Raskin Warns Jared Kushner’s Saudi Billions Are a ‘Huge Constitutional, Ethical, and Political Problem’

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) joined Jen Psaki on her MSNBC show on Sunday and as the interview wound down was asked to weigh in on Senate Democrats finally opening an investigation into the billions Jared Kushner’s fund received shortly after leaving the White House.

“We only have about a minute left. But I want to ask you about a double standard that I know is close to your heart, which is that around Jared Kushner. And this is something I know you’ve had a lot of interest in, as I mentioned,” Psaki began.

“I mean, this week, Senator Ron Wyden launched an investigation into Jared Kushner’s hedge fund and how he managed to raise so much money from foreign sources. You’ve studied this so closely. What do you hope to learn from this investigation?” Psaki asked Raskin – who tried looking into Kushner as well but has been blocked by the GOP majority in the House.

“I mean, it’s a constitutional issue. The founders of the country put it right in the Constitution: neither the president nor members of Congress, nor anybody else in federal office can receive any kind of payment,” Raskin replied, adding:

Emolument, which means just money, an office or a title or present from a king or prince or foreign state of any kind, whatever. Jared Kushner comes back with $2 billion from Saudi Arabia after being the Middle East Point guy. And so that creates a huge constitutional, ethical and political problem for us. And we need to investigate it. And we need legislation to make sure that people are not turning our government into the kind of government that Putin’s got in Russia war bands got in Hungary, which is basically a criminal state.

“Yeah. And Jared Kushner actually worked in the White House, which I think is an important thing for people to remember that,” replied Psaki – a former Biden White House press secretary.

“Hunter Biden never did. Hunter Biden never work for the federal government, and he never made any deals with foreign governments. And he has gone through a federal trial under the U.S. Department of Justice. So if it’s if the DOJ is weaponized against anybody, it looks more like Democrats. There’s a Democratic congressman in Texas, a Democratic senator in Jersey, Hunter Biden. But nobody’s whining about that. Nobody’s complaining about it because our party believes in the rule of law and the system of justice we’ve got,” Raskin concluded.

Watch the clip above.