Jared Kushner, Donald Trump son-in-law, will be named Senior Advisor to the President, according to NBC News, citing a transition team source.
The role will essentially be the same one he held during the Republican president-elect’s campaign.
Kushner, married to Trump’s eldest daughter Ivanka, was already taking steps to distance himself from his sprawling real estate business in order to clear a series of hurdles that could hinder his taking of a government job.
Another sign he was serious about working in the West Wing is that he and Ivanka already found a home in Washington where they will move with their three kids.
The president-elect plans to hold a press conference in New York City on Wednesday and make clear that Ivanka Trump will not be running his business while he’s in the White House.
He will need to argue that a federal anti-nepotism law that bar officials from appointing relatives to government positions does not apply to him as well as eliminate potential conflicts of interest between his family’s multi-billion dollar real estate empire and his government duties.
Just as week after Trump was elected, Kushner met with Wu Xiaohui, the chairman of Anbang Insurance Group, one of China’s most aggressive acquirers of overseas properties, to discuss a deal in the works to redevelop one of the Kushner family’s flagship Manhattan addresses, according to the New York Times.
The paper used the meeting, which took place at the Waldorf Astoria hotel, a property Anbang owns, as an example of the ‘ethical thicket’ Kushner will have to navigate through to get to the White House, in part because his business is still a major real estate investor, while the Trump Organization has turned more to branding.
Kushner, who often has the last word with the president-elect before a major decision is made, has explored stepping away from his role as CEO of the real estate business and has consulted with federal officials about resolving potential conflicts, according to his lawyer.
‘Mr. Kushner is committed to complying with federal ethics laws and we have been consulting with the Office of Government Ethics regarding the steps he would take,’ said Jamie Gorelick, a partner at the law firm of WilmerHale, in a statement.
‘Although plans are not finalized, Mr. Kushner would resign from his position at Kushner Companies and divest substantial assets in accordance with federal guidelines.’
Gorelick said that Kushner ‘would recuse from particular matters that would have a direct and predictable effect on his remaining financial interests. He would also abide by federal rules requiring impartiality in particular matters involving specific parties.’
Kushner’s challenges highlight a notable pattern of the incoming administration.
While some government officials will be forced to divest and rearrange their financial portfolios to comply with federal ethics laws, their boss will not be required to do the same.
As president, Trump is exempt from laws aimed at ensuring federal employees’ personal financial interests do not influence their decisions.
The president-elect has said he intends to distance himself from his own international real estate business, but he has suggested he intends to break from precedent by retaining a stake in the company.
Trump is expected to announce some plans for his business during a Wednesday news conference.
The Kushner Companies is a major real estate investor in New York and elsewhere and participated in roughly $7 billion in acquisitions in the last decade.
If Kushner joined the administration, he would divest some of business interests, including his stake in a major Fifth Avenue skyscraper, according to his spokeswoman Risa Heller.
The property, 666 Fifth Avenue, was the subject of the meeting with the Chinese firm on November 16.
Kushner has spent months negotiating a redevelopment of that building with Anbang Insurance Group, a real estate giant with close ties to the Chinese government.
The mysterious Anbang has drawn scrutiny from Wall Street firms and federal agencies in the past.
In addition to working through that nest of potential conflicts, Kushner has also been consulting lawyers about a federal anti-nepotism law that bars officials from appointing relatives to government positions.
The 1967 law, which was seen as a response to President John Kennedy selecting his brother Robert Kennedy as attorney general, would also be a potential obstacle for Ivanka Trump, who is also expected to have a role in her father’s White House.
Some Trump advisers have argued that the law does not apply to the White House, only Cabinet agencies.
‘The anti-nepotism law apparently has an exception if you want to work in the West Wing, because the president is able to appoint his own staff,’ Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway said in December.
‘The president does have discretion to choose a staff of his liking.’
As precedent, some Trump backers have pointed to the woman the president-elect defeated in last year’s bitter White House race: Hillary Clinton. President Bill Clinton’s decision to put his wife in charge of his health care reform efforts was challenged in court, but two federal appeals judges said the anti-nepotism law did not appear to cover White House staff appointments.
But if Trump finds White House roles for his daughter and son-in-law, he’s walking an ethical tightrope that could set a precedent for future presidents, said Norm Eisen, who served as President Barack Obama’s chief ethics counselor.
For example, if the first lady’s office essentially becomes the first family’s office, ‘it will be like institutionalizing nepotism,’ he said. ‘And I think it could be politically perilous.’
