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Eine undurchsichtige Geheimagentin, ein greiser Weltendeuter und eine Gruppe von Aktivisten, die gegen zerstörerische Pläne kämpft: Rachel Kushners neuer Roman „See der Schöpfung“ ist eine flirrende Geschichte mit gesellschaftlicher Brisanz. Rezension von Christoph Schröder
While Jared Kushner moved to D.C. to advise former president Trump and then to Miami to pursue private equity, his family's real estate business quietly prospered in his absence—rebuilding a portfolio that's now more valuable than his father-in-law's. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
In this episode we look at the Chabad Mafia, its ties to the Kushner family, and the founding of the Illuminati. Email us: thefacthunter@mail.comWebsite: thefacthunter.comSnail Mail: George Hobbs PO Box 109 Goldsboro, MD 21636Show Links: Alien and Sedition Acts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts Jared Kushner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Kushner Israel's House of Kushner Now Runs the Trump Administration for the NWO Globalists https://themillenniumreport.com/2017/04/bombshell-report-kushner-crime-family-nows-runs-the-white-house/ Chicago Mayor Pledged Support For New World Order – Facebook & AP Claims It's Fake News, Even Though It Isn't https://thewashingtonstandard.com/chicago-mayor-pledged-support-for-new-world-order-facebook-ap-claims-its-fake-news-even-though-it-isnt/ The United States has been the Center of the New World Order Controlled by Satan for 250 Years https://healthimpactnews.com/2023/the-united-states-has-been-the-center-of-the-new-world-order-controlled-by-satan-for-250-years/
In the first in a new series, The Law According to Trump, Amicus begins an extensive exploration of Donald Trump's tumultuous relationship with the courts and legal system, focusing on Trump's use of lawyers and lawsuits to enhance his brand, wealth, and power. In the past few months, attention has rightly been on several blockbuster federal cases involving former President Trump, all the way up to and including his immunity case at the Supreme Court, but Trump's history with the law goes back much further and is much broader than the election subversion cases. While Dahlia Lithwick takes a well-deserved break, Amicus is very lucky to have award-winning investigative journalist Andrea Bernstein in the host chair. Andrea has covered five trials against Trump or his company for NPR, is the author of American Oligarchs: the Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power, and she has also hosted three podcasts that touch on Trump and the law, including, most recently “We Don't Talk About Leonard.” This episode delves into Trump's history of litigation with a close eye on how he has used nuisance lawsuits. Slate's jurisprudence editor Jeremy Stahl joins Andrea to outline the many people and organizations the former President has sued since leaving office. Then, former US Attorney Jim Zirin, author of Plaintiff in Chief: A Portrait of Donald Trump in 3500 Lawsuits, fills us in on the history of Trump's love of litigation. Want more Amicus? Subscribe to Slate Plus to immediately unlock exclusive SCOTUS analysis and weekly extended episodes. Plus, you'll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Or, visit slate.com/amicusplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In the first in a new series, The Law According to Trump, Amicus begins an extensive exploration of Donald Trump's tumultuous relationship with the courts and legal system, focusing on Trump's use of lawyers and lawsuits to enhance his brand, wealth, and power. In the past few months, attention has rightly been on several blockbuster federal cases involving former President Trump, all the way up to and including his immunity case at the Supreme Court, but Trump's history with the law goes back much further and is much broader than the election subversion cases. While Dahlia Lithwick takes a well-deserved break, Amicus is very lucky to have award-winning investigative journalist Andrea Bernstein in the host chair. Andrea has covered five trials against Trump or his company for NPR, is the author of American Oligarchs: the Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power, and she has also hosted three podcasts that touch on Trump and the law, including, most recently “We Don't Talk About Leonard.” This episode delves into Trump's history of litigation with a close eye on how he has used nuisance lawsuits. Slate's jurisprudence editor Jeremy Stahl joins Andrea to outline the many people and organizations the former President has sued since leaving office. Then, former US Attorney Jim Zirin, author of Plaintiff in Chief: A Portrait of Donald Trump in 3500 Lawsuits, fills us in on the history of Trump's love of litigation. Want more Amicus? Subscribe to Slate Plus to immediately unlock exclusive SCOTUS analysis and weekly extended episodes. Plus, you'll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Or, visit slate.com/amicusplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In the first in a new series, The Law According to Trump, Amicus begins an extensive exploration of Donald Trump's tumultuous relationship with the courts and legal system, focusing on Trump's use of lawyers and lawsuits to enhance his brand, wealth, and power. In the past few months, attention has rightly been on several blockbuster federal cases involving former President Trump, all the way up to and including his immunity case at the Supreme Court, but Trump's history with the law goes back much further and is much broader than the election subversion cases. While Dahlia Lithwick takes a well-deserved break, Amicus is very lucky to have award-winning investigative journalist Andrea Bernstein in the host chair. Andrea has covered five trials against Trump or his company for NPR, is the author of American Oligarchs: the Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power, and she has also hosted three podcasts that touch on Trump and the law, including, most recently “We Don't Talk About Leonard.” This episode delves into Trump's history of litigation with a close eye on how he has used nuisance lawsuits. Slate's jurisprudence editor Jeremy Stahl joins Andrea to outline the many people and organizations the former President has sued since leaving office. Then, former US Attorney Jim Zirin, author of Plaintiff in Chief: A Portrait of Donald Trump in 3500 Lawsuits, fills us in on the history of Trump's love of litigation. Want more Amicus? Subscribe to Slate Plus to immediately unlock exclusive SCOTUS analysis and weekly extended episodes. Plus, you'll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Or, visit slate.com/amicusplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Last week, a jury in Manhattan handed down a guilty verdict in the hush money trial of Donald J. Trump for 34 counts related to falsifying business records to influence the 2016 election. Even though the verdict made Trump the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes, most American voters say the outcome of the trial doesn't make much difference to how they'll show up to the polls in November.In this episode, host Kai Wright is joined by award-winning journalist Andrea Bernstein, who has covered five of Trump's trials in New York for NPR, including this latest one, and who is the author of a book about Trump's enterprises called “American Oligarchs: the Kushners, the Trumps and the Marriage of Money and Power.” Bernstein is also the co-host of the podcasts Trump Inc., Will Be Wild and We Don't Talk About Leonard. She shares her takeaways from the New York courtroom where the former president was found guilty, and looks ahead to his sentencing and the series of legal challenges facing Trump in the months to come. Plus, callers from around the country share their reactions to the historic verdict, and their questions about what this outcome means for the rest of this election year.Companion listening for this episode: Voter Vibe Check: Why Trump Has More Support From Black Voters Than Ever (4/8/2024)A new poll says if the presidential election was held today, 23 percent of Black voters would cast their ballot for Trump. Tell us what you think. We're @noteswithkai on Instagram and X (Twitter). Email us at notes@wnyc.org. Send us a voice message by recording yourself on your phone and emailing us, or record one here.Notes from America airs live on Sundays at 6 p.m. ET. The podcast episodes are lightly edited from our live broadcasts.
A New York state jury on Thursday found former President Donald Trump guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records. Those falsified records were to cover up a hush-money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels during Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. After being the first former U.S. president to stand trial for felony charges, Trump is now the first president to be found guilty in criminal court. His sentencing date is set for July 11 — days before the Republican National Convention. We'll talk about the verdict, the sentencing and the expected appeals ahead. And we'll break down the political repercussions within California and the nation. Guests: Shanlon Wu, criminal defense attorney; CNN legal analyst; former federal prosecutor who also served as counsel to Attorney General Janet Reno Melissa Murray, professor of law, NYU School of Law - co-host of the Strict Scrutiny podcast Andrea Bernstein, covered five Trump trials in New York for NPR, and the author of "American Oligarchs: the Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power." She is also the co-host of the podcasts "We Don't Talk About Leonard," "Will Be Wild," and "Trump, Inc."
