JARED KUSHNER AND IVANKA TRUMP ARE PAVING OVER A WILDLIFE REFUGE FOR A BILLION DOLLAR BEACH RESORT AND CALLING IT A "VOLUNTEER" PROJECT One point six billion dollars. Hotels, villas, a marina, carved straight through the Narta Lagoon. Home to Mediterranean monk seals and Dalmatian pelicans that are about to lose their entire coastline to Trump's son-in-law Kushner's firm got "special investor status" from the Albanian government. You know who else gets special status from foreign governments. Nobody. Unless your wife is the president's daughter Ivanka Trump is a co-beneficiary. Let that sit. The president's own daughter profiting off a foreign government bending its own laws for her husband's real estate deal Over one hundred days of protests now. Thousands marching through the capital chanting "Albania is not for sale." Turns out it kind of is, just not to the Albanian people The White House's defense is that Kushner is a "volunteer" whose business "has nothing to do with the President." A volunteer. Building a billion dollar marina on a protected reserve. Sure Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama gets his politically connected mega project. Kushner and Ivanka Trump get the payday. Local residents get bulldozers where their beach access used to be This is the same family that flew home from the White House podium talking about American workers while quietly turning a wildlife reserve in the Balkans into a Kushner family ATM Two billion in crypto from the UAE. Golf resorts collecting government motorcade cash. Now a protected lagoon in Albania. There is no country too small and no ecosystem too fragile for this family to monetize Trump says he's draining the swamp. His son-in-law is literally draining a lagoon to build a swamp of his own, one endangered species at a time Half the world is watching Trump's family get richer off access while Albanian citizens march in the streets just to keep their coastline This is not governance. This is a family business wearing a presidential seal More reviews