{"id":14458,"date":"2024-10-25T13:25:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T13:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=14458"},"modified":"2024-10-25T13:25:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T13:25:48","slug":"calls-grow-for-doj-to-appoint-special-counsel-to-investigate-jared-kushner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=14458","title":{"rendered":"Calls Grow For DOJ To Appoint Special Counsel To Investigate Jared Kushner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) are calling on the DOJ to nominate a particular counsel to analyze Jared Kushner for being an unregistered overseas agent.<\/p>\n<p>Raskin and Wyden <a href=\"https:\/\/oversightdemocrats.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/democrats-oversight.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/Letter%20to%20DOJ%20on%20Kushner%20-%20FARA%20%28Wyden%20-%20Raskin%29%20final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wrote in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>We write to induce the Division of Justice (\u00e2\u0080\u009cDOJ\u00e2\u0080\u009d) to nominate a Particular Counsel to analyze attainable violations of the Overseas Brokers Registration Act (\u00e2\u0080\u009cFARA\u00e2\u0080\u009d) by former President Donald Trump\u00e2\u0080\u0099s son-in-law and former senior White Home adviser, Jared Kushner.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Latest public stories and a Senate investigation have uncovered vital proof that Mr. Kushner acted as an unregistered overseas agent of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. By his personal admission, Mr. Kushner is actively advising former President Trump\u00e2\u0080\u0099s marketing campaign whereas being paid not less than $80 million by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and different overseas governments since June 2021. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>There&#8217;s additionally proof that Mr. Kushner is secretly advising the Saudi authorities on U.S. overseas coverage in a way that undermines the official goals of the U.S. authorities. Whereas on the Saudi government\u00e2\u0080\u0099s payroll, Mr. Kushner is concurrently serving as a political advisor to former President <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politicususa.com\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Trump\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"1006\">Trump<span class=\"wpil-link-icon\" title=\"Link goes to another page on this site.\" style=\"margin: 0 0 0 5px;\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:svg=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"height:16px; width:16px; fill:#212065; stroke:#212065; display:inline-block;\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.1\"><g id=\"wpil-svg-new-tab-1-icon-path\">&#13;\n                            <g fill-rule=\"evenodd\" stroke=\"none\" stroke-width=\"1\" transform=\"matrix(0.27272726,0,0,0.27272726,-1.6363636,-1.6363636)\">&#13;\n                                <g>&#13;\n                                <path d=\"m 45.5,14 h 33 7.5 v 7.5 33 7.5 h -8 v 8 h 8 c 4.418278,0 8,-3.590712 8,-8 V 54.5 21.5 14 C 94,9.581722 90.409288,6 86,6 H 78.5 45.5 38 c -4.418278,0 -8,3.5907123 -8,8 v 8 h 8 V 14 Z M 6,38.008515 C 6,33.585535 9.578055,30 14.008515,30 h 47.98297 C 66.414466,30 70,33.578055 70,38.008515 v 47.98297 C 70,90.414466 66.421945,94 61.991485,94 H 14.008515 C 9.5855345,94 6,90.421945 6,85.991485 Z M 42,46 H 34 V 58 H 22 v 8 h 12 v 12 h 8 V 66 H 54 V 58 H 42 Z\"\/>&#13;\n                                <\/g>&#13;\n                            <\/g>&#13;\n                        <\/g><\/svg><\/span><\/a> and appearing as a shadow diplomat and political advisor to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and different overseas principals. Regardless of being engaged in plainly political actions, Mr. Kushner has not made FARA disclosures to DOJ associated to the tens of millions of {dollars} he&#8217;s paid yearly by entities owned and managed by the governments of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The size of those undisclosed overseas funds to Mr. Kushner coupled with the nationwide safety implications of his obvious ongoing efforts to promote political affect to the very best overseas bidder are unprecedented and demand motion from DOJ. We due to this fact urge you to nominate a Particular Counsel to analyze whether or not Mr. Kushner is influencing U.S. home and overseas coverage on behalf of overseas authorities shoppers with out making the suitable necessary disclosures, in a way in line with the Department\u00e2\u0080\u0099s longstanding insurance policies relating to election 12 months sensitivities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kushner has carried the stench of being a overseas agent and a nationwide safety threat. Jared Kushner has been attempting to maintain a low profile. This is similar Jared Kushner who couldn&#8217;t get a safety clearance throughout Trump\u2019s time period in workplace as a result of he was deemed a nationwide safety threat.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politicususa.com\/2019\/04\/01\/jared-kushner-is-one-of-the-30-white-house-officials-who-was-denied-a-security-clearance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jared Kushner only got a security clearance<span class=\"wpil-link-icon\" title=\"Link goes to another page on this site.\" style=\"margin: 0 0 0 5px;\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:svg=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"height:16px; width:16px; fill:#212065; stroke:#212065; display:inline-block;\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.1\"><use href=\"#wpil-svg-new-tab-1-icon-path\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/a><\/span> after Donald Trump overruled the nationwide safety group.<\/p>\n<p>There ought to have been a particular counsel appointed when <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politicususa.com\/2023\/09\/01\/jamie-raskin-demands-all-the-info-on-jared-kushner-and-the-saudis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kushner fled the White House and then took a big pile of Saudi cash as a \u201cbusiness investment.<span class=\"wpil-link-icon\" title=\"Link goes to another page on this site.\" style=\"margin: 0 0 0 5px;\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:svg=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"height:16px; width:16px; fill:#212065; stroke:#212065; display:inline-block;\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.1\"><use href=\"#wpil-svg-new-tab-1-icon-path\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/a><\/span>\u201d Up to now, the Saudi\u2019s have seen zero return from their funding in Jared Kushner.<\/p>\n<p>If <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politicususa.com\/category\/democratic-party\/kamala-harris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Kamala Harris\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"1007\">Kamala Harris<span class=\"wpil-link-icon\" title=\"Link goes to another page on this site.\" style=\"margin: 0 0 0 5px;\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:svg=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"height:16px; width:16px; fill:#212065; stroke:#212065; display:inline-block;\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.1\"><use href=\"#wpil-svg-new-tab-1-icon-path\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/a> wins, Democrats are going to push laborious for the Harris AG to nominate a Particular Counsel to analyze Jared Kushner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To touch upon this story, be part of us on <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/PoliticusUSA\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reddit.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"abh_box abh_box_down abh_box_business\">\n<div class=\"abh_tab_content\">\n<section class=\"vcard author abh_about_tab abh_tab\" itemscope=\"\" itemprop=\"author\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" style=\"display:block\">\n<div class=\"abh_image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politicususa.com\/author\/jasoneasley\" class=\"url\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Jason Easley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicususa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gravatar\/jason-photo.jpg\" class=\"photo img-responsive\" width=\"250\" alt=\"Jason Easley\"\/><\/a> <\/div>\n<div class=\"abh_text\">\n<div class=\"description note abh_description\" itemprop=\"description\">Jason is the managing editor. 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Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) are calling on the DOJ to nominate a particular counsel to analyze Jared Kushner for being an unregistered overseas agent. Raskin and Wyden wrote in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland: We write to induce the Division of Justice (\u00e2\u0080\u009cDOJ\u00e2\u0080\u009d) to nominate a Particular Counsel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5140,1062,215,1598,4856,3016,6621,6622,214],"class_list":["post-14458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-appoint","tag-calls","tag-counsel","tag-doj","tag-grow","tag-investigate","tag-jared","tag-kushner","tag-special"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}