Which Trump family members and in-laws have conflicts of interest?
Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law who floated idea to take over Gaza, is just one member of president’s clan who has business ties that pose conflicts
Donald Trump’s stunning proposal to take over Gaza and turn it into a “Riviera for the Middle East” was first floated by his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, illuminating the potential for family-centered conflicts of interest in his administration.
Kushner, who is married to Trump’s eldest daughter, Ivanka, and served as an adviser in his first presidency, created headlines when he lauded the “very valuable” potential of the coastal strip’s “waterfront property” in an interview with the Harvard School of Government’s Middle East Initiative last year. Foreshadowing Trump, he proposed moving inhabitants out “to clean it up”.
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