Tag: Charles Kushner

Mueller went out of his way to not bring conspiracy charges while simultaneously describing the conspiracy Edit: PASTING my previous comments here again, because I want people who have not read the report themselves to do so and to come away with what seems like the only real explanation for Mueller's decision: Mueller chose not to bring conspiracy charges against Trump or his family because he did not want to single-handed torpedo the presidency and destroy the Republican Party. Yet Mueller basically said he can't PROVE an agreement with agents who were related TO THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT which is why no one was charged with criminal conspiracy. Yet Mueller in the next breath says "the report did not ESTABLISH that Trump himself wanted the change." Regarding Kusher and Don Jr, the report itself states the Kushner and Don Jr were not indicted because Mueller claimed "they could have claimed ignorance, so that would make it difficult to prove intent." Mueller says he "did not identify evidence" that Kushner or Sessions—who had contact with Simes—passed info to the Kremlin. So we can't therefore know that Dimitri Simes is part of the "russian government" THAT is what Mueller is saying in the report. Sure seems like Mueller, once again, is giving Kushner (and Simes) such unbelievable benefit of the doubt, because you can't PROVE that Simes was a direct agent of the Kremlin, so he's not technically part of the conspiracy. I mean, seriously, Mueller? What we're being told from the report: Don Jr. speaks of Clinton dirt to: (1) Manafort (2) Kushner (3) Ivanka (4) Hope Hicks (5) Eric Trump (6) Donald J. Trump—his dad, the man who's going to leave him billions, and the GOP president candidate So all three Trump kids knew the campaign was getting Clinton dirt; Trump's campaign manager knew; his communications director knew; his son-in-law knew; his lawyer says Trump knew... yet the report concludes there's insufficient evidence that Trump himself was told. Mind you, all this despite the fact that, on the day Don Jr. told everyone, his father went out and made a public statement saying he'd {checks notes} shortly be giving a "very interesting" speech on Clinton dirt.

As the reality that Kushner received his White House security clearance the same way he got into Harvard sinks in – “Daddy” pulled some very expensive strings – his popularity will not be rebounding anytime soon. Ambition. In Ward’s telling, Charlie Kushner, Jared Kushner’s father, dreamed of becoming America’s Jewish Joe Kennedy, Ivanka Trump fantasizes about being president and Donald Trump almost wishes Ivanka could have been his first lady. Unlike Jared, Josh comes across as possessing a light touch, talented and ready to defy his parents. Like Ivanka Trump, Kloss converted to Judaism. Trump and Kushner were having none of that. Bannon resisted, and noted that if Trump fired Comey the director would come to look like J Edgar Hoover, a legend. The Book of Genesis tells the story of Isaac and Rebekah’s sons, Esau and Jacob. Fathers can get things wrong. Josh and Kloss must be smirking.

In an interview with CNN's Erica Hill, author Matt Katz talks about the troubled relationship Chris Christie has with Jared Kushner's father, after PBS aired an interview where Christi said Kushner's father was behind one of the most "loathsome" crimes…

Now, with his son newly installed as a top aide to the president, Kushner even expressed hope, one close family friend said, that he might receive a pardon. Absolution, however, is not what the White House has conferred on the Kushners. Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn are studying whether one of Kushner's daughters dangled White House influence before prospective Chinese investors. Most recently, the head of the federal Office of Government Ethics informed a House member in a letter that he had asked the White House counsel to examine meetings in the White House last year between Jared Kushner and officials from two financial companies. That Josh Kushner, 32, has made no secret of the fact that he did not vote for Trump upset his brother, several friends said. "We are actively involved in more than US$3 billion of projects and banks are providing US$1.5 billion of financing in the first six months of this year," he said. Josh Kushner, who runs the investment firm Thrive Capital, which recently raised a US$700 million fund, cleared the meeting with outside counsel beforehand, his spokesman said. Charles Kushner says he is willing to buy out his partner, but some business associates say that would only double an already money-losing real estate bet. She added that her brother had left the firm to work in the Trump administration. "My daughter, our company, did nothing wrong," he said.