Jordanian investigators say alleged coup plotters arrested in April — including King Abdullah II’s half-brother — were hoping to destabilize their own country so they could promote Jared Kushner’s grand Middle East peace deal, the Washington Post reports.
King Abdullah opposed Kushner’s deal.


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