Somebody please tell me this isn't real. Jared Kusher should be removed from the White House immediately. Not sure how much longer people can hold their noses and support Trump and his family's actions in the WH.
TL;DR: Jared Kushner's father met several times with Qatari Investment Authority, asking them to help finance Kushner's 666 Fifth Avenue building. A month after Qatar declined to help invest in Jared Kushner's real estate enterprise, Jared Kusher went to the Middle East and worked with the UAE and Saudi Arabia and initiated a blockade of Qatar. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was trying to end the standoff between the Middle East countries, but Jared Kusnher reportedly undermined those efforts and helped lay the groundwork for a blockade of Qatar.
The last meeting Jared Kushner's father had with Qatar investors was on April 24th, in a last ditch effort to get them to invest -- yet they declined. Three weeks later, on May 18th, Kusher and Trump visit the Middle East. Kushner, representing the Trump Administration as a "Middle East Advisor," works with two Middle Eastern allies to enforce a blockade of Qatar.
https://theintercept.com/2018/03/02/...atar-blockade/
"The real estate firm tied to the family of presidential son-in-law and top White House adviser Jared Kushner made a direct pitch to Qatar’s minister of finance in April 2017 in an attempt to secure investment in a critically distressed asset in the company’s portfolio, according to two sources. At the previously unreported meeting, Jared Kushner’s father Charles, who runs Kushner Companies, and Qatari Finance Minister Ali Sharif Al Emadi discussed financing for the Kushners’ signature 666 Fifth Avenue property in New York City.
The 30-minute meeting, according to two sources in the financial industry who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the potential transaction, included aides to both parties, and was held at a suite at the St. Regis Hotel in New York.
The failure to broker the deal would be followed only a month later by
a Middle Eastern diplomatic row in which Jared Kushner provided critical support to Qatar’s neighbors. Led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, a group of Middle Eastern countries, with Kushner’s backing, led a diplomatic assault that culminated in a blockade of Qatar. Kushner, according to reports at the time,
subsequently undermined efforts by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to bring an end to the standoff.
The Gulf crisis involving Qatar and its neighbors will likely be Kushner’s defining foreign policy legacy. The crisis followed a May visit to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, by Kushner and President Donald Trump, who subsequently
took credit for Saudi Arabia and its allies’ efforts against Qatar. The fallout has reshaped geopolitical alliances in the region, splitting the Gulf Cooperation Council and pushing Qatar, home to the Middle East’s largest U.S. military base, closer to Turkey and Iran
This was not the first time Charles Kushner solicited funds from the Qataris, but it is the first direct pitch known to be made to the minister of finance himself. Notably, the play came after Trump’s election. The Intercept
first reported last summer that Charles Kushner had also propositioned Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al Thani, a prominent businessman who previously served as the country’s foreign minister and prime minister. The deal proffered by HBJ, as he is known, was worth $500 million but ultimately fell through when Kushner Companies failed to secure other outside capital. That 2017 effort followed previous entreaties made in the region by Jared Kushner himself."
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