BELGRADE, Serbia — An opposition group in Serbia launched a petition Monday against a real estate development project that would be financed by the firm of Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner at the site of the former Serbian army headquarters destroyed in a NATO bombing campaign in 1999.
“Construction of a hotel on the site of this building is illegal and represents the destruction of our dignity,” the Kreni-Promeni opposition movement said. Its statement said 10,000 people signed the petition in less than 24 hours.Pro-Trump government officials in Serbia have welcomed the project, but the opposition and many in the general public have spoken out against it.
Kosovo declared independence in 2008, but the government in Belgrade doesn’t recognize its neighbor as a separate country. Fox NewsEric Trump continued his family’s crusade against New York Attorney General Letitia James on Sunday, touting his father’s accomplishments—including, incredulously, the claim that the elder Trump was responsible for building New York’s skyline.“I’m a guy that grew up in New York, my father built the skyline of New York,” he told Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures. “This is election interference.