NEW YORK, October 23 (ANI) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has rejected allegations in a new book that purportedly link him to slush funds managed by individuals from the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Israel.
In a post on X, Kushner said Vanity Fair had published an excerpt from a book containing “outrageous and categorically false allegations.”
“The allegations made by this author are completely insane and never happened. We denied every one of these claims on the record, yet the author failed to provide a single shred of evidence to substantiate any of them. No bank statements, wire transfer records, account numbers, transaction dates, or other verifiable details were provided to support these extraordinary accusations,” he said.
“During the period in question, I was one of the most scrutinized people in the world, subjected to intense media coverage, multiple congressional investigations, and a special counsel investigation. I voluntarily cooperated with these investigations, providing over 30 hours of testimony. None of these allegations ever surfaced, because none of these events ever happened,” he added.
Kushner described the allegations as “outrageous fabrications being presented as investigative journalism,” adding, “This is not journalism. It is a mixture of fantasy, fiction, and advocacy, written by someone who is either deeply disturbed or acting with sinister intent.”
Vanity Fair published an excerpt from Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East, a book authored by Matthew Cole.
In the excerpt, Cole wrote that in late spring 2020, a source he considered reliable contacted him with a story alleging that the Dutch government had hacked Kushner’s phone and monitored him as he accessed a Dubai-based bank account.
The source claimed that hundreds of millions of dollars in the account had originated from a bank in Azerbaijan. According to the excerpt, Kushner had allegedly transferred significant sums from the Dubai account to other individuals, including a warlord, a mercenary and a former hit man.
“The story sounded preposterous, I told my source. And yet,” Cole wrote.
He said that six months later, while discussing the UAE government’s alleged use of mercenaries in conflicts across the Middle East and Africa with another acquaintance, he asked whether the person knew anything about Kushner and bank transfers from a UAE account.
“My acquaintance grew quiet. Then they replied, ‘Yes,’” Cole wrote.
Kushner’s lawyer denied that the bank account existed.
According to Cole, an intelligence operation that allegedly hacked Kushner’s phone uncovered access to two bank accounts, one in Azerbaijan and the other in Israel, into which a Saudi royal and an Emirati royal had deposited money. (ANI)
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