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enhanced_deficit
02-28-2018, 12:12 PM
Trump's family is reportedly furious with John Kelly, and the sides may enter a 'death match'

Alex Lockie
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John Kelly and Jared Kushner at the White House in September. Reuters



A White House source told the news website Axios that Jared Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, were squaring up for a "death match" with the White House chief of staff, John Kelly.
Kushner had a horrendous Tuesday, when he had his security clearance downgraded and also appeared to break the law.
An article in The Washington Post also said foreign officials had used his inexperience to try to manipulate him.




http://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-family-reportedly-angry-with-john-kelly-looming-death-match-2018-2



Israel, China Tried To Use Kushner’s Business, Inexperience To Shape US Policy (https://forward.com/fast-forward/395447/israel-china-tried-to-use-kushners-business-inexperience-to-shape-us-policy/)

February 27, 2018 By Aiden Pink https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.forward.com/images/cropped/kushner-netanyahu-1503602952.jpg Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Jared Kushner on June 21, 2017 in Jerusalem, Israel.

Officials in at least four countries, including Israel and China, have held internal discussions over how to take advantage of presidential advisor/son-in-law Jared Kushner’s inexperience and financial incentives in order to shape U.S. policy, The Washington Post reported (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/kushners-overseas-contacts-raise-concerns-as-foreign-officials-seek-leverage/2018/02/27/16bbc052-18c3-11e8-942d-16a950029788_story.html?utm_term=.40616da3d5f4) Tuesday, citing current and former U.S. officials who had seen relevant intelligence reports.
The report also claims that national security advisor H.R. McMaster learned secondhand about contacts that Kushner had with foreign officials that Kushner did not coordinate or officially report to the National Security Council.
“The issue of foreign officials talking about their meetings with Kushner and their perception of his vulnerabilities was a subject raised in McMaster’s daily intelligence briefings,” the Post reported. Kushner and McMaster subsequently worked closer to coordinate foreign meetings.
While all countries discuss ways in which they can influence senior American officials, Kushner was seen internally as uniquely vulnerable to manipulation, due to his complex global business arrangements, financial difficulties within his family’s real estate business, and political inexperience.
Notably, members of the Kushner family have been seeking foreign funding to help with their looming $1.8 debt payment, due in January 2019, from its investment in a Manhattan skyscraper. Before President Trump took office, Kushner met with firms tied to the governments of China and Qatar to seek funding. Both of those groups dropped out in order to avoid charges of conflict of interest.

Read more: https://forward.com/fast-forward/395...ape-us-policy/ (https://forward.com/fast-forward/395447/israel-china-tried-to-use-kushners-business-inexperience-to-shape-us-policy/)



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https://video.newsserve.net/700/v/20170409/1704091538-Ivanka-May-Have-Convinced-Trump-To-Bomb-Syria.jpg

Developing.. Kissinger regularly calls Kushner

Zippyjuan
02-28-2018, 02:01 PM
And the Death Match victory goes to: Kelly. Kushner security clearance downgraded. http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?519827-Jared-Kushner-s-security-clearance-downgraded

Superfluous Man
02-28-2018, 02:12 PM
And the Death Match victory goes to: Kelly. Kushner security clearance downgraded. http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?519827-Jared-Kushner-s-security-clearance-downgraded

That was right there in the quote box at the top of the OP.

enhanced_deficit
02-28-2018, 04:30 PM
And the Death Match victory goes to: Kelly. Kushner security clearance downgraded. http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?519827-Jared-Kushner-s-security-clearance-downgraded

Not so fat, not over yet. Final match could be played based on meritocracy rules.

Raginfridus
02-28-2018, 05:48 PM
Not so fat, not over yet. Final match could be played based on meritocracy rules.What could either Kushner or Kelly merit?


https://youtu.be/ahZpWmgPPqg

enhanced_deficit
03-01-2018, 08:02 AM
I dunno, one of them is decorated war hero who made a huge personal sacrifice and the other is decorated anti-nepotism champion. Not at same level.

enhanced_deficit
03-01-2018, 03:28 PM
If thse reports are confirmed, Kelly may win this match:

Jared Kushner Met With Two Executives at the White House, Then Their Companies Loaned Him $500 Million. Coincidence?

By Elliot Hannon
Feb 28, 2018

Walking conflict of interest Jared Kushner intermingled his public and private personas while camped out in the West Wing, according to a New York Times report (https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/business/jared-kushner-apollo-citigroup-loans.html?referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F ) Wednesday that appeared to show Trump’s son-in-law using his position in the White House to preserve his real estate business interests. The Times reported two instances over the past year where Kushner met with executives from financial companies at the White House and then later secured hundreds of millions of dollars in loans from those companies.

