John Oliver kicked off Sunday night’s episode of Last Week Tonight taking us on the ongoing saga that is the Donald Trump presidency before digging into Jared Kushner’s Middle East peac…
Oliver talked about Trump’s “big week in diplomacy” as he visited with various authoritarians around the world. He joked about election meddling with Vladimir Putin, met up with his “friend” Prince Mohammed bin Salman and crossed the DMZ to North Korea to meet with Kim Jong Un and was thrilled he was invited over.
Oliver then shifted to Jared Kushner’s Mideast peace plan and how Trump has been hyping it up even before he took office. This week, Kushner, announced his “Peace to Prosperity” plan during a conference in Bahrain. Oliver continued, “Essentially he describes hypothetical investments in Palestine and its neighbors worth more than $50 billion once peace is achieved — but achieving peace is the really important part. Without that, you got nothing.” He also punted that Kushner said that he was announcing the “peace” part later this year, but the more he talked about his vision the less he seemed to actually say.
As Oliver pointed out, no Palestinian government officials attended Kushner’s “Peace to Prosperity” workshop possibly because they don’t see Trump and Kushner as neutral mediators. Kushner’s family is so close
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