This reply to
@ediramaal's earlier post is a long, but will explain every thing you need to know about what's happening in Albania & how
@jaredkushner and
@IvankaTrump got caught up & set up in this mess, and whose fault it is
It is a very complex situation, but unless you understand the core issues like many of us Albanians do, you will never be able to see through all the fake narrative being sold worldwide
I will explain most of it while I address Edi Rama who most Albanians see as an absolute clown & will explain how he and Sali Berisha have created major damage to Kushner's reputation at least in Albania, but also to President Trump, and the Republicans right before the midterms:
1. These protests were never really about Zvernec or Sazan. They were about you
@ediramaal and Sali Berisha’s deep corruption, specifically the way you both have privatized public land or allowed the outright theft of deeded private properties. You personally control the issuance of building permits, which is exactly how you operate as the capo of this mafia machine. These permits have enabled large resorts that serve as fronts for drug traffickers to launder money from the 6.7 tons of cocaine they trafficked from Latin America. Some of those arrested just last week were partners of either Berisha’s son or indirectly connected to you. Albanians are completely priced out of those developments
2. You and or someone from your government was rumored to have traveled to Aruba to meet with Artur Shehu (owner of the disputed property deed in Zvernec) and a few of his associates to discuss building permits and resort construction throughout the Albanian Riviera and Tirana, precisely so they could launder this money. The media went insane at the time (2019) and those rumors cannot be false since SPAK has been investigating ever since and arrested some of them last week.
3. The Albanian Americans and the Albanians protesting know this was not about Zvernec or Sazan, but rather about the 35 year scheme of money laundering. Everyone now assumes
@jaredkushner is doing the same because they cannot make sense of his closeness to you. Or at least you have led the Albanians to believe that is the case.
Why do you think I fought Sazan so hard since early 2024? Because I understood the damage that would be done had Jared Kushner become close to you while Grenell got close to Berisha, thus controlling both sides and keeping you crooks in power.
And that's how you got a fourth term while you were profoundly hated, by Grenell helping Berisha stay as the leader of the opposition, despite all my warnings to stay out of it as I was fighting to replace Berisha since 2023, when it was clear he sold the mayor's race in Tirana and other cities, to you. In return, you approved the permit for his son and his partner Ilir Shtufi, who was arrested with the drug traffickers last week.
Now you have ongoing protests throughout Albania and throughout the world, from New York to Boston, to Chicago. From Paris to Rome, to Berlin, to Genoa and wherever there are communities of Albanians
4.
@jaredkushner and especially
@IvankaTrump were set up by your and Berisha’s corrupt actions. No one believes that someone like Jared Kushner and his partners, who are investing in a 4 billion dollar project, would want to damage their reputation by associating with figures like you and Sali Berisha. They would have gotten the same deal if not bigger incentives and far more protection over disputed land ownership if you and Berisha weren't holding the country hostage while most land is owned by you two through your oligarchs.
This is the main point of these protests. You and Berisha's own projects that have been going on for 35 years straight are the problem, and it is not Zvernec for which Kushner's company paid full price and didn't get it for free like your cronies did over the past 3 decades
Right now you are hiding behind Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump while Sali Berisha (opposition leader) is hiding behind Chris LaCivita and Marco Rubio's former chief of staff Alberto Martinez, and the guys at Continental Strategies who Berisha is paying over $10 million so they can help him with his sanctions and
@SPAK_Albania's investigations.
This is how the whole politcal spectrum and the country is being held hostage, and unable to get rid of you both normaly, the Albanians and the diaspora, took to the streets to make their point.
For you, meeting Jared Kushner was like the jackpot, bc you used him to stay longer in power while your popularity was practically to the ground.
You offered them properties and deals without explaining the serious risks associated with land grabs, expropriations, and fake deeds bc you only care about building this friendship with them, for your own interest. If you were so nice, you would have explained the associated risks but that wasn't your goal.
