MeAn alternate version of Washington rolled out Monday in a packed conference room on the fourth floor of an office building on Pennsylvania Avenue, a few blocks from the White House. Refusing to admit election defeat and fostering a violent siege of Congress.
A group of the former president’s foreign policy advisers have launched a lunch and policy campaign to mark two years since the launch of the Abraham Accords, an initiative to improve economic and diplomatic relations between Israel and a small number of Arab countries. Gathered around an embossed folder filled with documents. Defuse decades of animosity over Israel’s treatment of Palestinians.
Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and former Trump administration aide, persuades countries such as the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco to formalize diplomatic ties with Israel and facilitate trade I spoke on stage about how I pushed the effort through barriers.dozens of copies break history, Kushner’s recently published book about his time in Trump’s White House was displayed on a table outside the room.
The event was hosted by the America First Policy Institute (AFPI). It is a think tank founded by former senior Trump administration officials to advance the Trump administration’s domestic and foreign policy ideas so that they can be advanced by Congress or future governments allied with Trump. management.
Kushner has praised the Trump administration’s efforts in the Middle East, but multiple investigations into the former president, including bringing thousands of pages of classified government documents to Florida when Trump left the White House, have been filed. did not touch Or the scrutiny he continues to face over efforts by his allies to fraudulently set up fake electors to overturn legitimate election results. Or the ongoing work of the Jan. 6 Commission investigating Trump’s role in the effort to violently stop counting votes for the Electoral College so Trump can stay in power.late monday new york Times The Justice Department has issued nearly 40 subpoenas in the past week seeking information about the actions of Trump and his associates in connection with the 2020 election and attack on the Capitol.
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Kushner’s appearance coincides with speculation as to why Trump made an unannounced arrival in the Washington, D.C. area on Sunday night, with some of Trump’s critics criticizing the seemingly abrupt move. Some had speculated that the visit was a sign of worsening legal troubles for him. I wrote that I was in the area. “Trump on the Potomac River today. He works in Washington, D.C. What a place!” Trump wrote.
Kushner explained that an investigation into Russian election interference and Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden are getting in the way of the work he was trying to accomplish.
“I wrote a lot about investigations and attacks and what it was like to be in that environment,” Kushner said. In a sense, this is kind of like a game of duration: The other side is doing everything it can to irritate you, attack you, or stall you.”
“You have to look at the prize and think about how you get there,” he added.
Kushner’s speech and ensuing panel discussion were part of a broader effort to continue the Trump administration’s policy goals, even if Trump himself can’t regain the presidency, said AFPI spokesman Trump. Mark Lotter, his director of strategic communications, said. 2020 campaign. The institute’s work “is intended not only to highlight the successes we have achieved so far, but also to set the stage for the next America First administration and leadership.” We are laying the groundwork for candidates who want to take the mantle of the First.”
Kushner lamented that the Abraham Accords do not formally embrace Muslim nations, which the Biden administration largely embraces.
Trump didn’t attend his son-in-law’s speech, but the former president remained a hot topic. O’Brien recalled telling Trump that the work he did in the area of the United States would remember him as a “pacifist.” He repeated it to Trump a few weeks later on his final day in office. I was. “Do you remember me saying that?” O’Brien recalled. “He said, ‘Well, you might be right.'”
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