Qatar is bribing Jared Kushner. Qatar is bribing Jared Kushner.

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Qatar is bribing Jared Kushner with something near a $1 billion bailout of his company.


https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/17/nyregion/kushner-deal-qatar-666-5th.html

Charles Kushner, head of the Kushner Companies, is in advanced talks with Brookfield Asset Management over a partnership to take control of the 41-story aluminum-clad tower in Midtown Manhattan, 666 Fifth Avenue, according to two real estate executives who have been briefed on the pending deal but were not authorized to discuss it. Brookfield is a publicly traded company, and its real estate arm, Brookfield Property Partners, is partly owned by the Qatari government, through the Qatar Investment Authority.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/kushner-property-close-to-being-bailed-out-by-company-with-qatari-ties

The Times report does not disclose any prices being negotiated as part of the deal. The property is financially drowning after the Kushners bought it over a decade ago for $1.8 billion. It is reportedly only producing half of the annual mortgage, and large swaths of the building sit empty.

This deal would not be the first time Kushner Companies flirted with Qatari financial sources to salvage the property—in 2016, the family was reportedly negotiating a deal with a Qatari billionaire as well as Anbang, a Chinese company. That deal fell apart after being torpedoed by criticism about Jared Kushner’s mixing of his personal business and political role.

Per the Times, this new deal could stir up similar concerns, especially in the wake of Kushner’s loss of his security clearance due to the concern that foreign agents could manipulate him through his business interests.

This seems like a pretty straightforward thing for Democrats to run on and talk about.

Bribery. Foreign governments are bribing the Trump Administration.

If there is a war in the Middle East due to this, and Americans die, Kushner will bear blame for letting bribery influence American foreign policy.

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1. Of Course They Are and With this Family, the Bigger the Bribe, the Better

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2. You have to say this in high-pitched Jared-whine

"But *somebody* has to save 666."