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Kushner, a senior White House adviser and President Trumps son-in-law, is expected to attend the Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh unofficially known as Davos in the Desert in late October, according to a list of attendees obtained by The Washington Post. The conference is at the Ritz-Carlton, where Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman imprisoned hundreds of the countrys business and political leaders for months in what he called an anti-corruption campaign as he consolidated power in the oil-rich kingdom.
Kushner is likely to attend the conference but has not yet officially confirmed and would do so as part of a broader U.S. delegation, said someone familiar with his plans who was not authorized to discuss the issue on the record and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Last year, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin withdrew from the forum amid controversy after a team of 15 Saudi agents flew to Istanbul on government aircraft in October and killed Khashoggi, a contributing columnist for The Post, inside the Saudi Consulate there, where he had gone to pick up documents that he needed for his planned marriage to a Turkish woman. Investigators believe the team used a bone saw to dismember him.
The CIA later concluded that the Saudi crown prince ordered the killing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/kushner-to-attend-saudi-economic-conference-hosted-by-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman/2019/09/20/7565c920-dba6-11e9-adff-79254db7f766_story.html
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,651 posts)Excerpt...
One of the people MBS told about the discussion with Kushner was UAE Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed, according to a source who talks frequently to confidants of the Saudi and Emirati rulers. MBS bragged to the Emirati crown prince and others that Kushner was in his pocket, the source told The Intercept.
https://theintercept.com/2018/03/21/jared-kushner-saudi-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman/
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)dchill
(38,324 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,369 posts)Hekate
(90,202 posts)How precious.
spanone
(135,636 posts)and after killing Khashoggi
pwb
(11,205 posts)People are still dying from what those Saudi fuckheads did to America.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)to contribute but only to make deals for himself and the Trump family, to screw over this country and line their pockets with more corrupt Saudi cash. He makes me sick. I can't wait for the day he is thrown into prison for the rest of his miserable life.