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Fast Forward Kushner Pushes Restraint On Declaring Emergency To Build Border Wall
Jared Kushner is lobbying for President Trump to refrain from quickly declaring a national emergency to get funding to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and the government shutdown, The Wall Street Journal reported. Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, reportedly said in a recent Oval Office meeting that declaring an emergency, which Trump has…
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The Schmooze Ivanka and Jared Reportedly Walked Out Of Dick Cheney Biopic ‘Vice’
Date night gone wrong? Over Christmas, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner reportedly walked out of a viewing of “Vice,” the contentious Dick Cheney biopic. The couple observed the Jewish custom of catching a movie on Christmas, but either remembered suddenly that they perhaps shouldn’t be relaxing while the government is shut down or found the…
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Fast Forward Jared Kushner Helps Trump Sell ‘Crisis’ On Border — And Unpopular Wall
President Trump is on a mission to convince Americans that there’s a “crisis” on the southern border — and to bully Democrats into caving to his demand for a wall. And Jared Kushner is helping out his famous father-in-law, Axios reported. During a briefing, a group of reporters were given a slide deck with statistics…
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Fast Forward Twitter Burns Javanka For Enjoying Mar-A-Lago Sun During Government Shutdown
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner left wintry Washington D.C. and a mostly closed government for vacation at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, Daily Mail reported. The president’s daughter and son-in-law are also his senior advisers and technically federal employees. Kushner was reportedly active in the shutdown negotiations. Yet they were spotted on Christmas Day, day five…
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Fast Forward Trump Unfollows Ann Coulter For Jibe At ‘Money Making’ Jared And Ivanka
President Trump unfollowed right-wing talking head Ann Coulter on Twitter soon after she criticized his presidency and his daughter and son-in-law, The Hill reported. Coulter told The Daily Caller on Wednesday that she wouldn’t support Trump’s reelection if the wall on the Mexican border he promised to build doesn’t show signs of progress. “Trump will…
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Fast Forward Kushner Gets Kudos For Role In Criminal Justice Bill
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner is getting a pat on the back for his leadership in attempting to overhaul the nation’s criminal justice system. It’s a bipartisan affair, with both Republicans and Democrats who worked on the bill crediting him for taking the reins, the Los Angeles Times reported. He was influential in convincing…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Negotiator: White House Needs Statesman, Not Real Estate Agents
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner doesn’t have a great rapport with Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat — at their last meeting, things went sour, Erekat recently said in an on-stage interview at the Doha Forum in Qatar. Buzzfeed News on Sunday provided a transcript of Erekat’s recollection of the November 30 meeting. Less than…
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Opinion Did Jared Kushner Learn To Fail Up From Trump?
Last week, we learned that in 2016, Jared Kushner was appointed to be the new Michael Cohen. That’s when Trump made his son-in-law “the main conduit between Trump and his friend David Pecker, the National Enquirer publisher and chief executive of AMI, who prosecutors said on Wednesday admitted to making a $150,000 hush-money payment ‘in…
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