Meet the Real Jared Kushner
"Hes a lot tougher than he looks."
Source: Politico
He was supposed to be the calm one, cool and unflappable under his Ray-Bans and beltless blue bespoke suits. If Steve Bannon was the Rumpelstiltskin of the administration, donning multiple half-tucked dress shirts at a time and always carrying a clutch of briefing papers and barreling through the administrative state, Jared Kushner, through pedigree and temperament, could reach out one of his long, elegant fingers and tap everyone in the West Wing on the shoulder and urge them to just cool out a bit. In a White House sullied by ties to Russia and all sorts of unsavory characters from the fringe, Kushner was set to float above, surrounding himself with fellow figures from the elite worlds of Manhattan finance and real estate and deep-sixing the harder-edged ideas of the White Houses nationalist wing.
Except that this isnt quite how it has gone in the White House over the last several months. It was Kushner who reportedly pushed for the firing of FBI Director James Comey over the objections of Bannon. And it was Kushner who was the lone voice urging for a counterattack after Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced the appointment of a special prosecutor, according to the New York Times. And it is now Kushner whose familys business activities leave him open to the same level of charges of conflict of interest that have dogged his wife and father-in-law, and Kushner who appears to be as closely tied to the Russian government as anyone serving in the White House: NBC News and the Washington Post reported Thursday that the FBI is taking a close look at his contacts with the Russians.
What happened to Americas princeling? Is he hearing footsteps from Bannon and the other anti-globalists in the White Houses great and daily game of dominance? Is he trying to play to the instincts of his audience of one, President Donald Trump? The widespread assumption liberals make about Kushner seems to be this: Because he is soft-spoken, slim and handsome, with degrees from Harvard and NYU and a family that donates to Democrats, he couldnt possibly be the same guy knifing his West Wing rivals and urging the president to go to war with the Justice Department and the FBI.
But that assumption is wrong. Kushner and his representatives did not respond to requests for comment about this story. But those who know him from his days as a young New York real estate magnate and newspaper publisher say that America is just getting to know the Jared Kushner they have always known, that beneath the unflappable golden exterior is someone unafraid to bungee jump or to counter-punch when he feels slighted.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/25/jared-kushner-russia-fbi-donald-trump-215191
underpants
(182,826 posts)Just before the election, Kahlon described her former boss on Facebook thusly: Were talking about a guy who isnt particularly bright or hard-working, doesnt actually know anything, has bought his way into everything ever (with money he got from his criminal father), who is deeply insecure and obsessed with fame (you dont buy the NYO, marry Ivanka Trump, or constantly talk about the phone calls you get from celebrities if its in your nature to shun the spotlight), and who is basically a shithead.
latinaliberal
(102 posts)Ivanka married her Father.
brush
(53,786 posts)RDANGELO
(3,433 posts)Kushner, Manefort,Flynn, Sessions, Conway, Spicer and probably a others are a cabal of right wing racists, who have been enabled by the Russians. Kushner influenced his father in law who used to be somewhat moderate in his politics.
mitch96
(13,911 posts)I see a ken doll..
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BigmanPigman
(51,608 posts)He doesn't move and his skin is shiny.