"He has assured Trump that the jump in oil prices will be temporary, although most observers disagree.

Judd Legum of Popular Information notes that the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) controlled by MBS invested $2 billion in the private equity firm of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, one of Trump’s volunteer Iran negotiators, before the war."

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"On Tuesday, March 24, Julian E. Barnes, Tyler Pager, and Eric Schmitt of the New York Times reported that MBS [i.e., bin Salman] sees a 'historic opportunity' to remake the Middle East and so has been pushing Trump to continue his war against Iran. MBS, the journalists report, has urged Trump to use troops to seize Iran’s energy infrastructure and drive the regime out of power."

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"that Trump initially launched the strikes on Iran at the urging of MBS and Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, despite the assessment of U.S. intelligence that Iran did not pose an imminent threat to the U.S. and would not for at least a decade."

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"Trump is aligning himself with international oligarchs like Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, Saudi Arabia’s Mohammad bin Salman (MBS), and China’s Xi Jinping. ...

On February 28, Michael Birnbaum, John Hudson, Karen DeYoung, Natalie Allison, and Souad Mekhennet of the Washington Post reported" (continued in /12)

~ Heather Cox Richardson

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/11

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-26-2026

lol, the USA has taken Mr Bone Saw for a ride...

#MBS #MohammedBinSalman #SaudiArabia #USPol #USPolitics #Trump #Netanyahu

"The 'cool' thing is that he got $2 billion from the Saudis to launch his fledgling equity firm, Affinity Partners, six months after his father-in-law left the White House."

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"'You get to choose which adventure you’re a part of.'

Among those 'really smart people' he got to meet with was Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince who oversees his country’s sovereign wealth fund and who green-lit the operation that led to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi."

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"Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner appeared on stage yesterday at a global investors’ conference in Miami. He explained why he likes leading a multibillion-dollar global investment firm.

'The cool thing about the investment business is you’re meeting with really smart people all the time,' Kushner said."

~ Steven Beschloss

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https://www.americaamerica.news/p/the-grifters-war