Former Obama deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner engaged in a “level of corruption that we’ve just never seen” when talking about his firm’s recent investments overseas.

Rhodes said that Kushner engaged in corruption when asked about The New York Times’s recent reporting that detailed that 99 percent of his investment fund’s money came from foreign sources. The outlet also reported Kushner is working on developing hotels in the Balkans, specifically in Serbia and Albania, and noted that the firm has taken money from Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

“I mean, look, this is not subtle corruption that we’re looking at,” Rhodes told MSNBC’s Alex Wagner during his Wednesday appearance on “Alex Wagner Tonight.”

“This is a guy, Jared Kushner, who had no expertise, no qualification whatsoever to be in the White House while he was there. He made it his account to work in the Gulf Arab states. He basically helped lead the cover-up for [Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud]. Get him in from the cold after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.”

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    7 months ago

    Well he’s just a good businessman and hunter biden did the exact same thing literally kinda except worse literally we just don’t know about it because the mainstream media herp derp derppp and DEI is ruining American bridges with illegal immigrants driving foreign boats or something whatever brown people scary

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          Yeah, was on the fence about needing the /s or not. Would have thought herp derp was enough

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            That’s what gave it away to me but given the state of consensus reality these days sarcasm and irony have taken really big hits

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            I’m guessing you got all those downvotes because people noped out and made assumptions before finishing the wall of text. It never hurts to have the /s these days.

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        7 months ago

        What, the herp derp wasn’t enough? I was mocking the brain dead thought process that will be used to dismiss this story