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erronis

(24,719 posts)
Tue Jun 9, 2026, 02:49 PM 1 hr ago

Ivanka Trump Says She Discovered an Island. Here's What Albania Just Handed Her Husband.

https://kaitjustice.substack.com/p/ivanka-trump-albania-epstein-kushner
Kait Justice

Before Jared Kushner's deal, the same Adriatic coastline was appearing in Jeffrey Epstein's files alongside Nat Rothschild, Gulf money, Israeli politics, and plans for the Balkans.

On May 31, 2026, Ivanka Trump went on the David Senra Founders Podcast and described an island in Albania called Sazan that she said she and her husband had discovered while swimming off a friend's boat. She said they had spent years "developing the opportunity" to transform it and called it a private island. Within hours the Albanian internet was on fire and by the next morning the protest signs in Tirana read Albania is not for sale.

Sazan is the largest island in Albania. It sits at the mouth of the Strait of Otranto, which is the narrow strip of water between Italy and Albania that controls all shipping and naval traffic between the Mediterranean Sea and the Adriatic Sea. Every ship and every submarine that moves between those two seas has to pass through that strait. The island has been classified as a military zone for roughly ninety years, occupied by the Italian Fascist regime in the 1930s, used by Nazi Germany during the Second World War, then fortified by Albania's communist government with more than three thousand soldiers and bunkers built to survive a nuclear attack.

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The Albanian government opened Sazan for limited tourist boat tours in 2015, and international travel publications have been writing about it ever since. It's safe to assume most Albanians alive today know this island as a highly fortified piece of military land in their country.

The friend whose boat Ivanka was describing is Nathaniel Rothschild, a British financier and the son of the late Jacob Rothschild. Kushner confirmed on the All-In Podcast that they got picked up in Montenegro in the summer of 2021 and sailed south toward the Greek island of Corfu, stopping in Albanian waters where Prime Minister Edi Rama came aboard the yacht. Kushner said he hadn't met Rama during the first Trump administration and was "very impressed by his vision."

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Albania's anti-corruption prosecutors, known as SPAK, opened an investigation in late May 2026 into how those legal changes were made and who was behind them. Meanwhile, protests have been going for weeks under the slogan "Albania is not for sale."

So naturally, if they are investigating, I am too. And the first thing that caught my attention is that Nathaniel Rothschild is not just a wealthy guy with a yacht. He has already done this exact kind of deal once before, one country over, on the same coastline.

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Ivanka Trump Says She Discovered an Island. Here's What Albania Just Handed Her Husband. (Original Post) erronis 1 hr ago OP
OP here. Please note the extensive reporting on the links to Epstein, Deripaska and others erronis 59 min ago #1
Why am I not surprised? Bumbles 29 min ago #2
Yes, there's a big Rothschild estate/escape on Corfu, just across the strait from Albania. TheRickles 27 min ago #3
I see, I want, I take. Farmer-Rick 1 min ago #4

erronis

(24,719 posts)
1. OP here. Please note the extensive reporting on the links to Epstein, Deripaska and others
Tue Jun 9, 2026, 03:13 PM
59 min ago

Kait pulls together a lot of material that include Russians, Israelis, Saudis, trumpy's. The web is huge.

TheRickles

(3,552 posts)
3. Yes, there's a big Rothschild estate/escape on Corfu, just across the strait from Albania.
Tue Jun 9, 2026, 03:45 PM
27 min ago

Farmer-Rick

(12,816 posts)
4. I see, I want, I take.
Tue Jun 9, 2026, 04:12 PM
1 min ago

That's how the filthy-rich think and expect everyone to kowtow to their whims. Some deep bowing and subservient body language is also expected when they tell you what to do.

Who allowed these idiots to have so much wealth?

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