Where Kushner appears
49 total
…hange—a precursor to coming debates on the country’s position regarding the Paris Climate Accord. On April 3, Kushner unexpectedly turned up in Iraq, accompanying Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. According to the...
“No way we'll get fifty million unless we can guarantee him victory,” said a clear-eyed Kushner. “Twenty-five million?” prodded Bannon. “If we can say victory 1s more than likely.” In the end, the best Trump would do is loan the campaign $1...
…s evident to everyone that the Russia plot line, far from petering out, had a mighty and bloody life to come. Kushner, ever mindful of his father’s collision with the Justice Department, was especially agitated by Comey’s increasing focus o...
… more. Done deal. The White House, having had to sweat hardly at all, was about to get a big victory, bragged Kushner, embracing the expected win over his dislike of the bill. The sudden concern that the outcome might be otherwise began in...
…rtheast Kingdom. Elsewhere, in Jupiter, Florida, Nicholas Mastroianni — who's helped raise EB-5 funds for the Kushner family’s real estate projects — was sued last October over his Harbourside Place development by nearly 80 Chinese investor...
…ng of staff; he also had to oversee the individual functions of the executive office departments. But Bannon, Kushner, Conway, and the president’s daughter actually had no specific responsibilities—they could make it up as they went along....
…ayor Ed Koch, of impeccable pro-Israel credentials, weighed in. Within days CUNY reversed itself and approved Kushner’s degree. Now Wiesenfeld is under pressure to resign. He should: No university is well served by a trustee who values tabo...
not to put too fine a point on it—though Kushner was
that the Kushner family’s dealings were getting wrapped up in the pursuit of
…had to waver off this. All the people he had coming to him saying ‘Oh, you got to moderate.’ ” Another dig at Kushner. “Every day in the Oval Office he tells Reince and me, “I committed this to the American people. I promised this when I ra...
… Jarvanka vs., 140, 174-82, 235-39, 243, 257, 261-62, 272, 274, 277, 280-81, 289-91 Kelly and, 287-91, 294-97 Kushner and, 69-70, 72, 77, 87, 110, 132, 134, 140-48 Kuttner call and firing of, 297-300, 307 media and, 38, 90-91, 93, 195-97, 2...
world stage carrying out a singular mission. Here was yet another battle to be won or lost. Bannon regarded Kushner and Cohn (and Ivanka) as occupying an alternative reality that had little bearing on the real Trump revolution. Kushner and...
…sident’s own lack of focus and lack of concern were simply incomprehensible. In early March, Walsh confronted Kushner and demanded: “Just give me the three things the president wants to focus on. What are the three priorities of this White...
…of Trump’s White House and the media was giving them scant coverage. Hosting business advisory councils was a Kushner strategy. It was an enlightened business approach, distracting Trump from what Kushner viewed as the unenlightened right-w...
Kushner’s travails have a familiar ring. He’s interested in historical facts
… up to the job and resent the politicization of the agency by appointing Bannon to the council. Staffers fear Kushner because he’s so close to the president, and they aren’t really sure of his official role in the White House. For his part,...
…-field narrative. As well, he could turn him off, and Bannon would be tactically quiet until turned on again. Kushner had neither Bannon’s policy imagination nor Priebus’s institutional ties. But, of course, he had family status, carrying i...
… to move him, which was to use the media. Hence each man became an inveterate and polished leaker. Bannon and Kushner studiously avoided press exposure; two of the most powerful people in government were, for the most part, entirely silent,...
…r eager to enhance their status as the adults in the room, felt personally wounded by these backdoor attacks. Kushner, in fact, now believed Bannon would do anything to destroy them. This was personal. After months of defending Bannon again...
…ght down by them. Bannon believed the Trump presidency would fail in some more or less apocalyptic fashion if Kushner and his wife remained Trump’s most influential advisers. Their lack of political or real-world experience had already hobb...