At the least, Eisen said, Trump should ensure the couple is categorized as regular government employees who must routinely publicly file disclosures about their business ties and investments.
In the campaign’s stretch, Kushner was a constant presence at his father-in-law’s side. He has acted as a gatekeeper to Trump in the transition and has sat in on scores of high-level meetings, including Cabinet interviews.
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AND NOW, YOUR NEW PRESIDENT IS REVEALED……. HAIL THE KUSHNER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They’re going to need additional place settings.
Senior advisor to what? How to be a good Zionist Jew? WTF?
Check out Jared’s lawyer, Jamie Gorelick. Remember, she was also a member of the 9/11 commission.
THANX FOR THE MEMORY
Jewish New Jersey real estate family (Kushner) and Goldman Sachs bankers as advisors (controllers) of Trump. What can go wrong?
No nepotism going on here. 🙄
We all know the reason behind it, though…
https://youtu.be/blhADUuFITo?t=2
“The property, 666 Fifth Avenue, was the subject of the meeting with the Chinese firm on November 16.”
I’m sure it’s a trendy address among Satan-worshiping globalists, and Kushner probably hates parting with it.
I wonder how many babies were sacrificed on that alter.
I have a simple plan.
First if all, no dual citizens, of any type, in ANY government position.
No more Jews in ANY significant government position.
They can be mailmen/mailwomen but that’s about it.
No more Jew Supreme Court judges.
No more Jew “Federal Reserve” chairs until we abolish it.
No more Jew Federal or high level State Judges.
No more Jew Cabinet members.
No more Jew Presidential “advisors”.
No Jews in the State Department.
No Jews in University History and Literature Departments.
(See Norman Dodd interview)
Actually, to be fair, since Jews are so prominent in pushing affirmative action laws, they can be in those positions based on their percentage of the total population of America. But no more than that.
We don’t want to discriminate against non-Jews do we? (sarcasm)
Please, seriously, correct me if I’m wrong. But all Jews have a right of return to Israel (to avoid criminal traitorous charges?).
Force them to legally choose their loyalty.
Stop all monetary aid to Israel for ANY reason.
Make them fight their own wars with their own children dying for “their” country.
Give them Madagasgar, like was considered in the early 20th century.
And, please tell the daughters of politicians to quit marrying Jews and spawning their kids.
WTF?
Are these women that stupid?
I’m afraid to know the answer.
But…they don’t marry Buddhist Cambodians…or Vietnamese…or Chinese…or Tibetans…or Columbians…or Cubans…or Africans…or Argentinians (unless they’re Jews)…etc…etc…etc…or, God forbid, black men from Chicago or Detroit.
They always seems to marry Jews who weasel their way into positions of political power.
Like I said. WTF?
Doesn’t anybody else see this?
Sorry.
I’ve been sick and the fevers must have affected my thinking by removing my “it’s so obvious I can’t shut the f**k up” filter.
Please forgive me.
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Jews DO Control The Media
By Manny Friedman
July 12, 2012 “Times Of Israel”
We Jews are a funny breed. We love to brag about every Jewish actor. Sometimes we even pretend an actor is Jewish just because we like him enough that we think he deserves to be on our team. We brag about Jewish authors, Jewish politicians, Jewish directors. Every time someone mentions any movie or book or piece of art, we inevitably say something like, “Did you know that he was Jewish?” That’s just how we roll.
We’re a driven group, and not just in regards to the art world. We have, for example, AIPAC, which was essentially constructed just to drive agenda in Washington DC. And it succeeds admirably. And we brag about it. Again, it’s just what we do.
But the funny part is when any anti-Semite or anti-Israel person starts to spout stuff like, “The Jews control the media!” and “The Jews control Washington!”
Suddenly we’re up in arms. We create huge campaigns to take these people down. We do what we can to put them out of work. We publish articles. We’ve created entire organizations that exist just to tell everyone that the Jews don’t control nothin’. No, we don’t control the media, we don’t have any more sway in DC than anyone else. No, no, no, we swear: We’re just like everybody else!
Does anyone else (who’s not a bigot) see the irony of this?
Let’s be honest with ourselves, here, fellow Jews. We do control the media. We’ve got so many dudes up in the executive offices in all the big movie production companies it’s almost obscene. Just about every movie or TV show, whether it be “Tropic Thunder” or “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” is rife with actors, directors, and writers who are Jewish. Did you know that all eight major film studios are run by Jews?
Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good. (photo credit: CC BY-SA Angela George/Wikimedia Commons)
But that’s not all. We also control the ads that go on those TV shows.
And let’s not forget AIPAC, every anti-Semite’s favorite punching bag. We’re talking an organization that’s practically the equivalent of the Elders of Zion. I’ll never forget when I was involved in Israeli advocacy in college and being at one of the many AIPAC conventions. A man literally stood in front of us and told us that their whole goal was to only work with top-50 school graduate students because they would eventually be the people making changes in the government. Here I am, an idealistic little kid that goes to a bottom 50 school (ASU) who wants to do some grassroots advocacy, and these guys are literally talking about infiltrating the government. Intense.
Now, I know what everyone will say. That everyone tries to lobby. Every minority group and every majority group. That every group has some successful actors and directors. But that’s a far call from saying that we run Hollywood and Madison Avenue. That the Mel Gibsons of the world are right in saying we’re deliberately using our power to take over the world. That we’ve got some crazy conspiracy going down.
Okay. Fine. So some of that is kooky talk.
But let’s look at it a bit deeper.
Maybe it’s true: everyone lobbies. Maybe it’s true there are actors of every ethnicity out there. But come on. We’re the ones who are bragging about this stuff all the time. Can’t we admit that we’re incredibly successful? Can’t we say it to the world?
I’ll give my theory for why Jews don’t want to talk about their control of the media.
First of all, as much as Jews like to admit that so many of them are successful, and that so many of them have accomplished so much, they hate to admit that it has to do with they’re being Jewish. Maybe they’ll admit that it has something to do with the Jewish experience. But how many Jews will admit that there is something inherently a part of every single one of them that helps them to accomplish amazing things?
The ADL chairman, Abe Foxman, was interviewed in a great article about the subject and he said that he “would prefer people say that many executives in the industry ‘happen to be Jewish.’” This just about sums up the party line.
The truth is, the anti-Semites got it right. We Jews have something planted in each one of us that makes us completely different from every group in the world. We’re talking about a group of people that just got put in death camps, endured pogroms, their whole families decimated. And then they came to America, the one place that ever really let them have as much power as they wanted, and suddenly they’re taking over. Please don’t tell me that any other group in the world has ever done that. Only the Jews. And we’ve done it before. That’s why the Jews were enslaved in Egypt. We were too successful. Go look at the Torah — it’s right there. And we did it in Germany too.
This ability to succeed, this inner drive, comes not from the years of education or any other sort of conditional factors, but because of the inner spark within each Jew.
Now, the reason groups like the ADL and AIPAC hate admitting this is because, first of all, they are secular organizations. Their whole agenda is to prove that every Jew is the same as every other person in the world. I cannot imagine a more outlandish agenda. No, we’re different. We’re special.
And clearly, that whole thing about big Jewish noses was totally blown out of proportion. (illustrative photo: Abir Sultan/Flash 90)
Of course, people hate when anyone says this. They assume that if you’re saying that Jews are special, it somehow implies that they’re better.
To be honest, I’m not really sure what the word “better” even means. What I do know is that being special simply means a person has a responsibility to do good.
I think that’s the real reason most Jews are so afraid to admit that there’s something inherently powerful and good about them. Not because they’re afraid of being special. But because they’re afraid of being responsible. It means that they’re suddenly culpable when they create dirty TV shows that sully the spiritual atmosphere of the world. It means that things can’t just be created for the sake of amusement or fun or even “art.”
Suddenly, we can’t screw up the world.
The interesting thing is that Jews have done so much for the world in so many other ways. They’ve moved forward civil rights; they’ve helped save lives in Darfur, Haiti and just about everywhere else.
But that’s not enough. Fixing the world physically is only half the battle.
Our larger battle, the harder battle, is elevating the world spiritually. And this is what the people that fight with every inch of their soul to prove that Jews are just the same as everyone else are afraid of. It means that we can no longer just “express ourselves.” We’ll have to start thinking about the things we create and the way we act. It means we’ll have to start working together. It means we’ll have to hold one other, and ourselves, to a higher standard.
The time has come, though. We no longer have to change our names. We no longer have to blend in like chameleons. We own a whole freaking country.
Instead, we can be proud of who we are, and simultaneously aware of our huge responsibility — and opportunity.
Those last two sum up our psychpathic traitorous enemy.
“and opportunity”
Parasites see opportunity.