A one-time donor to former President Donald Trump is publicly lobbing allegations of corruption at daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner.
The New York Times has written a lengthy Wednesday report about a proposed luxury resort being pitched by Kushner and Ivanka Trump in Albania that has already been raising eyebrows in terms of potential conflicts of interest.
Evi Kokalari-Angelakis, who donated thousands of dollars to boost Trump's reelection bid in 2020, tells the Times that she believes the Romanian government has refused to even consider her proposal for luxury resort development on a particular island on the Mediterranean Sea because Trump and Kushner are interested in developing on the same location.
Specifically, she believes that Trump and Kushner have been receiving special favors from the government of Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama as a way to curry favor with the former president should he be reelected this year.
“The U.S. would have a hard time taking action against Rama’s government while he is in partnership with Jared and Ivanka,” she told the Times.
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A spokesperson for Rama denied this claim and called her accusations "quite amusing" given that Rama leads Albania's Socialist Party and is not someone who is naturally allied with someone such as Trump.
All the same, Argon Shehaj, a leader of the opposition party, is also raising suspicions about the development project.
“Of course for Albania, which is a poor country, it is important to develop tourism,” Shehaj told the Times. “But there has been a lack of transparency here, and it makes it look like this is a private deal that is in the political interest of the prime minister of Albania.”