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Fast Forward Kushner Can Work On Peace Talks Amid Security Clearance Tensions, Kelly Says
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Nothing should keep Jared Kushner from pressing ahead in trying to achieve Israeli-Palestinian peace, the White House chief of staff, John Kelly, said as reports of a rift between Kelly and President Donald Trump’s key adviser proliferated. “As I told Jared days ago, I have full confidence in his ability to continue…
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Fast Forward Mueller Now Investigating Kushner’s Ties With Foreign Financing
The ever-expanding investigation into Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election now reportedly includes also a probe of Jared Kushner’s businesses and finances. According to CNN, special counsel Robert Mueller and his team are looking into Kushner’s efforts to find foreign investors to help salvage the family business’s failed 666 Fifth Avenue real-estate deal. The Kushner…
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Fast Forward Jared And Ivanka Are Millions Deeper In Debt After Since Joining The White House
Presidential advisers and family members Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have taken on millions of dollars in additional debt in the year since they joined the White House, Politico reported Tuesday, citing Trump’s financial disclosure forms. Kushner has drawn on three credit lines, increasing their limits to a range of $5 million to $25 million….
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Fast Forward Kushner Companies’ High Rent Helped Shutter Guy Fieri’s Times Square Restaurant
Guy Fieri’s Times Square restaurant struggled with the $1.8 million annual rent charged by Kushner companies, according to the Washington Post.The restaurant closed December 31 and the space remains vacant. Kushner companies was formerly headed by Jared Kushner, before he resigned to join the Trump administration a year ago. The Post reports that Fieri’s restaurant,…
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Fast Forward Maryland Considers ‘Jared Kushner Act’ To Ban Arresting Tenants For Unpaid Rent
A bill recently introduced in the Maryland state legislature would ban judges from issuing arrest warrants for tenants being sued for less than $5,000 in unpaid rent — a proposal that its author is calling the “Jared Kushner Act.” The Kushner Companies, the real estate firm which presidential advisor/son-in-law Jared Kushner used to run and…
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Fast Forward Trump’s Pick For Ambassador To Chile Is A Major Kushner Business Partner
President Trump’s nominee to serve as ambassador to Chile has numerous close business ties with the family of Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law. Andrew Gellert is the president of his family’s food import company, which does business in Chile. His father George is one of Jared Kushner’s father Charles’s most trusted business partners, Bloomberg Politics…
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Israel News How David Friedman Is Putting His Right-Wing Stamp On American Policy To Israel
It is rare for a United States ambassador to challenge his superior, the secretary of state. And it is even rarer for the ambassador to succeed. But that is exactly what David Friedman, the top U.S. diplomat to Israel, did recently. Taking advantage of his close ties to President Trump, Friedman took issue with the…
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The Schmooze This Is The Dream Cast For The ‘Fire And Fury’ TV Adaptation
“Fire And Fury: Inside The Trump Whitehouse” will be developed into a TV show, it was announced on Wednesday. It would be “unpatriotic,” even bordering on “treasonous,” for us to not speculate about our dream cast. Here are our picks for actors who could portray the wild and wacky characters Wolff dreamed up* in the…
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