Much of America’s political media elite are seemingly obsessed about conflicts of interest lately, and that is a curious thing given the facts plain for all to see.
There is so much information out there about the horror that will be visited upon the United States if this Crime Family and its Associates are returned to power. If Americans want that, it is in their hands. One thing they can never say: we were not warned.
The other issue is we tend blame the media too much and not hold ourselves as Americans accountable to be responsible.
Case in point: I listened to a number of people say that they still intend to vote for Mark Robinson because they like his policies. This is after CNN uncovered all of his statements.
As for his policies, the only two I know of are to eliminate the teaching of science in schools and jail women seeking abortions.
They say the same about Trump, and his policies will bankrupt the nation: tariffs and mass deportations, what could possibly go wrong?
Saying they like his policies is the new mantra, before this, it was “he gets things done!” Either way, these people are far too gone to even take seriously….:)
Yet we must try to explain it to them. The mass deportation economic argument is a big one that is not discussed by anyone I've seen. It makes no sense to me that it's not. It will bankrupt cities and small towns - Springfield being one - and harm families beyond repair. How do the cult followers not know immigrants of all kinds pay taxes too? Start small businesses that grow? Help communities thrive?
Yes. I have this discussion with people and we find an air of unreality about it. Nonsensical, really. And I admit that when I looked at the people supporting Mark Robinson before the CNN thing, it is downright tragic given what he wants to do.
40% matches the MAGA base numbers, so that’s the explanation for it. Still mind boggling how that huge a percentage of our population can’t see beyond their noses.
When I first started voting over forty years ago, someone like Robinson, with everything he has said — which is just slander, vitriol, and lunacy — would be an outlier getting less than five percent. As to what makes people, over a third of voters, vote that way signals something is very wrong.
Is grifting sexually transmitted? Kushner is a poster boy ammunition for all the antisemitic tropes about Jews and money. Kushner is a double down - with the added twist that he is and has been a security risk. Hard to shake an image when the image is so blatant. Like Santos, Kushner is "jewish". Kushner is a shameful stereotype. Saying that from someone who is Jewish and ashamed. Press on.
I found out a few years ago that Jared and his mother are my distant cousins, 3rd and 4th from my paternal grandmother. Prior to knowing this relationship, I knew that Jared had attended a religious Jewish high school near to where I lived in N.J. His father paid his way to Harvard and people at the school were very angry about it, since Jared was not a great student. He went on to be a slum landlord and is as criminally inclined as his father, Charles, a convicted felon , and his father in law. The Kushners are friends with Bibi Netanyahu, also a criminal.
Just said the same .. again. He is, has been. He and Stephen Miller are, as my mom and dad (z"l) would have said, "bad for the Jews" - in a whispered tone to not cast aspirations on us all.
I’ve been wanting a deep dive into this since it happened!! 2 billion? For what? MBS is a murderer yet Trump& Kushner& his ilk are in bed with him. I want answers & the American people deserve answers. Thanks for all you do Steve!🙏🏻❤️🤍💙🇺🇸👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
The larger the corruption the more difficult it is to get Americans to grasp the magnitude of it. My instinct says that the average person looks at this and says “this is just very rich people taking money from very rich countries and that’s just the way things work.”
It’s too abstract to really grasp. The audacity of it is truly incredible. But as long as the Republican Party looks away there is just no way the Democrats can manufacture the outrage needed for this to truly matter.
There’s a way to get the point across in plain basic English that the average American could understand. Maybe target hardworking union workers who play by the rules and barely get by. It could be a PAC ad for targeted locations. Something that hits home the message that Kushner's and Trump’s dirty deals put us all at risk. Rick Wilson at the Lincoln Project could likely do this well and maybe already has. If so, do it again!
Jared is no different than Donald Trump. The fact that the Trump administration failed to respond approriately to the COVID epidemic, leading to more deaths per capita in our country than in any other industrialized nation is, in part, due to Kushner's cavalier attitude toward the catastrophe and his belief that state governors would be blamed for the administration's failure.
He and his wife are parasites, just like Trump, contributing nothing to the economy while enriching themselves. Like Trump, Kushner puts self-interests before everything else. When he received the $2b. from Saudi-Aradia with a tidy $25m. annually for managing the fund set up, an area in which he had "0" expertise, it was obvious to all with a functioning mind and moral compass, that the Saudis were buying influence.
