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Greg Olear
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Shame Cometh: The Jared Kushner Story
A tale of hubris and disgrace.
6:00 AM · Feb 8, 2022
https://gregolear.substack.com/p/shame-cometh-the-jared-kushner-story
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The son was tall and quiet, like his mother. He was intellectually lazy and not particularly smart, but was always convinced he knew better than anyone else, despite ample evidence to the contrary.
He got ho-hum grades in high school. His SAT tests were subpar. He applied to Harvard, but was only accepted after his father donated millions to the school.
He had an unusual college experience. On weekends he flew to Alabama to visit his father in prison. While taking classes, he ran some of the family real estate concerns in Boston. He did not leave a mark at the school. Little about him was memorable.
When he graduated, he went to work for the family real estate business. His big idea was to buy a building on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The cost was staggering: $1.8 billion. The deal closed in 2007, at the height of the boom. The real estate market collapsed, along with the rest of the economy, within months of the ink drying. The building was underwater. The debt service was onerous, threatening to bankrupt the family business. He was willing to do almost anything to prevent that from happening. If the investment failed, if the company failed, that meant that he had failedthat he hadnt been right. And he was always right.
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llmart
(17,728 posts)and he ends up in the same place.
underpants
(197,169 posts)💥 bam!

no_hypocrisy
(55,369 posts)Schnook
Nebbish
Schlemiel
Hekate
(100,133 posts)Hekate
(100,133 posts)
for allowing the Tribe of Trump anywhere near the White House.
Off to continue reading
Cha
(320,534 posts)Kushner was & so was that Spawn of Anti-Christ.
CrackityJones75
(2,403 posts)None.
JoeOtterbein
(7,875 posts)White, Wealthy and Well known makes it more likely he will die of old age, before he is arrested for any one of his many crimes.
mercuryblues
(16,515 posts)has been named. LOL.
I hope he squeals like a pig when questioned. Jared is not particularly bright enough to think up and orchestrate all of this without a helping hand. This stuff was not accomplished by a sole individual It took many, with the Slobfather at the top.
Hekate
(100,133 posts)
as far as she was concerned.
Yessssss.
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