In a recent interview on MSNBC, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), a member of the House Oversight Committee, discussed the push from Democrats on that committee for insider info related to post-White House business dealings involving Jared Kushner, son-in-law to former President Donald Trump. To the host, Garcia appeared to suggest hearing testimony from sources evidently including the ex-president’s family member himself.
Kushner infamously received billions of dollars in support for a post-Trump administration investment operation from Saudi leadership. While working on the Trump team, Kushner’s areas of focus had included U.S. foreign policy dealing with the Middle East, allowing him to cultivate potentially the very relational connections that later allowed for such a massive boost to his business. In an interview of his own, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) argued that if substantive elements producing the deal for Kushner’s business were established when the Trump son-in-law was in an official position, Kushner could have violated Constitutional restrictions on government officials receiving things of value from foreign sources.
“We have got to make sure that we investigate this in a way that’s appropriate,” Garcia said. “And it’s comical that they tried to link the president’s family who’ve never worked for the government, who are not working for the White House, who is a private citizen, who there’s zero evidence of any sort of link, yet they’re unwilling to actually investigate the Kushners, who have profited in the billions of dollars from their work in the White House. And so, we’re prepared. We are prepared to keep asking to subpoena these documents. We’re pushing on Chairman Jim Comer.” Comer, a Kentucky Republican, currently chairs the committee as part of its Republican majority — who’d be needed in this Congress for the issuance of subpoenas.
The contrast is, of course, also notable between Republicans’ approach to the Kushners and their approach to Hunter Biden, a son of the current president who has never held an official position and whose business dealings have not been financially linked to the president, meaning no usage of a government position for personal, financial ends has been confirmed in the evidence. “I want to see the Kushners in our committee,” Garcia added on MSNBC. Watch below:
Rep. Robert Garcia on new calls for investigating Jared Kushner’s Saudi ties:
“[Kushner] began receiving these payments two months after he left the White House and it ballooned to over $2 billion… that is insane.” pic.twitter.com/eI00jjN786
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 2, 2023