I spoke up and raised hell about Sazan since the story broke- early 2024. I would have never had an issue with Kushner discussing Sazan itself. My issue was with you literally trying to privatize the island for them while promising that the government would spend billions on infrastructure only so you can stay in power.
I knew exactly how you would offer anything to the Kushners to improve your own reputation, and it worked. Boy, did Jared Kushner raise your profile 'internationally' while unintentionally hurting his, Ivanka’s, and President Trump’s in the process.
5. None of this would have happened had you been replaced by people with integrity who would clean up this corruption, the drug trafficking, the money laundering, the land theft, and the control of nearly every industry in the Albanian economy by you and Sali Berisha.
6. If it was not for Richard Grenell, who blocked me going back to 2021 2022 because he got on your closest oligarchs payroll as per the oligarch’s own account clearly cashing in a few million, I would have been able to explain in detail to Jared Kushner who you people are and what to look for while conducting legit business as it turned out to be. I did explain it to Grenell at the time, but like I have said many times, he was in your people's payroll and wouldn't listen to what I was telling him. Yes, we have our own crooks who would jeopardize the reputation of their own boss. Grenell did this with Kushner and President Trump, and later LaCivita and Alberto Martinez did the same with
@SecRubio and everything is now being pinned to Kushner and President Trump.
And that is why the Albanians think President Trump is behind it all, while I know for a fact that if the President knew the details and how these consultants cashed in majorly in his name and continue to be paid while he is being blamed for supporting corruption on both sides of government, through you and Sali Berisha, he would flip and take some really harsh actions.
And I promise you all, President Trump will learn the details very soon, and you
@ediramaal will no longer be able to hide behind
@jaredkushner and
@IvankaTrump or Sali Berisha behind Rubio's guys.
I am not saying Marco Rubio knows the details of what exactly is going on, but the Department has enough proof of deep corruption by Sali Berisha and should not have given that visa waiver. So now I am left with no choice but to speak publicly about it all.
At this point, Joe Biden's Secretary did more to help clean up corruption in Albania by sanctioning Berisha than our own Republican guys...and in the most insane way, Continential is making believe Berisha's santions were political and not corruption.
The only political persecution is that of Sali Berisha against me, by barring me and violating my rights to run against him as the leader of the opposition in Albania.
Did the
@StateDept bother asking him about that? Because honestly, if this is meant to improve ties between the U.S. and Albania, you do not do that with corrupt individuals like Sali Berisha and Fatmir Meta who are facing justice in Albania as we speak.
I will get to this later, but
@ChrisLandauUSA knows exactly what I am talking about. He was the special guest at a dinner that might have violated the FARA rules and regulations. It was framed as an Albanian US relationship dinner while boosting and promoting Berisha’s cronies, including Fatmir Mediu. I bet no one told Deputy Secretary the truth, but make no mistake, I will get to the bottom of this and the FBI will investigate it.
No one can build stronger relationships with Albania and other countries in the Balkans for that matter better than someone like me, a MAGA Republican who has proven not to be corrupt like so many among us.
What I am doing in Albania was and is a mission to save the country from the corruption that forced the protesters onto the streets. This is not because I am pursuing a political career there. If anything, I consider this job quite a downgrade from the amazing life I have in the US. While saving them, I would have been an excellent envoy of American interests, and I will be, regardless of the obstacles some of you lobbyists and paid consultants have put in my way so far to stop me.
7. This is why
@ediramaal your political opponents used this moment and the groundbreaking of Jared Kushner’s Zvernec project to hit you both, so the world could hear them.
At the same time, the NGO's financed by Soros, merged with your political enemies so Soros and the Left could hit President Trump and Republicans during the mid-term elections.
But you continue selling your nonsense and giving ridiculous explanations as if those protests are fake and unjustified, hiding the true reason why they are happening.
The anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian elements are Soros-based NGOs and you know it. You never stopped them during their protests against the war in Gaza, where even Greta landed right there close to your office. If you were truly pro-Israel, you would have stopped them, but you cannot because you are very close to Alex and George Soros. You are simply playing both sides, because that is the type of garbage you are.
