EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Albania's supreme court has agreed to hear a landmark legal challenge against Jared Kushner's controversial luxury resort development project.
- Protesters in Tirana set fire to the first floor of the High Court during the fifth straight day of clashes with riot police. The entrance to the Bank of Albania was torched too.
- Police answered with tear gas and water cannons.
- It all started with Don the Con's son-in-law.
- Kushner's company wants to turn Sazan, a protected island, into a billion-dollar resort, plus villas and yacht docks along the Zvërnec coast, a wetland where flamingos, seals and sea turtles live.
- The villagers there say their land was never for sale.
- An Albanian court ruled back in 2013 that they own it, but the case has dragged on for years without a final decision. The land got sold anyway, and Kushner says his group paid €230 million for it.
- Then a barbed wire fence went up, cutting them off from the sea, and private guards dragged away people who confronted the project.
- Prime Minister Edi Rama's response? He blamed "bots" and "enemies.”
- So Albanians have been in the streets since May, waving inflatable flamingos and chanting "Albania is not for sale." Now the anger has grown into a full uprising over corruption, the rising cost of living, and a government that rolled out the red carpet for the Grifter-in-Chief's family.They're calling it the Flamingo Revolution.Turns out the rest of the world isn't as easy to buy as the Republican Party.
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