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Eric Lipton in the comments section ...

"The New York Times has spent the last year examining how President Trump and his family have found ways to profit from his return to the White House.
Today, we examine a new case.

As the Trump administration and Congress last year moved to repeal sanctions on Syria, the Qatar-based family that most stood to benefit was privately negotiating a real-estate partnership with Jared Kushner and proposing a Trump golf course in Syria.

The Al Khayyat family--Syria natives now based in Qatar--have secured at least $12 billion in deals to help rebuild Syria, which is recovering from more than a decade of civil war. But they needed the U.S. to repeal sanctions on Syria for these projects to move ahead.
The White House, in a statement to The Times, said that the Al-Khayyat family dealings with the Trump family had no impact on President Trump’s support for the repeal of the Syria sanctions. And the Al-Khayyat family said their dealings with the Trump family was not meant as a way to influence the debate in Washington.

But this case shows the very unusual way that deals now often get done in the Trump era. Players seeking actions from Washington often create a financial tie to the Trump family. It is part of a pattern in Mr. Trump's second term."