Absurdity
Jared Kushner, Who Has Said Nothing, Is Tired Of Not Being Heard
By Jeff Garstein, . BSN Network. Satire.
Jared Kushner, the founder of Affinity Partners and son-in-law of President Donald Trump, said in a recent interview that he is growing frustrated with how the press covers him and that he reserves the right to respond at a time of his choosing, which he has not yet chosen.
Kushner made the remarks during a conversation in which he was asked about the $2 billion investment his private equity firm received from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund in 2021, roughly six months after he left a government role in which he had served as a senior adviser on, among other things, Middle East policy. He said the coverage has been unfair. He did not say what the fair version would be.
"There's a lot of context that people don't have," Kushner told the interviewer, "and I think at some point it would be worth laying that out." He did not lay it out. The interview continued.
Kushner, who spent four years in the White House without giving a single press conference, who did not testify publicly before the January 6th committee, and who declined to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee investigating foreign influence in the 2016 election, says he is tired of the one-sided narrative.
He has a point. It is very hard to have two sides when one of them will not speak.
Asked by the interviewer whether he planned to be more public going forward, Kushner said he was "open to it" and that he thought "there's real value in setting the record straight." He has not set the record straight. His publicist did not respond to a request for comment, which some analysts are calling his most consistent communication strategy to date.
The $2 billion figure has followed Kushner since it was first reported. A Senate Finance Committee investigation in 2022 found that the Saudi fund's own advisers had flagged concerns about Affinity Partners, citing its inexperienced team, the absence of a compelling investment strategy, and the fact that it had no outside investors at the time it received the money. The Saudi fund overruled its own people and wired the money anyway. Kushner has described this as the market working correctly.
When asked in the same interview whether he worried about the perception of a conflict of interest, Kushner said, "I think people who look at it honestly will come to the right conclusion." He did not explain what the right conclusion was, or how a person would look at it honestly, or what an honest person would conclude. The interviewer moved on.
Friends of Kushner say he is genuinely bothered by the coverage and has discussed the possibility of doing more interviews. He has given three interviews in four years. Two of them were to outlets that described him, in the same sentence, as a visionary and a dealmaker.
Kushner's office released a statement saying he remains committed to transparency and to building long-term value across the firm's portfolio of investments. The statement did not address the press coverage, the Senate report, the $2 billion, or what he plans to say when he eventually says something.
It was, by any measure, his most detailed public communication in months.
Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund did not respond to a request for comment, which at least is consistent.
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