Is Jared Kushner a 'walking conflict of interest'?

What you'll learn

• 1 (00:17) **Jared Kushner’s Dual Role as Diplomat and Private Equity Investor** - Host Tanya Mosley introduces the central conflict: Kushner is negotiating peace deals in Gaza, Ukraine, and Iran while running a private equity firm backed by billions from the same Gulf states he works with diplomatically.
• 2 (04:30) **Kushner and Witkoff: The Real Estate Peace Envoys** - Filkins describes how Kushner and Steve Witkoff, both real estate developers, have effectively become the secretaries of state, parachuting into the world’s toughest conflicts without traditional diplomatic experience.
• 3 (08:11) **The Alliance with MBS: Kushner Greenlights a Saudi Coup** - Filkins traces how Kushner built U.S. policy in the Middle East around Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), the young crown prince of Saudi Arabia, forming a close personal friendship.
• 4 (11:50) **The Qatar Blockade and the Kushner Family Business** - Filkins connects a failed business deal by Jared’s father, Charles Kushner, to a subsequent geopolitical crisis.
• 5 (14:58) **The Abraham Accords: Kushner’s Real Diplomatic Win** - Filkins explains how Kushner seized on a potential crisis—Israel’s planned annexation of the West Bank—to broker a historic normalization deal between Israel and several Arab states.
• 6 (18:44) **The Davos Presentation: Gaza as a Real Estate Deal** - At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Kushner gave a presentation on rebuilding Gaza, showing slides of gleaming Miami Beach-like towers while millions of people lived in rubble.
• 7 (22:28) **Affinity Partners: Cashing In After the White House** - Six months after leaving the first Trump administration, Kushner launched Affinity Partners, a private equity firm, and immediately returned to the Gulf leaders he had worked with to raise billions of dollars.

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