
Jared Kushner gets caught performing illegal “diplomacy” on behalf of Trump in a shady backroom overseas.
In the latest installment of The Trump Family Treats America Like a Side Hustle, Jared Kushner — the president’s globe-trotting, conflict-of-interest machine — quietly jetted off to Moscow this week to negotiate “peace” with Vladimir Putin. But according to a bombshell investigation by Popular Information, the trip wasn’t just corrupt. It was flat-out unconstitutional.
Here’s the scandal in one sentence: Kushner is literally acting as America’s top diplomat while being paid tens of millions of dollars by foreign governments with massive stakes in the very deals he’s negotiating.
Kushner sat across from Putin with no official title, no Senate confirmation, no legal authorization — just himself, a Trump ally named Steve Witkoff, and a translator. Under the law, that makes Kushner a “Special Government Employee” whether he wants the title or not. And that triggers the Constitution’s Foreign Emoluments Clause.
That clause says U.S. officials cannot accept money from foreign governments. Yet Kushner is raking in a staggering $25 million a year from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund alone, with hundreds of millions more coming from Qatar and the UAE through his private equity firm, Affinity Partners — the one foreign governments invested in despite warning that Kushner had “inexperience” and was charging “excessive” fees.
Now Kushner is using his unofficial–official power to help craft a 28-point Ukraine “peace plan” that just so happens to include a key Saudi priority: ensuring that grain shipments — tied to Saudi-owned agricultural companies in Ukraine — keep flowing smoothly across the Black Sea.
So let’s be very clear. The president’s son-in-law is being paid by foreign governments while secretly negotiating with Vladimir Putin on America’s behalf.
And remember — Kushner promised in 2024 that he would not return to the Trump administration. He lied. And now our foreign policy is being run out of a private equity firm stuffed with Saudi cash.
Donald Trump didn’t drain the swamp. He turned it into a Pay-to-Play International Water Park — and put his billionaire son-in-law in charge of the rides.