Dutch spies spent 2018 watching @jaredkushner iPhone in real time, and what they saw should end his career. According to a book excerpt in Vanity Fair, they watched him log into a UAE bank account holding roughly $750 million. Author Matthew Cole reports a second account in Israel received about $1 billion meant for Kushner personally, all while he was running Middle East policy from inside the White House. Cole says it started with a spy operation. The Dutch flipped a Russian GRU hacker in 2017 and found screenshots from Kushner's phone sitting on a Russian server. By early 2018, they had their own access. The account Cole describes sat at First Abu Dhabi Bank. It belonged to a charity funded by the Emirati government, and Kushner was allegedly a signatory. Money flowed in through a bank in Azerbaijan. Cole's source says some of it flowed back out to a warlord, a mercenary, and a former hit man. Seriously. A warlord. A mercenary. A hit man. Four senior officials from Trump's first term, including two national security advisers, told Cole they knew of no presidential approval for Kushner to touch a foreign government's account. A former Mueller prosecutor said that if Kushner promised anything in return, federal bribery and foreign agent laws could come into play. Now look at the rules for everyone else. A regular federal employee can't accept a gift worth more than $20 from someone with business before the government. Kushner allegedly had his name on accounts holding $1.75 billion in foreign government money. As Newsweek and the Washington Times reported Thursday, Kushner's lawyers say the accounts never existed. The White House calls the book a smear. But the pattern has a paper trail. In 2018, the Washington Post reported that officials in at least four countries, including the UAE, had privately discussed ways to manipulate him. In 2022, the New York Times revealed that Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund pumped $2 billion into his brand-new private equity firm six months after he left office. The fund's own screening panel called the due diligence "unsatisfactory in all aspects." The board, chaired by Mohammed bin Salman, overruled it. They knew. They did it anyway. Princes and Thieves drops Tuesday from Simon & Schuster. Kushner is still Trump's special envoy, negotiating over Gaza and Ukraine on behalf of the United States. A man foreign intelligence services flagged as a target for manipulation, a man allegedly tied to billions in foreign money, is still shaping American foreign policy.

OMG!!! The @POTUS has dementia!