GOP lawmakers have concluded that Hunter Biden’s foreign business efforts are worthy of intense scrutiny, but the Trump family and its dealings should be ignored. (via MaddowBlog)
Those positions were provocative at the time, though they became even more controversial after Trump’s 2020 defeat, at which point Kushner created a private equity firm financed primarily byfrom a sovereign wealth fund chaired by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. It was around the same time that a Saudi-backed venture started hosting golf tournaments at Trump-owned properties, and Trump’s family business struck a new deal with a Saudi real estate company.
Of course, there are lawmakers from two major parties on Capitol Hill, and as The Washington Post alsoA senior Democrat on Tuesday renewed a request to Jared Kushner for documents outlining how the former White House official received $2 billion from a Saudi investment fund, writing that Kushner had failed to respond to an earlier inquiry and raising new questions about whether he had “improperly traded” on his government work to benefit his financial interests.
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