It always comes back to Epstein!

Jared Kushner just met privately with Democratic House leader Hakeem Jeffries as the midterms approach.

But there’s another name sitting right in the middle of these worlds that caught my attention: Marc Rowan.

Rowan is the CEO of Apollo Global Management.

In 2022, he maxed out to Hakeem Jeffries with $5,800. But that was the small check.

That same cycle, Rowan sent $1 million to the Senate Leadership Fund, then another $500,000.

He also gave $250,000 to AIPAC’s United Democracy Project and maxed out to other politicians on both sides.

When you look at Jeffries’ 2022 money, his top contributor groups included Pro-Israel America, Votesane, NorPAC and AIPAC. Apollo employees were also among his top contributors, with $47,100. Rowan was part of that pile.

Now fast-forward to today.

Rowan sits alongside Jared Kushner on Trump’s Board of Peace, involved in the Gaza reconstruction framework.

So the man who maxed out to Jeffries is now sitting on a reconstruction board with Kushner, and Kushner just sat down privately with Jeffries.

Then there’s the Epstein connection.

Rowan is named in a March 2026 shareholder lawsuit alleging Apollo and its leadership misled investors about the firm's connections to Jeffrey Epstein.

After the Epstein files were released, Apollo said Rowan had no business or personal relationship with Epstein.

But that statement becomes a lot more interesting when you actually read the documents.

The files contain scheduled meetings involving Rowan.

They show Rowan directing an Apollo partner to work with Epstein on matters involving Rothschild and Apollo's structure.

Epstein’s office asked about Rowan’s plane. Epstein’s accountant, Richard Kahn, tracked Rowan’s stock sales. There’s even breakfast on the calendar.

Apollo says no relationship.

The documents deserve to be read alongside that statement.

And, of course, Apollo’s Epstein story is much bigger than Rowan.

Apollo co-founder Leon Black paid Epstein roughly $158 million, largely for tax and estate-planning services.

There’s another piece of this story that brings us right back to Kushner.

Apollo provided roughly $300 million in financing connected to the rescue of Kushner Companies’ troubled 666 Fifth Avenue property.

When the New York Times reported on those Apollo loans, Epstein forwarded the article to Richard Kahn and he responded with the message: “not great for Josh or APO.”

There’s even another thread worth looking at.

In 2015, Andrew Farkas was communicating with Epstein about a potential roughly $100 million arrangement involving Gulf sovereign wealth and fees far above what major firms like Goldman Sachs and Lazard were charging.

Abu Dhabi’s ADIA was already an Apollo investor.

Qatar walked away from a deal involving the Kushner property in 2017. The rescue financing ultimately came together in 2018.

Now, years later, Rowan and Kushner are sitting together on the same Gaza reconstruction board while Kushner is privately meeting with the Democratic leader who could become Speaker if his party takes the House.

Maybe that’s why I’ve stopped looking at Washington through the simple Republican-versus-Democrat lens. Follow the money long enough and those supposedly rigid political lines start getting awfully blurry.

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