enhanced_deficit
03-24-2018, 12:30 PM
There used to be some reporting on past first families but this media tone seems unprecedented:
Ivanka Takes President Trump to Task Over His Treatment of Jared Kushner
By Tom Porter On 3/24/18
Ivanka Trump challenged her father President Donald Trump over his treatment of her husband, Jared Kushner, during the 2016 presidential campaign, Vanity Fair reported Friday. (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/03/after-a-year-in-washington-ivanka-and-jared-are-isolated-on-kushner-island)
A campaign staffer told the publication that Ivanka “burst” into her father’s Trump Tower office to take him to task for his treatment of her husband, who worked as an adviser on his presidential campaign.
http://www.newsweek.com/ivanka-trump-berated-her-father-donald-trump-over-treatment-jared-kushner-859441
Ivanka Trump Reportedly Blew Up at Her Dad for Disrespecting Jared Kushner (http://people.com/politics/ivanka-trump-defends-jared-kushner-donald-trump/)
PEOPLE.com 21h ago
Not claiming it's fakenews necessarily but facts may suggest that premise of this story might be on shaky grounds. Trump has been actually very supportive of first son-in-law, praised him in recent days as "high quality person" while those who did not get along with him were shown the door:
"The Washington Post reported this week (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-jared-kushner-forged-a-bond-with-the-saudi-crown-prince/2018/03/19/2f2ce398-2181-11e8-badd-7c9f29a55815_story.html?utm_term=.f873f832fb3c) that former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster “expressed early concern that Kushner was freelancing U.S. foreign policy.” According to the Post, Tillerson once asked staffers in frustration: “Who is the secretary of state here?”"
Perhaps sensing weakness from increasing media attacks on him, lately even foreign leaders reportedly have started to take shots at mideast peace plan's champion First Son-in-law.
Saudi Crown Prince Boasted That Jared Kushner Was “In His Pocket” (https://theintercept.com/2018/03/21/jared-kushner-saudi-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman/)
Alex Emmons, Ryan Grim, Clayton Swisher
March 21 2018
Until he was stripped of his top-secret security clearance in February, presidential adviser Jared Kushner was known around the White House as one of the most voracious readers of the President’s Daily Brief, a highly classified rundown of the latest intelligence intended only for the president and his closest advisers.
Kushner, who had been tasked with bringing about a deal between Israel and Palestine, was particularly engaged by information about the Middle East, according to a former White House official and a former U.S. intelligence professional.
Asked about Kushner’s use of WhatsApp to communicate with foreign officials, his attorney’s spokesperson Mirijanian said, “Without commenting on who he talks with and how he does his work, Mr. Kushner is in conformity with the Presidential Records Act and other rules.” Kushner’s attorneys have since told him not to use the app for official business, according to a source with direct knowledge of the exchange.
Kushner’s unconventional communications with regional leaders excluded diplomats during the summer of 2017, when Saudi Arabia and the UAE initiated an economic blockade aimed at weakening their Gulf neighbor Qatar. Tillerson’s attempts to mediate the crisis were quickly undercut by Trump and Kushner, who supported the blockade. Three State Department officials told The Intercept that Tillerson was largely in the dark about Kushner’s communications with MBS during that period.
Kushner’s support for Saudi Arabia and the UAE over Qatar in the Gulf crisis has raised questions about a possible conflict of interest. Kushner backed the blockade a month after Qatar’s ministry of finance rebuffed an attempt (https://theintercept.com/2018/03/02/jared-kushner-real-estate-qatar-blockade/) by Kushner’s real estate firm, Kushner Companies, to extract financing for the firm’s troubled flagship property at 666 Fifth Avenue.
In 2007, Kushner bought the landmark Manhattan building for $1.8 billion, putting down $500 million in cash raised largely by selling thousands of rental units the family had owned in New Jersey. It was widely regarded as overpriced at the time, and when the financial crisis hit, the value plummeted, wiping out much of the initial investment. The clock is now ticking toward a February 2019 deadline (http://www.vno.com/press-release/v1xqmhzsbc/vornado-and-the-kushner-companies-announce-the-recapitalization-of-666-fifth-avenue) when a major mortgage payment will come due.
