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demmiblue

(36,841 posts)
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 01:19 PM Mar 2019

Jared and the Saudi Crown Prince Go Nuclear?

There are too many unanswered questions about the White House’s role in advancing Saudi ambitions.



Jared Kushner slipped quietly into Saudi Arabia this week for a meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, so the question I’m trying to get the White House to answer is this: Did they discuss American help for a Saudi nuclear program?

Of all the harebrained and unscrupulous dealings of the Trump administration in the last two years, one of the most shocking is a Trump plan to sell nuclear reactors to Saudi Arabia that could be used to make nuclear weapons.

Even as President Trump is trying to denuclearize North Korea and Iran, he may be helping to nuclearize Saudi Arabia. This is abominable policy tainted by a gargantuan conflict of interest involving Kushner.

Kushner’s family real estate business had been teetering because of a disastrously overpriced acquisition he made of a particular Manhattan property called 666 Fifth Avenue, but last August a company called Brookfield Asset Management rescued the Kushners by taking a 99-year lease of the troubled property — and paying the whole sum of about $1.1 billion up front.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/02/opinion/sunday/saudi-arabia-jared-kushner-nuclear.html



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Jared and the Saudi Crown Prince Go Nuclear? (Original Post) demmiblue Mar 2019 OP
Kick dalton99a Mar 2019 #1
This is why Security Ckearance matters. C_U_L8R Mar 2019 #2
I may be getting old 2naSalit Mar 2019 #3
This is the most frightening, shocking revelation of the Trump Crime Machine so far stuffmatters Mar 2019 #4
Where are the Saudis and Kushner at this point in the Deal? no_hypocrisy Mar 2019 #5
What a filthy and dangerous thing he's doing flamingdem Mar 2019 #6

C_U_L8R

(44,997 posts)
2. This is why Security Ckearance matters.
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 01:38 PM
Mar 2019

And Republicans are looking the other way. Profits over peace. Traitors.

stuffmatters

(2,574 posts)
4. This is the most frightening, shocking revelation of the Trump Crime Machine so far
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 06:44 PM
Mar 2019

Selling a nuclear weapons pathway to a savage dictator for personal profit. Is there any clearer case of espionage/sabotage of
American safety.

no_hypocrisy

(46,080 posts)
5. Where are the Saudis and Kushner at this point in the Deal?
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 10:17 PM
Mar 2019

How can Kushner complete the Deal if it's now known?

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