A gargantuan scale of corruption
Only a fool would be surprised to discover that Jared Kushner is at the center of a growing scandal around highly sensitive national security matters.
It is difficult to see — let alone focus on — a drop of water spilling over Niagara Falls in a relentless torrent.
Similarly, it is difficult to track the torrent of corruption that follows in the footsteps of Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff.
It is simply stunning, mind-blowing, boggling and extraordinary. There are no words to adequately describe the depravity of the theft and their betrayal of the United States of America.
The stench will never fade. Recently, the full details of the sale of America’s most sensitive computer chips to the UAE “spy sheik” have become known. The Trump and Witkoff families pocketed $187 million and $31 million respectively for selling out American security. It wasn’t just a corrupt business deal, it was an act of espionage.
It is not the first example.
The New York Times detailed the Saudi Arabian government’s decision to invest $2,000,000,000 into Jared Kushner’s investment fund in April 2022.
Nobody seemed to care.
The scale of the corruption is so gargantuan that it is beyond comprehension, and thus, understanding.
‘Unprecedented’ is a frequently used word in the Trump era because there are no examples of any behaviors preceding Trump’s conduct that are comparable.
He shattered every convention and tradition that requires dignity and integrity, while obliterating the law, duty, responsibility and obligation.
Donald Trump was twice given the greatest honor that can be bestowed in this country, and lacked the emotional cognizance to understand the awesome burdens of his duty.
He perversely believed that his temporary power was a license to take, steal, smash, punish, destroy and avenge.
The result has been a catastrophe that has weakened America, while emboldening global adversaries and domestic extremists.
During Trump’s first term, hundreds of thousands of Americans were killed unnecessarily by COVID because of the incompetence, indifference and political gamesmanship of Donald Trump and Jared Kushner.
The decision to forgo a national response strategy in the early days of COVID was casually made in the White House by Jared Kushner, who believed that “blue state governors would be blamed, and that would be an effective political strategy,” and therefore Trump would be exculpated from his idiocy and erratic response.
His second term has seen the creation of a masked secret police/Gestapo that is lawless, murderous and blithely violent. They have murdered with impunity and terrorized the American people.
Jared Kushner has been an abhorrent contributor to American decline, decay, division and extremism over the last 11 years.
He is a sinister and corrupt figure who perfectly represents the fantastical levels of corruption that have engulfed Washington, DC, during the Trump years.
It is a cesspool of dirty transactions, where foreign influence, corporate power and media incitements have created a thick blanket of distrust, faithlessness, anger, cynicism and apathy among the American population.
Jared Kushner is the son of a felon who entrapped his brother-in-law with a prostitute over a business dispute. Chris Christie locked him up as the US attorney, and ignited a life-long blood feud between himself and Jared Kushner.
Kushner is a soft-handed and fragile-boned child of privilege, whose only skill seems to have been the flattery of sociopathic egos — whether that of Rupert Murdoch or his father-in-law.
His family’s wealth obscured his mediocrity and sent the young New Jersey princeling to Harvard University, and then into the jungles of Manhattan, where he continued to prove that any child of an indulgent billionaire parent can make it there too.
After a failed real estate investment in 666 Fifth Avenue and other disastrous business decisions, he wafted into the Oval Office with his father-in-law.
They have done more damage to the United States than any people since secession.
Their hideous reign was a disaster for America where they added $6.7 trillion to the debt between fiscal year 2017 and fiscal year 2020, while making $2.4 billion in income during that same period.
There has never been anything like it in American history.
Foreign governments, lobbyists, politicians and industry titans flooded the Washington, DC, Trump Hotel.
Everything was for sale and the overwhelming majority of media coverage labeled it as “business as usual” before very long.
The American people have been cut out of the equation as government “of the people, by the people, for the people” has become government for the Trump family and their MAGA movement.
The stealing has only been exceeded by the lying, which is only exceeded by the extremism.
In Trump’s second term, Jared Kushner is considered an “informal advisor” in the administration.