What the hell is wrong with the 40% who continue to support a con man for the highest office in our land? Zeus help us, we can't seem to help ourselves.
Steve you should write for the NYT, Washington Post and other outlet that has a large readership.
I have been frustrated with Kushner forever..The whole family are grifters .. His latest, soon after the war broke out October 7th .. He said about Gaza ..It will make nice beachfront property ...
Him and his father in law have probably sold classified information to our adveraries since they got there hands on it. Trump wanted to keep those classified documents not as momentos but to sell and manipulate heads of state for his own gain. I don't know if we can survive this mess .. Mr. despicable Jarred didn't want to give much needed equipment to the blue states needed during the pandemic. The respirators the feds had were not serviced because Trump thought it was a waste of money...so
they were useless.. Theank You! Steve that was a great piece..
Most of us are primarily concerned with preventing a second Trump administration. I have been reading more about members of the House like Boebert, Gosar, Gaetz, and MTG. There are so many others; but one member seems like the most extreme to me. His name is Clay Higgins and he is a representative from Louisiana. He has made numerous outrageous, obviously false claims. He said that the insurrection on 1/6 was instigated by a "ghost bus" full of FBI agents dressed like Trump supporters. Christopher Wray called him on that lie, but that didn't stop the bullshit from flowing copiously from his foul mouth. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/nov/21/clay-higgins/why-a-republicans-claim-about-ghost-buses-of-fbi-i/
In reaction to a Haitian group beginning legal action against Trump and Vance, related to their lies about Haitians eating pets, he went into a vicious racist rant, telling them they better get their asses back to Haiti before January 20.
He has claimed, with no evidence, that Kamala Harris was given the questions before the debate. A flat out lie. How does he explain Trump's terrible performance? Did they give him the wrong answers, tell him to openly call for abandoning Ukraine, claim that our country was in decline, facing the highest level of inflation ever (not true) and so on...
"Earlier this year he appeared here when he threatened to show Trump’s hush money judge 'where the ocean is,' which is a reference to mob killings. Higgins has had several tweets removed by Twitter for inciting violence.
Steve, I hear you, but it appears the MSM is only interested in made up stories that depict Hunter Biden as the world’s most corrupt and incompetent criminal, and Haitian refugees as blood sucking animals that kidnap, and eat our pets.
So why mess with a great formula that rewards liars, cheaters and grifters, enabling their worse impulses, when you can report on a debunked story and then cover the fallout of the same debunked story, completely ignoring the entire grift and rot at the top of the Republican ticket that set that grift in motion.
That said, when Trump himself is benefitting from his Trump Technology Grift that could reward him billions for monetizing the presidency, as well as rewarding all of his investors who made him rich from the grift, during his second administration, why would they care about reporting all the conflicts of interest and corruption of Kushner? After all, Trump and Kushner are the epitome of walking, talking conflicts of interest!….:)
Okay, I'm going to embarrass myself here when I admit just how ignorant I am about things like "private equity firms." When I see phrases like that at the top of a New York Times story, I simply glaze over as I'm so completely uneducated about finance. Mind you, I don't believe anyone would consider me an ignorant or unintelligent person, as I'm serious about writing music and have been a professional writer in general my whole life. But I really had to carefully read Steve's linked back story to get the significance of what he's talking about today. In doing that, I had to wonder how many others feel similarly, as I wasn't raised in a family that invested money. My firefighter dad and my librarian mom had pensions, not 401Ks. My sister DOES have a 401K as her retirement, but she openly says she has no idea how it works, and she and her hubbie are highly educated citizens, both making well into the six figures. So if that's my family, how many of the MAGA voters are going to understand...or care... about these issues? At least I understand "conflict of interest" and the Emoluments clause. Do they? Will they ever? It takes effort to become informed, but that's at the core of any cult. As a cult member, you don't have to learn or think anymore. You give that up when you join.
Thanks for your honesty, Mary Ann. In my family and in my day it was considered rude and unacceptable to even butt into any one’s finances. It wasn’t taught in high school and in college only if you pursued certain majors. We had to get an education and get a job (never called a career). My dad worked his rear off finding ways to get us a college degree and then we were on our own. It used to be called “making a decent living”. Now you’re praised for making a killing - legal or not. And do brag about it along the way.
