heard rush limbaugh tell the radio audience the trump 2020 d campaign needed money urgent ly. blatt gave $500, half his monthly income. trump s campaign tapp ped blatt bank account six more times, taking the dying man s last dollars. put into perspective how unusual the fundraising practice is and if there will be ramifications for it. well, essentially, they were stripping people of their assets as fast as they could because they were running out of money in the campaign. it ought to be treated as a criminal matter. i don t expect it to. just as i show in the book how trump put our national security at risk with the efforts of his son-in-law to refinance 666 5th avenue in new york. we became in the bizarre position of the president of the united states attacking qatar, where we have our most important
year. but it was the family s own missteps when scouring the globe looking for capital that drew unwanted attention to its crown jewel that is now a financial and political albatross, 666 5th avenue, a 41-story tower that the kushners bought for $1.8 billion just before the financial crisis. jared and his father were finalizing a deal to redevelop 666 in 2016, during the campaign, igniting allegations impropriety. reporter: it would give the appearance of some kind of potential quid pro quo with the administration. reporter: then charles held at least one meeting with the qatari finance minister in 2017
your and my money to go to morocco, where he basically is on vacation. he does have some meetings to promote the sales to morocco of liquefied natural gas by the company represented by his landlord s spouse as a lobbyist. one way to look at this is the biggest l & g exporter in the world is qatar. they have 29% of the world market. this would be setting up co competition with them, at time when the trump administration is attacking qatar because it appears the qataris would not give a loan to bail out jared kushner s purchase of an office building at 666 5th avenue in new york. we know that after the loan was turned down, and jared kushner tried to use his official position to help his family, however subtly he thinks that
dealings were too complicated, that she had conflicts of interest, that she didn t separate herself enough from her role in the state department and that because of that she was corrupt. there was even a book, clinton cash she was she was too close financially to the decisions she was making in government. now we see a situation with jared kushner unfolding where the parallels are unmistakable. this is a situation where someone who comes from a financially complex and interesting background. kushner companies bought 666 5th avenue, this massive building in manhattan at the worst possible time too make that kind of purchase right before the housing bubble popped. subsequently jared kushner found himself in a position in the white house of simultaneously having an extraordinary amount of influence over political decision making and having some extraordinary complex financial problems on the part of his family company. while he s taken steps back from
white house. so it wasn t quite clear what that would be yet. he had a number of meetings with officials and just foreign nationals from other countries such as qatar, turkey, the uae and china as he was desperately trying to get financing for his building, 666 5th avenue that was in debt. now mueller is looking at whether he was influenced by how these dealings went. for example, his probing the qatarry meeting, there was a meeting that he had when someone who goes by the name of hbj and mueller is trying to figure out if that person decided not to put up that financing later influenced the foreign policy. as we know in the spring trump came out and endorsed a black aide from the nation s neighborhoods qatar. they decided they wanted to block them because they funded terrorism. it really took a lot of people by surprise when the president came out and took that strong