Democratic Representatives Jamie Raskin of Maryland and Robert Garcia of California are calling on Republicans to hold a hearing for Donald Trump‘s son-in-law Jared Kushner over a $2 billion investment his private equity firm received after he left the White House.
Democrats have often discussed the money Kushner’s firm, Affinity Partners, received from a fund led by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The investment was received six months after Kushner left his role as a White House adviser to Trump in January 2021. This comes as Republicans try to impeach President Joe Biden over allegations the president benefited from his son, Hunter Biden‘s, foreign dealings while in office.
Meanwhile, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee already previously released a report alleging Trump’s businesses received millions in foreign payments while he was in office.
Eric Trump, executive vice president of The Trump Organization, dismissed the report’s finding as a “joke” and said that all the company’s profits from its business with foreign governments were voluntarily donated to the United States Treasury.
On Tuesday, Raksin, a ranking member of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, and Garcia, a ranking member of the Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, sent a letter asking leading Republicans on the House Oversight Committee to hold a hearing over Kushner’s “apparent influence peddling and quid pro quos for actions he undertook to reshape U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.”