This week, porn star, filmmaker, business woman, and Trump survivor Stormy Daniels told the court in the Manhattan DA trial for Trump's 2016 election interference that Trump said, that time he coerced her into sex, “You remind me of my daughter, she is smart and blonde and beautiful and people underestimate her as well.” Ivanka, Trump's favorite child, is his likely successor. He has reportedly said on multiple occasions that he would like to f*ck Ivanka, making comments about her body. According to a recent report from Puck, Ivanka is looking for a role in the Trump campaign, hoping to get back into the White House. The Kushners want their kleptocracy gravy train back! Joining Gaslit Nation to discuss Ivanka's latest power grab, reports of Jared Kushner wanting to be Secretary of State and how he promoted developing Gaza into beachfront property, is Terrell Starr from the essential Black Diplomats Podcast and Substack. Terrell is about to head back to Ukraine for a reporting trip. Make sure to follow his coverage by subscribing to Black Diplomats on YouTube, Substack, and more! Want to submit a question for our regular Q&As? Be sure to subscribe at the Democracy Defender-level or higher on Patreon.com/Gaslit! To listen to the full episode, our recent Make Art Workshop: The Business Side of Things, get all bonus shows, all episodes ad free, invites to exclusive virtual events, and more, subscribe at the Truth-teller level or higher! Thank you to everyone who supports the show! We could not make Gaslit Nation without you! Show Notes: Black Diplomats Substack & Podcast https://terrellstarr.substack.com/ https://www.blackdiplomats.net/ The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-immortality-key-the-secret-history-of-the-religion-with-no-name-brian-c-muraresku/16724875?ean=9781250803986 Make Art Workshop: The Business Side of Things https://www.patreon.com/posts/make-art-side-of-103574554?l=es https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dghYqZQzPo6z_0gzxqLzA7YRcf2Tuxbr/edit Trump's lewd talk about daughter Ivanka in front of White House staff recalled in new book https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/trumps-lewd-talk-about-daughter-ivanka-in-front-of-white-house-staff-recalled-in-new-book/ Ivanka, Interrupted Out of the spotlight but itching to return, the former first daughter has begun quietly surveying allies about how, and when, she might help the Trump campaign—and possibly find herself back in the White House. https://puck.news/ivanka-trump-reconsiders-a-return-to-west-wing/?_cio_id=f6c60601f153a2be02&utm_campaign=The+Best+%26+The+Brightest+-+SUBSCRIBERS+%285%2F2%2F24%29&utm_content=The+Best+%26+The+Brightest+-+SUBSCRIBERS+%285%2F1%2F24%29&utm_medium=email_action&utm_source=customer.io&utm_term=f6c60601f153a2be02 Jared Kushner says Gaza's ‘waterfront property could be very valuable' This article is more than 1 month old Donald Trump's son-in-law also says Israel should bulldoze an area of the Negev desert and move Palestinians there https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/19/jared-kushner-gaza-waterfront-property-israel-negev#:~:text=Jared%20Kushner%20has%20praised%20the,Harvard%20University%20on%2015%20February. Trump's lewd talk about daughter Ivanka in front of White House staff recalled in new book https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/trumps-lewd-talk-about-daughter-ivanka-in-front-of-white-house-staff-recalled-in-new-book/ ‘Do you worry about STDs?': Stormy Daniels's testimony on Trump affair off to lurid start The adult film star testifies in a hush-money trial that could land the ex-president and Republican frontrunner behind bars https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/07/stormy-daniels-donald-trump-testimony
Congratulations to everyone who pitched in to help get out the vote! This night belongs to you and all those who voted to protect abortion in Ohio, protect Virginians from a Republican majority, protect the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and much more on a great night for democracy. This week's bonus episode will look at the election results, what they mean for 2024, and what to know about Trump's shadow network, Project 25, and answer questions from listeners at the Democracy Defender level and higher. One month has passed since the October 7th Hamas terrorist attack, and the Israeli leader who allowed it to happen after empowering Hamas, ignoring several credible warnings, is still in power, overseeing a historically brutal genocide. This episode looks at the Israel-Hamas war in the context of the global war of autocracy vs. democracy, including our own 2024 election. It once again calls for the immediate removal from power of Netanyahu, an important cog in the Trump-Putin global far-right movement that normalizes human sacrifice for power. Like Trump, Netanyahu wages war against the military and intelligence services, surrounds himself with a protective moat of extremists ready to commit violence on his behalf, and terrorizes the families of victims and hostages of October 7th. Let's be clear: Netanyahu's own record shows he doesn't care about the hostages—for more on that, read the show notes. Netanyahu wants and needs this war to stay in power, which means the war strategy itself cannot be trusted and must not be legitimized. A political solution is the only way forward and can only begin with a ceasefire. To dismiss or gaslight over the issue of a ceasefire is to give longtime corrupt criminal Netanyahu good faith and legitimacy after he's spent years trying to overturn democracy in Israel. For those distraught over the crisis in Gaza, this episode includes strategies to push the Biden foreign policy team, just as they had to be pushed on Ukraine, and makes the case for why, if we don't vote in 2024, former Interior Secretary and current House GOP Klansman Ryan Zinke, with his proposal to ban all Palestinians, is back in the White House, along with close Netanyahu co-conspirators the Kushners, and Trump, making Netanyahu even more powerful and dangerous. To help the civilians impacted by the Israel-Hamas war, donate to Doctors Without Borders and Save the Children, incredible organizations doing urgent work in Gaza and the surrounding areas: https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/ https://www.savethechildren.org/ Show Notes “We are now in a situation where one child is killed every 10 minutes [in Gaza],” Jason Lee of Save the Children https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/02/israel-stikes-gaza-children-victims/ "Israel dropped almost as many bombs in Gaza in one week as the U.S. did in Afghanistan in one year -- the heaviest year. Gaza is 141 sq miles. Afghanistan is 252,071 sq miles." https://twitter.com/ericuman/status/1721342580565184559 "The United States provides the Israeli army with military and intelligence support, and is therefore required by the Geneva Conventions to ensure that bombing raids in Gaza do not breach international law." https://twitter.com/ericuman/status/1721343100830793928 Mairav Zonszein, Senior Israel-Palestine Analyst with the Crisis Group: "It is hard to understand Israel's strategy in the West Bank as anything other than an effort to push Palestinians so far to the edge they have to burst back, which then provides pretext for Israel's continued dispossession. My explainer on settler violence" https://twitter.com/MairavZ/status/1721936764183450058 Kurt Andersen thread analyzing United Nations death toll in Gaza: https://twitter.com/KBAndersen/status/1718021027727360436 Israel's Hostage Families Feel Abandoned by Israel They feel trapped in a nightmare—and ignored by their government. https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/10/20/israels-hostage-families-abandoned-israel/ Netanyahu accused of planting allies in meeting with hostage families Relatives of people kidnapped by Hamas believe PM's allies were allowed in to rally support for decisive government action in Gaza invasion https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/16/netanyahu-accused-planting-allies-hostage-talks-invasion/ Families of Kidnapped Israelis Meet Netanyahu, Only to Find Unknown Family Boosting PM 'We need to stop this whiny behavior. We need to win the war,' said unverified relatives who appeared at the meeting between the hostages' families and the Israeli prime minister, and stirred an uproar amongst the others https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-16/ty-article/.premium/hostage-relatives-suspected-to-have-been-planted-in-meeting-with-pm-to-bolster-his-policy/0000018b-37af-dc99-a1db-3fefa6ed0000 ‘Our patience is up': Hostages' families blast government inaction at Tel Aviv rally Relatives of those held in Gaza say authorities aren't updating them on negotiations, urge ministers to internalize what's at stake and ‘take responsibility' https://www.timesofisrael.com/our-patience-is-up-hostages-families-blast-government-inaction-at-tel-aviv-rally/ Many Israelis are furious at their government's chaotic recovery efforts after Hamas attack https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/many-israelis-are-furious-at-their-governments-chaotic-recovery-efforts-after-hamas-attack "My friend @maozinon parents were murdered by Hamas Oct 7th. I recorded a podcast episode with him to echo his message for a ceasefire and holding Netanyahu accountable, After the episode release, the offices where we recorded were broken into. The police is investigating." https://twitter.com/ShusterNoam/status/1721876199419621597 Netanyahu's coalition isn't built to last: Expect high sparks within and fragile prospects for Israel's incoming government https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/issue-brief/netanyahus-coalition-isnt-built-to-last-expect-high-sparks-within-and-fragile-prospects-for-israels-incoming-government/ Zinke Introduces Bill to Expel Palestinians from the United States https://zinke.house.gov/media/press-releases/zinke-introduces-bill-expel-palestinians-united-states Israel's Mobileye CEO urges that Netanyahu be replaced immediately https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israels-mobileye-ceo-urges-that-netanyahu-be-replaced-immediately-2023-10-29/ The election that led to Hamas taking over Gaza https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/24/gaza-election-hamas-2006-palestine-israel/ Netanyahu's Coalition Must Remove Him Immediately https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2023-10-30/ty-article-opinion/netanyahus-coalition-must-remove-him-immediately/0000018b-7cf1-d0f6-afeb-7ef5b1670000
