As we noted yesterday, Vicky Ward's book "Kushner, Inc.", due out on March 19, has some revealing stories about the role of corrupt demagogue Donald "Rump" Trump's son-in-law and lusted-after daughter in the public's business. The story Jared "Mr. Ivanka Trump" Kushner's attempt to intimidate a witness to Rump's attempt to concoct a cover story about the Kushner-attended June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower with Russian agents makes him complicit in the whole Russiagate coverup.
The Guardian has another excerpt from "Kushner, Inc." which indicates that senior Rump regime officials, namely former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and economic advisor Gary Cohn, confronted Kushner about his flagrant mixing of Government business with personal business.
"Ward reports that Tillerson blamed Kushner for Trump’s abrupt endorsement of a provocative blockade and diplomatic campaign against Qatar by Saudi Arabia and several allies in June 2017. The US has thousands of troops stationed in Qatar.
Tillerson 'told Kushner that his interference had endangered the US', an unidentified Tillerson aide tells Ward. Tillerson is also said to have read negative 'chatter' about himself in intelligence reports after Kushner belittled him to Kushner’s friend Mohammed bin Salman, the controversial Saudi crown prince.
Meanwhile, Cohn is said to have rebuked Kushner in January 2017 after it was revealed Kushner had dined with executives from the Chinese financial corporation Anbang, which was considering investing in the Kushner family’s troubled tower at 666 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.The dynamic duo known as "Javanka" are apparently despised by people that have to work with them in furthering their own financial and personal agendas:
“You’ve got to be crazy,” Cohn is said to have told Kushner in front of others. Kushner met the executives around the time he hosted Chinese government officials at the Fifth Avenue tower. The building was eventually refinanced by a Qatari-backed investment fund. (our emphasis)
Ward’s book portrays Kushner and Ivanka Trump as relentlessly ambitious operators who are loathed by many forced to work with them. She reports that White House staffers mocked Kushner as the “secretary of everything” for his wide-ranging meddling and derided Ivanka Trump’s team as Habi – “home of all bad ideas”. (our emphasis)Nepotism is always a bad idea, but in this case, Javanka are endangering our national security by engaging in personal business on Government time with some of the worst actors on the planet, who now have them by their wallets while they whisper bad ideas to them.
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We elect our government officials in good faith, that they will represent our safety and the betterment of our country, and we expect them in turn to appoint qualified, experienced administrators who will further our safety and interests. Trump has done neither and now his family is out in the global market, scouting financial investments and money-making relationships like going to the grocery store for snacks.
Every single thing Trump has done and will do is for self-enrichment. This presidency is his golden ticket and he's grabbing everything he can before he gets caught. His vile children and his in-laws are well schooled in the grift and they will do whatever possible to follow in his footsteps.
It would seem we are stuck with these rats until 2020. We can keep monitoring their corrupt activities and make sure they don't run off with everything that isn't nailed down, but their coziness with disreputable foreign leaders is scary.
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