In the disastrous comic book chaos that is the Trump administration and all the assorted characters hovering around the flaming dump of garbage at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, a new report claims Jared Kushner was given billions of dollars by Middle Eastern leaders to influence U.S. foreign policy. Because apparently being the president’s son-in-law wasn’t enough of a superpower.
Kushner, who served as a senior White House adviser during Donald Trump’s first term, is now pushing back against allegations involving hacked iPhones, international spies and enough alleged foreign money to make a billionaire blush.
An upcoming book by journalist Matthew Cole, Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East, alleges Kushner had access to more than $2 billion in undisclosed foreign bank accounts intended to buy influence within the U.S. government.
An excerpt published in Vanity Fair on Thursday, which CBS News said it could not independently verify, details claims stemming from Kushner’s work on Middle Eastern diplomacy. According to the excerpt, Dutch intelligence agents discovered in 2017 that Russian operatives had hacked Kushner’s iPhone. The Dutch allegedly gained access to the device after recruiting a Russian spy and began recording images of Kushner’s screen as he used it.
And what did they allegedly see? Kushner logging into a United Arab Emirates account that had received hundreds of millions of dollars from a bank in Azerbaijan.
The book further alleges that leaders in Saudi Arabia and the UAE deposited at least $2 billion into accounts connected to Kushner, including one with Israel’s central bank. The accounts’ owners and managers were allegedly disguised as government entities or charities, while the money was intended to finance “off-the-books diplomatic objectives,” including efforts to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman allegedly contributed roughly $1 billion to at least one account, with a source familiar with the money claiming it was allocated for Kushner’s personal benefit.
Kushner, unsurprisingly, is not having it.
“The allegations made by this author are completely insane and never happened,” he wrote on X. His attorney called the claims “false and defamatory,” arguing that the author provided no verifiable evidence, including bank statements, wire transfers, account numbers or transaction dates. The legal team threatened action but did not specify whom it intended to pursue.
The White House also dismissed the report. Communications director Steven Cheung called the Vanity Fair article “bull***” and described the book as fiction fabricated by a “failed spy thriller writer.”
So, to recap: allegations of billions in secret foreign money, international espionage and possible influence-buying involving the president’s own family. The administration says it’s fiction.
In Trumpworld, apparently, even a potential geopolitical thriller plot comes with a family discount.
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