Meet the Real Jared Kushner
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/25/jared-kushner-russia-fbi-donald-trump-215191
Huh? And I thought Kushner was one of the most reasonable people working in the White House.
Sane doesn’t mean not corrupt.
Oh dear Og no.
I hope the FBI finds so much dirt, that the House has no choice but to start impeachment proceedings and send that whole gang running to Florida. Nepotism at its worst, even though Kushner and Ivanka hold no official titles.
Both have official titles as advisors to the president, which include offices in the West Wing, government phones, computers, etc. They are both unpaid, however, to avoid federal nepotism laws.
He’s more reasonable in the sense that he’s not known to have been a creature of the insane fringe fever swamps. That doesn’t make the rest of him good, though.
(And if he and his weren’t the prettiest people in the White House, IMO they never would have gotten all that glossy coverage in the first place.)
You can add slumlordto your list as well.
I named him a quasi-Guardians of the Galaxy character “Slum Lord” in this:
For anyone who’s used up their 10 free NYT reads for the month, here’s a ProPublica story covering the same ground.
What a total scum, to be as rich as he is, and be shaking poor people down for their last pennies.
Oh, I think he may be the most sane person in the White House. In the same way that li’l Jonas is the strongest toddler in his kindergarten class. He can lift a bag of flour by himself!
I believe that he was a registered Democrat as well.
Actually I would suspect he would be making substantial financial contributions to members of both political parties. I believe it is very common for developers to do this.
Well, that’s how you become as rich as he is. Why do you hate capitalism ?!
(“Behind every great fortune, there is a great crime.” - Balzac. More often than not, the crime’s ongoing.)
And possibly more damaging to the Trump Presidency than anything Kushner may have done, is all that Kushner will have seen and heard.
Shortly Kushner will be faced with the choice of whether or not to try to lie under oath about all he’s seen and heard–not knowing what his questioners know (and thus will be able to detect as a lie-under-oath).
Will Jared sacrifice himself–make himself liable to years in a federal pen by lying under oath–in order to save his wife’s father?
Or will his address be the same as Jimmy Hoffa?
I’ve actually been rather surprised at the continued existence of quite a few Americans who have the potential to harm Trump, given how effusive Trump has been in his admiration of dictators who murder people (Putin, Kim Jong Un, the Philippines’ Duterte, etc.)
(Better hire an extra bodyguard, Jared.)
Perhaps there is a list that gets mailed if he doesn’t call a certain phone number every evening.
That is the smart move. (But didn’t I read somewhere that Jared failed the SATs and got into Harvard only because his father pledged it $2.5 million…???)
The Politico story smelled like a hit piece. I would be careful about beleving anything coming from anonymous sources and leaks from the white house - this could be a smear job orchestrated by the Bannon faction. I noticed that Bannon came out looking pretty good in at least one of those stories.
It’s not uncommon for rival factions in politics to wage war againt each other through selective leaks to the media, and Trump’s administration has plenty of factions within it.
That’s one of the problems with anonymous sourcing. Without knowing who the sources are, it’s impossible to know the context behind the leaks or the motivations of those doing the leaking.
There’s already a sinkhole forming out in front of Mir-a-Lago.
(Hell hath no fury like a Putin scorned…)