8. You are hiding behind Trump’s family in this scandal to save yourself, and the quicker
@POTUS understands this, the better. A complete disassociation from you and Sali Berisha will save the day, help the Albanians clean up this 35-year old mess, and allow Kushner to invest in a solid environment, not a country where investment safety is constantly threatened by corrupt politicians and their drug traffickers.
9. The image of Albania is not damaged by peaceful protesters. You keep talking about tourism getting hurt and either you are so out of touch with reality, or you are simply lying. The Albanians do not care about tourism because it is not them making money during the season, but you, Berisha, and the oligarchs connected to you both.
These oligarchs own the food chains, the banking system, all the resorts, bars and restaurants, media, airports, the auto industry, oil and gas, and even the highways where they are the ones collecting the tolls since they are supposed to maintain them. Mind you, when I say 'oligarchs' I mean 4-5 specific people all Albanians know quite well. They are either your guys, or Berisha's.
Meanwhile, the Albanian people are impoverished and forced to leave the country because they cannot afford the food prices which your oligarchs control since there is no competition, and those prices are higher than in many supermarkets in the EU or the US. They also cannot afford gas prices with is mostly owned by your people, and while there is very little public transportation, mainly in Tirana, and almost no functional transportation when traveling from city to city.
10. And of course the private hospitals, which expect only cash payments, while government owned hospitals are in total despair. Most people are pushed to sell their homes, if they have any, to get treatment in the private ones owned by your own people again.
We can talk at length about how government owned hospitals do not have medication or medical equipment needed to treat people with cancer. And that is why I worked with the Sunflower Foundation and raised private funds to buy a few equipment for some of the hospitals that were treating kids with cancer. Our help was minimal and it became very difficult to resolve the issues. But you and Berisha in 35 years have done nothing about it.
11. The Albanians cannot get their own properties back either so they can build resorts and other types of real estate, and businesses and become financially better off. Their properties have been expropriated by your corrupt oligarchs and associates while you are using police force to throw them out of their own land so the oligarchs can build, as is the case in Rjoll where Berisha’s closest oligarch is building. The initial protests started right in Rjoll, weeks before they started in Zvernec.
12. Same issues may have taken place in Zvernec, which is why SPAK is investigating. SPAK is not investigating Jared Kushner but rather blocked payment from Kushner’s accounts to the seller, Artur Shehu, who uncoincidentally happened to be one of the people with an arrest warrant for his direct connection to the 6.7 tons of cocaine trafficked from Latin America.
If anything,
@SPAK_Albania did quite a favor to Kushner’s company by stopping the payments, as everyone has the right to enjoy clean title, something you definitely do not understand or care about.
The foreign media is going crazy wrongfully saying 'Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are being investigated in Albania', but you are not correcting the records, bc this investigation will exposed a lot of unpleasant details for your and your people. Many of the land is Zvernec is also expropriated to Sali Berisha's cronies, so we all can't wait for this investigation to be complete.
Was Kushner set up? Absolutely.
How? Well, did anyone explain to Jared who the person claiming to be the owner was? I know for a fact that Shehu had properties in that area, but SPAK is investigating how much he owns and whether he is still the legitimate owner or has expropriated those properties to himself by fake recording the deeds. The latter has been an issue for a long time and you and Sali Berisha have allowed it this mess.
There are plenty of stories in Albania where property owners had to give up 30 percent of their properties and hand them over to Berisha’s kids or their associates in order for Berisha to approve the return of those assets. This is despite the fact that the main archives have copies of the original owners and the communists kept copies of everyone who turned their assets over to the government. More stories told to me by people with waterfront properties were that your oligarchs would ask them for 50 percent of the land (for free) so they could facilitate the return through you. Those who did not agree are still going through the courts, and even when the courts recognize them as the rightful owners, your government refuses to return the properties.
