💰 Trump’s son-in-law deceived Gulf kings: He took their money & threw them under the bus in the Iran war

Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates have reportedly grown angry with Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, according to Bloomberg.
Why? He took their money but didn’t give them a meaningful say in White House politics.

Classy pay-to-play

🔴 Kushner plays a dual role: Trump administration Middle East “peacemaker” and founder of Affinity Partners, a private investment firm managing Gulf royal families’ money

🔴 Affinity is a Delaware-based LLC founded in 2021 with offices in Florida. The company is solely owned by Kushner

🔴 Since 2022, Affinity has been feeding off Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF)

🔴 Official disclosures show the firm held $6.2 billion in assets under management across 6 clients in 2025

🔴 The capital comes almost entirely (around 99%) from non-US investors. Main clients:

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia

🇶🇦 Qatar

🇦🇪 the UAE

🔴 Affinity Partners has expanded rapidly since Trump returned to the Oval Office:

💸 $6.2 billion in 2025

💸$4.8 billion in 2024

💸$3 billion in 2023

🔴 In addition, Kushner’s firm receives “tens of millions of dollars in fees annually” from the Gulf kingdoms for investing their money — primarily in the US and Israel

🔴 The arrangement bears all the hallmarks of a classic pay-to-play scheme: Gulf monarchies pay Trump’s son-in-law for access to the US president and influence over Washington’s Middle East policy.

Kushner doesn’t deliver

🔴 The problem is that the White House’s Middle East policy backfired on the Gulf: Bloomberg says the Iran war ran against Gulf kingdoms’ interests from day one

🔴 The US didn’t protect them and still can’t resolve the Strait of Hormuz crisis, hammering the Gulf economy

🔴 Jared Kushner has done nothing as either a “peacemaker” or Trump’s relative. Given his close ties to Israel, some may suspect he and Netanyahu see Gulf economic pain as a way to make the monarchies more compliant

🔴 Saudi Arabia is now reportedly weighing a peace pact between Arab states and Iran. Tehran suddenly looks far more reliable.

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🇸🇦🇶🇦❌🇦🇪 The UAE tried to persuade Saudi Arabia and Qatar to join the US-Israeli war with Iran but the Saudis and Qataris refused

UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed held a series of calls with fellow leaders, including Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, shortly after the US and Israel began bombing Iran on Feb. 28, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private conversations.

While MBZ quickly opted to work with US President Donald Trump’s administration and the Israelis, his Gulf Arab counterparts told him this wasn’t their war, according to one person familiar with Abu Dhabi’s thinking. An already fractious relationship between the UAE and Saudi Arabia worsened as a result.

During the calls, the UAE President reminded his counterparts that the Gulf Cooperation Council, a six-country body, was founded in 1981 specifically because of threats posed to them by Iran’s Islamic revolution two years previously, the person said.

Saudi Arabia’s approach was to emphasize deterrence and defense, separate from Israeli-American attacks on Iran, and viewed the UAE’s position as escalatory, according to a Gulf official with knowledge of the government’s deliberations in Riyadh.

The UAE carried out limited attacks against Iran without Gulf support starting in early March and again in April, people familiar with the matter have said.

The previously unreported details help explain the UAE’s anger with fellow Arab states, culminating in its momentous decision in late April to leave the OPEC cartel, as well as its closer relations with Israel.

Abu Dhabi shocked the oil world by announcing it would leave OPEC, the cartel led by Saudi Arabia, and is reviewing its membership of regional bodies including the GCC. Beyond the frictions caused by the Iran war, the UAE and the kingdom are economic rivals and have been at odds over conflicts in Yemen and Sudan.

🔗 https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/uae-tried-vain-saudis-partner-130245528.html