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MyNameIsKhan

(2,205 posts)
Thu Nov 17, 2016, 09:53 PM Nov 2016

What do we know about Jared Kushner? he is going to be the most influential person behind Don

Please anyone know anything... He is very well educated ... whether using golden parachute or he is bright?

His Ideology? no idea...

His ambitions? no idea...

NYT says Don want him to have super secret briefings with Flynn... I donot know what we will end up into... a MOB boss RULING THIS COUNTRY...

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TrekLuver

(2,573 posts)
1. Trashpot Trump is the smartest guy in the room...no the world yet he needs this 35
Thu Nov 17, 2016, 09:56 PM
Nov 2016

year old son in law by his side in order to function. What a sham.

elleng

(131,067 posts)
5. 'According to journalist Daniel Golden, Kushner and his brother Joshua were admitted
Thu Nov 17, 2016, 10:07 PM
Nov 2016

to Harvard after their father had made a $2.5 million donation to the university,[10][11][12][13][14] with the director of the school's college preparatory program describing his admission to be "an unusual choice for Harvard to make" given that he was "not anywhere near the top of his class."[15][13] While a student at Harvard, Kushner was a member of the Fly Club and bought and sold buildings in Somerville, Massachusetts, earning a $20 million profit.[16]

In 2007, Kushner graduated from New York University where he earned his J.D. degree and his M.B.A. degree;[17] his father had previously made a $3 million donation to NYU in 2001.[12] He interned at Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau's office.[8][14]'

Both look questionable to me.

enough

(13,262 posts)
4. Or maybe not.
Thu Nov 17, 2016, 10:07 PM
Nov 2016

From the wikipedia link:

According to journalist Daniel Golden, Kushner and his brother Joshua were admitted to Harvard after their father had made a $2.5 million donation to the university,[10][11][12][13][14] with the director of the school's college preparatory program describing his admission to be "an unusual choice for Harvard to make" given that he was "not anywhere near the top of his class."[15][13]

SidDithers

(44,228 posts)
7. I remember lots of posters sourcing his Observer.com...
Thu Nov 17, 2016, 10:14 PM
Nov 2016

to attack Hillary during the primaries.

Thankfully, many of those posters are either pizza'd, or have decamped for sites that support the President-elect.

Sid

Zo Zig

(600 posts)
8. His father in-law
Thu Nov 17, 2016, 10:23 PM
Nov 2016

questioned the admission of the our current and last true President, into the same school.

Raster

(20,998 posts)
11. Son-in-law Jared "svengali" Kushner has been one of the silent powers behind the throne...
Thu Nov 17, 2016, 11:27 PM
Nov 2016

...Trump trusts and confides in Kushner. During the last hectic weeks of the campaign, with Trump flying back-and-forth, Trump could not sleep and always insisted that someone stay up and talk with him. According to sources he (Trump) preferred the quiet, whispering voice of his son-in-law whispering in his ear that everything was going well.

Kushner, along with Steve Bannon, was behind the gotcha moment at the second debate, when Bill Clinton's alleged sexual victims were prominently seated in an attempt to distract Hillary Clinton.

WAS DONALD TRUMP’S SON-IN-LAW THE EVIL GENIUS ALL ALONG?

Jared Kushner is reportedly responsible for building the digital operation that brought the G.O.P. to its knees, and could give rise to a whole new Trump empire.

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/10/jared-trump-trump-campaign

Among the many curiosities surrounding the Trump campaign have been two central mysteries: who is really running the show, and what do they plan to do with Donald Trump once it’s all over?

Both were answered by Bloomberg Businessweek on Thursday, in a wide-open look at the sprawling digital operation being built by key members of the Trump campaign and how they plan to leverage their massive voter database post-election day. And Jared Kushner, Trump’s reticent son-in-law, appears at the center of it all.

Over the past several months, Kushner, a fellow real-estate scion and aspiring media mogul, has emerged as one of Trump’s most trusted advisers. The 35-year-old owner of the New York Observer has taken on an increasingly vital role within the campaign, with reports placing him behind some of Trump’s only policy speeches, brokering meetings with members of the conservative establishment, and offering advice on debate preparations and hiring decisions at critical moments in the campaign. He is also reportedly the driving force behind efforts to get the much-rumored Trump TV off the ground.

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JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
12. He has a soothing, reassuring, and comforting voice
Thu Nov 17, 2016, 11:30 PM
Nov 2016

That Trump likes to listen to. Anyone remember his final days on the campaign story?

Raster

(20,998 posts)
14. Oh yes, creeped me out...
Thu Nov 17, 2016, 11:32 PM
Nov 2016

...Trump would not sleep on long flights, and insisted someone stay awake AND TALK TO HIM, and the person he preferred was Kushner, who would whisper into his father-in-law's ear that everything was going well.

Raster

(20,998 posts)
13. We also know that Kushner is behind the Chris Christie purge...
Thu Nov 17, 2016, 11:30 PM
Nov 2016
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/11/16/trump-kushner-christie-transition/93992468/

Trump son-in-law Kushner reportedly settling Christie score in transition

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But it’s now clear the New Jersey Republican could have done without the Kushner family coming back into his life.

Seryl and Charles Kushner are the parents of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, who reportedly blocked Christie from becoming Trump’s vice presidential nominee and now has led the ouster of Christie allies from the president-elect’s transition organization.

The motive: Christie as U.S. attorney was involved in the prosecution of Charles Kushner, who was sentenced to prison in 2005 on 18 counts of tax evasion, witness tampering and making illegal campaign donations.

The latest casualty came Wednesday: Kevin O’Connor, who is close to Christie and has been leading the Justice Department transition team, is out. Christie and O’Connor were both U.S. attorneys at the same time, O’Connor in that role for Connecticut from 2002 until 2008 while Christie was serving in New Jersey.

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