In Trump’s first term, Jared Kushner was not fit to receive a security clearance.
It was denied.
He failed the background investigations.
The security officials made a recommendation that he could not be trusted with classified information.
He was deemed untrustworthy.
Donald Trump bestowed one of the highest level security clearances on his son-in- law as if he were outfitting Melania with a new prenup.
Jared Kushner loved classified briefings.
He requested them more often than almost any White House staff member.
During those delusional years, Kushner flew around the world proclaiming himself to be an architect of Middle East peace.
Simultaneously, he mismanaged COVID and leaked to preferred access journalists all of the details of his heroic intentions and the mutual beneficence and sacrifice involved in his and Ivanka’s ludicrous service.
Both Jared and Ivanka were mediocrities who were unread, inexperienced, sheltered, arrogant beyond measure, and surprisingly simple fraudsters who didn’t know very much about anything except where to look for the money.
MBS is 40 years old, and the de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as Crown Prince. His regime had its highest number of executions in a year in 2025, making it the second consecutive year in which it has has carried out its highest number of executions. Further, he is the architect of Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen, which has instigated child famine, suffering and death in a war of aggression.
MBS lured a Washington Post columnist and US resident into a Saudi embassy, where he was murdered and dismembered. The Saudi regime is duplicitous, untrustworthy, violent, extreme and as ever, oil-rich.
MBS will be a powerful force for global instability in the decades ahead and should never be regarded as a friend of the United States, though he is the paymaster of an appalling number of American whores, LIV golfers, lobbyists, PR firms, movie studios, and anyone who can help whitewash the bloody Saudi image into something benign, modern and safe. Washington, DC, is awash in Saudi money, and every penny of it should be rooted out and disclosed.
Every Saudi influencer, lobbyist and lawyer who hides behind a cloak of respectability, while serving a repressive medieval society should be reported on at length. The American people deserve to know who each despicable player is in the billion-dollar Saudi PR game.
Yet, no matter what anyone has done — or will do — to serve Saudi Arabian interests over American ideas and ideals none will be paid $2 billion.
Why?
Perhaps it is because there is only one person in America who held America’s greatest secrets — and was willing to sell them.
Aldrich Ames was a former CIA agent who took $4.6 million from the Soviet Union.
His treachery and treason was a national security disaster for the United States, but the full extent of the damage and compromise became fully known. Ames spent the rest of his days locked up in solitary confinement for 23 hours per day at the Administrative Super Max penitentiary in Florence, Colorado until he died last month.
It raises the question: was Ames unlucky, or is it that Kushner is exceptionally lucky?
The United States Congress is a thoroughly broken institution, yet the January 6 Committee demonstrated what is possible when honorable men and women come together, and put America ahead of political parties and cults of personality.
Most congressional hearings are performative and useless, but not every one is.
The Kushner affair deserves scrutiny. It should be scrutinized by Congress, prosecutors, counter intelligence officials, and the media until every detail is known.
Extremist movements are always corrupt. Corrupt movements always become extremist movements. The NRA and CPAC are perfect examples of this phenomenon.
What did Jared Kushner do to get $2 billion in Saudi money?
I want to know.
Do you?
I want to know what it is that caused Tulsi Gabbard to lock a whistleblower report about Jared Kushner in a safe.
Why?
What did they discover?
What betrayal was heard?
We are a country that has trashed past honorable moments. We are weaker because 49.2% of voters in 2024 didn’t believe what they eyes were seeing or what their ears were hearing. We cannot assume that there will be elections in November of this 250th year of our history. Every Democratic governor must plan to do whatever it takes to protect the vote.
Steve, this piece slaps, as my kids would say. The corruption is so staggering that the word staggering doesn’t even begin to cover it. This administration resets the very definition of corruption, and we reset the definition of gullible for facilitating this irredeemable bunch, not once but twice. As I’ve encouraged before, please use The Warning and the Save America Movement to begin the hard work of creating project 2029 that can begin again fealty to the Constitution of the United States and its Bill of Rights.