I’m proud that my son and daughter have good jobs in areas that help people and that they’d never earn money by ripping off other people.
We have a similar history, Marie, raised during a time when a college degree was aspired to, and middle class parents did all they could to make it happen. I'm glad my parents didn't live long enough to see all this. They died still believing in the American dream.
See Bill Browder's two books and the Magnitsky Act.
It's not paranoia if the bastards are actually out to get you. The World Order has evolved into the Dictators/Oligarchs/Autocrats vs Self Rule/Human Rights. They want 7 Billion humans to be their serfs.
Trump related corruption reeks! This was Kushner’s purpose of being in the last grim administration. He may not have received a “salary” but his goal for his wife and himself was to set up this future pursuit. Jared was not bright enough to be admitted to Harvard yet his father’s big check paid the entrance fee! What a sham deal and family of distain illegality. Money and power are all that counts with that crowd! Lacking any and all respect around the World? Sad and very pathetic! Void of any standards or ethics!
All this tells me is when there is enough money, tribal conflicts don't matter. So why would the US put any of our troops in harm's way for these people? The conflicts in the Middle East are thousands of years old. The only reason we are involved is because their fighting is long past Bedouins charging on horses. Now they use high tech weaponry. Which, of course, we sold to them.
Trump and family have been a walking conflict of interest since Day 1. The question is - what do these countries that have given money to Kushner want? It’s not because he’s a financial genius since he’s as unsuccessful as his father-in-law. Hmm… $112M in fees is an awful good gig if you can get it. Just sounds fishy
There is so much information out there about the horror that will be visited upon the United States if this Crime Family and its Associates are returned to power. If Americans want that, it is in their hands. One thing they can never say: we were not warned.
The other issue is we tend blame the media too much and not hold ourselves as Americans accountable to be responsible.
Case in point: I listened to a number of people say that they still intend to vote for Mark Robinson because they like his policies. This is after CNN uncovered all of his statements.
As for his policies, the only two I know of are to eliminate the teaching of science in schools and jail women seeking abortions.
Whoever said you can’t fix stupid was right.
They say the same about Trump, and his policies will bankrupt the nation: tariffs and mass deportations, what could possibly go wrong?
Saying they like his policies is the new mantra, before this, it was “he gets things done!” Either way, these people are far too gone to even take seriously….:)
Yet we must try to explain it to them. The mass deportation economic argument is a big one that is not discussed by anyone I've seen. It makes no sense to me that it's not. It will bankrupt cities and small towns - Springfield being one - and harm families beyond repair. How do the cult followers not know immigrants of all kinds pay taxes too? Start small businesses that grow? Help communities thrive?
Yes. I have this discussion with people and we find an air of unreality about it. Nonsensical, really. And I admit that when I looked at the people supporting Mark Robinson before the CNN thing, it is downright tragic given what he wants to do.
His policies??? Of hate?
I think Robinson will get 40 percent of the vote in this state. He’ll lose, but it is damn sad he gets this support.
40% matches the MAGA base numbers, so that’s the explanation for it. Still mind boggling how that huge a percentage of our population can’t see beyond their noses.
When I first started voting over forty years ago, someone like Robinson, with everything he has said — which is just slander, vitriol, and lunacy — would be an outlier getting less than five percent. As to what makes people, over a third of voters, vote that way signals something is very wrong.
Is grifting sexually transmitted? Kushner is a poster boy ammunition for all the antisemitic tropes about Jews and money. Kushner is a double down - with the added twist that he is and has been a security risk. Hard to shake an image when the image is so blatant. Like Santos, Kushner is "jewish". Kushner is a shameful stereotype. Saying that from someone who is Jewish and ashamed. Press on.
I found out a few years ago that Jared and his mother are my distant cousins, 3rd and 4th from my paternal grandmother. Prior to knowing this relationship, I knew that Jared had attended a religious Jewish high school near to where I lived in N.J. His father paid his way to Harvard and people at the school were very angry about it, since Jared was not a great student. He went on to be a slum landlord and is as criminally inclined as his father, Charles, a convicted felon , and his father in law. The Kushners are friends with Bibi Netanyahu, also a criminal.
