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Kushner Makes a Move That Signals He is Done With Politics…and for Good
Jared Kushner, the Trump advisor with the most blood on his hands, intends to forget about that blood by launching an investment firm in the next few months. The theory is that this investment firm will get him away from politics for the foreseeable future, but we have seen this pattern before, where someone with government experience – relationships with career people, move out of the official government position, in order to make money off those relationships.
We wouldn’t necessarily call it “getting him away from politics.
Kushner, the former chief executive of Kushner Companies, who served as the Republican president’s senior adviser in the White House, is in the final stages of launching an investment firm called Affinity Partners that will be headquartered in Miami.
Now watch what happens, is Kushner starting a high tech angel fund? No. Is he investing in railroad infrastructure? No, Kushner is going right back to where he’s most comfortable, the Middle East:
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Kushner, who is married to Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, is also looking to open an office in Israel to pursue regional investments to connect Israel’s economy and India, North Africa and the Gulf, said two people briefed on the plan, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The sources had no details about potential investors and said the firm was still in the planning phase.
Kushner has spent the last six months with his family in Miami writing a book about his White House experiences that is expected to be published early next year.
Call us cynical, but we think “and the Gulf” was placed in there a little sneakily, so it doesn’t stand out quite as much. But we suspect that Jared will be involved in “government” quite a bit within his investment firm working around the “Gulf.”
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