It's a government shutdown by another name! Accused sex trafficker, proud January 6 insurrectionist, and Kremlin shill Matt Gaetz makes Russian state TV gleeful by leading the Kremlin Kaos Kaucus (KKK) by blocking much-needed aid to Ukraine and overthrowing Kevin McCarthy as speaker for trying to do a Ukraine deal with the Democrats. You may remember McCarthy as that guy who admitted Putin pays Trump, yet went on to support him and his MAGA death cult, earning his place in history as the first speaker to be ousted. Gaetz's Kremlin disinformation antics are part of a larger operation serving the Republican Party's dark money backers that include dirty Russian-linked financing that helped elect George Santos, the Koch political network that wants to drop sanctions against Russia to protect their profits, and the PayPal mafia like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel that deliberately destroyed Twitter, an organizing space for activists and journalists, in a unified bid to weaken American democracy and usher in dictatorship. Yes, this is all happening, and none of it is normal. The KKK in Congress makes America look like an unreliable ally and demoralizes Ukrainians fighting and giving their lives to stop Russian imperial fascism. When they scream on the House floor about the national debt, what they really mean is protecting their corporate backers' record profits, historically and criminally low taxes, and wealth hoarding at the expense of the public good. This is Reagan's Revolution ideologically aligned with Putin's court of oligarchs: Greed is good and the firehose of corruption and scandal ensures they live above the law. As history shows, our courts are the anecdote when Congress is gridlocked. Unfortunately, Biden's judicial appointments were stalled this year as Senator Dianne Feinstein and her enablers refused to let her retire with dignity, tarnishing her legacy by slowing down Biden's appointments for months. If people weren't getting rich off of Washington being broken, it would have been fixed by now. The great Heather Cox Richardson, historian and author of the latest must-read book Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America, stops by Gaslit Nation to give us insight on how we got here and what to do about this dangerous crossroads in our nation's history. Needless to say Andrea and Heather geek out over Ulysses S. Grant! This week's bonus episode will include a livestream on Patreon and on Instagram (to help wean us off of Twitter – the largest Russian disinformation outlet in the world, according to the European Union). That will take place on Thursday at 4pm ET – Patreon subscribers should look out for a link posted shortly before we go live, or join for free on Instagram. The topic will be some disturbing tea spilled about Fox News and how the sausage gets made there, according to a former insider. If you would like to support our independent journalism, get our episodes ad free, bonus shows, special invites, our archives, and more, subscribe at Patreon.com/Gaslit. Thank you to everyone who supports the show – we could not make Gaslit Nation without you! Check out HelloFresh, our sponsor for this week's episode. Go to HelloFresh.com/50Gaslit and use code 50gaslit for 50% off plus free shipping! Show Notes: Save the date! Thursday October 26 6pm - 8pm ET we're getting together with Sister District for a virtual phonebank to get out the vote in Virginia to prevent Posh Trump (Glenn Youngkin) from banning abortion. Signed copies of the Gaslit Nation graphic novel Dictatorship: It's Easier Than You Think! will be given out to three attendees as a thank you to our community. Sign up here, selecting the October 26 6pm ET phonebank to join us: https://www.mobilize.us/sisterdistrict/event/387377/?utm_source=2023-natlpb-gaslit Feeling festive? Send us a 5-page or less Halloween-themed radio play about the Kushners and other ghouls we're up against and how to defeat those monsters. We'll turn one of the scripts we receive into a radio play to run on Halloween! Send your submissions to gaslitnation@gmail.com by October 18th! Opening clip: Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas calling out the show trial in the House of Hunter Biden and President Biden https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1707464799209070665 Ben Collins of NBC News: What was Elon Musk's strategy for Twitter?https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/was-elon-musks-strategy-twitter-rcna118490 Putin's Next Target: U.S. Support for Ukraine, Officials Say https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/us/politics/putin-ukraine-spy-united-states.html#:~:text=American%20officials%20said%20they%20are,conspiracy%20theories%20with%20new%20technologies. House majority leader to colleagues in 2016: ‘I think Putin pays' Trump https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/house-majority-leader-to-colleagues-in-2016-i-think-putin-pays-trump/2017/05/17/515f6f8a-3aff-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html Trump suing ex-MI6 officer who alleged he was ‘compromised' by Russian security service https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/28/trump-suing-ex-mi6-officer-who-alleged-he-was-compromised-by-russian-security-service First on CNN: DOJ officially decides not to charge Matt Gaetz in sex-trafficking probe https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/15/politics/matt-gaetz-justice-department/index.html Rep. Matt Gaetz Speaks Out For 1st Time Following Sex Trafficking Investigation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZJdqwam0fs Seventeen year old Eric Willoughby stands up to Republican gerrymandering in North Carolina https://twitter.com/HC_Richardson/status/1708139641499435151?t=oy8Tp1lbc_GbBAtwkKfKGw&s=19 Secretary of State Antony Blinken launches music diplomacy initiative in the White House by performing with his band https://twitter.com/SecBlinken/status/1707230831528620109 Trump's Fraud Trial Starts With Attacks on Attorney General and Judge https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/nyregion/trump-fraud-trial-letitia-james.html Tristan Snell on Twitter about Trump's fraud case https://twitter.com/TristanSnell/status/1708908759655792899?t=KrBUdTPZLGfQISCq1kWmrA&s=19 Steve Bannon threatens to throw Merrick Garland in prison for life https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1708941399217827865?t=sW_CUa7D5vN2M1Vi4BtFLg&s=19 The far-right goes after Taylor Swift for being anti-Trump and registering voters https://twitter.com/mikefreemanNFL/status/1707164874608869395?t=71nxtwb6evwFKnb7j4BZmw&s=19 https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1707163480715899087?t=wJS9tRH7mkt_d3mi_N6Fdw&s=19 Gaetz: "We're proud of the work we did" on Jan. 6 https://www.axios.com/2022/01/06/matt-gaetz-jan-6-capitol-riot Gaetz showed nude photos of women he said he'd slept with to lawmakers, sources tell CNN https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/01/politics/matt-gaetz-photos-women/index.html Biden has appointed more federal judges than any president since JFK at this point in his tenure https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/08/09/biden-has-appointed-more-federal-judges-than-any-president-since-jfk-at-this-point-in-his-tenure/#:~:text=President%20Joe%20Biden%20has%20appointed,from%20the%20Federal%20Judicial%20Center AOC leads call for federal ethics investigation into Clarence Thomas https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/12/aoc-democrats-federal-investigation-clarence-thomas Pro-Russian politician wins Slovakia's parliamentary election https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/01/world/slovakia-election-pro-russia-robert-fico-win-intl-hnk Kenneth Roth on Twitter: A European Union study of six social-media platforms in Poland, Slovakia and Spain "finds that Twitter has the highest prevalence of disinformation." The main source is "Russia's disinformation operation [which] is a ‘weapon of mass manipulation.'" https://twitter.com/KenRoth/status/1708032306265378870
