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Fast Forward Even Ivanka And Jared Can’t Stop Donald From Rage-Tweeting On Shabbat
Pundits have speculated since President Trump entered the White House that he goes on his worst Twitter benders on Saturday, because that’s when Sabbath-observant Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are out of reach. But that theory faced new challenges this weekend, as the president threw out wild accusations of wiretapping against his predecessor, even as…
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Fast Forward Jared Kushner Also Met With Russian Ambassador During Transition
Add Jared Kushner to the list of Trump advisers who held talks with Russian officials during the transition period. The White House confirmed Thursday that Trump’s son-in-law attended a December meeting with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak, alongside Michael Flynn. Flynn has since lost his job as National Security Adviser due to similar…
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Fast Forward Report: Kushner Was At Flynn’s Controversial Russian Meeting
(JTA) — Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor, attended a controversial meeting in December between a Russian diplomat and former national security advisor Michael Flynn. The New York Times reported the story and the White House confirmation. The meeting between Kushner, Flynn and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak lasted 20 minutes at Trump Tower…
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News Is Jared Kushner Becoming A Small Shadow State Department?
“They think Jared can do everything.” A State Department official said Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and a high-level White House advisor, has such a sprawling portfolio that he’s starting to usurp the roles of trained diplomats, according to an article by Julia Ioffe in the Atlantic. “It’s reminiscent of the developing countries where I’ve…
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Fast Forward Jared Kushner To Keep Some Real Estate, Courts Conflict Of Interest Questions
Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, key White House advisor to the new president, will not entirely divest from his family’s vast real estate empire, ProPublica reported Friday. According to ProPublica’s report, based on documents released to the news organization and statements from the White House, Kushner is keeping some of his extensive assets. With an…
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Fast Forward Where Are Jared And Ivanka On Trans Bathrooms?
Advocates for LGBT rights are looking to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump to speak out against new guidelines that strip protection from trans students – and they’re coming up empty. The new guidelines, published Wednesday, reverse an Obama-era ruling that high schools must allow transgender students to use the bathrooms matching their gender identities. Jewish…
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Opinion How Ivanka Trump Revamped The Role Of The ‘Daddy’s Girl’
While researching my book, “Our Fathers, Ourselves,” I spent a year interviewing nearly 100 women, ages 20 through 40, most of them successful in their fields, in a quest to explore the father-daughter bond and the evolving gender roles between women and their dads. These were the sort of women who were early to excel…
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Fast Forward Frisch School Alumni Speak Out Against Jared Kushner On Trump’s Muslim Ban
Jared Kushner’s fellow alumni of New Jersey’s Frisch School say Jewish values spurred them to speak out about the famous graduate and President Trump’s “Muslim ban.” Nava Friedman organized a petition calling on Kushner to shift course she told the New York Jewish Week. “Given the values that we learned at Frisch … it felt…
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