💰 Trump’s son-in-law deceived Gulf kings: He took their money & threw them under the bus in the Iran war

Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates have reportedly grown angry with Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, according to Bloomberg.
Why? He took their money but didn’t give them a meaningful say in White House politics.

Classy pay-to-play

🔴 Kushner plays a dual role: Trump administration Middle East “peacemaker” and founder of Affinity Partners, a private investment firm managing Gulf royal families’ money

🔴 Affinity is a Delaware-based LLC founded in 2021 with offices in Florida. The company is solely owned by Kushner

🔴 Since 2022, Affinity has been feeding off Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF)

🔴 Official disclosures show the firm held $6.2 billion in assets under management across 6 clients in 2025

🔴 The capital comes almost entirely (around 99%) from non-US investors. Main clients:

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia

🇶🇦 Qatar

🇦🇪 the UAE

🔴 Affinity Partners has expanded rapidly since Trump returned to the Oval Office:

💸 $6.2 billion in 2025

💸$4.8 billion in 2024

💸$3 billion in 2023

🔴 In addition, Kushner’s firm receives “tens of millions of dollars in fees annually” from the Gulf kingdoms for investing their money — primarily in the US and Israel

🔴 The arrangement bears all the hallmarks of a classic pay-to-play scheme: Gulf monarchies pay Trump’s son-in-law for access to the US president and influence over Washington’s Middle East policy.

Kushner doesn’t deliver

🔴 The problem is that the White House’s Middle East policy backfired on the Gulf: Bloomberg says the Iran war ran against Gulf kingdoms’ interests from day one

🔴 The US didn’t protect them and still can’t resolve the Strait of Hormuz crisis, hammering the Gulf economy

🔴 Jared Kushner has done nothing as either a “peacemaker” or Trump’s relative. Given his close ties to Israel, some may suspect he and Netanyahu see Gulf economic pain as a way to make the monarchies more compliant

🔴 Saudi Arabia is now reportedly weighing a peace pact between Arab states and Iran. Tehran suddenly looks far more reliable.

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