Did Trump extort Qatar to invest in Kushner's failing building?

So who says big city real estate has to be a complicated, or foreign policy for that matter? Qatar tells the Kushner family real estate company, “No we’re not going to give you hundreds of millions of dollars to bail you out of your failing skyscraper in midtown.” U.S. policy toward Qatar almost immediately turns suddenly and radically hostile against Qatar. Qatar freaks out a little bit, scrambles a little bit. Qatar decides, okay, we’ll take another look at the Kushner family real estate company’s skyscraper and they decide, actually, on second thought, maybe we really do want to invest. Open checkbooks, swivel wrist, here’s your money. …. Even if this isn’t the selling of U.S. foreign policy, even if this isn’t the blatant shakedown and extortion of a U.S. ally, shaking down a country for payments to the family of a government official under the threat of that country losing its favored status with the U.S. government … even if this duet of private money and public policy is just a coincidence and this definitely isn’t bribery and quid pro quo. Well, the problem is, it certainly looks like it is. And for the nation of Qatar, their dealings with the U.S. government and with the Kushner real estate company have certainly made them think that it is.

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SonOfDaedalus said:

Maybe it's just a coincidence. It just looks like extortion.



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Barnacle said:

"Did Trump extort Qatar to invest in Kushner's failing building?"

Sure ... :lol:

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