Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – Jared Kushner, son-in-law and adviser to former US President Donald Trump, chose Saudi Arabia as Trump’s first foreign destination following assuming the presidency in 2016 and messages from the deputy crown prince at the time, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who played a role in This, in statements that sparked interaction between activists on social networking sites.
Kushner’s remarks came during a panel discussion at the Future Investment Initiative Institute “FII” in Miami, where he said: “Many traditional people suggested that Trump’s first visit be to Canada or Mexico, kiss a child and do useless work … the Middle East is not during the previous US administration but rather The two previous administrations that made such a huge mess there and we inherited a situation that it’s hard to imagine might be worse where ISIS had a caliphate the size of Ohio and Iran had money following the disastrous deal and they were on the road to nuclear weapons and using their money to fund Hamas and Hezbollah and the Houthis to destabilize their neighbors and Syria was at war A civil society where 500,000 people were killed. Libya was unstable, Yemen was unstable, Egypt was almost unstable, and all of America’s traditional allies, such as Israel and the Gulf, felt marginalized by the previous administration.
He continued, saying, “When President Trump was asked to work on that (the Middle East file), perhaps because I did not have any experience in the region, I was ready to try, and what (Trump) said is that he does not only want to manage the problems, but that he wants to change the problems. We were able at that time.” From communicating with a young leader in Saudi Arabia at the time, the deputy crown prince (Mohammed bin Salman), who was sending messages that he wanted to make big changes…”
And he added, “Looking at the mechanisms in the Middle East, there are people (leaders) who want to improve people’s lives and others who want to retain power without caring regarding people, and the glowing example was the reality of Saudi Arabia, where I saw the Crown Prince’s Vision 2030.”
He added, “Among the most important things we were able to do (during the trip) is that we reached an agreement to open a center for combating extremism in Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia, and that the guardian of the Two Holy Mosques will be the leader in combating Islamic extremism, then they opened the center for combating terrorist financing, which gave us access to the entire financial system.” In the Middle East and fighting the money that was going to bad players, and this was a fundamental turning point in the Middle East.”