Jared Kushner is reportedly seeking more than $5bn from foreign governments for his private equity firm while simultaneously serving as a key US negotiator in the Middle East — a move critics say blurs the line between diplomacy and personal profit.

According to reporting by The New York Times, Kushner has been courting sovereign wealth funds and global investors for his firm Affinity Partners even as he operates in an official diplomatic capacity tied to the administration of Donald Trump.

The fundraising push has triggered renewed scrutiny of potential conflicts of interest inside the White House.

Foreign cash drive overlaps with diplomatic role

Representatives for Affinity have already held talks with Public Investment Fund, the Saudi sovereign wealth fund chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

The fund previously invested $2bn in Kushner’s venture shortly after Trump’s first presidency ended. Now Kushner is reportedly seeking billions more while participating in high-level diplomatic activity across the region.

During the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, he is said to have held private meetings with business leaders about raising new capital for the firm.

The outreach appears to contradict earlier claims that Affinity would not need fresh funding while Kushner worked alongside the administration.

Ethics watchdogs raise conflict alarms

The overlap between Kushner’s public role and private business dealings has triggered alarm among ethics groups.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington warned that Kushner’s diplomatic work intersects directly with countries where his firm seeks investment. The watchdog says his appointment as special envoy triggered a legal requirement to file financial disclosures within 30 days.

Critics argue that without strict transparency rules, the arrangement risks allowing foreign governments to gain influence through investment decisions.

‘Mind-boggling’ scale of the controversy

Political analysts say the scale of the fundraising effort is extraordinary for a senior presidential adviser.

Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia Center for Politics described the situation as “almost beyond belief”. Historian Brian Rosenwald said similar controversies would have ended past presidencies.

The episode underscores a persistent criticism of the Trump era: that family members wielding political power have operated in a grey zone where diplomacy, business and personal wealth increasingly overlap.

'Mind boggling' corruption: Kushner seeks $5 billion from foreign governments for his firm

His dad was in prison ...and Trump got him off!

One hand shakes the other!

The grift, both the scale and the openness is quite amazing. The world has always had corrupt politicians, autocratic or elected, but Trump's administration takes it to a new level. The worry of course is that this becomes "the new normal" - which will finish the great American experiment completely!

Military adventurism can be reined in, political stage strutting, domestic and international can be ridiculed, democracy can reassert itself, political cults can fade, their dynasties fail, religious enthusiasiasms diminish, racial bigotry can be overcome, but this sort of corruption, if unchecked and accepted will become the end game.

On 3/15/2026 at 12:05 AM, bannork said:

Jared Kushner is reportedly seeking more than $5bn from foreign governments for his private equity firm while simultaneously serving as a key US negotiator in the Middle East

Well, as long as I was in the neighborhood ...

Probably didn't have the time for selling his paintings like Hunter Biden.

Who ever is in power , nothing really changes.

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1 hour ago, FlorC said:

Probably didn't have the time for selling his paintings like Hunter Biden.

Who ever is in power , nothing really changes.

Not a good effort at Whataboutism. Maybe if you added something like "Biden kept a fork from the White House cafeteria"?

Note the sum for Jared: $5,000,000,000

Also remember Jared got $2,000,000,000 from MbS for managing, despite the fact Jared had never managed funds.

Oh, and while serving as Senior Adviser to the President in Trump 1.0, Jared had a little problem with a $1,200,000,000 balloon payment he owed on 666 Fifth Ave, a property he paid $1,500,000,000 in 2008 and which had a market value of less than half that in 2019. "Somehow", Jared got the govt of Qatar to refinance 666 Fifth Ave, despite the money Qatar gave being way below the property's market value, and allowed Jared to pay the balloon payment. Absolutely coincidentally (LOL), a few days after the refinancing, the sanctions the US and the other GCC members had imposed on Qatar were lifted.

1 hour ago, FlorC said:

Probably didn't have the time for selling his paintings like Hunter Biden.

Who ever is in power , nothing really changes.

