[T]he new links between Saudi and Trump go even deeper, stretching into Saudi Arabia's latest foray into foreign investments: golf. Throwing billions of dollars into professional golf - all as a way of transforming Riyadh into a destination of global sports - Saudi backed the recent creation of LIV Golf, the rising competitor to PGA Golf. One of the kingdom's key partners in the new league? Trump, naturally. In early 2024, Riyadh tapped Trump to host LIV Golf tournaments at his own courses - making it "another major source of new revenue for the Trump family."

Indeed, calling all of these Saudi arrangements a major inflow for the Trump brood is an understatement. In one of the most sordid - or swampiest - arrangements seen since Trump departed the White House, Trump's underqualified, underexperienced son-in-law, Jared Kushner, managed to land a $2 billion investment from the Saudis for his brand-new investment firm. Even Saudi officials were at first spooked by the deal, shying away from Kushner's initial proposal. But as the Intercept reported, after officials recommended against the investment, MBS himself stepped in to approve the deal, keen to sink Saudi Arabia's financial claws into Trump's family that much further.

These are just the deals that we know about; given the financial opacity of everything from the American real-estate industry to things like the investment funds Kushner oversees - areas that Biden's Treasury Department is specifically targeting for increased transparency, thankfully - it's entirely possible that there's a world of additional investments, purchases, and arrangements that we still don't know about and that we'll only learn about in years to come.