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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJARED KUSHNER AND IVANKA TRUMP, SELFLESS PUBLIC SERVANTS, MADE AS MUCH AS $120 MILLION LAST YEAR
Acouple of years back, Jared Kushners father, Charles Kushner, was good and fed up with the media for what he believed were hugely unfair characterizations of his firstborn son. Channeling his rage, Kushner the Elder sat down and wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post in which he chastised the press for its baseless attacks on young Jared, insisting that not only was the then first son-in-law a genius businessman but that he made a substantial financial sacrifice to go work at the White House and serve his country. And by substantial sacrifice, Chuck apparently meant couldve made half a billion in a calendar year but settled for a pedestrian $120 million. (Perhaps if you ungrateful schmucks had been aware of that, you wouldnt have thrown Kush and his father-in-law away so quickly.)
Government watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington examined Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trumps final financial disclosure reports and found that between January 1, 2020, and January 20, 2021, the couple earned between $23,791,645 and $120,676,949 in combined outside income. Now that may sound like a lot to your average peon but know this: The couple clearly struggled just as much last year as you did. While Jared was busy trying to scare off the pandemic with his MBA and Ivanka was spending quarantine taking courses in Greek and Roman mythology and learning to play the guitar, they were no doubt also wiping away tears. For the small country they hoped to buy just for the f--k of it and wouldnt be able to afford:
Like former President Donald Trump, their income also appears to have been affected by the pandemic. In their financial disclosures covering 2019, they reported between $36,151,214 and $157,020,085 in income . Ivanka Trumps interest in and income from the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., also decreased dramatically in 2020. In her combined annual/termination report, she reported $1,463,449 in hotel-related revenue, down from nearly $4 million in her previous disclosure. By the time she left the White House, the value of her stake in the hotel dropped from between $5 and $25 million as reported in her previous disclosures to $100,001 to $250,000.
If youre not rich, you probably cant understand, but its a lot harder to go from making between $36 million and $157 million to between $23 million and $120 million than it is to work three minimum-wage jobs. No, its not like being among the 20.5 million people who had to file for unemployment in Aprilthe same month Jared said the U.S. was at the start of its comebackand sure, Javanka werent going without food like millions of Americans but they might as well have been! Sure, they were still able to plunk down $30 million for a plot of land on a private island in Florida and rent a condo for what appears to be at least $39,000 a month until their new gazillion-square-foot house is built but just barely! Thankfully, though, things werent all bad:
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/02/jared-kushner-ivanka-trump-financial-disclosures
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(16,950 posts)RANDYWILDMAN
(2,667 posts)Those two are gems, national treasure these people need to go away cause they have just done too much.
JI7
(89,244 posts)Botany
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Mr.Bill
(24,263 posts)As long as someone would loan me 400 million that I will never pay back.