Discussion: WaPo: At Least Four Countries Discussed How To 'Manipulate' Kushner

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And yet there was Kushner at the UN last week being pimped by Amb. Haley as our middle east negotiator. No quals, just a member of The Family.

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My response to that, is “OK, but what about THIS information?”

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We all knew this was happening. But I have to admit -seeing it in black and white like this- I still find it startling. Startling that people in the highest levels of government knew and did nothing to stop him.

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Well, duh! Desperate people do desperate things. People overextended like Jared Kushner do really desperate things.

You’d have to have the I.Q. of drooling cabbage not to know that.

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Notable absences in the list are Israel and Saudi Arabia. I guess those guys already know how and won’t discuss it.

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We will not respond substantively to unnamed sources peddling second-hand hearsay about our third-rate client…

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Right… because there’s no reason, at all, to believe that anyone would want to influence a guy with $1.3 Billion in debt.

The While Hole House of Misfit Toys.

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Are we going to pretend no one saw this coming well in advance?

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Wow, WaPo, sounds like you hit a nerve. I mean:

  • unnamed sources
  • peddling
  • second-hand information
  • rank speculation
  • leak
  • inaccurate information.

Someone really ought to warn Mirijanian that overdoing it on the invective can make your client look even guiltier.

Or not.

Yeah. on second thought, not warning him is better. This is just too much fun.

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This cannot be true.
Kushner is almost as smart as Trump.

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“We will not respond substantively to unnamed sources peddling second-hand hearsay…"

Yes, it’s always “hearsay” when it has anything to do with someone in Trump’s family, but it is considered “gospel truth” when someone is named “Clinton”.

…But His Emirates!!!

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Peter Mirijanian, a spokesperson for Kushner’s lawyer, told the Post: “We will not respond substantively to unnamed sources peddling second-hand hearsay with rank speculation that continue to leak inaccurate information.”

While Kushner’s personal spokesperson had this to say:

“No manipulate! No manipulate! You’re the manipulate!”

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Heh!

Hair by Don King. Ass by Bull Elephant. Dong by squirrel.

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Manipulate as in blackmail and extortion. It’s common knowledge that this guy is in debt and moneylaunders for whomever he can to make ends meet. His father has been convicted of insider trading which is just the tip of the Kushner iceberg. Why is the GOP content to sail right into it?

The RNC must be complicit with some of these Russian Mafia activities and have been for decades.Where did the TeaParty get it’s money? Why was Rove so confident that McCain would win the night of the 2008 election?

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I was our security clearance officer on the submarine many, many moons ago. I helped our crew fill out forms etc and occasionally spoke with the clearance agencies. One of the first things they look for (at least when dinosaurs roamed the earth) was whether or not peeps were in debt, hence subject to financial blackmail etc. Kush would not have been cleared for comic books or rumors in any other reality. Dude is massively hung out there with secrets for sale to the highest (or any) bidder.

Supermax for life for this phucker.

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Were allies …

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And then there’s this little bit of breaking news…

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:joy:

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The Koch Bros, via Dick Armey.

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