Discussion: NYT: Family Company Got Loans After Kushner Met With Businesses At WH

I think it’s time for Jared to decide that he wants to spend more time with his wife and family. Oh, wait, his wife works (if you can call it that) in the White House. Well, time for her to make a like decision.

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I really feel bad for the folks at C.R.E.W, Painter et. al. This blatant conflict of interest is what they have been yelling and warning about at the top of their lungs, well prior to the Inauguration. Has Mueller interviewed Jar-Vanka yet?!?! I am still floored that this clown had top level access to the Nations highest secrets all this time.

Kush is long over-due for his ‘time in the barrel’. My two cents.

Oh and more grift and chicanery from the Cabinet.

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The Washington Post report’s timing just after Kushner’s security clearance downgrade has left Kushner paranoid that people are out to get him

Too funny for words.

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Lock him up already.

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Bye bye Jared
You’ve past your sell-by date
Bye bye Jared
Leave today, why wait
Got no clearance
To see top secret stuff
No one trusts you
Time to go, ENOUGH

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No worse than the recent Bush Administration, really.

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Not to mention prosecutors in several jurisdictions.

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A spokesman for Kushner’s lawyer Abbe Lowell, Peter Mirijanian, told the New York Times that Kushner “has taken no part of any business, loans or projects with or for” Kushner Companies since he started as a White House staffer. Kushner Companies spokeswoman Christine Taylor also denied that Kushner played a role in obtaining the loans.

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Yep, this is Republican politics 101. Rich people don’t get into politics for the sake of Public Service, they get into politics to set forth policies to take advantage of government and enrich themselves.

All the while they will convince their ignorant base that it is poor minorities that are getting welfare from the government when in fact the government policies are getting way more money away to the rich, the true welfare Queens.

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Kushner is correct: I AM after him. I want to slap the smug off of that motherfucker.

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Paranoid? No Kushie, that’s not paranoia. Paranoia is delusions of persecution. What you are experiencing is very real terror of prosecution. You are going to prison like your daddy if you don’t move fast.

Time to make like a pancake Jared. Flip.

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If we can’t get this fool into prison, can we at least strap him into a Martha Stewart-style ankle bracelet so we can track him? Maybe one with a taser attachment?

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Charles V. Zehren, a spokesman for Apollo Global Management, told the New York Times … that the loan application “went through the firm’s standard approval process.”

And what is your firm’s standard approval process, Mr. Zehren?

I can’t tell you that. It’s proprietarty information.

Well, here’s your subpoena, Mr. Zehren.

OK, OK. In cases like this, our standard procedure is to go to the White House and compromise an inexperienced, but very high level, official, ensuring that down the road we get consideration worth ten times the money we’re lending.

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Uhm, that can’t be legal, right?

The massive levels of graft and incompetence are so mind blowing, I’m curious if just renting a paddy wagon might not be the most economical solution?

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IMHO BDS is one of those outmoded maladies, like lumbago or catarrh. Just sort of quaint nowadays.

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How naïve would one have to be to think that Jared Kushner, in the bosom of one of the most corrupt and vile business families in American history, didn’t use his leverage in the White House to get loans to keep his company afloat?
Even if he DIDN’T actually do it (which is possible, in the same way O.J’s innocence is possible, or Nixon’s innocence was possible, or that Jeffrey Dahmer was just a misunderstood gourmand), how stupid would he have to be to conduct business in the White House with anyone who had anything to do with his businesses, despite his father-in-law being so corrupt he makes flowers wilt as he walks by? If he is that stupid, he shouldn’t be working in the White House, although I am sure stalwart and totally-not-racist John Kelly will make sure he doesn’t work there much longer, as soon as the unassailably honorable Mr. Kelly apologizes to Rep. Frederica Wilson.

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Don’t forget beri-beri and scurvy!

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It’s not paranoia when they really are out to get you.

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I’m sure there is a perfectly normal explanation for this !

@old_curmudgeon Even paranoids have enemies !

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