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Voldemort86

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On 4/16/2022 at 9:59 PM, Fletch said:

I can’t believe we let a manchild pretend to play President while he let his kids and in-laws run wild and take on roles they’re grossly grossly under qualified for. They then of course did everything the GQP accuses Hunter Biden of doing but to the fucking max, sold out classified shit, played politics with federal funds and god knows what else. But not a single fucking republican cares. Just fucking astonishing to me. We’ve let aggys take over the country 

It’s all about pwning the libs and spiking that football. Who cares what happens next. Gotta get that short 5 second rush of slamming the libs heads into the pavement and owning them. All of that policy stuff is too complicated for most trump voters to comprehend.

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On 11/14/2022 at 7:55 AM, DigglerontheHoof said:

In her defense, she never really had a chance

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on a side note, the internet always wondered about Trump's weird posture at times. And his habit of tailoring his suits so that the pants usually cover his shoes. 

The internet sleuths have discovered he frequently wears lifts in his shoes and coupled with his obesity, it throws off his center of balance. The long pants cover up the evidence.

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Ruh, roh.  

The devolution of the Republicans in office over the last 10 years is like one of the big budget war/car race movies from the 60s and 70s (Kelly's Heroes, The Great Escape, Apocalypse Now, Gumball Rally) with lots of stars doing cameos and bit players whose roles have a start, middle, and end.  This is the end.

WASHINGTON — As Republicans search for evidence that Joe Biden abused his office to enrich his family, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) thinks maybe they should take a look at the Trumps.

In a letter to House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.), Raskin suggested the committee subpoena Jared Kushner’s investment firm for records related to the “extraordinary funding it received from foreign governments” in recent years.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jamie-raskin-jared-kushner_n_64f08aafe4b0cf275533d5b1

 

 

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MSNBC covered the transition of a shitty real estate guy to a venture capital guy with the start of Affinity Partners. Kushner started this fund when they left the White House.

2/3 of the investment is pretty well known, from.the Saudis.

Only 30 million is from US partners.

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He's a business genius. He used OPM to cover his costs while he cut these great deal. We flew him there on government planes with government security, government status, and put him up in great accommodations. We set up the contacts. Hell, we even gave him body armor.

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And he rocks it.

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2 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

He's a business genius. He used OPM to cover his costs while he cut these great deal. We flew him there on government planes with government security, government status, and put him up in great accommodations. We set up the contacts. Hell, we even gave him body armor.

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And he rocks it.

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Kushner served as a repeated point of comparison for Biden: Republicans were quizzing him on his father stopping by a dinner one evening when Kushner pulled in $2 billion after leaving the White House?

 

A legislator asked him whether he'd worked for foreign governments.

“I never worked for a country,” he replied. “I am not Jared Kushner.”

 

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The Kush and Richard Grenell (Trump's former ambassador to Germany who cozied up to the fascist AfD Party) want to build a hotel in Belgrade, Serbia. Not coincidentally, Trump also wanted to build one on the same site. Sleazy conflict of interest shit. @MisterP should be concerned about it.

Kushner Deal in Serbia Follows Earlier Interest by Trump
More than a decade ago, before running for president, Donald Trump expressed interest in developing the same site in Belgrade that his son-in-law now plans to invest $500 million in rebuilding.

The plan by Jared Kushner and his business partners to redevelop a prized location in Serbia’s capital, Belgrade, echoes interest from Donald J. Trump a decade ago in pursuing a deal for the site and a similar proposal pushed during his White House term by a top aide now working with Mr. Kushner, a review of the project shows.

The tentative agreement between the Kushner team and the Serbian government would grant Mr. Kushner’s investment firm a 99-year lease, at no charge, and the right to build a luxury hotel and apartment complex and a museum on the site of the former headquarters of the Yugoslav Ministry of Defense in Belgrade, which was bombed by NATO in 1999. A draft outline of the agreement was provided to The New York Times by a Serbian official.

In 2013, two years before he began running for president, Mr. Trump — Mr. Kushner’s father-in-law — told a top Serbian government official that he wanted to build a luxury hotel on the site. Associates of the Trump Organization traveled to Belgrade to inspect the location. The project did not come together before Mr. Trump’s election in 2016, and after being sworn in he vowed to not do any new foreign deals.

But developing the site would again draw interest from Mr. Trump’s circle.

Richard Grenell, whom Mr. Trump had appointed as a special envoy in the Balkans, pushed a related plan during the Trump administration that Serbia and the United States jointly work to rebuild the Defense Ministry site. He argued in favor of using American investments to transform the Belgrade site while he was still serving in his official capacity as an American diplomat in 2020, according to transcripts and a recording of remarks made during several government news conferences.

Link for rest of the piece. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/17/us/politics/kushner-deal-serbia-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dU0.hhFM.CuNDxnbvQbik&smid=url-share

 

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I’m sure MisterP is VERY concerned, because we know for a fact that he hates corruption, rubbery, and certainly anyone using the power of the US government to further personal business interests while they were in office. Yes, he’s very concerned….about how to find a way to wave away all the corruption of the Trump regime.

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On 3/20/2024 at 6:39 PM, TwiceHorn said:

That article is almost 6 years old. 

Doesn't make it any less pertinent today, especially given what we know about his FILs handling of classified materials.

It's also tangentially related to the recent news that congress is finally looking into the shady deal we've been wondering about for years.  I'm sure it will be blocked by the GQP, but worth noting none-the-less.

