Discussion: WaPo: Kushner's Company Got $285 Million Loan Month Before Election

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WaPo: Kushner's Company Got $285 Million Loan Month Before Election WaPo: Kushner's Company Got $285 Million Loan Month Before Election Back to article
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a $285 million loan from Deutsche Bank the month before the 2016 election, which Kushner did not disclose on his financial disclosure form

What happens in the Trump family stays in the Trump family.

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"Asked about the loan, the White House told the Washington Post that Kushner “‘will recuse from any particular matter involving specific parties in which Deutsche Bank is a party.’”

Yuh-huh. Sure. If the White House weren’t brimming over with lying sacks of shit we might actually believe that.

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the White House told the Washington Post that Kushner “will recuse from any particular matter involving specific parties in which Deutsche Bank is a party.”

In this case, “recuse” means ‘refuse to testify about’.

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A lawyer for Kushner, Blake Roberts, told the Washington Post that Kushner did not disclose the loan because guidance from the Office of Government Ethics “clearly states that filers do not have to disclose as a liability a loan on which they have made a guarantee unless they have a present obligation to repay the loan.”

A loan that has no present obligation to repay? Isn’t that what we refer to as “a gift?”

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A gift, a bribe…

Potayto, potahto

Just a teeny, tiny, miniscule possibility that Deutshce Bank doesn’t want all of their financial transactions exposed to scrutiny.

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a Grift ?

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More of the same?

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Maybe this liability doesn’t flow to Jared because, “the family has a lot of buffers.”

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So, let me get this straight…he didn’t have to report it because he didn’t have to PAY IT BACK!!!

Sounds very trumpian. Only the little people have to pay back loans. I heard a quote from Donald once: “If you owe someone $5,000 and you can’t pay it back, you’ve got a problem. If you owe someone $5,000,000 and you can’t pay it back, HE’s got a problem.”

I guess Jarad had to get something back for his unpaid job of running the world…

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Put another way, if you borrow $5k from someone, you’ve acquired a creditor. If you borrow $5 million from someone, you’ve acquired a partner.

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… guidance from the Office of Government Ethics “clearly states that filers do not have to disclose as a liability a loan on which they have made a guarantee unless they have a present obligation to repay the loan.”

Um, what? If it’s a loan, it’s a liability. I don’t care if you have “made a guarantee” to repay it (you mean as in “I promise, I promise” and then sign on the dotted line?) – you still owe the people.

I may not be a lawyer, but even I know a loan is a loan is a loan.

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So, could this, and many other things, have something to do with rump’s petulance around Merkel? Is it possible she knows what’s up and he knows she knows?

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Loan was to the Kushner Company. Jared apparently personally guaranteed the loan according to the consigliere’s statement. But, what? The guarantee doesn’t kick in till the company defaults?. Therefore, no requirement to disclose. Except … this is bullshit. Kushner is the company and the company is Kushner. The spirit, at least, of the disclosure requirement is just for this kind of obligation and favorable deal (and let’s not just accept the Kushner consigliere’s explanation).

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[quote=“misterneutron, post:12, topic:58068, full:true”]
Put another way, if you borrow $5k from someone, you’ve acquired a creditor. If you borrow $5 million from someone, you’ve acquired a partner.
[/quote]And if you borrow $285 million from someone, you’ve acquired an obligation to do that person’s bidding - quid pro quo (especially if there’s a Russian co-signer)…

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Hillary profited $100,000 on a possibly shady investment.
Keep you eye on the ball!
She also personally gave Putin the keys to our nuclear arsenal, for a donation to the Clinton Foundation—or something pretty close to that.

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A loan that has no obligation to repay…that would be called a bribe…

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Remember that a month before the election (ah, the dear, dead days of yore), Trump was an all-but certain loser. So lending to the Kushners was not a good political bet. On the other hand, failing to note the loan (large enough that he would have remembered it!) is something more to note.

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Perhaps – unless Deutsche Bank somehow “knew” (you know, like Bitch McConnell and Vladimir Putin “knew”) Trump would “win” the election.

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