{"id":993,"date":"2026-03-19T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/the-staggeringly-lucrative-secret-behind-trumps-war-lust\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:30:00","slug":"the-staggeringly-lucrative-secret-behind-trumps-war-lust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/the-staggeringly-lucrative-secret-behind-trumps-war-lust\/","title":{"rendered":"The staggeringly lucrative secret behind Trump's war lust"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are several clear winners from Trump\u2019s attack on Iran:<\/p>

\u2014 Russia<\/u><\/a>, who can again fund its violence against Ukraine with new oil revenue and now claims its unprovoked attack on that nation is consistent<\/u><\/a> with this new Trump Doctrine;
\u2014 Saudi Arabia, which has long hated Iran and<\/strong> lobbied since at least 2008<\/strong><\/u><\/a> for the US to attack that country;<\/strong>
<\/strong>\u2014 the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which has similarly pushed<\/u><\/a> America to attack Iran since at least 2010;
\u2014 the American defense weapons industry, which is making additional billions;<\/strong>
<\/strong>\u2014 Don Jr. and Eric, who have taken a big position in a drone-manufacturing business<\/u><\/a>, getting them in on the Pentagon gravy train;
\u2014 Donald Trump himself, who\u2019s succeeded in largely pushing Epstein off the front page;<\/strong>
<\/strong>\u2014 and Benjamin Netanyahu, who\u2019s called for American strikes against Iran since 1992<\/u><\/a> and will stay out of prison<\/u><\/a> as long as the war continues.<\/p>

The losers include:<\/strong>
<\/strong>\u2014 The credibility of the United States and the rule of international law;
\u2014 the families of 13 dead and 140 injured American soldiers and airmen,<\/strong>
<\/strong>\u2014 the families of at least 160 dead Iranian little girls and thousands of other dead civilians in a dozen countries,
\u2014 American taxpayers who\u2019re paying for the bombs;<\/strong>
<\/strong>\u2014 and future prospects for world peace.<\/p>

But the biggest winner may be Jared Kushner, who apparently pushed Trump to initiate the war while he\u2019s trying to solicit $5 billion from the same Arab states that have been begging American administrations for decades to attack Iran.<\/strong><\/p>

Back on March 5th, I speculated here on Hartmann Report<\/u><\/a> that Kushner and Witkoff had been negotiating with Iran in bad faith, possibly to get the Iranian leadership to meet together in one place so Netanyahu (who used to sleep in Kushner\u2019s<\/u><\/a> bedroom) could kill them all with a missile strike.<\/p>

Three years earlier, <\/strong>I laid out the backstory of how Kushner allegedly helped MBS<\/strong><\/u><\/a> take over the Saudi kingdom and was richly rewarded with $2 billion to fund his new investment venture.<\/strong><\/p>

Now, The New York Times<\/em><\/em><\/u> is reporting<\/u><\/a> that Kushner is back at the Arab trough, trying to pick up an additional $5 billion for his company from the same states that have been begging America to attack Iran for decades.<\/p>

This represents a massive and apparently corrupt conflict of interest, as Congressman Jamie Raskin and Senator Ron Wyden pointed out when they called for an investigation into Kushner acting as an unregistered foreign agent in violation of the U.S. Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA. They <\/strong>wrote<\/strong><\/u><\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThis revelation is deeply disturbing, as Mr. Kushner appears to be influencing U.S. foreign policy by acting as a political consultant to the Saudi government while also accepting their money. \u2026 Mr. Kushner\u2019s proximity to President Trump and the potential for political interference warrants the appointment of a Special Counsel.\u201d<\/p>

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, in a brilliant imitation of Vladimir Putin, is threatening<\/u><\/a> news organizations for their reporting on the War. He seems upset about news stories that Trump may have ignored warnings from his top generals<\/u><\/a> that Iran would close the Strait of Hormuz if we attacked them; those reports appear to be well-sourced.<\/p>

And it appears it was Kushner who was one of the main cheerleaders for this war, risks to world oil supplies and the possibility of the conflict igniting WWIII be damned.<\/p>

Trump himself <\/strong>said that Kushner had advised him<\/strong><\/u><\/a> that Iran was preparing to strike America, something that\u2019s patently impossible; they don\u2019t have any missiles capable of reaching the United States and had just offered to sign a new deal promising never to develop any. Nonetheless, Trump \u2014 in an eerie echo of Bush\u2019s lies about Iranian WMD \u2014 <\/strong>told America<\/strong><\/u><\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>

\u201cWithin a week, [Iran was] going to attack us, 100 percent. They were ready. They had all these missiles, far more than anyone thought, and they were going to attack us.\u201d<\/p>

Did I mention that Kushner is asking the Saudis and Emiratis for another $5 billion? As <\/strong>Popular Information<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/u> reported<\/strong><\/u><\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>

\u201cKushner\u2019s largest investor is the Saudi Arabian government, which provided Kushner with $2 billion in funding in 2021. Each year, Saudi Arabia pays Kushner 1.25% of its investment, $25 million, as a \u2018management fee.\u2019 Meaning he has received in excess of $100 million from the Saudi government over the last few years.<\/p>

\u201cNotably, \u2018Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman made multiple private phone calls to Trump\u2019 in February, advocating a U.S. attack,\u2019 according to reporting<\/u><\/a> in the Washington Post. Trump\u2019s comments reveal that Kushner used his role in Geneva to push Trump toward the outcome favored by his biggest client. Affinity Partners also received more than $200 million from the UAE. According to CNN, behind the scenes, the UAE was also lobbying<\/u><\/a> Trump to strike Iran.\u201d<\/p>

Never before in American history have US negotiators had massive personal financial stakes in the outcome of their own negotiations. It\u2019s a clear violation of the Constitution\u2019s and US law\u2019s ban on foreign emoluments, and possibly numerous anti-bribery laws.<\/strong><\/p>

With Congress paralyzed by terrified, spineless Republicans refusing to even look into the possibility that billionaire Trump, billionaire Kushner, billionaire Witkoff, and billionaires in the Middle East have thrown America into war just to enrich themselves, the burden has fallen on the American press.<\/p>

Which has produced the predictable squeals <\/u><\/a>from Carr and the billionaire Murdoch family\u2019s Fox \u201cNews\u201d propaganda channel, and from Whiskey Pete Hegseth, giggling about how things are going to change when David Ellison takes over CNN<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>

Threats notwithstanding, our elected officials need to step up now<\/em><\/em> to defend both the First Amendment, the Emoluments Clause, and the lives of our men and women in uniform.<\/p>

Even lacking subpoena power, Democratic leadership should convene shadow hearings to investigate this possible double-dealing that\u2019s already killed Americans and threatens to plunge the entire world into flames.<\/strong><\/p>

At the very least, they should spend a few weeks holding public, on\u2011the\u2011record hearings into whether this Iran war is being steered from Riyadh, Jerusalem, and Kushner\u2019s investment firm instead of the Pentagon.<\/strong><\/p>

With their Benghazi spectacle that followed the death of four Americans, Republicans taught us that when our officers and enlisted people die abroad, Congress has a duty to drag every decision\u2011maker before the cameras; Democrats should apply that same standard now, and ask under oath whether Trump, Kushner, and their billionaire partners are profiting from a war they helped ignite.<\/p>