Kushner met with Joshua Harris, a founder of Apollo Global Management who was also advising the Trump administration on infrastructure, during Harris’ regular visits to the White House during the early days of the Trump administration. Then, last November, Apollo lent Kushner’s family real estate firm $184 million to refinance the mortgage on a Chicago skyscraper. “Even by the standards of Apollo, one of the world’s largest private equity firms,” the Times notes, “the previously unreported transaction with the Kushners was a big deal: It was triple the size of the average property loan made by Apollo’s real estate lending arm, securities filings show.” In a second instance, Kushner got an even larger loan of $325 million from Citigroup in the spring of 2017, just months after Donald Trump took office. The money to finance office buildings in Brooklyn came shortly after Citigroup CEO Michael L. Corbat met with Kushner to discuss financial and trade policy at the White House.
The meetings and subsequent business dealings with the financial companies raise serious ethical questions about Kushner, particularly given both had something to gain from the relationship.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/kushner-met-with-apollo-and-citigroup-execs-at-the-white-house-then-their-companies-loaned-him-usd500-million-greater-than.html

dean.engelhardt
03-01-2018, 04:03 PM
Trump 3D chess move. Once Jared is out, he'll bring in Hillary.

enhanced_deficit
03-03-2018, 03:56 PM
Trump 3D chess move. Once Jared is out, he'll bring in Hillary.

Very unlikely. Having Hillary supporters working in Trump WH or him having great synergy with Dianne Feinstein in gun control meeting is one thing, but bringing Hillary to WH would be ultimate deal braker for GOP-wing of Trump base.


In other news:


Jared Kushner's Real-Estate Firm Sought Money Directly From Qatar Government Weeks Before Blockade (https://theintercept.com/2018/03/02/jared-kushner-real-estate-qatar-blockade/)Highly Cited The Intercept Mar 2, 2018

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSOZOwz7qkPRqOqZ5fxGu02B7TRgrwtN N1LgGgVPU5S2S-W7B_JUJYE9fd2yBwqo-r2P2WERvKb2w (http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/376472-mueller-looking-into-whether-kushner-business-ties-impacted-trump)Mueller looking into whether Kushner business ties impacted Trump policy: report (http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/376472-mueller-looking-into-whether-kushner-business-ties-impacted-trump)

The Hill Mar 2, 2018


Strange headline, not clear if JR is actually a supporter of Jarvanka.
‘What is he, the nanny?’: Joy Reid ridicules Trump for telling Kelly to boot Ivanka and Jared out of the White House

Tom Boggioni
03 Mar 2018 at 11:02 ET

Addressing a report that President Donald Trump has asked White House Chief of Staff John Kelly to force his daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner out of the White House and back to Manhattan, MSNBC host Joy Reid mocked the former general for sinking to acting as Trump’s nanny.
The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/us/politics/trump-chaos-oval-office.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2F politics&action=click&contentCollection=politics&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront) reported this week that “Mr. Trump has told the couple that they should keep serving in their roles, even as he has privately asked Mr. Kelly for his help in moving them out,” which has just added to the “White House is in chaos (https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/hes-become-part-chaos-conservative-editor-turns-john-kelly-calls-chants-lock/)” narrative.
“Steve Bannon, the sort of not so curious alt-right person that was pushed out of the White House, now almost appears to have been the smartest person in the White House when he was there,” the AM Joy host began. “He kept saying the problem is Jared and Ivanka, throughout the book, the Michael Wolff book. Now Donald Trump is saying the problem may be Jared and Ivanka.”
“Privately some aides have expressed frustration that Mr. Kushner and Ivanka have remained at the White House, despite Mr. Trump at times saying they should never have been there and now the counterintelligence unit may be investigating a business deal that Ivanka Trump may be involved in — a hotel tower in Vancouver that may be under investigation,” Reid read from the New York Times. “Does Trump want his kids in or out?”

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/nanny-joy-reid-ridicules-trump-telling-kelly-boot-ivanka-jared-white-house/




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New York Magazine Mar 1, 2018

White House chief of staff John Kelly said on Thursday that “God punished” him when he left the Department of Homeland Security to go to work in the White House as President Trump’s chief of staff.
The comment came at a celebration for DHS’s 15th anniversary and was preceded by Kelly rolling his eyes like a surly teen when he alluded to the drama that surrounds him in the West Wing.
“I miss every one of you, every day,” Kelly said, rolling his eyes.
“Truly, at six months, the last thing I wanted to do is walk away from one of the great honors of my life, being the secretary of Homeland Security, but I did something wrong and God punished me, I guess,” he said.