CNN published a deeply misleading story and headline suggesting that my diplomatic work in the Middle East somehow benefited investments in Israeli defense companies.
But CNN’s own reporting says otherwise. Buried behind a paywall, it acknowledges: “CNN found no indication that Kushner’s actions as a diplomat directly affected the investments reviewed.”
Phoenix is not a defense company. It is one of Israel’s largest publicly traded financial institutions, highly regulated and managing approximately $220 billion across thousands of investments.
Think of Phoenix as the Israeli equivalent of Vanguard or Fidelity. It manages the retirement savings of millions of Israelis. The savers don’t choose the individual investments, and neither do I. I have no role in deciding what Phoenix buys or sells. It has performed very well for Affinity and our investors, up more than five times since our initial investment.
Affinity is an SEC-registered investment firm. Our investment in Phoenix is public and dates to before President Trump was re-elected and before I returned to public service. Affinity does not own the defense companies highlighted in CNN’s story.
Those facts make for a less provocative headline, but a much more accurate story.
Misleading stories will not distract me from the work President Trump asked me to do: help end wars, bring people together and pursue peace. That work is too important.
@zerohedge Ohhhh Carney is making up lies to mislead the Canadians who are so stupid in believing his lies! But if US will invade Canada, Trump could have done it long time ago. Carney is just paranoid of the ghost he made himself.
CNN, MS NOW and Politico are melting down because they’ve had to report from outside the White House for one day.
I couldn’t get access to cover President Biden or even the 2024 DNC. Neither could many of my peers in independent media. We pay our own way. We don’t have billion-dollar corporations backing us. Where was the outrage then?
And when President Trump, RFK Jr. and other conservatives were deplatformed, much of the mainstream media laughed and celebrated. They weren’t screaming about an attack on free speech when we were silenced.
President Trump has opened the White House to independent journalists, podcasters and new-media voices who were shut out before. He’s the most transparent President we’ve had.
I’m a free-speech absolutist. I believe in a free press. But that doesn’t give anyone the right to run into the Oval Office, scream and yell at the President, and then expect to face no consequences for printing lies or slanderous claims.
Today, Marjorie Traitor Greene posted a video of herself asking her followers to use a GOTV app called SWAY with her promo code so she can make money.
As I previously reported, SWAY was founded by an Iranian immigrant named @apartovi who appears to lean left.
Why is MTG partnered with an Iranian whose app wants to “reimagine democracy”? She once attacked me online when I previously exposed this, and she profusely said she wasn’t getting paid.
If she isn’t getting paid by Sway, why does she have a tracking link that ends with her initials? That’s called an affiliate link. It’s used to track payouts for commissions. You can see the link at the end of her tweet.
Is MTG taking money from an Iranian who developed an app to influence America’s elections?
@mtgreenee has sold our country out. She cries about Israel and claims Israel is interfering in our elections, but she’s working with an app founded by an Iranian to influence our elections.
You can’t trust a word that comes out of MTG’s mouth.
Remember this the next time she badmouths President Trump’s attacks on the Islamic regime in Iran.
She’s compromised.
@JohnCornyn@KarlRove@WSJopinion You are a pathetic loser!!! Your opinion is no longer relevant. The republican have spoken when they voted you out. Cry harder, loser!