Gulf state diplomat said this claim — which Witkoff framed to Fox News as a veiled threat from the Iranian negotiators — was “inaccurate,” and that the Iranians were instead trying to say “that all of this material can all go away should we have a deal and Iran can be relieved from sanctions.”

A Gulf state diplomat also told the outlet that Witkoff mischaracterized a statement by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director Rafael Grossi. The American envoy claimed that Iran was enriching and stockpiling uranium at the TRR, rather than developing medicinal isotopes — an assertion that “just isn’t true” and that was based on a conversation “taken completely out of context by Mr. Witkoff,” the diplomat said.

This is on top of the fact that both the IAEA, including Grossi himself, and numerous assessments from both U.S. intelligence and outside experts have concluded the opposite of Witkoff’s public claims: that Iran was not close to producing a nuclear bomb, and was not even pursuing one.

As a result, Iranian officials have reportedly come to view Witkoff and Kushner as not merely incompetent, but as having deliberately misled the president.

TL;DR: Two arrogant ignoramuses—plus a genocidal butcher, plus a closeted gay three-sheets-to-the-wind Boomer with god only knows how many skeletons keeping him company in the closet—convinced the irretrievably stupid Donald Trump to, metaphorically speaking, shoot the archduke.

Still TL;DR: If this escalates into World War III, it’s Jared’s fault.

 

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Jared Kushner makes up for his flaws as an investor by being a wildly corrupt appendage of his father-in-law’s wildly corrupt administration. The guy is literally on the payroll of the Saudi government and trying to take even more of their money while simultaneously hijacking U.S. foreign policy with his shadow State Department. The U.S. becomes less safe and more corrupt every day Jared Kushner remains involved in our political system.

—Senator Ron Wyden, press release, March 19, 2026

No lies detected.

This is how my 2020 piece on Kushner wrapped up:

When ambitious scofflaws like Jared Kushner are not thwarted, they get more and more brazen. How could it get worse than his disgraceful dealings with the odious MBS, or his possible trading of U.S. foreign policy for cash with Qatar? By greenlighting a pandemic response plan—or, rather, a non-plan—that amounted to a Blue State Genocide. Hundreds of thousands are dead because of Jared Kushner—who could have, and should have, been shut down four years ago, for lying on his SF-86 form.

Crime is like infectious disease—like the novel coronavirus. It infects our institutions, and if it is not stopped in time, it kills off democracy. The spread of covid-19 could have been arrested by Jared Kushner, but wasn’t. Jared Kushner could have been arrested by us, but wasn’t. Those two failures, compounded, have cost 210,000 lives, with no end in sight.

It will take many months and great sacrifice to rid ourselves of the virus. Kushner, on the other hand, could be shut down immediately, and with relative ease—and should be, before he gets his Slender Man hands on the nuclear football.

Six years later, we ask the same question: How could it get worse? Well, as I type this, we are closer to nuclear war than at any point in my lifetime—all courtesy of Jared.

In 2018, mocking the title of the blowjob Forbes profile, I dubbed Kushner “Boy Plunder.” It suits him. Certainly he’s profited bigly from his involvement with his father-in-law.

But given all the blood on his hands, plus his status as son-in-law to the king, I think a more suitable nickname is: Prince Harming.

Photo credits:

Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, dance together during the Salute to Our Armed Services Ball at the National Building Museum, Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2017. DoD photo by U.S. Army Spc. Ayla Seidel.

Benjamin Netanyahu, Jared Kushner and U.S. President Donald Trump are seen during their meeting at the King David hotel in Jerusalem. Monday, May 22, 2017. Photo by Kobi Gideon / GPO.

Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner at the Demilitarised Zone of Korea, 2019. Office of the President.

First Lady Melania, joined by White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner and Assistant to the President Ivanka Trump, participate in the arrival ceremonies, Saturday, May 20, 2017, at the Royal Court Palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Official White House Photo Shealah Craighead)

Matty Stern/U.S.Embassy Tel Aviv. Opening ceremony of Jerusalem Embassy, 2018.