This is America. The business of America is Business. The alternate scenario I see is that Kushner runs Trump (whether as ordered by foreign agents or by asking for their help), and he's out to make money, with all of the other effects being emergent phenomena from those efforts.

It's always simpler to just follow the money, but some people actually follow Money. We call them "corporations".

"A corporation is a pile of money to which a group of men swear moral allegiance." -Wendell Berry

Competitive Dumbassery. Trump is the poster boy.