While House Republicans are focused on whatever money Hunter Biden and the President's brothers may have garnered from connections to the then Vice President Joe Biden, an FBI informant has now been charged with lying about the Biden's ties to the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, a charge that undercuts the whole Republican effort. Meanwhile, there is also some next-level slees and grift going on right in front of our eyes. Jared Kutner, who ran Middle East policy as a shadow Secretary of State during the Trump years, and the son-in-law of Donald Trump, had advised the President, at the time, Donald Trump, to cozy up to Saudi leaders, including by not protesting Saudi brutal human rights violations. He often defended Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salmon, or MBS, whom the US says ordered the brutal murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Khashoggi's body was cut into pieces after he was killed at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018. Now, shortly after leaving the White House, Kushner's equity firm was reportedly given $2 billion by the Saudi's Royal Fund, which is controlled by MBS. Earlier this week, Kushner was asked by Axios about the US intelligence report, which holds MBS responsible for Jamal Khashoggi's murder.

Do you agree with the DNI? Do you believe that report? Are we really still doing this, Stan? Yeah, absolutely. I have not seen the DNI report that the Biden administration put out there. Number two is, Look, I know the person who I dealt with. I think he's a visionary leader. I think what he's done in that region is transformational. I think he's done a lot of things that are in America's interest, and I think he's done a lot of things that have made the world a better place. I understand why people are upset about that. I think what happened there was absolutely horrific. But again, our job was to represent America, to try to push forward things in America.

Are we still doing this? Yes, Jared, we're still doing this. The DNI report is public. It has been public for three years. I'll post it on X, the platform previously known as Twitter, so you can read it for yourself. But just in case you're watching, the report from the Director of National Intelligence says, We assess that Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salmon, and that's the man you called a visionary, that's the man who gave you $2 billion to invest. He, quote, approved an operation in Istanbul, Turkey to capture or kill Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who wrote for the Washington Post. Now, the kill team included thugs who worked for a group led by a close advisor to MBS, who says he makes no decisions without MBS's approval, as well as seven members of MBS's elite personal protective detail. That was the kill team. Remember, Jared, this happened in 2018. When Trump was in power, while you were still in power, power to which you were not elected, Kishner also said that he followed all the ethics rules and there were not any conflicts of interest in the deal with the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund or PIF.

Were you at the time concerned about taking money from PIF? If you could do it again, would you have done it all differently? Yeah. So PIF is one of the most prestigious investors in the world. Every fund manager is trying to work with them. I think what's happening in Saudi Arabia is one of the most exciting transformations that we're seeing now in the world of a country. If you ask me about the work that we did in the White House, for my critics, what I say is, point to a single decision we made that wasn't in the interests of America.

Okay, I'll point to one. How about letting an ally kill a Washington Post columnist, Jared? That seems like an obvious answer for anyone hasn't been given two billion reasons to ignore it. We are still going to talk about this, especially on a day when we're talking about other world leaders taking out other dissidents. We should note, MBS was asked recently if he would keep his $2 billion with Jared's fund, even if Jared's father-in-law is elected President in November. The answer, was yes. All of it happening right in front of our eyes.