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💰Qatar Blockade & Kush’s 666 bailout.
The troubling overlap between Jared Kushner's business interests and US foreign policy
The troubling overlap between Jared Kushner's business interests and US foreign policy
📌A congressional inquiry has raised the possibility that Kushner supported a blockade of a US ally as payback because it would not fund his family’s business
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🔑In May 2017, Jared Kushner and Steve Bannon, met for a private dinner with top leaders of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. #Otaiba?
The pair learned of a plan by US allies Saudi & Qatar to impose a blockade on another US ally, Qatar.
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The pair learned of a plan by US allies Saudi & Qatar to impose a blockade on another US ally, Qatar.
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The two Trump advisers were in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, as a part of a large US delegation accompanying Trump, after he decided to make the kingdom his first stop on his maiden foreign trip as president.
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Kushner and Prince Mohammed played key roles in organizing that two-day trip, where Saudi rulers feted Trump with multiple banquets and displays of admiration.
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Rex Tillerson SOS at the time, was left in the dark.
Tillerson only learned of the meeting two months ago, when he was interviewed in a closed-door session with lawyers & staffers working for the House foreign affairs cmte.
📌Intriguing, why so secret?
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Tillerson only learned of the meeting two months ago, when he was interviewed in a closed-door session with lawyers & staffers working for the House foreign affairs cmte.
📌Intriguing, why so secret?
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🔑Tillerson’s testimony, highlighted the inner workings of the Trump adm and revealed the extent to which Kushner – and to a lesser degree, Bannon, who left the administration in August 2017 – were conducting a shadow foreign policy.
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📌The meeting in May 2017 was crucial because it helped solidify a Trump foreign policy favoring Saudi Arabia and the UAE in their conflict with Qatar, a tiny emirate in the Gulf that is rich in natural gas and home to a major US military base.
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2 weeks post Saudi trip, 6/5/17 Saudi Arabia & three of its allies – the UAE, Egypt & Bahrain – severed diplomatic & economic relations with Qatar. Saudi leaders accused Qatar of financing terrorism; supporting & undermining Arab efforts to isolate Iran.
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🔑They imposed a blockade, sealing off Qatar’s only land border, and restricting air and sea travel to and from the peninsula.
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🔑Initially, Trump sided with Saudi Arabia and the UAE in their campaign to isolate Qatar.
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🔑Trump has since expressed support for Qatar, but Saudi Arabia and the UAE are still leading the blockade.
A year after its ill-fated outreach to the Qatari government, Kushner’s family found a savior for its Manhattan office tower (666 5th Ave).
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A year after its ill-fated outreach to the Qatari government, Kushner’s family found a savior for its Manhattan office tower (666 5th Ave).
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In May 2018, Kushner Companies negotiated a bailout deal with Brookfield Asset Management, one of the world’s largest real estate companies.
🔑The second-largest investor in Brookfield’s real estate subsidiary happens to be Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund.
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🔑The second-largest investor in Brookfield’s real estate subsidiary happens to be Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund.
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📌Weeks before the blockade, Kushner’s father – the real estate developer Charles Kushner – met with a top Qatari official to seek financing for ‘a distressed Manhattan office tower’.
Hint: Kush’s 666
🔑The Qataris declined.
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Hint: Kush’s 666
🔑The Qataris declined.
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Yousef Al Otaiba, the UAE ambassador to the U.S., attempted to shape American policy toward the Middle East via Kushner & lobbied over a regional dispute with Qatar, is at the center of the #1MDB scandal.
One must wonder: did Jared Kushner support a blockade of a US ally as political payback because it would not fund his family’s business?
#GlobalExtortionRacket
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#GlobalExtortionRacket
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💰Background:
📌2007: The Kushner family’s financial troubles began after it purchased an office tower at 666 Fifth Avenue for a record $1.8bn in 2007, at the height of a real estate market that crashed a year later.
#Brookfield
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📌2007: The Kushner family’s financial troubles began after it purchased an office tower at 666 Fifth Avenue for a record $1.8bn in 2007, at the height of a real estate market that crashed a year later.
#Brookfield
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Jared and Charles Kushner then sold 666 Fifth’s most valuable asset — the Fifth Avenue retail space — for $525 million and used the proceeds to pay down some of their debt.
But office rents continued to fall and two of the tower’s biggest tenants left.
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But office rents continued to fall and two of the tower’s biggest tenants left.
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🔑That forced the Kushners to restructure their loans, and Vornado Realty Trust bought a 49.5 percent stake in the office space and gave the Kushners an $80 million high-interest loan.
🔑VORNADO later bought the retail space the from separate owners.
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🔑VORNADO later bought the retail space the from separate owners.