Dimitri and Khalid are joined by Public Swiftie intellectual Christina (@stidrill) to explore and critically uphold the parasocial cult of personality, esoteric symbolism, and Eagles-tier Song Power of Ms. Taylor Alison Swift, including: The Eras Tour parking lot experience, recent comparisons with the Grateful Dead, mass amnesia/dissociative episodes at her concerts, Taylor-as-Sufi mystic/spiritual leader, getting Swiftiepilled when it wasn't “cool” in the late 2000s, Taylor becoming the Bob Dylan of the millennials, the low-key emo character of “Fearless” and “Speak Now”, Taylor's high finance parents and her carefully managed musical upbringing in Nashville, the Gaylor theories, Hetlers, Karlie Kloss, the Kushners, and David Geffen, similarities to the Ayatollah Khomeini, the deep cultural ramifications of Kanye interrupting Taylor at the 2009 VMAs, the Olivia Rodrigo interpolation controversy, Ryan Adams' pre-cancellation “1989” cover record, leaning into snake symbolism on “Reputation”, Joe Alwyn's ambiguous writing credits on “Folklore” and “Evermore”… The sordid saga of Scooter Braun, the Carlyle Group, and the Soros/Disney families stealing the masters of Taylor's first six albums, Taylor's ingenious decision to outfox the Silk Toppers by rerecording all her early records, the sus career moves of (son of a 1956 Hungarian emigré dentist) Scott “Scooter” Braun, gr**ming Justin Bieber for superstardom, noticing the social and business interlocks between Matty Healy, Peter Thiel, and certain prominent dirtbag podcasters who despise Taylor and hiss like snakes from the shadows as they root for her downfall, Matty Healy the Interscope COINTELPRO chaos agent, the unbearable midness of The 1975, Scott Swift's double-dealing with Scooter over Taylor's masters, Scott Borchetta's betrayal, big Saul Zaentz vibes, Taylor getting ermed by NYT journalists for making “…….a choice” to call out Soros by name, getting caught in the middle of the Hungarian Yankee-Cowboy Soros v. Orban shadow war, more political/apolitical parallels between Taylor and Khomeini, the fuzzy folklore of Taylor's MIB computer repairman guitar teacher in Nashville, and the carefully premeditated tactical media aspects of Taylor's rise to superstardom. Part 1 of 2. Follow Christina on Twitter: @stidrill
Sports Illustrated cover model George Santos was arrested for fraud! This week's episode processes the shock over that news, and asks the all important question of who in their right mind would post a $500,000 bond to bail out George Santos, and what are they getting in return? Where there's smoke, there's fire, and Santos is the smoke of a larger corruption ushering in fascist kleptocracy. In this week's episode, Andrea is joined by old friend of the show Terrell Starr of the essential podcast Black Diplomats. Sarah is taking a step back from the show to deal with a family situation, as she has shared on Twitter. In this episode, Terrell and Andrea discuss the Durham Report, Nikki Haley and her pals the Kushners clawing their way back to the White House to steal more from the American people, and the inspiring resilience of the Ukrainian people facing off against Russia's genocide. Next week's live taping of Gaslit Nation on Tuesday May 23rd at 1:30pm EST will feature Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman who grew up in Brighton Beach and, instead of becoming a Trump Crime Family accomplice, co-founded an anti-corruption NGO in Europe, Institute for European Integrity. There will be a second *newly added* live taping on Wednesday May 24th at 2pm EST featuring David Pepper to discuss his new book Saving Democracy: A User's Manual for Every American. To join those events, be sure to subscribe to the show at the Truth-teller level or higher, and look out for the details sent to your inbox on the morning of May 23rd then again on May 24th. A new bonus episode comes out this Friday answering questions from our listeners at the Democracy Defender level and higher. Thank you to everyone who supports the show – we could not make Gaslit Nation without you! Show Notes: Pre-order our book! Dictatorship: It's Easier Than You Think! George Santos clip: "I wanna be remembered as somebody who stood up to everybody in the time of adversity...I want people to look and say, look, times might be tough, but there was always George Santos...I think it takes a lot of resilience to go through what I've gone through." https://twitter.com/AccountableGOP/status/1655681052491276290 Craig Harrington of Media Matters for America on Jake Tapper on the Durham Report https://twitter.com/Craigipedia/status/1658207831483465732 Sarah Kendzior on The Saturday/Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart https://twitter.com/weekendcapehart/status/1657373968884547586 NEW AUDIO: Rep. George Santos tells a "joke" about a "room full of Jews.” https://twitter.com/TheBeatWithAri/status/1656424125890457603 How an Investor Lost $625,000 and His Faith in George Santos https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/19/nyregion/george-santos-sec-intrater.html Sanctioned-Oligarch-Connected Andrew Intrater's GOP Donations Go Beyond Just George Santos https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2023/01/sanctioned-oligarch-connected-andrew-intraters-gop-donations-go-beyond-just-george-santos/ Private equity investor identified as political contributor allegedly duped by George Santos https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/11/politics/andrew-intrater-private-equity-investor-santos/index.html#:~:text=Intrater%20has%20financially%20supported%20Santos,Federal%20Election%20Commission%20records%20show New York Attorney Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Commit Money Laundering to Promote Sanctions Violations by Associate of Sanctioned Russian Oligarch https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/new-york-attorney-pleads-guilty-conspiring-commit-money-laundering-promote-sanctions Associate of Sanctioned Oligarch Indicted for Sanctions Evasion and Money Laundering https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/associate-sanctioned-oligarch-indicted-sanctions-evasion-and-money-laundering Break the Chain Between Russian Oligarchs and Managers, and You Break Everything https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/21/opinion/russian-oligarchs-wealth-managers.html “They Think Very Highly of Nikki”: The Kushner Family Is Cozying Up to Nikki Haley https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/21/opinion/russian-oligarchs-wealth-managers.html The Alexandra Chalupa Interview https://www.gaslitnationpod.com/episodes-transcripts-20/2019/6/22/the-alexandra-chalupa-interview
Met vandaag: Covid cijfers; politieke situatie problematisch; Ben Gvir stopt onderhandelingen; familie Netanyahu wint smaadzaak tegen Olmert; Netanyahu wil $ 270.000 niet teruggeven; Hezbollah heeft honderden raketten met chemische kop; waren de Kushners verraders van Trump en heel veel meer nieuws uit Israël.
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Only 4 months! And only 6,500 fine for Steve Bannon! I'm sure the Nazi thugs in that party will be high-fiving and using it to raise more money through their right wing Nazi organizations! Everybody really needs to get up their big fat lazy butts and make some noise! Round all these criminals up! Look them all up! Arrest Trump already!! The sooner we lock him up the sooner we can move on and stop having to talk about that POS Nazi garbage####I was calling for the Justice Department to seize his ill gotten assets! LOL but freezing them is pretty good :-) I still think they should shut down all his properties and search them for more, the rest of the top-secret document that he STOLE and was withholding, criminally! Ben, thank you for all you do####Note to Maggie Haberman no I'm the best Trump reporter or at least the best anti-trump reporter! You may be objective and all, but this is not an objective thing, fascism when you're living in it and you're in the press you're working in the media and you don't actually have the ability really in corporate media to tell the truth! About to tell the truth about how bad things are, to tell the truth about how hitlerian this person is and it's because of objective reasons actually! He reads f****** Nazi speeches every night before bed apparently it's on his bedside table according to Ivana divorce papers####Don't forget to write me in - for Arizona State mine inspector!
Benny Friedman is releasing yet another new single, Israel is berry excited about their new world record and Miami Beach socialites are learning to live with the Kushners.www.dailygiving.com/theweeklysqueezewww.chanalemusic.com/the-weekly-squeeze-podcast
Benny Friedman is releasing a new song, Israel is BERRY excited about their new world record, and Miami Beach socialites learn to live with the Kushners, Chanale and Sapir take on the juiciest Jewish news of the week in episode 1 of The Weekly Squeeze. www.dailygiving.org/theweeklysqueezewww.charidy.com/emunahwww.dacorjudaica.com "TheWeeklySqueeze10"The Shabbos Booklethttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YKvMsnLpGeVMdbDkNyUuzyh-zHa5uawV
Author Max Chavkin, whose latest book Contrarian is all about Peter Thiel, tells Molly Jong-Fast alleged details from the 2019 meeting that the billionaire had with Mark Zuckerberg, the Trumps and the Kushners that people don't know. Plus, Congressman Mondaire Jones has some words for Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin and historian Dr. Timothy Snyder explains how we're “slow-rolling” into a civil war.Come to The New Abnormal Election Eve Party https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-new-abnormals-nyc-election-eve-party-tickets-177538832427 or visit caveat.nycIf you haven't heard, every single week The New Abnormal does a special bonus episode for Beast Inside, the Daily Beast's membership program. where Sometimes we interview Senators like Cory Booker or the folks who explain our world in media like Jim Acosta or Soledad O'Brien. Sometimes we just have fun and talk to our favorite comedians and actors like Busy Phillips or Billy Eichner and sometimes its just discussing the fuckery. You can get all of our episodes in your favorite podcast app of choice by becoming a Beast Inside member where you'll support The Beast's fearless journalism. Plus! You'll also get full access to podcasts and articles. To become a member head to newabnormal.thedailybeast.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
This week on Biblical Bourbon we try to make the podcast church office safe...we tried...I would still be safe. This week on the podcast features 2 men who have the mind of 11-year-olds talking about what immature 11-year-olds talk about...poop! Here is a weird news story about the Kushners and a weird Bible story from Deuteronomy. Please note this is a comedy podcast and should not be taken as literal Biblical exegetical work.
