Ilhan Omar and Jared Kushner’s Latest Accuser Has Shady Saudi Ties

Alan Bender, a Kuwait-born Canadian businessman, reportedly testified to a Florida court, via video feed from Toronto, that Qatar had successfully recruited an array of American assets to advance its interests in the West.

According to Bender, everyone from the star progressive congresswoman to Ivanka Trump’s husband was complicit in taking money and direction from Doha, on top of various newspaper reporters and politicians. The deposition was originally reported by the state-controlled Saudi news channel Al Arabiya, but it quickly spread through media outlets in the Middle East, as well as through right-wing U.S. blogs and news sites.

The deposition swings wildly from one story to the next, with Bender accusing the murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi of being a spy for both Qatar and the Saudis, then alleging that Omar is a “Trojan horse” for Doha.

The deposition swings wildly from one story to the next, with Bender accusing the murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi of being a spy for both Qatar and the Saudis, then alleging that Omar is a “Trojan horse” for Doha.

Bender offered no factual basis for his claims, but they do line up with conspiracy theories that have been floating around the internet and right-wing press in recent years.

Bender went on to say that, for $5,000, the Qatari government is able to pay off journalists at the New York Times and Washington Post to kill critical stories—but journalists at the right-wing Washington Examiner, he said, won’t take the money.

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