14.
@saliberisha_ has been controlling the Democratic Party since 1991. That is when he and Ilir Meta infiltrated the true conservative movement. All his potential opponents kept dying through freak accidents or plain execution, as was the case with Azem Hajdari, and Albania is stuck forever with these mafia-like individuals. You also were an infiltrator of George Soros since the early 1990s. And 35 years later the Albanians are calling once more to be saved bc they are still transition from the communist regime ...to what they are hoping to see one day...democracy with a system that will protect their individuals rights.
15. The most damage that came to Albania, its reputation and image is not through the protest as you claim in your post below, but it is through you and Sali Berisha and no one else.
Albanians have never been embarrassed than when the movie Taken came out, which reinforced that negative reputation, or when War Dogs was released, which is based on a true story that directly involves Sali Berisha, his son, and Fatmir Mediu, who was his Minister of Defense at the time.
Now both Sali Berisha and Fatmir Mediu receive favors from the
@StateDept while lobbying first through Richard Grenell and then through
@SecRubio’s own people, as well as
@SusieWiles’s associates like
@ChrisLaCivita, and all are paid with corrupt money and potentially the drug cartel money.
16. As far as you go, you had your big moment when Richard Grenell introduced you and your oligarchs to Jared Kushner. You promised the world, showed him Zvernec and guaranteed Sazan, without explaining any of the issues related to the land grabs by your cronies in Zvernec or providing any transparency to the people on Sazan because you are that arrogant and act as if you are the King of Albania and own no explanation to the rightful owners of that island - the Albanians. So now you have them all protesting while you try to downplay and hide the truth.
This is how depressing and unfair life is in Albania. All government funds have been stolen by you and Berisha, and Ilir Meta, who thanks to
@SPAK_Albania is in prison while being fully investigated.
SPAK also wants to arrest your own former Deputy Prime Minister, Balluku, but do tell me, did Balluku do anything you did not know about? And yet you are letting a woman take the bullet while whatever she did, she was running your mafia like government.
17.
@saliberisha_ self proclaimed himself the chairman of the Democratic Party on May 23rd, 2026, uncontested and against the party statute, while barring my candidacy.
You
@ediramaal know very well that I am probably the reason he took control of the opposition in 2022, yet you did nothing to stop this insane and dictatorial action by him and his crooks, because you want him as the leader of the opposition so you can stay in power.
I personally told you right before the protests started that until now I had gone after Sali Berisha and those helping him, but now I would expose you to the U.S. authorities, because you were the reason Berisha was released from house arrest and is still holding hostage the opposition. In fact, Berisha is exactly where you want him to be, and that's why you are my target at this point.
Those protests were perfect and came at the right moment. Looking back, I now understand they were already being organized while I and Saljani were running against Berisha, so since the end of March when the party opened the race, even though almost a year from when Berisha was suppose to step down.
I had major questions about a few things whcih right now make sense that they were connected to getting ready for these protests. During those five week 'campaign' which turned into a public fight trying to force Berisha and those who took the opposition hostage to open the race, many political elements, activists, journalists and media were getting ready for massive protests, bc they saw no way out after Berisha's hold on the opposition.
Berisha is the only obstacle that keeps you in power and that's why you were okay that Berisha, reclaimed himself the uncontested winner.
Saljani was the second most qualified candidate for opposition leader after me, and that's because of his prison record and support for Basha would have hurt his vote.
Right now, Berisha does not control only the opposition but also the votes in parliament, which are influenced solely by his family business interests and based on the negotiations between you two, while constantly encroaching on the constitutional rights of the people.
Whoever at
@SecRubio’s office approved the 'visa waiver' for him and his family, will be answering to Congress, why and on what basis this was done and how is it in the interest of President Trump or U.S.
Barring an American and a Trump Republican like me from running against him is not in America’s interest, and I can prove it. The only interests served were those of Continental Strategies, Alberto Martinez, and potentially Chris LaCivita’s financial interests. And I will get to the bottom of it.
