Kushner Denies Book’s Billion-Dollar Claims as Foreign-Policy Dealings Face New Scrutiny

Kushner Denies Book’s Billion-Dollar Claims as Foreign-Policy Dealings Face New Scrutiny
The dispute over an upcoming book has placed Jared Kushner’s White House diplomacy at the center of a stark credibility battle: its author describes a hidden foreign-financing network, while Kushner and his allies dismiss the allegations as fiction.

Journalist Matthew Cole’s Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East alleges that Kushner had access to more than $2 billion in undisclosed Middle Eastern funds while serving as a senior adviser during Donald Trump’s first term. The reported accounts were allegedly tied to efforts to influence U.S. policy and advance diplomatic objectives, including a possible Israeli-Palestinian agreement. The allegations have not been independently verified by CBS News.

The book’s claims are unusually specific. An excerpt published by Vanity Fair says Dutch intelligence agents, after gaining access to Kushner’s hacked phone, watched him log into an account linked to the United Arab Emirates. It further alleges that Saudi and Emirati leaders placed billions in accounts connected to him, including funds purportedly intended for his personal benefit.

Kushner’s response is categorical rather than conditional. “The allegations made by this author are completely insane and never happened,” he said, arguing that the author supplied “not a single shred of verifiable evidence.” His attorney described the allegations as “false and defamatory” and threatened legal action.

The conservative framing emphasizes Kushner’s threatened lawsuit and portrays the book as an accusation of “multi-billion dollar grifting,” while the liberal account foregrounds the alleged hacked phone, intelligence operation and foreign transfers. Both perspectives agree on the central fact that Kushner was deeply involved in Middle Eastern policy; they diverge sharply over whether that access enabled corruption or has been transformed into an unsupported narrative.

The White House also rejected the allegations, calling the Vanity Fair article “complete fiction” and criticizing its reliance on unnamed sources. The competing claims now turn on evidence the excerpt does not publicly provide—and on whether legal threats can answer allegations that remain unproven.