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Showing Original Post only (View all)the Anthony Kennedy retirement was dirty, and Ivanka was involved [View all]
Book reveals Trump effort to get Kennedy to step aside for KavanaughFamily coordinated charm offensive to convince ageing supreme court justice to retire.
"The Trump family carried out a coordinated White House charm offensive to persuade Anthony Kennedy, a swing vote on the supreme court, to retire and clear the way for Brett Kavanaugh, according to a forthcoming book."
"In Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump and an Epic Trail of Destruction, David Enrich, the finance editor of the New York Times, describes how the German bank became the last major financial institution willing to lend to Donald Trumps repeatedly defaulting business empire."
"Long before Trump ran for the White House, Justice Kennedys son, Justin, worked as an investment banker at Deutsche. Enrich describes how he developed a relationship with Trump, his daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner, helping to finance real-estate deals no other bank would touch because of Trumps record of failing to pay his debts to lenders, contractors and business partners."
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"Dark Towers describes how Ivanka Trump befriended the judge, sitting next to him at an inaugural lunch, regaling him with accounts of her close friendship with his son, then visiting the elder Kennedy at the supreme court, bringing her five year-old daughter to hear a case about arbitration agreements."
https://www.investigateivanka.com/post/book-reveals-trump-effort-to-persuade-justice-kennedy-to-step-aside-for-kavanaugh
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/04/trump-family-anthony-kennedy-brett-kavanaugh-dark-towers?CMP=share_btn_tw
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We never did find out why Judge Kennedy was so taken back when walking down
Historic NY
Sep 2020
#11
Not disagreeing with any of your post except I don't think God ever "approved" of any of this, ever.
Evolve Dammit
Sep 2020
#20
I'm actually a militant agnostic. "I don't know and you don't either" so it's all good!
Evolve Dammit
Sep 2020
#25