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"He has assured Trump that the jump in oil prices will be temporary, although most observers disagree.
Judd Legum of Popular Information notes that the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) controlled by MBS invested $2 billion in the private equity firm of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, one of Trump’s volunteer Iran negotiators, before the war."
#Trump #JaredKushner #Iran #war #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #Israel #Netanyahu
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"On Tuesday, March 24, Julian E. Barnes, Tyler Pager, and Eric Schmitt of the New York Times reported that MBS [i.e., bin Salman] sees a 'historic opportunity' to remake the Middle East and so has been pushing Trump to continue his war against Iran. MBS, the journalists report, has urged Trump to use troops to seize Iran’s energy infrastructure and drive the regime out of power."
#Trump #Iran #war #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #Israel #Netanyahu
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"that Trump initially launched the strikes on Iran at the urging of MBS and Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, despite the assessment of U.S. intelligence that Iran did not pose an imminent threat to the U.S. and would not for at least a decade."
#Trump #Iran #war #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #Israel #Netanyahu
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"Trump is aligning himself with international oligarchs like Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, Saudi Arabia’s Mohammad bin Salman (MBS), and China’s Xi Jinping. ...
On February 28, Michael Birnbaum, John Hudson, Karen DeYoung, Natalie Allison, and Souad Mekhennet of the Washington Post reported" (continued in /12)
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #Iran #war #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #Israel #Netanyahu
/11
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March 26, 2026
In an interview with Reuters on Monday, Singapore’s minister for foreign affairs, Dr.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
"The 'cool' thing is that he got $2 billion from the Saudis to launch his fledgling equity firm, Affinity Partners, six months after his father-in-law left the White House."
#Trump #JaredKushner #Iran #war #profiteering #Israel #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #AffinityPartners
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"'You get to choose which adventure you’re a part of.'
Among those 'really smart people' he got to meet with was Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince who oversees his country’s sovereign wealth fund and who green-lit the operation that led to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi."
#Trump #JaredKushner #Iran #war #profiteering #Israel #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #AffinityPartners
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"Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner appeared on stage yesterday at a global investors’ conference in Miami. He explained why he likes leading a multibillion-dollar global investment firm.
'The cool thing about the investment business is you’re meeting with really smart people all the time,' Kushner said."
~ Steven Beschloss
#Trump #JaredKushner #Iran #war #profiteering #Israel #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #AffinityPartners
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The Grifter's War
Jared Kushner is egregiously exploiting American lives to further enrich himselfSteven Beschloss (America, America)
"Trump is in a serious bind here now, a far more serious bind than the DHS/ICE fiasco. For if he cuts and runs now, today, he will leave Iran a stronger power in the Middle East than before the war began. It’s why the Saudis, the Israelis, and the Emirates are pushing Trump to keep going, further weaken Iran, and attempt to take control of the Strait of Hormuz."
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Trump #JaredKushner #Netanyahu #MohammedbinSalman #Iran #war
/15
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Big Dem Flips In Florida, Iran War Has Gone To Shit, The "Deal" To Reopen DHS/TSA Falls Apart - The Regime Is Failing, Weakening, Coming Apart
Paid Subscribers gather tonight at 7pm EDT, Founding Members Friday at 1pmSimon Rosenberg (Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg)
"Ethics watchdogs say that overlap — private fundraising from foreign governments while negotiating with them on behalf of the United States — raises questions about federal disclosure rules and potential conflicts of interest."
#Trump #JaredKushner #Netanyahu #MohammedbinSalman #Iran #war
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"Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, has been participating in U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East while seeking billions of dollars for his private equity firm from sovereign wealth funds controlled by the same governments involved in those negotiations."
~ Brian Daitzman
#Trump #JaredKushner #Netanyahu #MohammedbinSalman #Iran #war
/13
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Inside Jared Kushner's Diplomatic Double-Dealing in the Middle East
The president's son-in-law seeks billions from Gulf sovereign wealth funds while acting as a diplomat with those same governments, raising disclosure and conflict-of-interest questions.The Intellectualist (Lincoln Square)
"The New York Times reports that Saudi Crown Prince and murderer Mohammed bin Salman has been urging Donald to continue the war against Iran, describing the conflict as a historic opportunity to reshape the Middle East. According to people briefed on the conversation, bin Salman has argued that Iran’s government must be dismantled, saying it poses a long term threat to the region, unlike Saudi Arabia."
~ Mary Trump
#Trump #Iran #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #war
/12
"On Tuesday, the New York Times published a bombshell report. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) has been aggressively lobbying Trump not to end the fighting. ...
Oddly, the New York Times story does not mention that Trump’s chief negotiator, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, is being paid tens of millions annually by the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF), which is controlled by MBS.
#Trump #Iran #SaudiArabia #JaredKushner #MohammedbinSalman #war
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“'I’m not going to start a war,' President Trump pledged during his November 2024 victory speech. 'I’m going to stop wars.'
Today, the United States has been at war with Iran for almost a month, with no clear objectives and no end in sight. Why is Trump, who promised to avoid foreign entanglements, allowing it to drag on?"
~ Judd Legum
#Trump #Iran #SaudiArabia #JaredKushner #MohammedbinSalman #war
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UPDATE: After sending billions to Kushner and Trump, Saudis lobby to escalate Iran War
“I’m not going to start a war,” President Trump pledged during his November 2024 victory speech.Judd Legum (Popular Information)