No comparison. Hunter did not have a role or any influence in the Biden administration. If the Kushner claim is true, then there is a conflict of interest and wrongdoing. Soliciting funds while employed in an official government capacity is wrong and most likely criminal. Previous administrationsboth republican and democrat, most certainly did not have this egregious type of conflict of interest.

On 3/15/2026 at 12:05 AM, bannork said:

critics say blurs the line between diplomacy and personal profit

Where is the blur? Looks pretty clear to most people he is profiting from diplomacy.

3 hours ago, FlorC said:

Probably didn't have the time for selling his paintings like Hunter Biden.

Who ever is in power , nothing really changes.

3 hours ago, FlorC said:

Probably didn't have the time for selling his paintings like Hunter Biden.

Who ever is in power , nothing really changes.

Silly me! I forgot this in my earlier post....but since you mentioned "paintings"...

Trump was convicted of charity fraud, and he and his family were banned from running a charity in NY ever again, and one piece of evidence was that Trump used donations to his fake charity to commission a painting of.........himself.

His father, Charles Kushner, is a convicted felon; apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

On 3/15/2026 at 1:35 AM, Jim Blue said:

His dad was in prison ...and Trump got him off!

One hand shakes the other!

Hopefully, the same hand that shakes the piss off his dick after he beats off...

4 hours ago, JerryM said:

Well, as long as I was in the neighborhood ...

He'd have fun. I hear there's unbridled nightlife in Tehran right now!

47 minutes ago, Stocky said:

His father, Charles Kushner, is a convicted felon; apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

I'm waiting for somebody to play the antisemite card here. The only thing Jarhead believes in is money, for nothing (and the chicks for free!).

1 hour ago, unblocktheplanet said:

I'm waiting for somebody to play the antisemite card here. The only thing Jarhead believes in is money, for nothing (and the chicks for free!).

Both Kushners are jewish ? !

Ask Trump 🤡 for it , he has done very well out of been president so far,

with his crypto ,grifting and sueing .

regards worgeordie

37 minutes ago, FlorC said:

Both Kushners are jewish ? !

Yes both him and her

regards Worgeordie

5 hours ago, unblocktheplanet said:

I'm waiting for somebody to play the antisemite card here. The only thing Jarhead believes in is money, for nothing (and the chicks for free!).

The only person raising the issue is you. You are obsessed with them. No one else other than the hezbollah supporters on AN would have suggested this.

6 hours ago, Stocky said:

His father, Charles Kushner, is a convicted felon; apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

Actually it does.

Kushner was a major Democrat party donor. He was convicted of illegal campaign contributions to the party. Republican Chris Christie, who went on to become Governor of New Jersey was the prosecutor.

The political contributions gave rise to the tax evasion charges. He had quite the family feud too with his brother in law and his sister. It was a tale good enough to rival a netflix Korean political drama.

Charlie was pardoned by Trump, who had known him decades earlier when they were both real estate competitors. Trump like others in New York's gilded set, felt sorry for him because the view was that Christie had made a cause celebre out of Kushner for Christie's political gain. Kushner was a supporter of the Clintons.

After Jared's return to the private sector at the end of Trump's last term, he was bankrolled by Gulf Arab petrodollars. Certainly makes for strange bedfellows.

Charlie got caught doing what other Democrat party fundraisers had done for a longtime. It was a crime, but it can be argued that he suffered a penalty greater than his crime for the political gain of one man. Disbarred, prevented from working in his trade, incarcerated, financially penalized and publicly humiliated. Violent and repeat criminals receive lighter treatment.

And no, I am not excusing the wrongdoing. However, Christie did use the case for political gain, which is why Chris Christie is considered to be a loathesome political opportunist by many Democrats.

7 hours ago, FlorC said:

Both Kushners are jewish ? !

Just Ivanka... Wish those grifters would exercise their Right of Return!

Wait. Can they take Dad & Stepmum? Shame to separate a loving family.

15 hours ago, unblocktheplanet said:

Just Ivanka... Wish those grifters would exercise their Right of Return!

Wait. Can they take Dad & Stepmum? Shame to separate a loving family.