@ediramaal, you know exactly what happened, and the Albanians know you were part of this complete takeover of the opposition by Berisha. You both took control of the country’s politics, economy, and justice system.
Two days after Berisha’s self proclaimed victory, (May 23rd) the Albanians, frustrated and seeing no other way out, hailed the organizers’ calls to protest.
Saljani’s group, a group which identifies as a political opponent to you and Berisha, financed by former oligarchs and media owners whose resorts you literally blew up under the pretext that the swimming pool had no permit, though we all know it was business gone bad between you, the former President Ilir Meta who is in jail now, and Arben Ahmetaj, who was your former Deputy Prime Minister and escaped to Switzerland while SPAK wanted to arrest him, are the main organizers.
This is why I am worried. While the protesters want the whole system destroyed, there is a chance that you and Berisha will simply be replaced by the third branch of the three mafia families of Albania: that of Ilir Meta.
But you know it as well. That is why you keep telling the protesters that even if there are 500,000 of them on the streets, you are not going anywhere.
But you are, and you will.
Anyway, back to Kushner. This group which I have been referring to from day one as the Meta/Irfani group was well aware of the Zvernec project and who was behind it, especially since they are friends of Kushner’s Albanian partner who is supposed to build the project. They figured that if they hit this specific project, they would hit the daughter of the President of the United States of America, regardless that this is a private project that the Kushners paid for land and all, and didn't profit from your corrupt goverment.
With Soros financed NGOs and their Greek minority elements, (you know, Beleri is Meta's guy and it was through him the story broke in Greece) it would become viral. With one stone they would kill two birds: you and Berisha in Albania, and President Trump in the US.
Alex Soros, who is very close to Kamala Harris and all the libs but is also almost a brother to you, made it go viral through his PR machine so he could hurt the Republican midterms. It is imperative that those of us who know the details inside out speak up, tell the truth, and turn this against them, because it was them, the Soros network, who created this super corrupt environment in Albania.
As of right now, Albania is owned and run by organized crime in which you
@ediramaal, the illegitimate leader of the opposition
@saliberisha_, the drug cartels, and your 4 or 5 oligarchs operate as one, while controlling every industry, every institution, including most courts.
Those fighting it are the people in the streets of Tirana, the diaspora who are protesting constantly, and
@SPAK_Albania.
Until
@realDonaldTrump gets to understand the details of this very complex situation, we are on our own.
The $4 billion project:
The Albanians would welcome this mega project with eyes closed if you, Sali Berisha, and your cronies were gone, and the government would actually work for the people instead of stealing from them for 35 years straight.
That is why I have not given up ever since (summer 2022) I understood what was really going on in Albania.
Now I will speak out and expose it all, while the protests continue all over Albania, the US, and the EU.
The problem is not Jared Kushner or Ivanka Trump, but you and Sali Berisha, and all the paid Republican consultants and lobbyists in Washington DC who are deceiving the
@StateDept and are keeping these corrupt people in power because they want to make a few million dollars and doing so in the name of this administration, while hurting the Albanian people but also President Trump in the process.
At this point, Jared Kushner is being equated with the corrupt oligarchs, and having you Edi Rama try to explain the situation to the world, is not helping them but rather hurting them both further.
The lifting Sali Berisha’s visa restrictions upset the protesters, who literally doubled in number the next day this news was announced and that should tell you all you need to know about 'Berisha being sanctioned by Soros' lie.
Meanwhile, a note to everyone:
In case you want to understand what Albanians see when they look at Edi Rama’s government, here it is:
Edi Rama himself, these past week, was publicly mocking the female influencers who have joined the protests, and is making vulgar comments about them.
Rama is psychotic, but with the events of the past two weeks, the whole world is finally seeing and learning who has taken that beautiful country hostage.
As for the crowd attenting, they are mostly employees of his administration who have no choice but to attend his townhalls.