Because crony capitalist weasels are now more open about their scams, and Secretary of State Rubio talks at a sleeping Trump.
In the latest installment of The Trump Family Treats America Like a Side Hustle, Jared Kushner — the president’s globe-trotting, conflict-of-interest machine — quietly jetted off to Moscow this week to negotiate “peace” with Vladimir Putin. But according to a bombshell investigation by Popular Information, the trip wasn’t just corrupt. It was flat-out unconstitutional.
Here’s the scandal in one sentence: Kushner is literally acting as America’s top diplomat while being paid tens of millions of dollars by foreign governments with massive stakes in the very deals he’s negotiating.
Kushner sat across from Putin with no official title, no Senate confirmation, no legal authorization — just himself, a Trump ally named Steve Witkoff, and a translator. Under the law, that makes Kushner a “Special Government Employee” whether he wants the title or not. And that triggers the Constitution’s Foreign Emoluments Clause.
That clause says U.S. officials cannot accept money from foreign governments. Yet Kushner is raking in a staggering $25 million a year from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund alone, with hundreds of millions more coming from Qatar and the UAE through his private equity firm, Affinity Partners — the one foreign governments invested in despite warning that Kushner had “inexperience” and was charging “excessive” fees.
Now Kushner is using his unofficial–official power to help craft a 28-point Ukraine “peace plan” that just so happens to include a key Saudi priority: ensuring that grain shipments — tied to Saudi-owned agricultural companies in Ukraine — keep flowing smoothly across the Black Sea.
So let’s be very clear. The president’s son-in-law is being paid by foreign governments while secretly negotiating with Vladimir Putin on America’s behalf.
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Pretty much every article about the Putin-Kushner-Witkoff summit in Moscow yesterday fails to mention that Kushner is simultaneously accepting tens of millions in annual payments from the Saudis and other foreign governments.
Seems like a key detail!
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— Judd Legum (@juddlegum.bsky.social) Dec 3, 2025 at 8:59 AM
And remember — Kushner promised in 2024 that he would not return to the Trump administration. He lied. And now our foreign policy is being run out of a private equity firm stuffed with Saudi cash.
www.msn.com/…
Kushner, it appears, had added in a provision that would have forced both Ukraine and Russia to take actions that would specifically benefit Saudi Arabia, a country that is paying the presidential son-in-law at least $25 million a year.
Can you imagine what the response would have been if George Marshall, while negotiating the 1948 Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe after WWII, had been personally taking millions from, say, Saudi Arabia, and thus inserted a provision ensuring that country could permanently benefit from the peace plan?
hartmannreport.com/...
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“They are playing games with both you and us,” Merz was reported as saying, which the magazine concluded was a reference to a diplomatic mission to Moscow this week by president Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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— RoseMarie (@rosesbloom24.bsky.social) Dec 4, 2025 at 11:49 AM
FIRST TRUMP TERM:
