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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPossibly overlooked in the "Fire & Fury" book. Kushner and Ivanka wanted Comey gone
This seems significant to me and hasn't gotten any coverage... Jared and Ivanka wanted Comey gone.
From Chapter 16: Comey
During the first week of May, the Times and WaPo covered the Kushner family's supposed efforts to attract Chinese investors with the promise of US visas.
"The kids" -- Jared and Ivanka -- exhibited an increasingly panicked sense that the FBI and DOJ were moving beyond Russian election interference and into finances. "Ivanka is terrified," said a satisfied Bannon.
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His daughter and Son-in-law, their urgency compounded by Charlie Kushner's concern, encouraged him, arguing that the once possibly charmable Comey was now a dangerous and unctrollable player whose profit would inevitably be their loss.
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By the time the meeting ended, Bannon and Priebus believed they had prevailed. But that weekend, at Bedminster, the president, again listening to the deep dismay to daughter and son-in-law, built up another head of steam. With Jared and Ivanka, Stephen Miller was also along for the weekend. ... It was Jared, in the version told by those outside the Jarvanka circle, that pushed for action, once more winding up his Father-in-law. With the president's assent, Kushner in this version gave miller notes on why the FBI director should be fired and asked him to draft a letter that could set out the basis for immediate dismissal.
My summation of later writing: Kushner's side says they didn't fight for it or against it.
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Possibly overlooked in the "Fire & Fury" book. Kushner and Ivanka wanted Comey gone (Original Post)
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grantcart
(53,061 posts)1. It was covered, there is such an avalanche its hard to keep up
It was widely reported, there is just so much
http://www.valuewalk.com/2018/01/fire-and-fury-new-trump-book-shop/
Wolffs Trump book suggested that Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump were convinced that James Comey, former Director of the FBI, will go after the Kushner familys real estate dealings. Jareds father, Charles Kushner, was convicted of illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, and witness tampering during his time as the head of Kushner Companies, and had served time in federal prison.
Fearing a probe into the familys business, both Jared and Ivanka encouraged the president to fire Comey. According to NBC News, the book also says that the Trump family believed that Comey wanted to increase his power by damaging them.
brush
(53,899 posts)2. They must really be scared shitless now as Mueller will sure find out about their dirty money deals.
Probably already has.