Ex-Obama Adviser Spots Jared Kushner's Corruption 'Hiding In Plain Sight'

Ben Rhodes , a former deputy national security adviser to Barack Obama , on Wednesday alleged that Jared Kushner s corruption is obvious after The New York Times reported  that his $3 billion investment fund is financed almost entirely by foreign sources.

The Times previously reported that the firm received a $2 billion investment from a Saudi sovereign wealth fund just months after Kushner left the Donald Trump White House, where he served as a senior adviser to his father-in-law.

This is just putting a price tag on American foreign policy, Rhodes said in an interview with MSNBC s Alex Wagner . This is a level of corruption that weve just never seen, and its hiding in plain sight.

Earlier on her program, Wagner remarked that Kushners firm has been entangled with foreign interests since its inception and pointed to its involvement with hotel developments in Serbia and Albania.

She asked Rhodes how Kushners entanglement with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman could compromise Trumps foreign policy platform as he campaigns to retake the White House.

This is not subtle corruption that were looking at. This is a guy, Jared Kushner , who had no expertise, no qualification whatsoever to be in the White House, Rhodes said, nodding to Kushners background in real estate investment before Trumps presidency.

While he was there, he made it his account to work in the Gulf Arab states. He basically helped lead the cover-up for MBS, get him in from the cold after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, he added, referring to Crown Prince Mohammeds connection to the 2018 slaying of a Washington Post journalist.

The Saudis didnt make a $2 billion investment because they trusted in Jared Kushners investment expertise, he added. Theyre making an investment on what they think he can do for them if there is a second Trump term.

Rhodes also contrasted Kushners situation with the GOPs impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden and corruption allegations involving his son Hunter Biden.

Here we have the presidents son-in-law who worked in the White House, unlike Hunter Biden whos collected $2 billion on the back end of his service. And now hes got his father-in-law running for president of the United States, Rhodes said. This is not only unusual, this is unprecedented.