"Kushner holds no official diplomatic title that would normally authorize such talks but titles are beside the point in the Trump era. What matters is proximity to power, and Kushner has that in abundance.

What he also has is a private equity firm called Affinity Partners, which is funded by billions of dollars in foreign governments."

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"The meeting also included Trump envoy Steve Witkoff, another billionaire with vested personal financial interests, whose son runs the Trump family’s shady and opaque crypto fund, World Liberty Financial. The third notable figure at the meeting was Trump administration official Josh Gruenbaum.

The Florida meeting was ostensibly a discussion about ending the war in Ukraine."

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"Kushner recently met in Florida with Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and a longtime financial emissary for Vladimir Putin. Dmitriev is not simply a diplomat; he is effectively Putin’s bag man."

~ Julie Roginsky

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saltypolitics.substack.com/p/h…

How Jared Is Selling Us Out to the Richest Autocrat

Why is Congress not investigating Kushner's massive conflicts of interest?

^{Julie Roginsky (Salty Politics with Julie Roginsky)}