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Affinity has disclosed to regulators that 99 percent of the $3 billion of assets that the firm manages come from non-U.S. persons. 

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He estimated that Affinity receives at least $60 million in management fees annually from its exclusively foreign investor base and that from 2022 to 2023, the Saudi PIF alone paid the firm at least $80 million in management fees.

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"The Saudi PIF's decision to invest $2 billion in Affinity so soon after Kushner's departure from the Trump White House raises concerns that the investment was a reward for official actions Kushner took to benefit the Saudi government, including preventing accountability for the Saudi government ordering the brutal murder of journalist and American citizen Jamal Khashoggi," Wyden said.

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Wyden expressed concern that Kushner's "limited track record as an investor, including his nonexistent experience in private equity or hedge funds, raise questions regarding the investment strategy behind the seeding investments and lucrative compensation that Affinity received from the Saudi PIF and other sovereign wealth funds."

  Jared Kushner Hit With New Investigation (msn.com)

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Senate Democrats are launching a new investigation into the foreign payments made to Jared Kushner's investment firm.

Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden announced the probe on Wednesday, saying that the panel would investigate the billions of dollars that Affinity Partners manages from foreign sources.

Kushner started Affinity in July 2021, less than six months after leaving the White House as a senior adviser to former President Donald Trump. The firm quickly attracted big-time investors from the Middle East and within weeks, landed $2 billion from the Saudi public investment fund. Affinity continues to overwhelmingly derive the majority of its funds from the Saudi Arabian government.

"It is deeply concerning that several Middle Eastern governments are using funds managed by Affinity as a means to pay tens of millions of dollars in fees every year to former President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, creating significant conflicts of interest and potential counterintelligence risks," Wyden wrote to Affinity Partners Chief Financial Officer Lauren Key on Wednesday.
Affinity has disclosed to regulators that 99 percent of the $3 billion of assets that the firm manages come from non-U.S. persons. The $1 billion not funded by Saudi Arabia is reportedly split between sovereign wealth funds owned by the governments of the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, Taiwanese billionaire and politician Terry Gou, and another investor whose identity has not yet been publicized.

On Wednesday, Wyden raised concern that Kushner and others were using Affinity's foreign-funded private investment funds as a loophole, exploiting those accounts to avoid federal laws that require Americans to disclose payments from foreign governments.

He estimated that Affinity receives at least $60 million in management fees annually from its exclusively foreign investor base and that from 2022 to 2023, the Saudi PIF alone paid the firm at least $80 million in management fees.

"As the founder and sole owner of Affinity, Kushner is the biggest beneficiary of the fees paid to Affinity by the Saudi PIF and other Gulf state clients," Wyden wrote.

Newsweek reached out to Affinity Partners via inquiry form for comment.

During his time at the White House, Kushner advised his father-in-law on foreign affairs, advocating for the Trump administration to embrace Saudi Arabia. Kushner, a staunch defender of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, remained close with the royal even after U.S. officials found that he orchestrated the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi.

"The Saudi PIF's decision to invest $2 billion in Affinity so soon after Kushner's departure from the Trump White House raises concerns that the investment was a reward for official actions Kushner took to benefit the Saudi government, including preventing accountability for the Saudi government ordering the brutal murder of journalist and American citizen Jamal Khashoggi," Wyden said.

He continued, "Moreover, in the final two weeks of the Trump Administration, Mr. Kushner traveled to Saudi Arabia purportedly on official business—even though any reasonable window for meaningful foreign policy achievements would have closed with an upcoming inauguration of a new President."

Wyden expressed concern that Kushner's "limited track record as an investor, including his nonexistent experience in private equity or hedge funds, raise questions regarding the investment strategy behind the seeding investments and lucrative compensation that Affinity received from the Saudi PIF and other sovereign wealth funds."

The Oregon Democrat asked Affinity to turn over records and information pertaining to the tens of millions in payments that the firm receives from foreign sources every year. He asked that the firm provide answers no later than June 26.

 

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Hard-hitting journalism digging deep to get the story.  "Hey, we got a quote!"

The $2 billion investment has every appearance of an enormous political payoff for services rendered when Kushner, a man with no policy experience, was a close adviser to President Trump. Kushner's complete lack of experience managing investment funds casts further shadow on the payment from Saudi Arabia.

You write the above then you go after the story. That's what journalists do. 

The press' part in the deterioration of our republic is not due to partisan prejudice. It's due to lazy incompetence mostly on the part of the national TV outlets.  That said, the above shows just how timid the press has become. 

Big story today: questions and concerns are raised. Quotes at eleven! We'll then consult with a panel to see how it may affect the presidential race because that's what we like to do. It's easy and predictable.

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4 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

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Hard-hitting journalism digging deep to get the story.  "Hey, we got a quote!"

The $2 billion investment has every appearance of an enormous political payoff for services rendered when Kushner, a man with no policy experience, was a close adviser to President Trump. Kushner's complete lack of experience managing investment funds casts further shadow on the payment from Saudi Arabia.

You write the above then you go after the story. That's what journalists do. 

The press' part in the deterioration of our republic is not due to partisan prejudice. It's due to lazy incompetence mostly on the part of the national TV outlets.  That said, the above shows just how timid the press has become. 

Big story today: questions and concerns are raised. Quotes at eleven! We'll then consult with a panel to see how it may affect the presidential race because that's what we like to do. It's easy and predictable.

Did Susan Collins write that article?

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