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Trump feels ‘used’ by Jared Kushner after son-in-law bolts from him to protect his image: report

On Wednesday’s edition of “Anderson Cooper 360,” correspondent Jim Acosta said that former President Donald Trump feels “used” by his son-in-law Jared Kushner, following reports that he and Ivanka Trump have distanced themselves from him as he continues to attack the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election.

“It sounds like Jared and Ivanka are trying to treat Trump as the coffee boy. I never thought I would see that day,” said Acosta. “I did talk to a long-time Trump adviser today who said, you know what, Trump feels used by Jared Kushner. There’s a twist, Anderson, that I don’t know if we would ever see — Trump feeling used in all of this.”

“Listen, as for Jared and Ivanka trying to distance themselves, keep in mind, I don’t want to go over all of the history in the last four years, but Jared was in charge of Middle East peace in the Trump administration. He had a heavy hand in the COVID response. He was working on, you know, the border wall. He was a campaign adviser and so on. There’s no rehab tour. There’s no PR spinning. There’s no separation that can be put in place between Trump and Jared and Ivanka that is going to wash the blood of January 6th off of their designer suits. It’s just not going to happen. And I think Jared and Ivanka can try this, but I don’t think they’re fooling anybody. I think a lot of people out there see their failures tied very tightly to the failures of former President Donald Trump.” Continue reading.

‘I Made Juneteenth Very Famous’: The Inside Story of Trump’s Post-George Floyd Month

For Father’s Day in 2020, what Donald Trump mostly wanted was to avoid his son-in-law.

It was Jared Kushner who had talked the president into hiring Brad Parscale to run a campaign that was now, just months before the election, in freefall. And when most Americans rejected Trump’s unreasonably truculent response to the civil unrest that was sweeping the country, the president also blamed Kushner.

The frustration and anguish that had accrued among Black Americans after decades of debasing systemic racism had been emphatically—finally—cracked open by the death of George Floyd, who’d been murdered by police a few weeks earlier. As protesters poured into the streets of the nation’s capital and major municipalities, Trump privately told advisers that he wished he’d been quicker to support police and more aggressive in his pushback against protesters. Continue reading.

‘Virtually unheard of’: Why Jared Kushner’s recent Abu Dhabi visit cost American taxpayers almost $13,000

Although members of former President Donald Trump’s family have been gone from the White House for almost four months, they continue to enjoy the taxpayer-funded protection of the U.S. Secret Service — including Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and a former White House senior adviser for the Trump Administration. Kushner recently visited Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, and the Daily Beastreported that according to U.S. State Department documents, the Secret Service protection he enjoyed during that trip cost American taxpayers $12,950.

Vanity Fair’s Bess Levin, in a column published on May 17, explains, “If you only got your news from Donald Trump’s new social media website, a.k.a. blog, or by watching the speeches he gives to wedding guests and random passersby at Mar-a-Lago like an old man shouting at an empty blender, you might think he was still president. In fact, he is not, but the U.S. is still paying for Secret Service protection for all of his adult children and their families — which is why, when former first son-in-law Jared Kushner took a little trip to the Middle East last month, it cost taxpayers nearly $13,000.”

Kushner, Levin notes, stayed at the Ritz Carlton in Abu Dhabi from May 5-14 and enjoyed Secret Service protection the whole time. Continue reading.

Jared Kushner slapped down by judge for ‘widespread and numerous’ violations of apartment tenant laws: report

According to a report from the HuffPost, a company co-owned by Jared Kushner was on the losing end of a lawsuit over violations of consumer tenant laws in the state of Maryland, with the judge issuing a scathing decision,

Kushner — the son-in-law of former president Donald Trump — is co-owner of Westminster Management and the company JK2 along with his brother Joshua, which had been accused of violating state laws protecting tenant rights.

According to the report, Administrative Law Judge Emily Daneker ruled Thursday that the company owned by the two brothers “repeatedly violated state consumer protection laws by collecting debts without required licenses, charging tenants improper fees and misrepresenting the condition of rental units.” Continue reading.

Ivanka And Jared Lead Trumpsters In New ‘Policy Institute’ Grift

On April 13, Axios reported the launch of America First Policy Institute, a nonprofit self-described “research institute” with a $20 million budget and a roster of staffers drawn from among figures involved in scandal after scandal during Donald Trump’s one term in the White House.

