The book alleges that Jared Kushner was involved in secret financial dealings with Gulf states during Donald Trump's first term.

New book makes fiery claims about Jared Kushner’s finances in Trump’s first term | Jared Kushner | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/28/jared-kushner-book-claims

A new book containing incendiary claims about Jared Kushner’s financial dealings during Donald Trump’s first term has ignited a political and media firestorm. The book by author Matthew Cole is called "Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East" and was released in the US this week. An excerpt was published by Vanity Fair last Thursday, and immediately drew a furious response from Kushner, who called its claims “completely insane”. The book contains numerous allegations about Kushner, whose father-in-law is Trump and who has served as one of his top diplomatic envoys in the Middle East – the most explosive of which are claims linking him to huge bank accounts allegedly funded by Gulf states. Kusher denounced the book on his site last week, and writing on X: “We denied every one of these claims on the record, yet the author failed to provide a single shred of evidence to substantiate any of them.” He has demanded that Vanity Fair retract the excerpt and has threatened legal action against the book’s publisher, Simon & Schuster. Cole’s sources are predominantly anonymous and he does not print images of emails or other documentation to support his reporting. Extensive footnotes indicate sources of information, including confidential interviews. In the book, the top intelligence official in the United Arab Emirates, Ali Al Shamsi, is reported to have called Kushner “the most expensive employee we’ve ever had”. The book details alleged payments into two “slush fund” bank accounts allegedly set up for Kushner by Emirati prince Mohamed bin Zayed (MBZ) and Saudi Arabian prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) during Trump’s first term. In the book, Cole claims the accounts were partially managed by Kushner on an iPhone hacked by Russian and Dutch intelligence. But despite the Emirati spymaster’s opinion of Kushner, Cole alleges that the New Jersey real estate scion was not entirely trusted. Cole describes a dangerous world in which blackmail is as common a tool of statecraft as torture and murder, as in the cases of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, killed on the orders of MBS in Turkey in 2018, and the Emirati journalist and poet Habib Al Sayegh, whose killing by agents of MBZ in 2019 is described by Cole. Kushner continues to steer US foreign policy despite having no official role, with questions about his business interests accompanying him as he travels the world with New York real estate magnate Steve Witkoff, this week seeking peace in Ukraine, if on terms favorable to Russia. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/28/jared-kushner-book-claims?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other