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‼️THE LONG HISTORY OF VORNADO & TRUMP
🔑Steven Roth (Vornado) Trump’s life long friend now owns 49.5% of 666.
🔑Steven Roth (Vornado) Trump’s life long friend now owns 49.5% of 666.
‼️Remember this?
2001 World Trade Center Lease
Charles Kushner & Vornado
2001 World Trade Center Lease
Charles Kushner & Vornado
🔑Oh boy, let’s add in the Saudi Nuke Deal.
As It turns out Westinghouse Electric, one of the power plant manufacturers is a subsidiary of Brookfield Asset Management, & could benefit Trump/Saudi nuclear deal.
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As It turns out Westinghouse Electric, one of the power plant manufacturers is a subsidiary of Brookfield Asset Management, & could benefit Trump/Saudi nuclear deal.
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🔑Brookfield Asset Management, which purchased a 99-year lease on the building, paid enough for Kushner Companies to pay off its $1.1 billion debt and buy out its partner, VORNADO Realty Trust, which owned the retail portion of the building.
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🔑The deal is troubling b/c QIA, is Brookfield's 2nd-largest investor. Brookfield said Qatar wasn’t aware of the deal until it was publicly announced & now has only a minimal stake in the 666 5th Ave. building.
Hmm... $1B for a minimal stake....
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Hmm... $1B for a minimal stake....
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The Qatar Investment Authority owns preferred shares in a Brookfield company called Brookfield Property Partners.
🔑Brent said Brookfield Property Partners owns 7 per cent of the particular Brookfield investment fund that acquired the building,
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🔑Brent said Brookfield Property Partners owns 7 per cent of the particular Brookfield investment fund that acquired the building,
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At around the same time, Brookfield's acquisition of Westinghouse Electric, a nuclear power company, was finalized.
This connection became problematic after the HOC released a report
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This connection became problematic after the HOC released a report
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🔑The HOC report alleged some members of the Trump adm proposed selling nuclear power plants to Saudi Arabia
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🔑This over the objections of top national security officials.
🔑The report noted that Westinghouse, which manufactures power plants, could benefit from such a deal.
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🔑The report noted that Westinghouse, which manufactures power plants, could benefit from such a deal.
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‼️HOC EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Flynn nuke deal
Whistleblowers Raise Grave Concerns with Trump Administration’s Efforts to Transfer Sensitive Nuclear Technology to Saudi Arabia
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Flynn nuke deal
Whistleblowers Raise Grave Concerns with Trump Administration’s Efforts to Transfer Sensitive Nuclear Technology to Saudi Arabia
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Flynn👉🏼Russia/Saudi/UAE nuclear/sanctions conspiracy👉🏼Westinghouse👉🏼Brookfield👉🏼Kush
Excellent thread:
Excellent thread:
🔑Democratic congressional staffers zeroed in on that meeting and subsequent events in their questioning of Tillerson.
🔑House investigators are exploring the sequence of events involving Kushner’s family company and the blockade of Qatar.
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🔑House investigators are exploring the sequence of events involving Kushner’s family company and the blockade of Qatar.
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💰Cadre:💰
🔑A real estate company part-owned by Jared Kushner has received $90m in foreign funding from an opaque offshore vehicle since he entered the White House as a senior adviser to his father-in-law Donald Trump.
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🔑A real estate company part-owned by Jared Kushner has received $90m in foreign funding from an opaque offshore vehicle since he entered the White House as a senior adviser to his father-in-law Donald Trump.
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🔑Investment has flowed from overseas to the company, Cadre, while Kushner works as an international envoy for the US.
🔑The money came through a vehicle run by Goldman Sachs in the Cayman Islands, a tax haven that guarantees corporate secrecy.
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🔑The money came through a vehicle run by Goldman Sachs in the Cayman Islands, a tax haven that guarantees corporate secrecy.
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Yuri Milner & Kush’s Cadre
📌The blockade of Qatar continues, which means the Qataris are still vulnerable.
🔑Per reps of the Qatari government there was another payment due to Jared via an offshore fund in June – which happens, apparently, to be when Cadre received the $90m.
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🔑Per reps of the Qatari government there was another payment due to Jared via an offshore fund in June – which happens, apparently, to be when Cadre received the $90m.
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🔑The Department of Justice should investigate Jared’s initially non-disclosed $50m stake in Cadre, and the investments the company has since received.
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🔑In cynical parlance, this is called dollars for diplomacy.
🔑History will judge corruption to be the most destructive and defining characteristic of the ‘mob-like’ family occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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🔑History will judge corruption to be the most destructive and defining characteristic of the ‘mob-like’ family occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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