Ben Rhodes, a former deputy national security adviser to Barack Obama, on Wednesday alleged that Jared Kushner’s corruption is obvious after The New York Times reported that his $3 billion investment fund is financed almost entirely by foreign sources.
The Times previously reported that the firm received a $2 billion investment from a Saudi sovereign wealth fund just months after Kushner left the Donald Trump White House, where he served as a senior adviser to his father-in-law.
“This is just putting a price tag on American foreign policy,” Rhodes said in an interview with MSNBC’s Alex Wagner. “This is a level of corruption that we’ve just never seen, and it’s hiding in plain sight.”
Earlier on her program, Wagner remarked that Kushner’s firm “has been entangled with foreign interests since its inception” and pointed to its involvement with hotel developments in Serbia and Albania.
She asked Rhodes how Kushner’s “entanglement” with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman …