Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), who serves on the House Oversight Committee, drew public attention this week to continuing questions around Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner as Republicans keep pursuing their investigations into the Bidens, who some so confidently implicate in crime.
“Now that we are done with the Hunter impeachment sham, I want to remind everyone of the real White House family scandal. Why did Jared Kushner receive $2 billion from Saudi Arabia months after leaving his post overseeing Middle East policy?” a post from Garcia’s official account on X (Twitter) said.
House members heard this week from the president’s son Hunter Biden amid an ongoing impeachment inquiry targeting his father. The $2 billion that Garcia was referencing originated with a Saudi fund controlled by that country’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, ultimately supporting an investment operation now helmed by Kushner after he left service in Trump’s administration.
Public details seem to indicate Saudi funds have also gone to Trump businesses via the former president’s properties hosting events for LIV Golf, a league still on the newer side that’s backed by the country.
Recently, allegations of bribery implicating the current president, Hunter, and the Ukrainian company Burisma imploded via an indictment of an ex-federal source behind the story.
Defendant Alexander Smirnov was accused of lying to federal authorities and tied in reports to Russian intelligence circles, leading to allegations that Republicans still running with the impeachment inquiry started in tandem with the claims are advancing Vladimir Putin’s interests. Even if technically including the caveat that the allegations were, in fact, just that: allegations, Republicans extensively promoted the bribery story, which involved a tale involving millions of dollars tracing to Burisma for the Bidens.
Top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee Rep. Jerry Nadler (N.Y.) recently asked Justice Department authorities for an investigation into ex-federal prosecutor Scott Brady after his remarks around the original bribery claims left the evident — and allegedly false — impression of substantive corroboration of key details.
