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What to know about the growing opposition to Trump family-linked resort in Albania
Toronto Star / AP ^ | June 3, 2026 | zana camili

Posted on 06/04/2026 2:38:39 PM PDT by xxqqzz

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — A massive coastal development project linked to Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of U.S. President Donald Trump, is facing growing resistance from protesters in Albania.

Police fired water cannon and clashed with protesters on Wednesday in the latest demonstration in the capital, Tirana.

The government says the development on the Adriatic coast would be transformational for the former communist nation as it seeks to enter the high-end tourism market and pushes for European Union membership.

But the venture, spanning an abandoned island and a nearby stretch of seafront on Albania’s southern coast, has drawn opposition from environmental campaigners and critics of long-time Socialist Prime Minister Edi Rama.

Kushner and Ivanka Trump found the site on a barefoot hike

The luxury project has two components: a coastal development in the Narta Lagoon area, which is a wildlife reserve, and a smaller resort on the nearby uninhabited island of Sazan, a communist-era military base.

The planned development of hotels, apartments, villas and a marina is linked to Kushner and Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump.

In an interview this week with U.S. podcaster David Senra, Ivanka Trump said they discovered the site by accident.

“We were on a friend’s boat, and we stopped for a swim. Effectively, that’s how we found it,” she said. “We swam to the island. We went on a hike, barefoot all the way up to the top, and we were just captivated.”

An investment firm linked to Kushner has been granted special investor status by Albanian authorities.

Albania has 450 kilometers (280 miles) of coast that remained largely underdeveloped during decades of harsh communist rule.

(Excerpt) Read more at thestar.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: albania; kushner

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1 posted on 06/04/2026 2:38:39 PM PDT by xxqqzz
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I just don’t like Kushner.

He seems creepy.


2 posted on 06/04/2026 2:49:33 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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Commies gonna Commie.


3 posted on 06/04/2026 2:51:40 PM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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“What to know about”

= stop reading here, propaganda incoming.


4 posted on 06/04/2026 2:52:31 PM PDT by No.6
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This might be the big boost of investment that Albania needs. Think of property owned/ controlled by American Indian tribes in America. Some of those tribes start a casino and find a way to enrich their tribe no one ever considered before. Maybe this will be a similar opportunity for that specific, long neglected area of Europe.


5 posted on 06/04/2026 3:01:08 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: All

6 posted on 06/04/2026 3:08:45 PM PDT by Liz (Winston Churchill: “Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”)
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To: ConservativeMind

He is creepy and his daddy is a convicted felon. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree...


7 posted on 06/04/2026 3:12:24 PM PDT by jimwatx
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Chaos in Albania! Israeli Ships SET ABLAZE as Revolt EXPLODES Against Land Theft

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q62ZbbdBy0k

Kushner is not exactly a popular figure in the rest of the world.


8 posted on 06/04/2026 3:16:26 PM PDT by jimwatx
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What is the purpose of this post?


9 posted on 06/04/2026 3:20:06 PM PDT by Eli Kopter (B''H We are given a new day today, with new choices. Choose wisely!)
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You sounded a bit creepy yourself there for a second. Can you explain what you find ‘creepy’ about him? That sounds pretty subjective. Maybe someone finds you creepy as well..


10 posted on 06/04/2026 3:21:43 PM PDT by Eli Kopter (B''H We are given a new day today, with new choices. Choose wisely!)
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To: lee martell; Liz; bitt; little jeremiah

Maybe this will be a similar opportunity for that specific, long neglected area of Europe.

Xxxxxxxxxxxxx

May also serve as a model for what could be done to develop a tourist destination & entertainment economy for Gaza, Persia & North Korea?

PS: add Greenland, too


11 posted on 06/04/2026 3:22:08 PM PDT by thinden (Buckle Up!)
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He just strikes me as shifty, someone not to be trusted.


12 posted on 06/04/2026 3:24:10 PM PDT by jimwatx
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To: Eli Kopter

He’s just a creep.


13 posted on 06/04/2026 3:24:47 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: jimwatx

The new Jeffrey Epstein


14 posted on 06/04/2026 3:43:30 PM PDT by Manuel OKelley
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To: thinden

A lot of folks (me included) laughed when Trump suggested transforming the Gaza areas into casinos.
I was thinking ‘There he goes again. Over the top ideas!’
Maybe not so ‘over the top’.


15 posted on 06/04/2026 3:45:39 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: xxqqzz
This might be part of the problem -

"a coastal development in the Narta Lagoon area, which is a wildlife reserve..."


16 posted on 06/04/2026 3:53:38 PM PDT by canuck_conservative (Russia lies all the time)
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What is the purpose of this post?

Are Kushner’s activities with the Rothschilds off limits at Free Republic or something?

Are we questioning the ‘purpose’ of anyone posting news?

17 posted on 06/04/2026 4:22:27 PM PDT by Gunslingr3
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He’s creepy because

he’s a democrat
he’s doing deals while his FIL is in office. There may not be rules against it but only STUPID CREEPS pretend the optics don’t stink.

He and Witkoff SCREWED UP with Hamas Hezbollah and Iran. They have NO BUSINESS being involved in negotiations except THEY DO BUSINESS with Qatari scum.

/MAGA Jewish, Zionist.


18 posted on 06/04/2026 4:23:50 PM PDT by BTerclinger (MAGA All The Way.)
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To: Manuel OKelley

You’re the old Goebbels.
Kushner is not a great person but only a moron with JDS accuses him of being another Epstein.


19 posted on 06/04/2026 4:28:20 PM PDT by BTerclinger (MAGA All The Way.)
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There they are - water cannons. Work every time they’re tried.


20 posted on 06/04/2026 4:35:47 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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