I'm so sorry you discovered the relationship. He is a shanda. I've wondered for years what he and Stephen Miller do at Yom Kippur.
He, like his father is a shanda.
Just said the same .. again. He is, has been. He and Stephen Miller are, as my mom and dad (z"l) would have said, "bad for the Jews" - in a whispered tone to not cast aspirations on us all.
Joan, sorry for the redundancy. I have issues with right wing Jews.
Me too.
I’ve been wanting a deep dive into this since it happened!! 2 billion? For what? MBS is a murderer yet Trump& Kushner& his ilk are in bed with him. I want answers & the American people deserve answers. Thanks for all you do Steve!🙏🏻❤️🤍💙🇺🇸👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
The larger the corruption the more difficult it is to get Americans to grasp the magnitude of it. My instinct says that the average person looks at this and says “this is just very rich people taking money from very rich countries and that’s just the way things work.”
It’s too abstract to really grasp. The audacity of it is truly incredible. But as long as the Republican Party looks away there is just no way the Democrats can manufacture the outrage needed for this to truly matter.
And it does.
There’s a way to get the point across in plain basic English that the average American could understand. Maybe target hardworking union workers who play by the rules and barely get by. It could be a PAC ad for targeted locations. Something that hits home the message that Kushner's and Trump’s dirty deals put us all at risk. Rick Wilson at the Lincoln Project could likely do this well and maybe already has. If so, do it again!
🙏
Jared is no different than Donald Trump. The fact that the Trump administration failed to respond approriately to the COVID epidemic, leading to more deaths per capita in our country than in any other industrialized nation is, in part, due to Kushner's cavalier attitude toward the catastrophe and his belief that state governors would be blamed for the administration's failure.
He and his wife are parasites, just like Trump, contributing nothing to the economy while enriching themselves. Like Trump, Kushner puts self-interests before everything else. When he received the $2b. from Saudi-Aradia with a tidy $25m. annually for managing the fund set up, an area in which he had "0" expertise, it was obvious to all with a functioning mind and moral compass, that the Saudis were buying influence.
What the hell is wrong with the 40% who continue to support a con man for the highest office in our land? Zeus help us, we can't seem to help ourselves.
Steve you should write for the NYT, Washington Post and other outlet that has a large readership.
I have been frustrated with Kushner forever..The whole family are grifters .. His latest, soon after the war broke out October 7th .. He said about Gaza ..It will make nice beachfront property ...
Him and his father in law have probably sold classified information to our adveraries since they got there hands on it. Trump wanted to keep those classified documents not as momentos but to sell and manipulate heads of state for his own gain. I don't know if we can survive this mess .. Mr. despicable Jarred didn't want to give much needed equipment to the blue states needed during the pandemic. The respirators the feds had were not serviced because Trump thought it was a waste of money...so
they were useless.. Theank You! Steve that was a great piece..
How can we get the news media to cover this story? How about this:
Jared Kushner is eating the dawwgs! Jared is eating the cats! He's eating the peoples pets!
And unkosher bacon?
He's eating our lunch!
AND considering how they were all over Hunter Biden who did bupkis comparatively.
What's on Jared's laptop?
Most of us are primarily concerned with preventing a second Trump administration. I have been reading more about members of the House like Boebert, Gosar, Gaetz, and MTG. There are so many others; but one member seems like the most extreme to me. His name is Clay Higgins and he is a representative from Louisiana. He has made numerous outrageous, obviously false claims. He said that the insurrection on 1/6 was instigated by a "ghost bus" full of FBI agents dressed like Trump supporters. Christopher Wray called him on that lie, but that didn't stop the bullshit from flowing copiously from his foul mouth. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/nov/21/clay-higgins/why-a-republicans-claim-about-ghost-buses-of-fbi-i/
In reaction to a Haitian group beginning legal action against Trump and Vance, related to their lies about Haitians eating pets, he went into a vicious racist rant, telling them they better get their asses back to Haiti before January 20.
He has claimed, with no evidence, that Kamala Harris was given the questions before the debate. A flat out lie. How does he explain Trump's terrible performance? Did they give him the wrong answers, tell him to openly call for abandoning Ukraine, claim that our country was in decline, facing the highest level of inflation ever (not true) and so on...
