Jared Kushner Solicits Funds for His Firm While Working as Mideast Envoy (nytimes.com)

Of course he does. His father and his father in law would expect nothing less of him.

I once won a power bank in an anonymous raffle at a marketing event of a company that could be imagined as our distant competitor. I voluntarily gave it away to another attendee, because God forbid there's a suspicion of a conflict of interest. But I am clearly a bear of very little brain.

I'm a bit surprised at how little Middle East has tried to pull this lever. Shouldn't they have a lot of say in Trump policy, with just a "we'll pull out of these commitments to your personal circle."

Any practical way for a startup to get investment from these grifty slush funds that don’t involve scary amounts of loss of control/independence?

He's the new Epstein, bar the sex sleaze.

The amount of blatant, out-in-the-open corruption and double dealing with people in Trump’s orbit is absolutely astounding.

Age of the grift we either jump in or stay dryyy

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