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LEST WE FORGET THE HORRORS: AN UNENDING CATALOG OF TRUMP’S CRUELTIES, COLLUSIONS, CORRUPTIONS, AND CRIMES
MAY 2025: ATROCITIES 207-272
by EMILY GREENBERG and CLIFF MAYOTTE
Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes, and it felt urgent to track them, to ensure these horrors—happening almost daily—would not be forgotten. Now that Trump has returned to office, amid civil rights, humanitarian, economic, and constitutional crises, we felt it critical to make an inventory of this new round of horrors. This list will be updated monthly between now and the end of Donald Trump’s second term.
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ATROCITY KEY
– Constitutional Illegalities, Collusion, and/or Obstruction of Justice
– Environment
– Harassment, Bullying, Retribution, and/or Sexual Misconduct
– Lies and Misinformation
– Musk Madness
– Policy
– Public Statements and Social Media Posts
– Trump Family Business Dealings
– Trump Staff and Administration
– White Supremacy, Racism, Misogyny, Homophobia, Transphobia, and/or Xenophobia …
Hatred and vandalism is all the Trump Brand has been about for ever, and though he broadcast his plans loud and clear - few listened and fewer cared.
The Saudi’s listened:
September 13, 2023
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Meidas Touch - Robert Garcia calls for an investigation into Jarred Kushner on …
Shortly after Speaker McCarthy announced that he was directing House committees to open an impeachment inquiry into President Biden, Rep. Robert Garcia called for an investigation into Jared Kushner to determine the circumstances behind a $2 billion investment secured by Kushner from the Saudi Government just months after leaving the Trump White House.
Garcia makes the case for the investigation by stating that:
- Kushner pushed his way into a job in his father-in-law’s administration with no experience.
- Kushner prioritized pushing out the Secretary of State in order to “cozy up” to the Saudi Government.
- There are records of a $110 billion arms deal between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia that was inflated at the direction of Kushner.
- Months after Kushner’s departure from the White House, the Saudi crown prince overruled his own investment advisors and sent $2 billion into Kushner’s companies’ bank account.
Garcia: “I rise today to urge House Republicans to investigate one of the modern American scandals and political cons. Why did the Saudi government give Jared Kushner $2 billion just months after he left the Trump White House? Kushner, who oversaw Middle East policy for his father-in-law, has enriched himself and his family in what’s clearly an enormous grift and likely serious conflict of interest crimes. Let’s review.”
“First, Jared Kushner conned his way into a cushy White House job with no clear job description and no experience. Then he took it upon himself to prioritize pushing out the U.S. Secretary of State so he could cozy up to the Saudi government. Now, once he was close enough to the Saudis, we have records of a $110 billion arms deal between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia that was inflated at the direction of Jared Kushner. Then, mere months after he exits the White House, what happens? The crown prince of Saudi Arabia overrules his own investment advisors and sends $2 billion to Kushner’s company’s bank account.”
"In the exact words of Republican Chris Christie, who I’ll quote: “The grift from this family is breathtaking.” Jared Kushner and Ivanka Kushner walk out of the White House and months later get $2 billion from the Saudis. …
KEY FACTS
After Trump left office in 2021, Kushner quickly set up a new private equity firm, Affinity Partners, which raised over $3 billion in capital by 2022, with about $2 billion coming directly from the Saudi Public Investment fund, the kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman serves as the chairman of the Public Investment Fund, and reportedly personally intervened to approve the investment and overruled a panel of advisors who called the sum “unsatisfactory in all aspects.”
Kushner developed a close relationship with bin Salman while he served as a White House advisor during Trump’s presidency, helping to approve a $110 million weapons sale to the kingdom after it faced public backlash for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi—which the Department of National Intelligence later reported was directed by the crown prince.
House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., has continuously pushed for the committee to investigate Kushner’s deal with the Saudis, launching an investigation last February and asking Comer to issue a subpoena in August.
Affinity Partners has since invested in fintech company Mosaic, which provides loans for solar panel installation, acquired 15% of Israeli car company Shlomo Group last September, and invested $500 million into building luxury resorts in the Balkans—including a hotel in a section of Belgrade that was bombed by NATO in the 1990s and a beach resort on an Albanian island.
Around the same time, the Public Investment fund also invested about $1 billion in Liberty Strategic Capital, the private equity firm set up by former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin after Trump left office—but on less generous terms, the New York Times reported.