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The real Deep State seems to made up Trump’s “closest advisors” ...
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Access to the President’s Daily Brief is tightly guarded, but Trump has the legal authority to allow Kushner to disclose information contained in it. If Kushner discussed names with MBS [Saudi prince Mohammed bin Salman] as an approved tactic of U.S. foreign policy, the move would be a striking intervention by the U.S. into an unfolding power struggle at the top levels of an allied nation. If Kushner discussed the names with the Saudi prince without presidential authorization, however, he may have violated federal laws around the sharing of classified intelligence.
On November 6, two days after the detentions in the Ritz began, Trump took to Twitter to defend the crackdown:
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On November 4,
a week after Kushner returned to the U.S.,
the crown prince, known in official Washington by his initials MBS,
launched what he called an anti-corruption crackdown. The Saudi government arrested dozens of members of the Saudi royal family and imprisoned them in the Ritz-Carlton Riyadh, which was
first reported in English by
The Intercept. The Saudi figures named in the President’s Daily Brief were among those rounded up; at least one was reportedly tortured.
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In the months that followed,
the arrestees were coerced into signing over billions in personal assets to the Saudi government. In December, the London-based Arabic-language newspaper
Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported that Maj. Gen. Ali al-Qahtani
had been tortured to death in the Ritz. Qahtani’s body showed signs of mistreatment, including a neck that was “twisted unnaturally as though it had been broken,” bruises, and “burn marks that appeared to be from electric shocks,” the New York Times
reported earlier this month.
It is alleged that Kushner gave the Crown Prince the names of those Saudis who opposed him, which Kushner garnered from secret American Intel reports.
This is how America’s Business is now being conducted, in our Taxpaying names … in this new era of Trump corruption.
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Top 10 Investments By Saudi Public Investment Fund — forbes.com, Oct, 29, 2017
5. Blackstone Infrastructure Investment Fund
Value of Investment: $20 billion
The PIF has entered into an agreement with Blackstone to invest $20 billion in a $40 billion fund, which will invest mostly in the U.S. infrastructure projects.
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by Antoine Gara, Forbes Staff — May 20, 2017
As President Donald Trump visits Saudi Arabia on the biggest foreign trip of his presidency, private equity giant Blackstone Group is unveiling a $40 billion infrastructure fund with the gulf nation, which will primarily invest in the United States. Saudi Arabia will commit $20 billion to the Blackstone infrastructure fund and another $20 billion will be raised from other limited partners, readying cash that could lead to $100 billion in total infrastructure investments on a leveraged basis.
Blackstone, co-founded by billionaire Stephen Schwarzman, head of Trump's business council, said on Saturday morning the fund effectively launches a new business line for the over $360 billion in assets firm. Already a powerhouse in private equity, real estate, hedge funds and credit investments, Blackstone has been preparing for a push into infrastructure [...]
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Saudis pledge $20 billion to U.S.-focused infrastructure fund
by Dan Primack, Axios.com — May 20, 2017
Saudi Arabia on Saturday made a tentative commitment of $20 billion to a new infrastructure investment fund that would be managed by The Blackstone Group, the private equity and real estate giant led by Trump economic advisor Steve Schwarzman. The overall fund target is around $40 billion, with Blackstone saying on a media call last month that its past infrastructure investments have generated net returns of around 40%.
Why it matters: Most of the money would be earmarked for U.S. infrastructure projects, and likely would benefit from a Trump infrastructure plan that is expected to heavily leverage public-private partnerships.
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Here’s the Quo part of the Kushner-MBS exchange … Big Payday in the Kushner household, on this day ...
by Caleb Melby and Hui-yong Yu, bloomberg.com — May 25, 2017
When Saudi Arabia announced last week a $20-billion investment in a U.S. infrastructure fund managed by Blackstone Group LP, many noticed that it came shortly after presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner personally negotiated a $110-billion arms sale to the country. What went unnoticed -- and is largely unknown -- is how important Blackstone is to the Kushner family company.
Since 2013, Blackstone has loaned more than $400 million to finance four Kushner Cos. deals -- two of which have not been reported -- making it one of the business’s largest lenders. And their ties go beyond the loans. Stephen Schwarzman, Blackstone’s co-founder and chief executive officer, heads Trump’s business-advisory council and was in Riyadh with the president and Kushner. The Saudi promise to invest in Blackstone’s fund drove the firm’s stock up more than 8 percent.
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But the sequence of the deals and the intertwined personal relationships of the principals raise concerns about conflicts of interest. Schwarzman, one of the world’s richest businessmen, is a Republican and, like Trump, a resident of New York and Palm Beach. Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and Kushner’s wife, was an investor in a fund Blackstone created in 2010 to seed hedge funds, according to financial disclosures.
Who needs the “Deep State” — when you got the “Deep Pockets” of the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia to underwrite your side projects (and side-investments) — to the tune of $40 Billion dollars. All it takes is that you “hand over the names of the dissidents” the next time you are in town.
This is how America’s Business is now being conducted, in our Taxpaying names … in this new era of Trump corruption:
Quid pro OMG!
Putin would be so proud.