Investigate Kushner

As the eyes of the world are focused on Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, we must acknowledge that Trump’s malfeasance, ethical lapses, and potential crimes, at home and abroad, did not happen in a vacuum. 

Many willing officials played a part — but they may have escaped notice and justice because of the constant chaos Trump created around himself and his cronies. Prominent among those individuals is Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

The accusations against Kushner for potential crimes, conflicts of interest, and negligence are numerous. His improper relationships with key government officials in Saudi Arabia and the UAE while they were fueling the world’s largest humanitarian crisis in Yemen is just one example. Others include his foreign real estate dealings that put his interests over the foreign policy of the U.S. and his utter failure as a lead official in charge of the coronavirus response, which has contributed to the death of more than 450,000 people in the United States. 

The list goes on and on, and the American people deserve a full investigation into all of these accusations and misdeeds. Kushner must be held accountable for all of the harm he created. We must ensure that no future administration officials think that they can act with this kind of hubris and greed and not face consequences for their actions.

Kushner’s list of misdeeds is sweeping: 

• Kushner cozied up to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman while Saudi Arabia waged an illegal war against Yemeni civilians and murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi. 
• The Kushner family received a billion-dollar bailout from a Qatari-government-funded investment company, not long after Jared had backed a Saudi-UAE blockade against Qatar. 
• Kushner repeatedly failed to disclose meetings with foreign officials on his security clearance forms, harming our national security.
• Kushner failed to vet private companies and executives involved in the COVID-19 response he coordinated, raising questions about self-dealing and potential conflicts of interest while hundreds of thousands of people in the United States suffered and died. 

We must not let the graft and nepotism of the Trump administration become normalized or abandoned. We must not let this become business as usual. We are all tired from 4 years of Trump’s instability, but our fight against his authoritarianism is not done until everyone who committed misdeeds and harmed people alongside him are held accountable, and this includes Jared Kushner. 

Right now Rep. Joaqin Castro and Sen. Ron Wyden are pushing for an investigation into Jared Kushner’s flagrant conflicts of interest and they need our support. Accountability cannot not stop at the impeachment trial. All of those who have committed crimes must face consequences.

Unless we make real and sure consequences for corruption, future opportunists will replay the Trump playbook again and again. We’re now drawing a line and rejecting the greed that has led to so much death and suffering, because we refuse to let history repeat itself.

Thank you for working for peace,

Amy, Sara, and Erica, and the Win Without War team

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