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Bone Saws & Bail Outs: A Timeline

Let's quickly review the Jared Kushner graft timeline, lest we forget about the perils of #BoyPlunder: pic.twitter.com/yLmTqAVFCs

— Greg Olear (@gregolear) March 5, 2019

1/ April 2017

Charles Kushner, father of Jared Kushner, asks Qatar for a loan to bail out the troubled property at 666 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The Qataris turn him down.

— Greg Olear (@gregolear) March 5, 2019

2/ June 2017

Saudi Arabia organizes a blockade of Qatar, a country where the US has a major military base. Kushner leads the extreme minority view in the West Wing to support the blockade. To the consternation of the State Department, Donald Trump praises the move.

— Greg Olear (@gregolear) March 5, 2019

3/ June 2017

After his criticism of Donald Trump gets him banned from Saudi media, Jamal Khashoggi leaves the Kingdom for the Beltway.

— Greg Olear (@gregolear) March 5, 2019

4/ September 2017

Khashoggi begins writing for the Washington Post.

— Greg Olear (@gregolear) March 5, 2019

5/ October 2017

Jared Kushner pays unannounced visit to Riyadh, where he stays up until the wee hours talking “strategy” with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS), his new BFF. He ("allegedly") gives MbS an “enemies list” culled from the classified President Daily Brief.

— Greg Olear (@gregolear) March 5, 2019

6/ October 2017

Upon his return, Kushner’s company receives a $57 million loan from a subsidiary of SoftFund, the Saudi investment concern, to bail out its troubled property at One Journal Square in Jersey City. (666 Fifth isn't the only underwater Kushner asset).

[h/t @dcpoll]

— Greg Olear (@gregolear) March 5, 2019

7/ November 2017

MbS orchestrates a purge of the disloyal, imprisoning members of the royal family & seizing their considerable assets. The most prominent is Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, the 45th richest man in the world and a Trump foil.

Did Kush's gifted PDB intel help?

— Greg Olear (@gregolear) March 5, 2019

8/ August 2018

A Qatari-funded investment company grants the bailout loan to the Kushners…the big one, for 666 Fifth Avenue.

This does not mean the Kushners don't still owe massive coin on these properties. It just buys them a little time.

— Greg Olear (@gregolear) March 5, 2019

PS
Larger piece here:https://t.co/esexibB2Ni

— Greg Olear (@gregolear) March 5, 2019

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From comments:

Words from a JSOC interrogator on the premeditated assassination of #Khashoggi #JusticeForJamal https://t.co/Idajjlm1Vz

— The Red-eyed Jedi (@Red_eyedjedi) March 5, 2019

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Thousands of Immigrant Children Said They Were Sexually Abused in U.S. Detention Centers, Report Says

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/us/immigrant-children-sexual-abuse.html:

[…] From October 2014 to July 2018, the Office of Refugee Resettlement, a part of the Health and Human Services Department that cares for so-called unaccompanied minors, received a total of 4,556 allegations of sexual abuse or sexual harassment, 1,303 of which were referred to the Justice Department. Of those 1,303 cases deemed the most serious, 178 were accusations that adult staff members had sexually assaulted immigrant children, while the rest were allegations of minors assaulting other minors, the report said. []

More than 4.000 immigrant children said they were sexually abused in detention centers.

Where is the outrage? https://t.co/OclkfURU0A

— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) March 4, 2019

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“Brexit Is Such an Affront Because It Is a Battle in a Culture War as Surely and Pointlessly as Trump’s Wall”

Should be read and taken seriously by anyone who wants Britain to be a halfway decent society. America's culture wars have gone a long way to making their society miserable and unlivable. They will do the same to Britain.https://t.co/cgRAbBhipi

— Prince-Bishop Militantly Aardvark #FBPE #RESIST (@MilitantlyA) March 4, 2019

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Trump on Brexit (verbatim):
Both sides are very very you know, they're cemented in. It’s a tough situation, it’s a shame. Frankly it’s a shame, there was no reason for that to happen, they could’ve had the vote & it should’ve gone smoothly but it didn’t. Very complicated issue. pic.twitter.com/qgaDsdbQOG

— Dr. Jennifer Cassidy (@OxfordDiplomat) March 14, 2019

Regrexit

“David Cameron did the dirty on us and then he just skipped ship.”

Following the 2016 referendum, we spoke to voters in the Leave backing Wiltshire village of Broad Chalke. Now, as the clock ticks down to Brexit day, we revisit its residents to find out if opinions have changed. pic.twitter.com/AP0SfCxelg

— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) March 3, 2019

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