Like a bloatfly to a corpse, the mention of a jew attracts you and you offer your usual hateful commentary. Have you considered talking to a therapist?

On 3/15/2026 at 1:35 AM, Jim Blue said:

His dad was in prison ...and Trump got him off!

One hand shakes the other!

On 3/16/2026 at 6:49 PM, Patong2021 said:

Actually it does.

Kushner was a major Democrat party donor. He was convicted of illegal campaign contributions to the party. Republican Chris Christie, who went on to become Governor of New Jersey was the prosecutor.

The political contributions gave rise to the tax evasion charges. He had quite the family feud too with his brother in law and his sister. It was a tale good enough to rival a netflix Korean political drama.

Charlie was pardoned by Trump, who had known him decades earlier when they were both real estate competitors. Trump like others in New York's gilded set, felt sorry for him because the view was that Christie had made a cause celebre out of Kushner for Christie's political gain. Kushner was a supporter of the Clintons.

After Jared's return to the private sector at the end of Trump's last term, he was bankrolled by Gulf Arab petrodollars. Certainly makes for strange bedfellows.

Charlie got caught doing what other Democrat party fundraisers had done for a longtime. It was a crime, but it can be argued that he suffered a penalty greater than his crime for the political gain of one man. Disbarred, prevented from working in his trade, incarcerated, financially penalized and publicly humiliated. Violent and repeat criminals receive lighter treatment.

And no, I am not excusing the wrongdoing. However, Christie did use the case for political gain, which is why Chris Christie is considered to be a loathesome political opportunist by many Democrats.

You forgot to mention that he was also convicted of witness tampering. And Trump felt so sorry for him that he made this lowlife the US Ambassador to France. Maybe as a way to show the French that he despises them?

18 hours ago, Patong2021 said:

Like a bloatfly to a corpse, the mention of a jew attracts you and you offer your usual hateful commentary. Have you considered talking to a therapist?

The only ones he would consider worth listening to are dead, hung or jailed at Nuremburg!

On 3/15/2026 at 12:05 AM, bannork said:

Jared Kushner is reportedly seeking more than $5bn from foreign governments for his private equity firm while simultaneously serving as a key US negotiator in the Middle East — a move critics say blurs the line between diplomacy and personal profit.

Forget partisan politics if you can. Is this legally allowed in the USA? If it is, then he's not doing anything wrong as far as the law is concerned.

If I was a citizen of a country that allowed this I would not be happy, irrespective the political connections.

According to company law, the USA is a pure family company.
From the board of directors to the supervisory board, everything is in family hands and everyone is filling their pockets.

1 hour ago, Alan Zweibel said:

You forgot to mention that he was also convicted of witness tampering. And Trump felt so sorry for him that he made this lowlife the US Ambassador to France. Maybe as a way to show the French that he despises them?

The witness tampering was in respect to the family feud. He tried to stitch up his brother in law who had turned state evidence. Christie had gone after Charlie's weakest link, his family. The BIL grassed to save himself and Charlie's sister. It was all related.

In tough cases, the prosecution goes after family. That's how organized crime gets nicked too. Kushner paid a heavy price for it unlike others.

Trump did not get him off. The pardon is more of a restoration of some legal rights than anything else. The conviction remains as does a fractured family and the public humiliation. Charlie will be forever known as a vindictive bagman who spent time in the pen.

1 minute ago, Patong2021 said:

The witness tampering was in respect to the family feud. He tried to stitch up his brother in law who had turned state evidence. Christie had gone after Charlie's weakest link, his family. The BIL grassed to save himself and Charlie's sister. It was all related.

So how does that change the fact that you cited only one charge he was convicted of instead of two? And what does that say about his moral character and the appropriateness of a pardon?

4 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

Trump did not get him off. The pardon is more of a restoration of some legal rights than anything else. The conviction remains as does a fractured family and the public humiliation. Charlie will be forever known as a vindictive bagman who spent time in the pen.

And he will also be forever known as a US ambassador to France. How is he ever going to live that down?