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Fast Forward Why Did Jared Kushner Speak To The Senate Intelligence Committee Behind Closed Doors?
Jared Kushner met with the Senate Intelligence Committee Thursday behind closed doors, only his second such meeting since July 2017, Reuters reported. It is not known what Kushner was called to the committee to speak about. Kushner is responsible for developing the Trump administration’s Israeli-Palestinian peace plan. The committee is also running a bipartisan investigation…
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Fast Forward Jared Kushner Uses WhatsApp For Official Business
Jared Kushner uses the encrypted messaging service WhatsApp to conduct official White House business, according who Representative Elijah Cummings, who on Thursday made public testimony made late last year before the House Oversight Committee by Kushner’s private attorney. The attorney, Abbe Lowell, acknowledged to the committee that Kushner “continues to use” WhatsApp for official business,…
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Books New Book ‘Kushner, Inc’ Makes Wild Claims — But The Wildest Thing Is Reading About Javanka At All
A new book, “Kushner, Inc” by journalist Vicky Ward, calls itself “the first explosive book about Javanka and their infamous rise to power.” The gleaming hardcover, bearing the words “Greed. Ambition. Corruption.” promises to “dig [sic] beneath the myth the couple has created.” This is a case of beautifully coiffed snake eats tail — digging…
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Fast Forward Trump Ordered Officials To Give Jared Kushner Top-Secret Security Clearance
President Trump overruled intelligence officials last year who raised concerns about Jared Kushner’s security clearance, ordering former chief of staff John Kelly to give top secret clearance to Kushner, the New York Times revealed in an explosive report on February 28. The Times report was based on contemporaneous memos written by Kelly and former White…
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Fast Forward Jared Kushner Traveling To Meet With Saudi Crown Prince
President Trump’s advisor and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is leaving Washington this weekend for a trip that will include an audience with Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, Vanity Fair reported. It will be his first face-to-face with the Saudi leader since the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in October, which U.S. intelligence reportedly…
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Fast Forward Chris Christie Roasts Jared Kushner’s Dad, Calls His Crimes ‘Disgusting, Loathsome’ In New Book
In a news segment promoting his new memoir “Let Me Finish,” Chris Christie said that the offense committed by Charles Kushner, Jared’s father, was “One of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes that I prosecuted,” the Washington Post reported. Charles famously videotaped his own brother-in-law having sex with a hired sex worker, and tried to use…
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Fast Forward Trump Shrugged At Ivanka’s Conversion: ‘She’s A Big Girl’
It’s not all traditional politics in Chris Christie’s forthcoming book, “Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics” — the former New Jersey governor also reveals a conversation he had with President Trump over his daughter Ivanka’s conversion to Judaism. In the book, due out January 29, Christie…
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Fast Forward Chris Christie Accuses Jared Of Getting Trump To Fire Him
Chris Christie accuses Jared Kushner in his forthcoming tell-all book of carrying out a political “hit job” on him as revenge for Christie’s prosecuting his father in 2005, The Guardian reported. In “Let Me Finish,” due out on January 29, Christie blames the presidential son-in-law for having him ousted from Trump’s transition team after the…
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