Esquire: Ivanka's hubby (dad indicted by CHRISTIE) is why CHRISTIE got no veep nod

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http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a47697/jared-kushner-trump-campaign/
[font size=5]Jared Kushner's Second Act[/font]
His father-in-law's bid for the White House is in shambles. Is he the man to fix it?​

by Vicky Ward

.... Now, four years later, Kushner was calling about the tower, a symbol of immense importance for him and his family. Under the leadership of Jared's father, Charles, the Kushner Companies had made hundreds of millions of dollars building and buying properties in New Jersey. But [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]in 2004, future Trump surrogate Chris Christie, who was at the time the U.?S. Attorney for New Jersey, indicted Charles[/FONT] in federal court on charges that included tax evasion, making false statements about campaign contributions, and hiring a prostitute to retaliate against his brother-in-law. After Charles pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years in prison, Jared, who was just twenty-four, took over the family business. He sold the Kushner holdings in New Jersey and bought 666 Fifth Avenue. The significance of the deal lay not only in its size but in its location. Much as Trump's renovation of the Grand Hyatt hotel three decades earlier had carried his family's real estate empire across the East River from Queens, Jared's purchase of 666 Fifth Avenue, just three blocks from Trump's own trophy skyscraper, was an unmissable sign of the Kushners' arrival in Manhattan. ....

Over the past year, Jared Kushner's profile has risen alongside the mind-bending trajectory of his father-in-law's presidential bid. Though Jared has no previous experience in electoral politics, he has become one of Donald Trump's chief advisors, and much of the attention he's received has focused on the many ways in which he's been useful to the campaign. It was Jared who helped prepare Trump for an appearance before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in March, and Jared who helped broker a truce with Fox News when Trump fought with Megyn Kelly, the network's star anchor. After Trump fired Corey Lewandowski, his campaign manager, in June, it was reported that [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]Ivanka had demanded Lewandowski's dismissal for trying to marginalize Jared's influence[/FONT]. A month later, after Trump tweeted an image of Hillary Clinton and a Star of David set against a backdrop of dollar bills, Jared took to the Observer to defend his father-in-law against charges of anti-Semitism. Most recently, Jared was on hand to help Trump choose Indiana governor Mike [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]Pence as his running mate—over and above, it did not go unnoticed, the great nemesis of the Kushner family, Chris Christie[/FONT].

And yet for all that Jared has helped Trump, there is a sense among Jared's friends and business associates that he sees the gold-plated [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]vision of a Trump White House as the ultimate step in a carefully plotted ascent to redemption, one that began when his father's scandal[/FONT] tarnished the family name. In this respect, it seems more than usually significant that both Kushner brothers have photographs of John F. Kennedy prominently displayed in their offices. Just as Kennedy's father was forced to yield his ambitions to his sons' generation after uttering controversial remarks during World War II, so too did the scandal that sent Charles Kushner to prison open the door for his sons—and especially for Jared—to launch their charm offensive on society at a very early age. ....

Josh's concern for his brother is no doubt genuine, yet more than one person has noted that he has little incentive to thwart even a distant chance at his family's redemption. "He (Josh) may not vote for Donald Trump," observed a fellow real estate heir who knows the family well. "But will he be objecting to [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]a pardon for his father[/FONT], which is surely what will happen if Trump gets elected? I think not." ....

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