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Fast Forward How Jared Kushner Helped A $1.2 Trillion Trade Zone Stay Intact
OTTAWA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Robert Lighthizer was the public face of arduous, year-long talks to rework NAFTA, but as he savored a successful conclusion in the White House Rose Garden on Monday, the U.S. trade representative singled out another man as the deal’s architect. “I’ve said before, and I’ll say again, this agreement would not have…
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Fast Forward Jared Kushner Was ‘Paranoid’ About Chris Christie, Orchestrated His Firing
Jared Kushner was allegedly “paranoid” about former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie — so he had him fired, The Daily Beast reported from an excerpt of a new tell-all book. In “The Fifth Risk,” bestselling author Michael Lewis dives into President Trump’s messy presidential transition and how it has shaped his time in office. The…
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Fast Forward One State Or Two? Rambling Trump Sheds Little Light On Mideast Peace Plan.
President Trump offered bizarre mixed signals about his vision for Mideast peace Wednesday, telling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu s he wants a two-state solution — but insisting hours later he is fine with a one-state solution. “If the Israelis and the Palestinians want one state, that’s OK with me. If they want two states,…
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Opinion Jared Kushner’s Jewishness Won’t Doom His Peace Plan. This Will.
In the fall of 1996, while in Israel as part of a small US team trying to negotiate an end to a particularly serious and violent crisis between Israelis and Palestinians, I learned that my mother’s cancer had progressed, and I returned home to be with her for those last precious days. Although neither religious…
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Fast Forward Kushner Deployed To Schmooze With Rich Republicans And Snag Campaign Donations
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner is attempting to woo wealthy members of Republican elite into donating to GOP midterm efforts and President Trump’s reelection campaign, Politico reported Monday. Kushner has attended several donor gatherings since August, and he plans to keep his calendar full, people close to him told Politico. Kushner has also been…
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Opinion How Jared Kushner Flubbed The ‘Ultimate Deal’ — And Hurt Israel
Donald Trump and Jared Kushner do not represent something entirely new in the American government’s approach to Israel and Palestine. Rather, they represent the grotesque exaggeration of features that have long been present. They are the Clinton, Bush and Obama Middle East teams as seen through a funhouse mirror. They constitute the reductio ad absurdum,…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Negotiator Says Trump Will Never Unveil Peace Plan
The United States will not present its long-awaited plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace in the foreseeable future and is instead trying to unilaterally change the terms of reference for any future proposal, a senior Palestinian official said on Saturday. Echoing deep skepticism among the Palestinians, Arab countries and analysts, Saeb Erekat, the Palestinian chief negotiator, said…
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Fast Forward Trump Once Agreed Jared Kushner Should Be Ousted: Woodward
JTA) — President Donald Trump last year agreed with a former top aide that Jared Kushner should not serve in the White House due to potential complications involving Kushner’s business dealings, the new book by journalist Bob Woodward claims. According to a story in Newsweek, “Fear: Trump in the White House” says that Trump contemplated…
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