Piyanuch Chanphet

While Kushner Negotiated for America, the Screen Showed Something Far More Sinister Jared Kushner's hacked phone exposes secret billion-dollar money trail and possible crimes of federal bribery and foreign agents laws if he promised anything in return. In an excerpt published by Vanity Fair from his upcoming book Princes and Thieves, investigative reporter Matthew Cole describes how Dutch military intelligence flipped a Russian GRU hacker in 2017 and used him to access a Russian server holding screenshots from Jared Kushner's iPhone. By early 2018, according to Cole, the Dutch had cracked the device themselves and could watch Kushner's screen in real time. What they observed, Cole reports, was Kushner logging into a UAE bank account containing hundreds of millions of dollars that had been routed through a bank in Azerbaijan. Cole's reporting further alleges that Saudi and Emirati royals ultimately directed at least $2 billion into accounts tied to Kushner. That sum includes roughly $750 million at First Abu Dhabi Bank — where Kushner was allegedly a signatory on an account owned by an Emirati charity — and about $1 billion held in Israel's Central Bank. Jared Kushner is far too compromised to negotiate on America's behalf. His self-enrichment, while pretending to prioritize the country's best interests, is an unconscionable betrayal.