Since 2011, Kushner and his relatives have been searching the globe for a new investor. As recently as the spring of 2017, Charles Kushner, Jared’s father, asked former Qatari prime minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani to invest in the building. (https://theintercept.com/2017/07/10/jared-kushner-tried-and-failed-to-get-a-half-billion-dollar-bailout-from-qatar/) Then in April 2017, Charles Kushner made a direct pitch to the Qatari government through the country’s minister of finance.
https://theintercept.com/2018/03/21/jared-kushner-saudi-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman/
Ivanka Takes President Trump to Task Over His Treatment of Jared Kushner
By Tom Porter On 3/24/18
Ivanka Trump challenged her father President Donald Trump over his treatment of her husband, Jared Kushner, during the 2016 presidential campaign, Vanity Fair reported Friday. (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/03/after-a-year-in-washington-ivanka-and-jared-are-isolated-on-kushner-island)
A campaign staffer told the publication that Ivanka “burst” into her father’s Trump Tower office to take him to task for his treatment of her husband, who worked as an adviser on his presidential campaign.
http://www.newsweek.com/ivanka-trump-berated-her-father-donald-trump-over-treatment-jared-kushner-859441
Ivanka Trump Reportedly Blew Up at Her Dad for Disrespecting Jared Kushner (http://people.com/politics/ivanka-trump-defends-jared-kushner-donald-trump/)
PEOPLE.com 21h ago
Not claiming it's fakenews necessarily but facts may suggest that premise of this story might be on shaky grounds. Trump has been actually very supportive of first son-in-law, praised him in recent days as "high quality person" while those who did not get along with him were shown the door:
"The Washington Post reported this week (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-jared-kushner-forged-a-bond-with-the-saudi-crown-prince/2018/03/19/2f2ce398-2181-11e8-badd-7c9f29a55815_story.html?utm_term=.f873f832fb3c) that former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster “expressed early concern that Kushner was freelancing U.S. foreign policy.” According to the Post, Tillerson once asked staffers in frustration: “Who is the secretary of state here?”"
Perhaps sensing weakness from increasing media attacks on him, lately even foreign leaders reportedly have started to take shots at mideast peace plan's champion First Son-in-law.
Saudi Crown Prince Boasted That Jared Kushner Was “In His Pocket” (https://theintercept.com/2018/03/21/jared-kushner-saudi-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman/)
Alex Emmons, Ryan Grim, Clayton Swisher
March 21 2018
Until he was stripped of his top-secret security clearance in February, presidential adviser Jared Kushner was known around the White House as one of the most voracious readers of the President’s Daily Brief, a highly classified rundown of the latest intelligence intended only for the president and his closest advisers.
Kushner, who had been tasked with bringing about a deal between Israel and Palestine, was particularly engaged by information about the Middle East, according to a former White House official and a former U.S. intelligence professional.
Asked about Kushner’s use of WhatsApp to communicate with foreign officials, his attorney’s spokesperson Mirijanian said, “Without commenting on who he talks with and how he does his work, Mr. Kushner is in conformity with the Presidential Records Act and other rules.” Kushner’s attorneys have since told him not to use the app for official business, according to a source with direct knowledge of the exchange.
Kushner’s unconventional communications with regional leaders excluded diplomats during the summer of 2017, when Saudi Arabia and the UAE initiated an economic blockade aimed at weakening their Gulf neighbor Qatar. Tillerson’s attempts to mediate the crisis were quickly undercut by Trump and Kushner, who supported the blockade. Three State Department officials told The Intercept that Tillerson was largely in the dark about Kushner’s communications with MBS during that period.
Kushner’s support for Saudi Arabia and the UAE over Qatar in the Gulf crisis has raised questions about a possible conflict of interest. Kushner backed the blockade a month after Qatar’s ministry of finance rebuffed an attempt (https://theintercept.com/2018/03/02/jared-kushner-real-estate-qatar-blockade/) by Kushner’s real estate firm, Kushner Companies, to extract financing for the firm’s troubled flagship property at 666 Fifth Avenue.
In 2007, Kushner bought the landmark Manhattan building for $1.8 billion, putting down $500 million in cash raised largely by selling thousands of rental units the family had owned in New Jersey. It was widely regarded as overpriced at the time, and when the financial crisis hit, the value plummeted, wiping out much of the initial investment. The clock is now ticking toward a February 2019 deadline (http://www.vno.com/press-release/v1xqmhzsbc/vornado-and-the-kushner-companies-announce-the-recapitalization-of-666-fifth-avenue) when a major mortgage payment will come due.
Since 2011, Kushner and his relatives have been searching the globe for a new investor. As recently as the spring of 2017, Charles Kushner, Jared’s father, asked former Qatari prime minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani to invest in the building. (https://theintercept.com/2017/07/10/jared-kushner-tried-and-failed-to-get-a-half-billion-dollar-bailout-from-qatar/) Then in April 2017, Charles Kushner made a direct pitch to the Qatari government through the country’s minister of finance.
https://theintercept.com/2018/03/21/jared-kushner-saudi-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman/