Kushner pushed Trump administration officials to inflate value of Saudi arms deal: report

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President Trump's adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, directed administration officials to inflate numbers for a supposed $110 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia, ABC News reported on Monday.

Two U.S. officials and three former White House officials told the network that Kushner pressed the State and Defense departments to pump up the number to $110 billion by including aspirational arms sales.

Saudi Arabia so far has only signed "Letters of Offer and Acceptance" (LOAs) for $14.5 billion in sales of helicopters, tanks, ships, weapons and training, according to the Pentagon.

That figure was reportedly inflated, however, to attempt to solidify the new alliance between the Trump administration and Saudi Arabia and paint a clear victory for the president's first foreign trip last year.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kushner-pushed-trump-administration-officials-to-inflate-value-of-saudi-arms-deal-report/ar-BBQ7NIK?ocid=spartanntp

[BigmanPigman]

1. File this under Dem House Investigation 2019 #1,000,001.

The list that keeps on growing (like fatty's waisteband).

[flotsam]

2. So 15 billion 1/2 trillion? N/T

[Brother Buzz]

3. You'll put your eye out with aspirational arms sales