Tag: Jared Kushner

Senate Judiciary panel: Kushner had contacts about WikiLeaks, Russian overtures he did not disclose

The following article by Karoun Demirjian was posted on the Washington Post website November 16, 2017:

Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, attends a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Nov. 1. (Reynold/Epa-Efe/Rex/Shutterstock)

President Trump’s adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner received and forwarded emails about WikiLeaks and a “Russian backdoor overture and dinner invite” that he kept from Senate Judiciary Committee investigators, according to panel leaders demanding that he produce the missing records.

Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) and ranking member Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) sent a letter to Kushner’s lawyer Abbe Lowell on Thursday charging that Kushner has failed to disclose several documents, records and transcripts in response to multiple inquiries from committee investigators.

In the letter, Grassley and Feinstein instruct Kushner’s team to turn over “several documents that are known to exist” because other witnesses in their probe already gave them to investigators. They include a series of “September 2016 email communications to Mr. Kushner concerning WikiLeaks,” which the committee leaders say Kushner then forwarded to another campaign official. Earlier this week, Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. revealed that he had had direct communication with WikiLeaks over private Twitter messages during the campaign. Continue reading “Senate Judiciary panel: Kushner had contacts about WikiLeaks, Russian overtures he did not disclose”

Kushner told Time Warner exec CNN should fire a fifth of its staff: report

The following article by Josh Delk was posted on the Hill website November 10, 2017:

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President Trump’s son-in-law and senior White House adviser Jared Kushner told an executive from CNN’s parent company earlier this year that the news organization should fire 20 percent of its staff over its coverage of the 2016 election, according to a new report.

Kushner told Time Warner executive Gary Ginsberg that CNN should fire the employees because they were so wrong in their analysis of how the election would turn out, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.

A White House official said Kushner didn’t intend for the comment to be taken seriously and was only trying to make a point, according to the Journal, which reported that the remark “wasn’t taken lightly” inside Time Warner. Continue reading “Kushner told Time Warner exec CNN should fire a fifth of its staff: report”

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Engaged in ‘Unethical’ Helicopter Use: Report

The following article by Chris Sosa was posted on the AlterNet website November 8, 2017:

The couple used a privately owned aircraft for a vacation in Vermont.

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Unnamed officials told Newsweek that President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka and husband Jared Kushner used a helicopter owned by a Trump business for a personal vacation. Their use of the private aircraft “blurs the line” between the White House and the Trump family’s personal business interests, according to the officials, and appears to be unethical.

Former President George W. Bush’s ethics chief Richard Painter explained to Newsweek that taxpayers were probably shouldering a portion of the couple’s vacation bill. Continue reading “Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Engaged in ‘Unethical’ Helicopter Use: Report”

Kushner used private email account for some White House business

The following article by Carol D. Leonnig,Ellen Nakashima and Rosalind S. Helderman was posted on the Washington Post website September 24, 2017:

President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner has used a private email account to conduct and discuss official White House business dozens of times, his lawyer confirmed Sunday.

Kushner used the private account through his first nine months in government service, even as the president continued to criticize his opponent in the 2016 presidential election, Democrat Hillary Clinton, for her use of a private email account for government business. Kushner several times used his account to exchange news stories and minor reactions or updates with other administration officials. Continue reading “Kushner used private email account for some White House business”

U.S. Lawmakers Seek Kushner Company Records on Maryland Apartments

The following article by Alec MacGillis was posted on the ProPublica website August 18, 2017:

Democrats from the state’s congressional delegation say articles by ProPublica, The New York Times Magazine and The Baltimore Sun raise “very serious and troubling concerns” about whether Kushner’s businesses comply with federal housing standards.

Morningside Park, a Kushner Companies-owned housing complex, in Middle River, Maryland. Credit: Philip Montgomery, New York Times

Maryland’s two U.S. senators and four of its U.S. House representatives, all Democrats, sent a letter today to the large real-estate company owned by the family of Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, demanding information about the company’s management of 17 apartment complexes it owns in the state.

The letter to Kushner Companies came in response to a May 23 article co-published by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine investigating management practices at the rental complexes, most of which are in the suburbs of Baltimore, as well as an article this week in The Baltimore Sun that revealed additional details. Continue reading “U.S. Lawmakers Seek Kushner Company Records on Maryland Apartments”

Why Jared Kushner is a central piece of the Trump-Russia puzzle

The following article by Amber Phillips was posted on the Washington Post website July 24, 2017:

Investigators in Congress have been waiting a long time to talk to Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and top adviser. They’ll get to do so behind closed doors on Monday and Tuesday. According to his prepared statement, Kushner will say he did not do anything wrong.

“I did not collude, nor know of anyone else in the campaign who colluded, with any foreign government,” the testimony, as obtained by The Washington Post’s Philip Rucker, reads.

Whether he did anything wrong — or believes he did anything wrong — Kushner remains a central figure in the broader Trump-Russia investigation. Here’s why: Continue reading “Why Jared Kushner is a central piece of the Trump-Russia puzzle”

Kushner arrives at Senate for closed-door questioning on Russia

The following article by Philip RUcker and Karoun Demirjian was posted on the Washington Post website July 24, 2017:

Jared Kushner, President Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law, walked into Senate offices Monday morning to begin answering questions behind closed doors about his contacts with Russian officials.

In written remarks made public prior to his appearance before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Kushner denies any improper contacts or collusion. The 11-page statement by Kushner details four meetings he had with Russian officials during the 2016 campaign and transition period — including one set up by Donald Trump Jr. with a Russian lawyer. Continue reading “Kushner arrives at Senate for closed-door questioning on Russia”

Kushner Sought $500 Million Bailout From Top Qatari Investor: Report

The following article by Eric Levitz was posted on the New York Magazine site July 10, 2017:

Jared Kushner, left, White House senior adviser, listens to President Trump during a meeting with cybersecurity experts at the White House on Jan. 31. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

Jared Kushner has no experience in public service or policymaking. His only qualification for his senior White House position (beyond having been born and betrothed to the right people) is the business savvy that allowed him to avoid squandering his family’s enormous fortune (for the moment, anyway).

In 2007, Kushner’s killer instinct told him that the real-estate market had nowhere to go but up. And so the 26-year-old mogul decided to plow $500 million of his family’s money — and $1.3 billion in borrowed capital — into purchasing 666 Fifth Avenue for twice the price it had previously sold for. Even if we’d somehow avoided a global financial crisis, this would have been a bad bet: Before the crash, when the building was almost fully occupied, it generated only about two-thirds of the revenue the Kushners needed to keep up with their debt payments. Continue reading “Kushner Sought $500 Million Bailout From Top Qatari Investor: Report”

Trump Team Met With Lawyer Linked to Kremlin During Campaign

The following article by J Becker, Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman was posted on the New York Times website July 8, 2017:

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Two weeks after Donald J. Trump clinched the Republican presidential nomination last year, his eldest son arranged a meeting at Trump Tower in Manhattan with a Russian lawyer who has connections to the Kremlin, according to confidential government records described to The New York Times.

The previously unreported meeting was also attended by Mr. Trump’s campaign chairman at the time, Paul J. Manafort, as well as the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, according to interviews and the documents, which were outlined by people familiar with them.

While President Trump has been dogged by revelations of undisclosed meetings between his associates and Russians, this episode at Trump Tower on June 9, 2016, is the first confirmed private meeting between a Russian national and members of Mr. Trump’s inner circle during the campaign. It is also the first time that his son Donald Trump Jr. is known to have been involved in such a meeting. Continue reading “Trump Team Met With Lawyer Linked to Kremlin During Campaign”