The excerpt focuses in part on blatant bribery between the small country of Qatar and Donald Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner.
While Qatar had always been a close ally of the United States, during the first two years of Trump's administration, he publicly dumped on the country many times and took Saudi Arabia's side in a dispute between the two countries.
Then, suddenly, in 2018, Trump's tune about Qatar radically changed. He couldn't help them enough with favors funded by the American taxpayer. The Emir of Qatar, their head of state, was invited for a special visit to the White House and a one-on-one meeting in the Oval Office.
At this same time, unknown to the public, the country of Qatar signed a long-term lease for a large office suite in a building Trump partially owns. Curiously, they never moved into the building, and the suite remains vacant, notwithstanding they pay a six-figure rent every month.
Concurrent to this, an investment group that includes the country of Qatar signed a $1.3 billion lease to rent a white elephant building the Trump's son-in-law Kushner owns with his family. Kushner also suddenly went from being anti-Qatar to one of their most vocal champions in the West Wing.
Kushner also met repeatedly with Qatar officials around this time in the West Wing to negotiate financing for his and his family's company.
Trump has a long history of business transactions like these, where foreign nationals rent offices they never use, pay for hotel suites they never occupy, and buy overpriced real estate that sits empty. This is a great way to launder money and also to pay bribes.
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