Jared Kushner's Father Rips Ethics Watchdogs As 'Jerks' Who Can't Get A 'Real Job'

[Demovictory9]

Jared Kushner’s Father Rips Ethics Watchdogs As ‘Jerks’ Who Can’t Get A ‘Real Job’
“All they want to do is assure that poor, not successful people go into government.”

Jared Kushner’s father, real estate magnate Charles Kushner, slammed federal ethics watchdogs who have been hounding him and his son, calling them “jerks” who can’t get a “real job.”

He also insisted the watchdogs keep “rich, smart, successful people” out of government jobs.

“All they want to do is assure that poor, not successful people go into government,” Charles Kushner told The Real Deal in an interview published Friday. “Because if you’re successful, you shouldn’t be penalized by stupid ethics watchdogs raising things that are potential.”

He went on to complain about attacks and the “barrage of negative media” against his son, despite the “sacrifice” Jared Kushner has made as a public servant.

“I look at what my kids have sacrificed to go into government, with the only intent of doing good for this country and for the world, and to help people,” he said, apparently referring to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, according to the Real Deal. “They sacrificed a lot.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/charles-kushner-calls-ethics-watchdogs-jerks_us_5b131622e4b010565aac756c

[Thomas Hurt]

1. This is the standard of morality of many wingers....

being an unethical grifter means you are clever and successful.

That is why they whine and bitch about "big government". Their "smaller gov't" allows them con, steal, exploit, use, lie, defraud and extort.

[flibbitygiblets]

2. Damn. That's some world-class denial and privilege there.

Oh do tell, what have we the peon American people, gained from your princely son's "sacrifices"? Opioid crisis solved? VA working smoothly? Mexican relations resolved? Middle East Peace?

Thanks for all the sacrifice, a-hole.

[Demovictory9]

8. Jared's dad bought Jared's way into undergrad & grad school. Bought him a paper. Gave him money &

real estate. Ivanka only worked on year away from her father.

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-story-behind-jared-kushners-curious-acceptance-into-harvard

The Story Behind Jared Kushner’s Curious Acceptance into Harvard
ProPublica editor Daniel Golden wrote a book a decade ago about how the rich buy their children access to elite colleges. One student he covered is now poised to become one of the most powerful figures in the country.

My book exposed a grubby secret of American higher education: that the rich buy their under-achieving children’s way into elite universities with massive, tax-deductible donations. It reported that New Jersey real estate developer Charles Kushner had pledged $2.5 million to Harvard University in 1998, not long before his son Jared was admitted to the prestigious Ivy League school. At the time, Harvard accepted about one of every nine applicants. (Nowadays, it only takes one out of twenty.)

I also quoted administrators at Jared’s high school, who described him as a less than stellar student and expressed dismay at Harvard’s decision.

“There was no way anybody in the administrative office of the school thought he would on the merits get into Harvard,” a former official at The Frisch School in Paramus, New Jersey, told me. “His GPA did not warrant it, his SAT scores did not warrant it. We thought for sure, there was no way this was going to happen. Then, lo and behold, Jared was accepted. It was a little bit disappointing because there were at the time other kids we thought should really get in on the merits, and they did not.”

[Blue_true]

12. The rightwing has a shitstorm when a poor kid of color get into a top university.

They say not one damn word about the manifest destiny entrances of children of the rich and powerful. There are much more of the latter going on, a lot more.

[Me.]

3. Seriously?

these people live in delusion...what did Jarvanka give up exactly. Trademarks for new products, billions from the Chinese, Koreans. Qataris? I guess this felon's description of a jerk is anyone who isn't a thief like him.

[MBS]

4. Wow, world-class scum

( I had other words in mind to describe him, but figured I risked having my comment deleted. )

None of this grotesque family has even a glimmer of a notion of the concept of integrity, ethics, conscience, or good government.

As the article notes, Kushner Sr. has of course had his own well-deserved problems with the law.

The sense of entitlement and inflated, deluded self-regard is just breathtaking.

[Dave Starsky]

5. Convicted felon says what?

And we're supposed to care why?

[ProfessorGAC]

20. First Place I Went

He's a convicted felon!
He's opinion has less value than warm spit!

[Dave Starsky]

21. Particularly on the subject of ethics.

I don't know how any "journalist" could even write that crap down without doubling over in hysterics.

[RockRaven]

6. The headline and first sentence ought to contain the phrases "convicted criminal" & "ex-convict"

how else can we adequately put his respect for rules and laws into perspective when considering how he values ethics enforcers?

[elleng]

7. and he would know, right!

He founded Kushner Companies in 1985. In 2005, he was convicted of illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, and witness tampering, and served time in federal prison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kushner

[underpants]

9. Ethics? From Charles Kushner?

The guy who arranged for a hooker to meet up with his brother-in-law, videotaped it, and had it delivered to a birthday party at his own sister's house?

THAT Charles Kushner?

[DoctorJoJo]

10. This Convicted Jerkoff Is the Textbook Definition of Hypoctite

[Blue_true]

11. Rich people should be held to the very same standards that less rich people are held to.

Self-dealing in government should not be allowed.

[flibbitygiblets]

15. Rich people should be held to higher standards, actually.

Stealing food to feed your family, or becoming addicted to street drugs because you can't afford health insurance (to pay for socially acceptable addictive drugs), is on a whole different level than already having more than enough, and being so greedy and disgusting that you'd screw over someone less fortunate.

Going to jail for not paying a traffic fine should not happen. Going to jail for insider trading, or taking bribes, and things like that, SHOULD happen.

[pangaia]

13. Charles, you are a shit for brains fascist.

Go fuck yourself.

[Scurrilous]

14. LOL

These scumbags can't be gone soon enough.

[mulsh]

16. Jailbird scum bag doesn't like his kids being watched by people who know the law. quelle surprise.

Why is this ex-con getting any attention aside from that of the feds making sure he remains on the straight and narrow. It's only illegal if they catch you and this punk got caught. I'm betting his mouth breathing son and that feckless... creature he married will end up getting caught too.

[canetoad]

17. He's after a pardon

From his son's father in law.

[Still In Wisconsin]

19. And he will get it.

I expect Trump will be handing out pardons like Dr. Ronnie hands out prescriptions.

[oasis]

18. Slimy scum like him should just stfu before he lands back in the slammer.

What kind of dizzy bozo believes crooks can just run unchecked? Maybe he'll erect a shrine to John Dillinger in his family room.

[shanny]

22. Those poor unsuccessful people put his lame ass in jail

and they are about to do the same to his self-sacrificing (ha!) son.

[VOX]

23. Charles Kushner: 18 counts of illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, and witness tampering.

Jared's dad has the PERFECT qualifications to opine on ethics in the Trump era.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kushner

...The witness-tampering charge arose from Kushner's act of retaliation against William Schulder, his sister Esther's husband, who was cooperating with federal investigators; Kushner hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, arranged to record an encounter between the two, and had the tape sent to his sister. Kushner was sentenced to two years in prison, and served 14 months at Federal Prison Camp, Montgomery in Alabama, before being sent to a halfway house in Newark, New Jersey, to complete his sentence. He was released from prison on August 25, 2006.

As a result of his convictions, Kushner was disbarred, prohibited from practicing law in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.

[onecaliberal]

24. I should care what that felon thinks, why?