Last week, a Vanity Fair article published an exclusive excerpt from the book Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East, exposing Donald Trump’s son-in-law’s alleged financial crimes. The book is authored by freelance investigative journalist Matthew Cole and will be released on October 27.A TikTok user with the handle @nickmuller703 summarized the book excerpt in a 2-minute and 19-second cartoon titled “The Story of Lil Jared and The Big Financial Crime,” which has now gone viral across social media platforms.It traced Kushner’s alleged ties to UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed and Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman to 2017. The two leaders of the Middle East purportedly were trying to find ways to “funnel money to the Trump family.” The cartoon clip summarized the book excerpt and narrated:“The first idea was to just give the money to Donny as a donation for his border war. But when that scheme collapsed, they instead created a slush fund, about $750 million worth of slush and handed the keys to the slush fund to little old Jared. Where did this money come from? Well, they stole it from a charity as one does.”The narration continued:“Right about this time, Russia easily hacks into Jared’s phone and just kinda hangs out there for years, collecting a massive amount of information from a non-government employee, who has direct access to the head of the U.S. government, the leader of the UAE, and the leader of Saudi Arabia.”Jared Kushner has denied the allegations in the Vanity Fair article, aka Matthew Cole’s book excerpt, as “outrageous fabrications being presented as investigative journalism.”More about the Jared Kushner controversy amid the viral cartoonAccording to the excerpt from Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East and the viral cartoon clip, Dutch authorities apprehended a GRU operative in 2017 who was traveling to the United Kingdom on a “spy mission.” They gave the Russian two options: either to work for the Netherlands Defense Intelligence and Security Service or get arrested by the U.K.“So, our Russian agent strapped on some clogs and went to work. The flipped Russian gave them a GRU server holding screenshots of Kushner’s iPhone. The Dutch copied the hacking method and got a live feed of his screen. And the Dutch watched him log into his massive slush fund. And then they watched him log into a second f**king account, run by Israel, with a billion dollars in it,” the cartoon summarizes.The book and the cartoon allege that the first account was used to pay a foreign warlord, a few mercenary groups, and a hitman, among others. Additionally, Mohamed bin Zayed purportedly wanted to “end” Barack Obama’s “deal” with Iran and made it a “condition of him funding his account.”“The same month it was funded, Trump tore up the agreement, sending us on a path to the war we are in right now. To make it even worse, we have now got five nations who have put you in prison for the rest of your life-level dirt on Kushner,” the cartoon explained.The clip ended by outlining the bombshell book excerpt:“And Kushner has been running around negotiating with one of these nations for the very existence of Ukraine. He is beyond compromised. And his corruption doesn’t just lead to the White House. It f**king started from there and the only people who figured it out are the f**king Dutch.”The Vanity Fair article that published Matthew Cole’s book excerpt on October 22 is titled, “The Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations—Including More Than $700 Million in Transfers.”Jared Kushner, 45, is a former senior adviser to Donald Trump and director of the Office of American Innovation during his first term. Kushner, who is married to Ivanka Trump, is currently the United States Special Envoy for Peace.In a lengthy statement on Friday, Jared Kushner wrote on X:“@VanityFair posted an excerpt from a book containing outrageous and categorically false allegations. The allegations made by this author are completely insane and never happened. We denied every one of these claims on the record, yet the author failed to provide a single shred of evidence to substantiate any of them.”Kushner continued to claim that Matthew Cole didn’t provide bank statements, account numbers, transfer records, or transaction dates as evidence to “support” his accusations. Jared defended himself by writing:“During the period in question, I was one of the most scrutinized people in the world, subjected to intense media coverage, multiple congressional investigations, and a special counsel investigation. I voluntarily cooperated with these investigations, providing over 30 hours of testimony. None of these allegations ever surfaced, because none of these events ever happened.”Donald Trump’s son-in-law claimed Cole’s book was a blend of “fantasy, fiction, and advocacy” and described the author as “deeply disturbed” or “acting with sinister intent.”Jared Kushner’s attorney Chad Mizelle has put Vanity Fair on notice and vowed to pursue further legal action if the article wasn’t retracted. Mizelle also accused Cole’s book publisher, Simon & Schuster, of going ahead with printing despite his client denying the allegations in the past.“Before publication, we sent Simon & Schuster a detailed 13-page letter responding to and categorically denying the extraordinary allegations made against my client, Jared Kushner, and challenging the total absence of supporting evidence. Vanity Fair has now published an excerpt amplifying these false and defamatory allegations,” Chad wrote.Last week, Donald Trump told reporters that the allegations surrounding Jared Kushner were a “false” and “totally incorrect” story and dubbed them as “fake news.”