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demmiblue

(36,743 posts)
Fri May 26, 2017, 09:10 AM May 2017

Meet the Real Jared Kushner

"He’s 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 House’s “nationalist” wing.

Except that this isn’t 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 family’s 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 America’s princeling? Is he hearing footsteps from Bannon and the other anti-globalists in the White House’s 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 couldn’t 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

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Meet the Real Jared Kushner (Original Post) demmiblue May 2017 OP
"There is the guy that stole my money. underpants May 2017 #1
There u go latinaliberal May 2017 #2
He's also a slum lord. brush May 2017 #4
Here is my theory. RDANGELO May 2017 #3
Every time I look at him mitch96 May 2017 #5
I dressed Macy's mannequins and was thinking of the resemblance with Jared. BigmanPigman May 2017 #6

underpants

(182,271 posts)
1. "There is the guy that stole my money.
Fri May 26, 2017, 09:28 AM
May 2017

Just before the election, Kahlon described her former boss on Facebook thusly: “We’re talking about a guy who isn’t particularly bright or hard-working, doesn’t 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 don’t buy the NYO, marry Ivanka Trump, or constantly talk about the phone calls you get from celebrities if it’s in your nature to ‘shun the spotlight’), and who is basically a shithead.”

RDANGELO

(3,430 posts)
3. Here is my theory.
Fri May 26, 2017, 09:43 AM
May 2017

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.

BigmanPigman

(51,430 posts)
6. I dressed Macy's mannequins and was thinking of the resemblance with Jared.
Fri May 26, 2017, 04:12 PM
May 2017

He doesn't move and his skin is shiny.

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