In this episode, Kevin and Tony examine what happens when you drop two or more American quarters down into a storm sewer, or worse, into Canadian parking meters. In the former case, you can always climb down into the sewer to recover them, but in the latter, your coins are lost forever: hoarded by Canadians to fund Socialism and thus impose health care and other services that in America would be considered antithetical to freedom. So, stay out of Canada, and attend to today’s segments. First, we have back-to-back returns of “Bad Nancy Drew” in which Francine and Bitsy labor to keep their innocent Aunt Sally—and their English teacher, Mr. Holly— incarcerated. Those are followed by a return to “Bingo Night at the Kushners!” Tonight’s gathering at Jared and Ivanka’s includes National Crank Award winner Marjorie Taylor Greene! Finally, Tony and Kevin peddle “Pledge Week Swag,” with more stuff, which, if you buy it, will be another 50¢ down the drain.
A lot of Big Boy thinking went into this episode, one in which the title is actually relevant to its contents. What is “Big Boy” thinking? It’s the kind of unaccustomed exertion that stretches men’s minds, perhaps for the first time, all the way outside of their private circumstances to truly examine the State of Things. So, Alden and Largo, underemployed Mafia Goons, are prominently featured in this episode. First, they cross the street to force “Spunky McBeef’s Pizza Arcade” out of business. Alas, their Big Boy thinking come all too late. More Big Boy thinking shows up with part two of “Bingo Night at the Kushners.” Jared and Ivanka hope to restore their fortunes by holding Bingo Night at their new home in Lower Heights, but Kayleigh McAnany neglects to bring the sheet cake because, you know, she lies. Then we return to the misfortunes of Alden and Largo for “PallMallMark PAC,” where they are manipulated into lobbying for Big Greeting Card to increase the number of Federal holidays.
1/15/2021. Impeachment, Lindsay Graham, Inauguration, Ivanka & Jared's Outhouse, Gay Dads & Cringy Strangers, Sarah McBride, LGBT Youthline Banned, Cadbury, Losing Lesbian Bars & more!
In what it is a partially money-themed episode, Tony and Kevin first explain where the many “heres” are wherein listeners can empty their wallets. Then, in the first segment, “Bingo Night at the Kushners,” Ivanka and Jared Kushner try to recover some of their social and economic capital by holding a bingo night for their new neighbors in Lower Heights. Next, in a new “Unclogging the Spam Filter,” Kevin and Tony try yet again to coax a large sum of money from another nice British widow who contacted them and so many others on her robo-email list. Finally, in “36-Hour Cable News,” we learn how much more news there can be when time is stopped for an extra twelve hours a day. Apparently, there’s just a lot of waiting around, with little to do but to empty your wallets, here.
Marion is back on the road after the bizarro-fest known as CPAC. We get the full review of the Orange Lad’s fire hose speech, the anti-mask freak outs, the Proud Boy paraphernalia for sale, Ted Cruz’s lead balloon standup routine and aggressive friendliness. Then it’s on to the new threat that shut down the Capitol building yesterday as we look at the plucked from the air deadlines of QAnon. There’s time to talk about Harry and Meghan date with Oprah and why it is being flogged to death by the network. We hear why Jarred & Ivanka are MIA and why Melania has yet to serve those divorce papers. Finally we look ahead to Marion’s next career as an astronaut and our upcoming episode with Laura Whitmore. If you have a question for Marion please send it through to irishmanabroadpodcast@gmail.com and Jarlath will do his best to include it in the next episode. Supplementary research provided by John Meagher. To hear this episode in full each week and to gain access to the entire back-catalogue of over 400 Irishman Abroad episodes that are not available on iTunes for just the price of a pint every month visit www.patreon.com/irishmanabroad. Our charity partner is jigsawonline.ie. In these tricky times, Jigsaw provides a range of resources, advice and care for your people to help them strengthen their mental health and the skills needed to navigate life. Please visit their website and consider making a donation. For updates on future episodes and live shows follow @jarlath on Twitter, visit www.jigser.com or email the show directly on irishmanabroadpodcast@gmail.com. Disclaimer: All materials contained within this podcast are copyright protected. Third party reuse and/or quotation in whole or in part is prohibited unless direct credit and/or hyperlink to the Irishman Abroad podcast is clearly and accurately provided.
Welcome to Majority.FM's AM QUICKIE! Brought to you by justcoffee.coop TODAY'S HEADLINES: Joe Biden to the rescue? The President-elect last night previewed his first major policy package, targeting the pandemic and the economic crisis that has come with it. Meanwhile, dozens of white supremacist on a federal terrorism watch list were present for the storming of the Capitol last week. Investigators are looking into possible foreign financing behind the insurrection. And lastly, Donald Trump is having a hard time finding lawyers to defend him in his second impeachment trial. I guess Rudy can fail, after all. THESE ARE THE STORIES YOU NEED TO KNOW: They’re calling it the American Rescue Plan. President-elect Joe Biden, who will take over the pandemic response in five days, gave a speech last night on his plans to combat the coronavirus and address its economic consequences, the Washington Post reports. His remarks came as more than four thousand Covid-19 deaths were reported in the United States for the second day in a row. The plan is divided into three major areas, according to the Post: $400 billion for provisions to fight the coronavirus, while reopening schools; more than $1 trillion in direct relief to families, including through stimulus payments and increased unemployment benefits; and $440 billion for aid to communities and businesses. The legislation includes a number of priorities sought by top congressional Democrats, from increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour to adding billions in funding for childcare. Biden said QUOTE We need more action, more bipartisanship, and we need to move fast ENDQUOTE. The measures are narrowly tailored in an effort to garner GOP support, Biden’s team told the Post. The overall price tag is below $2 trillion. It will be followed by a broader recovery plan with more expansive Democratic priorities. But after campaigning as a bipartisan dealmaker, Biden wants to give Republicans the opportunity to get behind his first legislative effort as president. You might say he’s offering them an off-ramp from the road to insurrection. That part sounds like a longshot, frankly, but this is Joe Biden we’re talking about. Foreign Insurrection Financing Investigated Don’t call them patriots. The Washington Post reports that dozens of people on a terrorist watch list were in Washington for pro-Trump events on January 6th, when a violent mob stormed the US Capitol. The majority of the watchlisted individuals in Washington that day are suspected white supremacists. Their past conduct so alarmed investigators that their names had been previously entered into the national Terrorist Screening Database, a massive set of names flagged as potential security risks, the Post’s sources said. The watch list is larger and separate from the no-fly list the government maintains, and those listed are not automatically barred from any public or commercial spaces. While the FBI is hunting hundreds of rioting suspects who have dispersed back to their hometowns, the Post reports, federal agents are increasingly focused on the Proud Boys. Privately, some federal law enforcement officials have described the group as roughly equivalent to a nascent street gang. But other officials have expressed concern that the group may be growing rapidly into something more dangerous and directed. Separately, Yahoo News reports that law enforcement is investigating whether a series of large Bitcoin donations were linked to the assault on the Capitol. On December 8th, someone made a simultaneous transfer of Bitcoins worth more than $500,000 to twenty-two different virtual wallets, most of them belonging to prominent right-wing organizations and personalities. Right-wing figures and websites, including VDARE, the Daily Stormer and Nick Fuentes, received