Jared Kushner's financial ties to Saudi Arabia fall under fresh scrutiny

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8. Crown Prince Bonesaw said "Jared is in his pocket."

Saudi crown prince reportedly bragged he had Jared Kushner ‘in his pocket’

US president’s son-in-law said to have shared classified intelligence with Mohammed bin Salman on the prince’s domestic enemies

By JTA
The Times of Israel, 23 March 2018

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman may be using his close relationship with White House adviser Jared Kushner to send a message to his allies and enemies that his actions were backed by the US government, a US government official told The Intercept.

Kushner, who is the son-in-law of US President Donald Trump, and the Saudi crown prince, had a late October meeting in Riyadh.

A week later, Mohammed began what he called an “anti-corruption crackdown.” The Saudi government arrested and jailed dozens of members of the Saudi royal family in a Riyadh hotel – among them Saudi figures named in a daily classified brief read by the president and his closest advisers, which Kushner read avidly before he lost his top-secret security clearance in February, The Intercept reported Thursday.

According to the report, Mohammed told confidants that he and Kushner discussed Saudis identified in the classified brief as disloyal to Mohammed. While it is likely that Prince Mohammed could independently learn who were his critics, he may have wanted to let it be known that Kushner shared that information with him in order to show his close relationship with the United States, the unnamed US official said.

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https://www.timesofisrael.com/saudi-crown-prince-reportedly-bragged-he-had-jared-kushner-in-his-pocket/

The Intercept:

https://theintercept.com/2018/03/21/jared-kushner-saudi-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman/