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BREAKING: Dutch spies hacked Jared Kushner's iPhone and watched him access a Dubai bank account holding hundreds of millions funneled from Azerbaijan, part of at least $2 billion MBS and MBZ placed for him after he promised to push their agenda with Trump, per a Vanity Fair excerpt. "Jared was looking for shortcuts in his diplomacy. He promised MBZ that he'd push their agenda with Trump if they participated in a fund. He wanted normalization with Israel so that business could take off," a source who knew the arrangement said. The money was meant to redraw the region's map and lock in normalization with Israel. Roughly $1 billion of it was deposited in Israel's Central Bank for Kushner, with Netanyahu requiring dual-key approval on any transfers. The two royals initially discussed more than $10 billion for a shared slush fund. That narrowed to roughly $2 billion deposited into accounts Kushner could access, including roughly $750 million at First Abu Dhabi Bank under a UAE charity used as cover for covert operations. The reveal comes as Kushner is deeply involved in Iran war diplomacy, where Iran has accused him and Steve Witkoff of pocketing $9 billion through market manipulation, using insider knowledge of the talks to trade oil futures, energy stocks, and prediction markets.

Jared Kushner, who has had a major hand in negotiating key foreign policy deals under his father-in-law, President Trump, is strongly pushing back on a new report involving a hacked phone, international spies and billion-dollar bank transfers from foreign governments. Jared Kushner called the allegations from a book excerpt published in Vanity Fair “completely insane.” His legal team categorically denied the allegations, calling them “totally false and defamatory.” CBS News has not independently verified the claims.

🚨Bombshell story by Matthew Cole about Jared Kushner from Cole’s book, Princes and Thieves, which comes out next week. The Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations—Including More Than $700 Million in Transfers vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…

Middle East dictators created a massive slush fund for Jared Kushner.

Kushner also failed to disclose himself as an agent of a foreign government, having been paid nearly $2 billion in total by foreign leaders. trib.al/OTkGEv6

Middle East dictators created a massive slush fund for Jared Kushner. trib.al/1Pvw2EU

⚡️ U.S. special envoy and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner received $2 billion in a slush fund created by top Emirati and Saudi officials, according to an excerpt of a new book by investigative reporter Matthew Cole. Cole reports an extraordinary sequence of events that began with Russian intelligence infiltrating Kushner’s iPhone. According to Cole, Dutch intelligence captured a Russian agent, flipped him, and gained access to Kushner’s device themselves. As they began to monitor Kushner’s phone in real time, they observed suspicious transfers of huge amounts of money. ➤ According to Cole, UAE ruler Mohamed bin Zayed and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sought to influence U.S. foreign policy during the first Trump term, and offered Kushner the money toward that end. ➤ The arrangement also involved Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who directed Kushner in 2018 to set up an account at the Israeli Central Bank. Netanyahu reportedly required Kushner to inform him before moving any money out of the account. ➤ Kushner denied Cole’s reporting as “categorically false” and “completely insane” in a statement on Thursday. Through his attorney, Kushner said he would pursue legal action against the publisher of Cole’s book, Simon & Schuster. The full excerpt from the book published in Vanity Fair is available in the Vanity Fair link below. Cole’s book, “Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East,” will be released on October 27. It can be pre-ordered at the link in reply.

Aside from the shocking substance of this story, what's amazing is how it was unearthed by Cole. The short version: The Russians were able to penetrate Jared Kushner's iPhone and extract screenshots and data. Then, a Russian intel official was captured by Dutch intelligence (!) and flipped. The Dutch believed Kushner may have been acting on behalf of Russia, so pursued him as an intel target and were able to get into his phone. They did not find any evidence of Russian collusion, instead they watched him moving hundreds of millions of dollars from slush funds created by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, one of them housed in Israel's central bank. Incredible reporting, and if Democrats have any sense, they will pull on these threads and learn a lot more about this money.

The GRU hacked into Jared Kushner's iPhone. Dutch military intelligence (MIVD) then recruited a GRU spy who gave them access to the hacked phone. What MIVD discovered was that Kushner had access to two bank accounts --one Azerbaijani, the other Israeli --where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposited money. It sounds like a slightly far-fetched episode of "Slow Horses," but it's real. And it proves just how eye-poppingly corrupt this administration was and continues to be as its "special envoy" decides the fate of tens of millions in Europe in the Middle East. Simply incredible reporting by Matthew Cole, drawn from his new book on Kushner. vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…

I agree. The allegations are so numerous and so specific, and the denials so broad, that they are startling to read. If even a fraction of the allegations have a significant factual basis, this will be a scandal for the ages.

“In late spring 2020, a source I knew to be reliable called me with a story,” writes Matthew Cole. “The Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner’s phone and monitored him as he accessed a Dubai-based bank account. What was odd, the source said, was that the money in the account—hundreds of millions of dollars—had come from a bank in Azerbaijan. Most importantly, Kushner appeared to have transferred significant amounts of money from the Dubai account to other individuals, including a warlord, a mercenary and a one-time hit man. The story sounded preposterous, I told my source. And yet. Six months later, I found myself speaking with someone else about the UAE government and their use of mercenaries in conflicts around the Middle East and Africa when I asked, on a whim, whether they knew anything about Kushner and bank transfers from a UAE account. My acquaintance grew quiet. Then they replied, ‘Yes.’” Kushner’s lawyer denied the bank account existed. Read an exclusive excerpt from Cole’s book, ‘Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East’: vanityfair.visitlink.me/Q5_W…

Q: A new book says Jared Kushner had access to $2 billion from Middle Eastern countri--- TRUMP: It's a false story. It's a totally false story. Totally an incorrect story. It was just fake news. Amazing

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