generous donations from a bitcoin account linked to a French cryptocurrency exchange. The suspicious December transaction, along with other intelligence, has prompted law enforcement and intelligence agencies to investigate the sources of funding for individuals who participated in the Capitol insurrection. The government is hoping to prevent future attacks but also to uncover potential foreign involvement in or support of right-wing activities, Yahoo’s source said. The plot thickens! Trump Lacks Impeachment Defense Donald Trump, on the eve of facing a second impeachment trial, is having trouble finding a legal team to defend him, Bloomberg News reports. Allies of the outgoing president have been looking for representation but so far are coming up short. Lawyers who defended him in the previous impeachment trial, including Jay Sekulow, have said no this time. Other lawyers who have defended Trump, including Pam Bondi, aren’t interested. Some of the lawyers have privately said what Trump did was indefensible. Alan Dershowitz also defended Trump the first time around. He isn’t planning to represent the president now, Bloomberg reports. Rudy Giuliani is also unlikely to be on the president’s defense team, an administration official said. His conduct at the rally preceding the Capitol raid could be examined during an impeachment trial. Separately, ABC News reports that the Trump family is pulling up stakes. Donald and Melania Trump have made no secret of their impending move to Florida after January 20, but they won't be alone. The president's eldest son, Donald Trump Junior, and his girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle have been house-hunting in the Palm Beach area. Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, also plan to relocate to the Sunshine State in the coming weeks, having recently purchased a plot of land in the Miami area. In related real estate news, the Washington Post reports that the Secret Service detail assigned to Jared and Ivanka spent months searching for a restroom to use on the job. After resorting to a porta-potty, the agents finally found a toilet to call their own. But it came at a cost to US taxpayers. Since September 2017, the federal government has been spending $3,000 a month – more than $100,000 to date – to rent a basement studio, with a bathroom, from a neighbor of the Kushners. All this because agents were banned from using any the six point five bathrooms in Javanka’s mansion. Charming. AND NOW FOR SOME QUICKER QUICKIES: The New York State attorney general sued the New York City Police Department yesterday over widespread abuses in how officers handled Black Lives Matter protests last summer, the New York Times reports. The AG, Letitia James, wants a federal monitor to oversee the department’s policing tactics at future protests. She also wants a court to declare that the practices the department used during the protests were unlawful. Get ’em Letitia! Rick Snyder, the former governor of Michigan, was arraigned on misdemeanor charges yesterday in connection with his role in the Flint water crisis. The Times reports thatnhe was charged with two counts of willful neglect of duty. If he is convicted, he faces imprisonment of up to one year or a maximum fine of $1,000. It ain’t much but it’s something. Joe Biden plans to name Jaime Harrison as his pick to lead the Democratic National Committee, the Washington Post reports. A former chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party, Harrison last year raised $130 million in his losing race against Senator Lindsey Graham. Harrison is not expected to face a challenger, and his candidacy was promoted by Congressman James Clyburn, a close Biden ally. Puerto Rican police are investigating the death of a transgender man found with multiple gunshot wounds, NBC News reports. Samuel Edmund Damián Valentín, shot January 9, is the seventh known transgender person to die by violence in Puerto Rico since last February. Advocates say the police aren’t doing enough. Hopefully more awareness on the case will cause them to pick up the pace. JAN 15, 2021 - AM QUICKIE HOSTS - Sam Seder & Lucie Steiner WRITER - Corey Pein PRODUCER - Dorsey Shaw EXECUTIVE PRODUCER - Brendan Finn
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Episode 35: A Reunion on the Island of Misfit ToysTrump Election Conspiracies continue.25:10 The Kushners are accused of not following the rules by other school parents.29:28 Covid-19 Update33:45 The Real Housewives of Potomac Reunion Taping/Predictions Sources:CNNYahoo NewsBravoTVInstagram (Andy Cohen)Jewish Telegraphic Agency #nonstopnovember #NSNDay13 #gossip #RHOP #realhouswivesofpotomac #election2020 #donaldtrump #karenhuger #moiquesamuels #candiacedillard #gizellebryant #ashleydarby #bravotv Like, Comment and SUBSCRIBE!Follow me on the following platforms, and feel free DM and let me know what you'd like me to talk about. You never know, I just might.Twitter: @letsbehonestjjInstagram: @letsbehonetjjFor more news, gossip and entertainment, join me at: www.facebook.com/groups/fddiaries
The Betches Sup presents the eighth and final installment of the limited series exposing the connections you never knew existed: Do You Know Who My Dad Is? explores dynastic nepotism and the effects it has on media, culture, and our current political system. Hosts Bryan Russell Smith and Alicia Angeles are talking all about the privilege that leads inexperienced and unaccomplished children of powerful people to get ahead. This week, we’ve finally arrived at the crown jewel of American nepotism: the Trump family (and by extension the Kushners). First, Alicia tells us where Donald Trump’s son-in-law got his start (under his father’s watch), and covers the various scandals and convictions the Kushner family has under its belt. Next, Bryan tries to explain how Donald Trump’s father helped create one of the most inept (and destructive) presidents in history, and tells us how his children carry on the family tradition of raking in money and opportunity despite their lack of any discernible merit. Finally, they close the show with a game of “Daddy Sent Me” all about famous figures who benefited from being legacy admissions to a prestigious university.
Not Another True Crime presents the eighth and final installment of the limited series exposing the connections you never knew existed: Do You Know Who My Dad Is? explores dynastic nepotism and the effects it has on media, culture, and our current political system. Hosts Bryan Russell Smith and Alicia Angeles are talking all about the privilege that leads inexperienced and unaccomplished children of powerful people to get ahead. This week, we’ve finally arrived at the crown jewel of American nepotism: the Trump family (and by extension the Kushners). First, Alicia tells us where Donald Trump’s son-in-law got his start (under his father’s watch), and covers the various scandals and convictions the Kushner family has under its belt. Next, Bryan tries to explain how Donald Trump’s father helped create one of the most inept (and destructive) presidents in history, and tells us how his children carry on the family tradition of raking in money and opportunity despite their lack of any discernible merit. Finally, they close the show with a game of “Daddy Sent Me” all about famous figures who benefited from being legacy admissions to a prestigious university.
@Betches presents the eighth and final installment of the limited series exposing the connections you never knew existed: Do You Know Who My Dad Is? explores dynastic nepotism and the effects it has on media, culture, and our current political system. Hosts Bryan Russell Smith and Alicia Angeles are talking all about the privilege that leads inexperienced and unaccomplished children of powerful people to get ahead. This week, we’ve finally arrived at the crown jewel of American nepotism: the Trump family (and by extension the Kushners). First, Alicia tells us where Donald Trump’s son-in-law got his start (under his father’s watch), and covers the various scandals and convictions the Kushner family has under its belt. Next, Bryan tries to explain how Donald Trump’s father helped create one of the most inept (and destructive) presidents in history, and tells us how his children carry on the family tradition of raking in money and opportunity despite their lack of any discernible merit. Finally, they close the show with a game of “Daddy Sent Me” all about famous figures who benefited from being legacy admissions to a prestigious university.
