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Is The Architecture Epstein Designed What Kushner Now Runs? -- Kait Justice
https://kaitjustice.substack.com/p/is-the-architecture-epstein-designedIs The Architecture Epstein Designed What Kushner Now Runs? THE RED STRING BOARD
Did Epstein plan to restructure Saudi sovereign wealth outside the Western banking system? Is that whats running through Kushne''s fund, Bessent's Treasury, and a war no one wants?
Jared Kushner, Stephen Miller, and Steve Bannon watch as Trump talks about an executive memorandum on investigation of steel imports before signing the document in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on Thursday, April 20, 2017
Another very detailed piece with lots of threads to try and follow.
In the summer of 2016, in a moment when Donald Trump was still fighting for the Republican nomination, Jared Kushner was a real estate heir running a distressed office tower on Fifth Avenue, and Mohammed bin Salman was a deputy crown prince whose elevation to Crown Prince was still a year away, Jeffrey Epstein started writing to the Saudi Royal Court with a complete redesign of how the world's largest oil producer would finance itself.
He told Raafat Alsabbagh, the senior adviser at the Royal Court, that Saudi Arabia was "held hostage by the US banking system," and across roughly fourteen months of correspondence he proposed five mechanisms for getting the kingdom out of that arrangement:
Every one of those things seems to describe a system designed to operate around the United States rather than through it, and the way Epstein describes his work to the Royal Court is the way someone proposing an exit from the American financial order might describe it.
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He told Raafat Alsabbagh, the senior adviser at the Royal Court, that Saudi Arabia was "held hostage by the US banking system," and across roughly fourteen months of correspondence he proposed five mechanisms for getting the kingdom out of that arrangement:
A parallel currency for internal use among Muslim nations that he called the sharia, modeled on the IMF Special Drawing Rights and backed by oil rather than dollars.
A sharia-compliant cryptocurrency built on the same system Bitcoin runs on, with Epstein telling the Royal Court he had spoken to "some of the founders of bitcoin who are very excited."
The bond structured through Saudi Aramco rather than the kingdom, which would route the debt around the legal exposure created by the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, and a year and a half later the kingdom did issue its first international bond through Aramco.
A one hundred billion dollar option for China on a stake in Saudi Aramco, structured so that China would pay for it by handing over the United States Treasury bonds China was already holding, which would let the deal settle directly between Saudi Arabia and China, bypassing American banks, American currency, and the regulatory oversight that comes with both.
Qatar recognizing Israel as the diplomatic ground for a regional investment corridor between the Gulf states and Israel, with the first gesture of that corridor being Qatari money paying for Gaza's electricity infrastructure.
Every one of those things seems to describe a system designed to operate around the United States rather than through it, and the way Epstein describes his work to the Royal Court is the way someone proposing an exit from the American financial order might describe it.
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