"Earlier this year he appeared here when he threatened to show Trump’s hush money judge 'where the ocean is,' which is a reference to mob killings. Higgins has had several tweets removed by Twitter for inciting violence.
He regularly posts calls for civil war." https://www.nola.com/news/politics/elections/clay-higgins-haitians-to-get-their-ass-out-of-our-country/article_47746cc0-7b78-11ef-8794-7385a30e76bb.html
My question: Why hasn't this man been charged, tried, and jailed?
Steve, I hear you, but it appears the MSM is only interested in made up stories that depict Hunter Biden as the world’s most corrupt and incompetent criminal, and Haitian refugees as blood sucking animals that kidnap, and eat our pets.
So why mess with a great formula that rewards liars, cheaters and grifters, enabling their worse impulses, when you can report on a debunked story and then cover the fallout of the same debunked story, completely ignoring the entire grift and rot at the top of the Republican ticket that set that grift in motion.
That said, when Trump himself is benefitting from his Trump Technology Grift that could reward him billions for monetizing the presidency, as well as rewarding all of his investors who made him rich from the grift, during his second administration, why would they care about reporting all the conflicts of interest and corruption of Kushner? After all, Trump and Kushner are the epitome of walking, talking conflicts of interest!….:)
Okay, I'm going to embarrass myself here when I admit just how ignorant I am about things like "private equity firms." When I see phrases like that at the top of a New York Times story, I simply glaze over as I'm so completely uneducated about finance. Mind you, I don't believe anyone would consider me an ignorant or unintelligent person, as I'm serious about writing music and have been a professional writer in general my whole life. But I really had to carefully read Steve's linked back story to get the significance of what he's talking about today. In doing that, I had to wonder how many others feel similarly, as I wasn't raised in a family that invested money. My firefighter dad and my librarian mom had pensions, not 401Ks. My sister DOES have a 401K as her retirement, but she openly says she has no idea how it works, and she and her hubbie are highly educated citizens, both making well into the six figures. So if that's my family, how many of the MAGA voters are going to understand...or care... about these issues? At least I understand "conflict of interest" and the Emoluments clause. Do they? Will they ever? It takes effort to become informed, but that's at the core of any cult. As a cult member, you don't have to learn or think anymore. You give that up when you join.
Thanks for your honesty, Mary Ann. In my family and in my day it was considered rude and unacceptable to even butt into any one’s finances. It wasn’t taught in high school and in college only if you pursued certain majors. We had to get an education and get a job (never called a career). My dad worked his rear off finding ways to get us a college degree and then we were on our own. It used to be called “making a decent living”. Now you’re praised for making a killing - legal or not. And do brag about it along the way.
I’m proud that my son and daughter have good jobs in areas that help people and that they’d never earn money by ripping off other people.
We have a similar history, Marie, raised during a time when a college degree was aspired to, and middle class parents did all they could to make it happen. I'm glad my parents didn't live long enough to see all this. They died still believing in the American dream.
See Anne Applebaum's new book Autocrat, Inc.
See Bill Browder's two books and the Magnitsky Act.
It's not paranoia if the bastards are actually out to get you. The World Order has evolved into the Dictators/Oligarchs/Autocrats vs Self Rule/Human Rights. They want 7 Billion humans to be their serfs.
Trump related corruption reeks! This was Kushner’s purpose of being in the last grim administration. He may not have received a “salary” but his goal for his wife and himself was to set up this future pursuit. Jared was not bright enough to be admitted to Harvard yet his father’s big check paid the entrance fee! What a sham deal and family of distain illegality. Money and power are all that counts with that crowd! Lacking any and all respect around the World? Sad and very pathetic! Void of any standards or ethics!
All this tells me is when there is enough money, tribal conflicts don't matter. So why would the US put any of our troops in harm's way for these people? The conflicts in the Middle East are thousands of years old. The only reason we are involved is because their fighting is long past Bedouins charging on horses. Now they use high tech weaponry. Which, of course, we sold to them.
Trump and family have been a walking conflict of interest since Day 1. The question is - what do these countries that have given money to Kushner want? It’s not because he’s a financial genius since he’s as unsuccessful as his father-in-law. Hmm… $112M in fees is an awful good gig if you can get it. Just sounds fishy