Earlier this month, First Son-in-Law Jared Kushner had an intimate reunion with his buddy Mohammed bin Salman that U.S. Embassy staffers were reportedly barred from attending, “raising concern by Democratic lawmakers that Kushner and M.B.S. had discussed a nuclear deal with minimal oversight.” (The meeting, it should be noted, came just a week after reports that Kushner only received top-secret security clearance because Donald Trump demanded it, overriding the concerns of the F.B.I., which expressed question about whether Kushner’s business entanglements and utter lack of experience made him a ripe target for manipulation.) During a hearing on Wednesday with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Representative Brad Sherman questioned the 810 authorizations, noting that while it is in the U.S.’s interest “to prevent Saudi Arabia from getting a nuclear weapon . . . what I’ve seen in this administration recently . . . is an effort to evade Congress and to some extent evade your department and provide substantial nuclear technology and aid to Saudi Arabia while [the country] refuses to abide by any of the controls we would like to see regarding reprocessing, enrichment.”

Kush is not the only Saudi link to the Trump administration. Last month, NBC News reported that before he was unceremoniously canned, disgraced former national security adviser Mike Flynn—an Ivanka Trump hire—was seemingly attempting “to transfer sensitive nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia” in what appeared to be “a scheme for [a group of retired] generals to make some money.” (Flynn did not respond to NBC‘s request for comment.) All of which is to say that, really, it was only a matter of time before the shoulder-rubbing commenced in plain view.

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