For his part, Rabbi David Pinto based between Raanana near Tel Aviv and Paris, and advisor to Jared Kushner, had no hesitation in telling Médias24 in December 2020 that « when Donald Trump became president, the first thing I did was tell Jared, who has been my spiritual student for decades, not to forget Morocco. »

David Pinto is one of the men who introduced Jared Kushner to the history and specificities of Moroccan Judaism. He invited and accompanied him to visit the tomb of Moroccan Jewish saint and rabbi Haïm Pinto in Casablanca in 2019.

« One of the most striking dimensions of the Pinto-Kushner-Clinton story is not only the globalization of Moroccan Jewish mysticism but also, its growing connections to capitalist networks and political establishments. The story of the Pinto family and its religious connections to Moroccan, Israeli and now American politics reveals the globalization of a specific brand of Jewish mysticism from Essaouira to Ashdod, and all the way to New York,” writes anthropologist Aomar Boum in an article entitled Un kabbaliste marocain à la Maison Blanche.

(Aomar Boum, A Moroccan Kabbalist in the White House: Understanding the Relationship between Jared Kushner and Moroccan Jewish Mysticism, Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, Society n.s. 22, no. 3 (Spring/Summer 2017): 146–157. “Un kabbaliste marocain à la Maison Blanche : Comprendre la relation entre Jared Kushner et le mysticisme juif marocain).