North Korea sought out Jared Kushner to set up secret back channel communications with White House

[Miles Archer]

An American financier approached President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and attempted to help set up a secret back channel link between North Korea and the White House last year, the New York Times is reporting.

According to the report, businessman Gabriel Schulze contacted the Trump administration last summer, claiming that a senior North Korean official wanted to speak with Trump senior adviser Kushner about setting up a meeting between the president and North Korea President Kim Jong-un.

The report states that Kushner may have avoided then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and sought out then-CIA director Mike Pompeo — who is now the Secretary of State.

Asked about the report, the White House refused to comment about the connection between Schulze and Kushner who is under scrutiny over his business dealings.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/north-korea-sought-jared-kushner-set-secret-back-channel-communications-white-house-report/

[dalton99a]

1. Jared should be included in the Nobel peace prize

It's time to recognize Boy Wonder for his amazing skills and unselfish contributions to world peace

[bdtrppr6]

2. "let me be your back door man"

i want that fucker in jail too.

[Miles Archer]

9. You know what's funny here?

AC/DC's "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" is getting quoted a lot these days in reference to Trump.

The song has the line "For a fee, I'm happy to be your back door man," and several of the news stories regarding Trump giving Kim his personal number have had the headline "Call me anytime."

Why, it's almost as if they are up to something shady.

[sunonmars]

3. Now why would they want a back channel and not the correct state channels unless it was dodgy.

Told you it smelled to high hell.

[sunonmars]

4. Sanctions prohibit people from doing business with NK, so what is Schulze up to.

[Anon-C]

5. More on Shulze, from a 2013 article...

https://www.ft.com/content/23e6b474-40b1-11e3-ae19-00144feabdc0

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Mr Schulze, fifth generation of a billionaire mining family, quickly followed them to Ethiopia, where he created the first private equity fund dedicated to one of the continent’s most closed countries. “People told me I’m nuts?.?.?.[but] if you were looking for a place that wasn’t fully appreciated yet Ethiopia won hands down,” he says.

Mr Schulze is at the cutting edge of frontier investment, whose promise of reward for risk-taking is attracting increasing interest and delivering returns against the grain. While money haemorrhaged from emerging markets this year, shares in frontier markets far outperformed their less edgy peers, delivering double-digit growth.

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Mr Schulze has since added further exotic and high-risk investment destinations, turning away from China and Brazil – “largely yesterday’s story” – in favour of cashmere and mining services in Mongolia, a $100m hydropower fund in Georgia and even North Korea.

“I really believe that opportunity is found on the edge of our comfort zone,” says Mr Schulze, a mandarin-speaker. He has a controlling stake in Schulze Global Investments, which he set up in 2006 with family money despite scepticism from his supportive father, who worried about geopolitical risk and poor governance in such edgy markets.



Kushners and Trumps will likely profit from this move likely directly as part of Shulze private equity group.

[sunonmars]

7. yup, with Trump its always the moolah. We knew that.

[GoCubsGo]

6. I'm shocked! SHOCKED, I tell you!!!

[Hoyt]

8. Not surprised someone tried to contact Kushner. Sounds like Kushner had been warned to

stay out of such stuff or risk jail.

[Rhiannon12866]

10. Of course they did, who else? Why bother with someone who actually represents this country?