TYLER NEASLONEY from PROJECT RUNWAY Season 18 joins me to talk about his clap back, “Not Even to Dinner with The Kushners,” that went viral during his time on the show! He tells us about his journey into fashion design and his career in philanthropy working with The Ali Forney Center in NYC. Tyler gives us his hot takes on some major fashion icons and tells us what Lindsay Lohan is really like. Find Tyler on Instagram at: Instagram.com/DearTyler Find out how you can support the Ali Forney Center here: https://www.aliforneycenter.org/ Find me on Instagram at: Instagram.com/SeanLShow Find me on Twitter at Twitter.com/SeanLShow Find the late night Twitter: Twitter.com/SLS_AfterHours --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/seanlshow/support
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This story was co-published with ProPublica. Sign up for email updates from Trump, Inc. to get the latest on our investigations. After the news broke in May of last year that government-sponsored lending agency Freddie Mac had agreed to back $786 million in loans to the Kushner Companies, political opponents asked whether the family real estate firm formerly led by the president’s son-in-law and top adviser, Jared Kushner, had received special treatment. “We are especially concerned about this transaction because of Kushner Companies’ history of seeking to engage in deals that raise conflicts of interest issues with Mr. Kushner,” Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) and Tom Carper (D-Delaware) wrote to Freddie Mac’s CEO in June 2019. The loans helped Kushner Companies scoop up thousands of apartments in Maryland and Virginia, the business’s biggest purchase in a decade. The deal, first reported by Bloomberg, also ranked among Freddie’s largest ever. At the time, the details of its terms weren’t disclosed. Freddie Mac officials didn’t comment publicly then. Kushner’s lawyer said Jared was no longer involved in decision-making at the company. (He does continue to receive millions from the family business, according to his financial disclosures, including from some properties with Freddie Mac-backed loans.) Freddie Mac packaged the 16 loans into bonds and sold them to investors in August 2019. But Kushner Companies hadn’t finished its buying spree. Within the next two months, records show, Freddie Mac backed another two loans to the Kushners for an additional $63.5 million, allowing the company to add two more apartment complexes to its portfolio. A new analysis by ProPublica shows Kushner Companies received unusually favorable loan terms for the 18 mortgages it obtained with Freddie Mac’s backing. The loans allowed the Kushner family company to make lower monthly payments and borrow more money than was typical for similar loans, 2019 Freddie Mac data shows. The terms increase the risk to the agency and to investors who buy bonds with the Kushner mortgages in them. Moreover, Freddie Mac’s estimates of the Kushner properties’ profitability — a core element of any decision to back a loan — have already proven to be overly optimistic. All 16 properties in the firm’s biggest loan package delivered smaller profits in 2019 than Freddie Mac expected, despite the then-booming economy. The loan for the largest property lagged Freddie Mac’s profit prediction by 31% last year. U.S. taxpayers could be responsible for paying back much of the nearly $850 million in Freddie Mac financing if Kushner Companies defaults and its properties drop significantly in value. During the last real estate crash, taxpayers had to bail out Freddie Mac and its larger sibling, Fannie Mae, to the tune of $190 billion as the agencies plunged into the government equivalent of bankruptcy. (The agencies ultimately repaid the money and more.) The involvement of Jared’s sister Nicole Kushner Meyer adds to questions about whether the family sought to exploit its political influence. Meyer, who shares her brother’s slight build, porcelain features and dark chestnut hair, lobbied Freddie Mac in person on behalf of Kushner Companies in February last year, a timeline of the deal obtained by ProPublica shows. She has previously drawn criticism for invoking her brother’s name while doing Kushner Companies’ business before. In a statement Freddie Mac said it does “not consider the political affiliations of borrowers or their family members.” It called ProPublica’s analysis “random, arbitrary and incomplete” and asserted that the Kushner loans “fit squarely within our publicly-available credit and underwriting standards. The terms and performance of every one of these loans is transparent and available on our website, and all the loans are current and have been consistently paid.” A spokesperson for Kushner Companies did not respond to calls and emails seeking comment. There’s no evidence the Trump administration played a role in any of the decisions and Freddie Mac operates independently. But Freddie Mac embarked on approving the loans at the moment that its government overseer, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), was changing from leadership by an Obama administration appointee to one from the Trump administration, Mark Calabria, vice-president Mike Pence’s former chief economist. Calabria, who was confirmed in April 2019, has called for an end to the “conservatorship,” the close financial control that his agency has exerted over Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae since the 2008 crisis. The potential for improper influence exists even if the Trump administration didn’t advocate for the Kushners, said Kathleen Clark, a law professor at Washington University specializing in government and legal ethics. She compared the situation to press reports that businesses and associates connected to Jared Kushner and his family were approved to receive millions from the Paycheck Protection Program. Officials could have acted because they were seeking to curry favor with the Kushners or feared retribution if they didn’t, according to Clark. And if Kushner Companies had wanted to avoid any appearance of undue influence, she added, it should have sent only non-family executives to meet with Freddie Mac. “I’d leave it to the professionals,” Clark said. “I’d keep family members away from it.” The Freddie Mac data shows that Kushner Companies secured advantageous terms on multiple points. All 18 loans, for example, allow Kushner Companies to pay only interest for the full 10-year term, thus deferring all principal payments to a balloon payment at the end. That lowers the monthly payments, but increases the possibility that the balance won’t be paid back in full. “That’s as risky as you get,” said Ryan Ledwith, a professor at New York University’s Schack Institute of Real Estate, of 10-year interest-only loans. “It’s a long period of time and you’re not getting any amortization to reduce your risk over time. You’re betting the market is going to get better all by itself 10 years from now.” Interest-only mortgages, which notoriously helped fuel the 2008 economic crisis, represent a small percentage of Freddie Mac loans. Only 6% of the 3,600 loans funded by the agency last year were interest-only for a decade or more, according to a database of its core mortgage transactions. Kushner Companies also loaded more debt on the properties than is usual for similar loans, with the loan value for the 16-loan deal climbing to 69% of the properties’ worth. That compares with an average 59%, according to data for loans with similar terms and property types that Freddie Mac sold to investors in 2019, and is just below the 70% debt-to-value ceiling Freddie Mac sets for loans in its category. “What we generally have seen from Freddie and Fannie,” said Andrew Little, a principal with real estate investment bank John B. Levy & Company, “is they will do 10 years of interest-only on lower-leveraged deals.” Loans right at the ceiling are “not very common,” Little said, adding that “you don’t see deals this size that commonly.” Meanwhile Freddie Mac and its lending partner overestimated the profits for the buildings in the Kushners’ 16-loan package by 12 % during the underwriting process, according to the agency’s data. Such analysis is supposed to provide a conservative, accurate picture of revenue and expenses, which should be relatively predictable in the case of an apartment building. But the level of income anticipated failed to materialize in 2019, financial reports show. The most dramatic overstatement came with the largest loan in the deal, $120 million for Bonnie Ridge Apartments, a 960-apartment complex in Baltimore. In that case, realized profits last year were 31% below what Freddie Mac had expected. “That’s definitely a significant amount,” said John Griffin, a University of Texas professor who specializes in forensic finance and has studied mortgage underwriting. He co-authored a recent paper highlighting as worrisome loans in which projected profits exceeded actual profits by 5%. “It’s a problem when underwritten income is inflated or overstated,” he said. “That is a key metric that determines the safety of the loan.” Griffin’s paper found that 28% of all loans examined had projected profits that were 5% or more greater than what the properties actually earned in their first year. Some instances of underperformance could be caused by bad luck, the paper acknowledged, but “such situations should be relatively rare.” Yet in the case of Freddie Mac’s estimates in the Kushner deal, 13 of the original 16 loans met or exceeded the 5% threshold — many by a considerable amount. Read Heather Vogell's full print story at ProPublica. Related episodes:• He Went To Jared• Dirt• Trump and Deutsche Bank: It’s Complicated The Freddie Mac headquarters building in McLean, Va., Saturday, April 21, 2018. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press)
Donald Trump has spent the last four years refusing to release his tax returns. When the New York Times published 20 years worth of them, it revealed a possible reason why. The president’s balance sheet listed huge losses, which he used to dramatically cut down what he owed in taxes. Were these the dealings of a savvy businessman, or an unscrupulous swindler? And what does it mean for the election to have a candidate who still has a stake in their business and an alarming amount of debt? Guest: Andrea Bernstein, co-host of the Trump, Inc. podcast and the author of “American Oligarchs: the Kushners, the Trumps and the Marriage of Money and Power.” Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Donald Trump has spent the last four years refusing to release his tax returns. When the New York Times published 20 years worth of them, it revealed a possible reason why. The president’s balance sheet listed huge losses, which he used to dramatically cut down what he owed in taxes. Were these the dealings of a savvy businessman, or an unscrupulous swindler? And what does it mean for the election to have a candidate who still has a stake in their business and an alarming amount of debt? Guest: Andrea Bernstein, co-host of the Trump, Inc. podcast and the author of “American Oligarchs: the Kushners, the Trumps and the Marriage of Money and Power.” Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, Danielle Hewitt, and Elena Schwartz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Trump team's new re-election strategy is to bank on Americans just becoming “numb to the escalating death toll.” Brian Kilmeade toed the party line like a good little boy, echoing the idea that we're just going to have to “live with” Covid-19 and re-open regardless of the ongoing risks. It doesn't look like the strategy will be as successful as the GOP hopes, as research indicates that Trump's approval rating is slipping in areas most affected by Covid-19. Some small businesses received just $1 in pandemic relief loans, while the Kushners, Wall Street, members of Congress and tons of other super wealthy members of the elite raked in millions. ICE says that intl. students whose universities are moving to online-only teaching in the fall will be banned from entering the country and forced to leave if they're already here. Army Spc. Vanessa Guillen's remains have been found and unarguable evidence of foul play has finally been uncovered. A district court rules that the Dakota Access Pipeline is to be shut down pending environmental review, a huge win for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and environmentalist groups. Trump won't stop attacking NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace. Ken Klippenstein LIVE on his Twitter beef with Elon Musk and the potential links between the SpaceX CEO and renowned child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.Co-host: Viviana VigilGuest: Ken Klippenstein See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
People often talk about certain groups of immigrants that have come to America and wonder why some groups are so successful. One of the reasons is that it is a self-selecting population. To escape one’s country, whether it was fleeing Germany in the 1940s or Cambodia or Vietnam in the 1960s or Central America today, takes a remarkable degree of perseverance and courage. It’s often a high-wire act, that requires a do or die mentality. But it has a dark side. What happens when that same drive is carried too far? When bending the rules to survive becomes bending the rules to succeed. Then it's like that old adage that “behind every great fortune is sometimes a great crime.” This certainly is true for the Trumps and the Kushners. And we all may be the victims. Andrea Bernstein tells this story in American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power. My conversation with Andrea Bernstein:
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John Nichols examines everything that went wrong with Tuesday's elections, and talks about what we must do to ensure there's no postponement of the November election. Also: the Republican senators who say paid sick leave for people with the coronavirus will “make workers lazy”—that's what Ron Johnson says, he represents Wisconsin. Also: Melina Abdullah on Black Lives Matter in the Age of Coronavirus. She's a founder of the LA chapter and also Professor of Pan-African Studies at Cal State LA. And Amy Wilentz, our Chief Jared Correspondent, reports on the Kushners and the Coronavirus.