Axios said that the organization’s mission is to continue and spread Trump’s policies.

The list of former Trump administration figures involved with the institute is long as it begins its work, according to its website, to “conduct research and develop policies that put the American people first.” The site also says, “Our guiding principles are liberty, free enterprise, national greatness, American military superiority, foreign-policy engagement in the American interest, and the primacy of American workers, families, and communities in all we do.” Continue reading.

Jared Kushner stuck taxpayers with massive hotel bill weeks before leaving White House

Jared Kushner left taxpayers with a hefty bill for his last official trip to Israel just weeks before his father-in-law Donald Trump left the White House.

The former White House senior adviser billed taxpayers $24,335 in room and board for the visit, which also raised new questions about Kushner making deals on the government dime that benefited him and his family’s business interests, reported The Daily Beast.

The expenditure was filed under “Accommodation and Food Services” in a publicly available spending database maintained by the federal government, and Kushner took part in a ceremony at the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, where a courtyard was named in his honor. Continue reading.

Missing in action: Jared Kushner

On Thursday, CNN reported that former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has quietly vanished from the former president’s newly-redoubled political activities.

“Kushner, who previously served as chief adviser-cum-micromanager with far-reaching responsibilities and had virtual carte blanche, has tapped out, say several people who worked closely with Kushner at the White House or are familiar with his thinking and told CNN on background in order to maintain relationships,” reported Kate Bennett and Dana Bash. “‘Right now, he’s just checked out of politics,’ says one person, echoing the mindset of Kushner’s wife, Ivanka Trump, who is so over the political bubble she has told friends and colleagues of late to not utter anything to do with Washington.”

“Given Trump’s election loss and current out-of-power position, Kushner’s absence from the aftermath follows a pattern critics have previously pointed out: being present for the wins and MIA from the losses,” said the report. “A person with close ties to Kushner told CNN that Trump’s son-in-law is enjoying ‘some much needed time with his family,’ and his retreat is unrelated to the ebb and flow of the former President’s popularity.” Continue reading.

Inside Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s multi-million-dollar profits made while working in government

Despite the pandemic, which took a toll on many businesses across the United States, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner reportedly made substantial profits during their time working for the U.S. government under former President Donald Trump’s administration.

According to a report published by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, the affluent couple’s final financial disclosure reports, which cover the duration of 2020 up to Jan. 20, 2021, signal monetary profits of “$23,791,645 and $120,676,949 in combined outside income.”

The analysis also highlights a number of questionable aspects of Trump’s disclosure reports that centers on “fixed guaranteed payments she arranged to receive from a few entities to prevent a situation in which she would have a stake in their performance while she worked in the White House.” Continue reading.

Trump campaign used secretive shell company led by Jared Kushner to illegally hide spending: complaint

On Thursday, Business Insider reported that the watchdog group Campaign Legal Center is alleging former President Donald Trump’s family and campaign associates used a shell company to illegally conceal how they were spending election money.

The new allegations against the Trump family are detailed in a supplement to an existing federal complaint.

“The supplement, filed Thursday morning with the Federal Election Commission, is in part based on Insider’s reporting in December about American Made Media Consultants, a secretive shell company that operated inside Trump’s 2020 campaign committee,” said the report. “American Made Media Consultants, the shell company, along with a political firm owned by former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale, ‘served as conduits that hid the ultimate recipients of nearly half of the campaign’s overall spending,’ the updated complaint states. ‘These schemes disguised which firms or individuals were working for Trump’s committees, how much and when they were being paid, and the purposes of those payments,’ it continued.” Continue reading.

Trump extended Secret Service protection to his adult children and three top officials as he left office

In the days before he left office, President Donald Trump instructed that his family get the best security available in the world for the next six months, at no cost — the protection of the U.S. Secret Service.

According to three people briefed on the plan, Trump issued a directive to extend post-presidency Secret Service protection to his four adult children and two of their spouses, who were not automatically entitled to receive it.

Trump also directed that three key officials leaving government continue to receive the protection for six months: former treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin, former chief of staff Mark Meadows and former national security adviser Robert C. O’Brien, two people familiar with the arrangement said. Continue reading.

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