How To Buy Yourself An Island (When Daddy-In-Law Runs The Country)

The Senator from Georgia just spent an hour connecting the dots in front of a thousand people. Here’s what he showed them — and why it should make the hair on your neck stand up.

How To Buy Yourself An Island (When Daddy-In-Law Runs The Country)

The Senator from Georgia just spent an hour connecting the dots in front of a thousand people. Here’s what he showed them — and why it should make the hair on your neck stand up.

The Jack Hopkins Now Newsletter #953: Wednesday, July 1st, 2026.

Let me tell you a little story about an island.

It’s a small one. Sits off the coast of Albania…out in the blue part of the Mediterranean …where the water is so clear…you can count the fish. It’s called Sazan.

Used to be a military base. For years it’s been a protected marine park…one of the last stretches of coastline over there that nobody was allowed to touch.

Nobody.

Until a certain young man decided he wanted it.

Now…stay with me here…because this is where it gets good.

The young man is Jared Kushner. You may have heard of him. He married into a very famous family. And…on Saturday, June 27th, down in Savannah, Georgia…a United States Senator named Jon Ossoff stood on a stage and told about a thousand sweating supporters the whole sorry tale.

He didn’t call him Jared.

He called him “Prince Jared.”

And the crowd…well, the crowd went nuts.

Here’s the setup. Ossoff says Kushner’s investment firm, Affinity Partners…is fat with Gulf money. He put a number on it: two billion dollars from the Saudi crown prince. TWO BILLION. And he says even now…even while Kushner has been playing diplomat in the Middle East…the man is out there passing the hat to Arab princes for billions more.

Ossoff’s word for it was “cosplay.”

As in: sent to cosplay as a diplomat. Despite, in Ossoff’s telling…zero qualifications for the job.

Now here’s the twist. And I love a good twist.

According to Ossoff, Kushner took some of that Gulf money and decided he and Ivanka were going to buy that pretty little Albanian island and slap a luxury resort on it.

One problem. It was protected. Off-limits. National treasure. Can’t build there.

So what happened?

The law changed.

Ossoff told the crowd that just a few weeks after Trump won a second term…Albania’s prime minister handed Kushner’s company something called “strategic investor status“ …the kind of magic paperwork that makes permits and approvals go whoosh right through the pipe.

Then he looked out at all those people and asked them the only question that matters:

Do you think Jared Kushner gets special island-buying privileges if he isn’t the President’s son-in-law?

You already know the answer. So did they.

But I haven’t gotten to the best part yet.

The Albanians? They are NOT having it.

Ossoff says there are massive anti-corruption protests over there right now…tens of thousands of people flooding the streets of the capital. They’ve got a name for it. A beautiful name.

The Flamingo Revolution.

And…the anti-corruption police have started poking around…freezing bank accounts tied to a couple of Kushner’s investors.

Now…let me stop and ask you something.

When was the last time a foreign country had a revolution…in the streets…with a name and everything…over a real estate deal cut by an American President’s kid?

I’ll wait.

Here’s the thing, though. It wasn’t just Kushner.

Ossoff wasn’t finished…and this is the part that ought to bother you the most, whatever team you root for.

He pointed at the other Middle East envoy’s family.

Said the son is out there raising billions from the Emirates…the UAE…for the President’s crypto business.

And here’s the kicker.

While that’s happening, Ossoff says…the President is turning around and handing the Emirates the rights to our most sensitive technology.

Read that again. Slowly.

Money flows IN from the Gulf. Access to America’s crown-jewel technology flows OUT to the Gulf.

He threw in one more for good measure…your tax dollars, he said, propping up a Trump family tungsten mine clear over in Kazakhstan.

Then he boiled the whole thing down to four words…that stuck to the crowd like pine tar:

“Money goes in, favors come out.”

He called it “coin-operated” politics. Drop your coin in the slot. Out pops your favor.

Now I want to be straight with you, because that’s how I do things.

Everything above is Jon Ossoff’s version of events…delivered at a campaign rally…by a man in a tough re-election fight against Mike Collins in a state Trump won twice.

He’s got every reason in the world to make it sing. This was a made-for-social-media event…teleprompter…cameras on both sides of the stage…the works. He is selling. Never forget that a man on a stage is always selling something.

But…here’s what makes it dangerous for the other side.

He’s not just yelling. He’s got specifics. Names. Numbers. An island you can point to on a map. A revolution with a name. And a promise.

Because Ossoff didn’t just complain. He made a vow.

He told those people that after the midterms…if the votes fall a certain way…the folks tangled up in all this might just find themselves in a room in Washington…raising their right hand…swearing to tell the truth before a committee of Congress.

Under oath.

That, my friend, is the entire ballgame. A rally speech evaporates by Monday. A subpoena does not.

So…here’s where I leave you.

There’s an old rule in my line of work: the story that spreads…is the one a regular person can repeat to a neighbor over the fence in thirty seconds.

“Prince Jared bought himself an island, they changed the law to let him, and now there’s a revolution over it.”

Thirty seconds. Fence cleared.

Whether every last piece of it holds up under a bright light…that’s what the oath-taking is for. That’s what the next year is for.

But the story is already out of the barn and running down the road.

And stories like that? They don’t come back.

#HoldFast

Back soon.

-Jack

Jack Hopkins

P.S. The full speech is up on Ossoff’s own YouTube channel. Don’t take my word for it, and for heaven’s sake don’t take only his. Watch the thing yourself…then go read what the folks defending Kushner have to say…and make up your own mind. That’s the whole point of having one.

Sources

• Full Speech — Jon Ossoff in Savannah, 06.27.2026 (video) — The primary source. Watch the whole thing.

• Ossoff, Bottoms declare ‘United for Georgia’ at first joint campaign rally — The Current GA — On-the-ground report of the June 27 Savannah rally.

• Ossoff, Bottoms declare ‘United for Georgia’ at joint campaign rally in Savannah — Georgia Recorder — Additional detail on the rally and the Kushner/Albania remarks.

• Jon Ossoff Hits ‘Prince Jared’ Where It Hurts During Georgia Rally — Crooks and Liars — Transcript of the “Prince Jared,” UAE/technology, and tungsten-mine passages.

• Sen. Ossoff Issues Major Warning Over Kushner Albania Deal, Vows Trump Family Congressional Testimony — The Kenya Times — Covers the Sazan Island “strategic investor status” claim and the under-oath testimony vow.

• Behind the scenes with Jon Ossoff, the 2026 — and maybe 2028 — Democratic viral hit — CNN Politics — Context on Ossoff’s rally strategy and the “coin-operated” framing.