Jared Kushner Faces Hunter Biden Treatment as Democrats Turn the Screw

Accumulate. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the ranking member of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, is pushing for Jared Kushner’s industry dealings to be investigated by the panel with the identical vigor as Republicans are probing the Biden family.

Speaking on MSNBC’s All in With Chris Hayes, Raskin described how he’s inquiring for “the total info” on the money that frail president Donald Trump’s son-in-rules’s agency got from Saudi Arabia and other countries within the identical manner that the committee is probing allegations that President Joe Biden previously benefited from his son Hunter Biden’s industry deals.

Kushner runs the deepest fairness fund Affinity Companions. It changed into once previously reported that the frail White House aide’s agency got a $2 billion investment from a fund led by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman six months after he left office in January 2021.

The GOP-led House Oversight and Accountability Committee is on the second investigating if Joe Biden extinct his affect while vice president to intervene in and earnings from his son’s industry dealings in Ukraine and China. These allegations have been denied by every the White House and Hunter Biden’s lawyers.

“We know that Jared Kushner created a industry the day after the Trump administration ended, and within about a months he had introduced dwelling billions of bucks from the Saudi government,” Raskin acknowledged.

“So we desire the total info within the identical manner that the committee is going for the total info about Hunter Biden, who after all, never labored for the federal government, changed into once no longer within the Biden administration,” Raskin acknowledged. “He is the adult, emancipated son of President Biden.”

“They need all that info. We can also mute salvage the info about Jared Kushner, who changed into once no longer appropriate President Trump’s son-in-rules, nonetheless he changed into once if truth be told managing Center East foreign protection on the time,” he added.

Kushner’s office has been contacted for statement through electronic mail.

Raskin’s interview came after the Democratic congressman wrote to the chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, Accumulate. James Comer (R-KY), to hunt info from the panel to subpoena Kushner for documents about the money his investment agency got from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf international locations. Raskin wrote the letter after Comer knowledgeable CNN that Kushner “crossed the toll road of ethics” by accepting the $2 billion investment from the Saudi government, nonetheless mute urged the accusations geared in direction of the Bidens are extra extreme.

“I’m encouraged by your present acknowledgment that ‘what Kushner did crossed the toll road of ethics’ and your repeated assertions that our Committee is ‘investigating foreign nationals’ attempts to focus on and coerce high-ranking U.S. officials’ kin by offering money or other advantages in change no doubt actions,'” Raskin wrote.

“In gentle of these concerns, I beg you to pursue a serious and intention investigation by issuing a subpoena to Affinity and requiring the agency to conform with my February 15, 2023, seek info from of for documents regarding its receipt of billions of bucks from Gulf monarchies rapidly after Mr. Kushner left a senior White House map he extinct to reshape U.S. foreign protection in direction of Saudi Arabia and the Center East in Saudi Arabia’s prefer—a seek info from of you have so some distance allowed Mr. Kushner to ignore and defy,” he wrote.

In a statement, a spokesperson for the committee accused Raskin’s letter of being “nothing better than an strive to distract from the mounting proof of Joe Biden’s involvement in his family’s affect peddling schemes.”

“If Ranking Member Raskin changed into once if truth be told desirous about ethics in government, then he would be a part of Republicans in our investigation of the Bidens’ blatant corruption. However, Ranking Member Raskin is barely desirous about playing Biden family protection lawyer,” the statement acknowledged.