John Nichols examines everything that went wrong with Tuesday’s elections, and talks about what we must do to ensure there’s no postponement of the November election. Also: the Republican senators who say paid sick leave for people with the coronavirus will “make workers lazy”—that’s what Ron Johnson says, he represents Wisconsin. Also: Melina Abdullah on Black Lives Matter in the Age of Coronavirus. She's a founder of the LA chapter and also Professor of Pan-African Studies at Cal State LA. And Amy Wilentz, our Chief Jared Correspondent, reports on the Kushners and the Coronavirus.
Paul Krugman, the New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize winning economist, says we don’t have an easy way of responding to the economic threats posed by the coronavirus, and Trump’s preoccupation with the stock market is a big mistake. Krugman’s new book is Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future. Also: we’ll talk about the Republican senators who say paid sick leave for people with the coronavirus will “make workers lazy”—that’s what Ron Johnson says, he represents Wisconsin, and we’ll talk about that with our man in Madison, John Nichols. John also examines everything that went wrong with Tuesday’s elections, and talks about what we must do to ensure there’s no postponement of the November election. And we’ll also talk about the Kushners and the coronavirus: Jared has been working in some unusual ways, and there’s also virus news about Ivanka and Don Junior. Amy Wilentz reports—she’s our Chief Jared Correspondent. Subscribe to The Nation to support all of our podcasts: http://thenation.com/podcastsubscribe.
Usually attributed to Balzac is the observation that behind every great fortune is a great crime. In this day and age, It might be paraphrased as that behind every great financial crime is a great bank. In the case of many such crimes in the 20th and 21st century lies Deutsche Bank. In its efforts to grow it did away with all traditional ideas of risk management. In its pursuit of fees and earnings, bank executives got into business with some of the world’s most shady and financially needy characters. Russian oligarchs, the Trumps, the Kushners, the Mercers, Vladimir Putin, and many other key Russiagate figures were among their customers. It got involved with other banks in Germany, Moscow, Cyprus, and Moldavia; money laundering; real estate deals; hedge funds; indictments; bankruptcies; and a cast of characters orbiting it that feels more like the bar scene in the original Star Wars. Trying to tie all of this together into one overarching narrative is David Enrich in his book Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction My conversation with David Enrich:
On the Gist, critiquing Bloomberg critiques. In the interview, we’ve got the second part of our conversation with journalist Andrea Bernstein on her new book, American Oligarchs: The Kushners, The Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power. She and Mike went deep on Trump the first part, and now they’re digging into Michael Cohen and the Kushners. In the spiel, Trump’s pardons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On the Gist, critiquing Bloomberg critiques. In the interview, we’ve got the second part of our conversation with journalist Andrea Bernstein on her new book, American Oligarchs: The Kushners, The Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power. She and Mike went deep on Trump the first part, and now they’re digging into Michael Cohen and the Kushners. In the spiel, Trump’s pardons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Award-winning investigative journalist Andrea Bernstein tries to uncover the truth about who profits from the Trump administration on her podcast, “Trump, Inc.” Bernstein joins Errol Louis to talk about what she’s found and discusses her new book, “American Oligarchy,” which explores the rise of the Trump and Kushner families from their immigrant roots to the White House. She shows how they built their fortunes with the help of government and how she thinks they’re pushing the United States to an oligarchy. And she talks about her 21-year career at WNYC Radio, including a time she went to train reporters in Bhutan as it transitioned from a monarchy to a democracy. Join the conversation using the hashtag #NY1YouDecide or give us a call at 212-379-3440 and leave a message. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power Andrea Bernstein's podcast: “Trump, Inc.” IF YOU ENJOYED THIS EPISODE: Listen to our Garry Kasparov podcast
Can American democracy survive in a system where more money means more power? Award-winning journalist Andrea Bernstein tackled this question with insight from her book American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power. She created a vivid portrait of two emblematic American families, following their rise to power and their journey to the White House. In conversation with Stranger associate editor Eli Sanders, Bernstein presented a story of survival and loss, crime and betrayal which stretches from the Gilded Age through Nazi-occupied Poland to the rising nationalism and inequality of the twenty-first century. Bernstein drew on hundreds of interviews and thousands of pages of unseen or forgotten documents, revealing how the Trumps and the Kushners grew rich on federal programs that bolstered the middle class, and then sheltered their wealth from tax collectors. She asserted that, wielding half-truths, secrecy, and media manipulation, these families blurred the lines between public and private interests and then leveraged political, prosecutorial, and judicial power to avoid legal consequences. Sit in with Bernstein and Sanders for a sweeping exposition on two American dynasties who encouraged and profited from a system of political dark money that has threatened to upend American democracy. Andrea Bernstein is an investigative journalist and the Peabody and duPont-Columbia Award-winning cohost of the acclaimed WNYC/ProPublica podcast Trump, Inc. Her writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and New York magazine, and on NPR. Eli Sanders is the Associate Editor of The Stranger and the winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. His book, While the City Slept, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Presented by Town Hall Seattle.
SPEAKERS Andrea Bernstein Senior Editor, WNYC; Co-Host, "Trump, Inc.”; Author, American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power In Conversation with Anna Sale Host, WNYC's "Death, Sex & Money" This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco on January 28th, 2020.
Andrea Bernstein is a senior editor at WNYC and co-host of the “Trump, Inc.” podcast. A Peabody and duPont-Columbia award-winning journalist, Bernstein's new work is an exposé on two families at the pinnacle of American power. American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power, is Bernstein's investigative journey into two emblematic American families—the Kushners and the Trumps. Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump enjoy limitless access to the Oval Office, but beyond their marriage, little about the families' relationship is public knowledge. Throughout American Oligarchs, Bernstein reveals their campaign into the White House by tracing history stretching from the Gilded Age to WWII to the 21st century. Bernstein draws on private interviews, never-before-seen documents and forgotten files in order to expose the families' accumulated wealth through real estate, manipulation and crime. Bernstein's American Oligarchs is a serious examination of the half-truths, secrecy and media manipulation weaponized by the Trumps and the Kushners. Join us as she discusses the Trumps, Kushners, and the marriage of money and power. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
0:08 – Andrea Bernstein (@AndreaWNYC) is the Peabody Award-winning cohost of the acclaimed WNYC/ProPublica podcast Trump, Inc., which investigates how President Trump's business works and who might be profiting from his administration. She joins us to talk about her new book, American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power. 1:08 – California Senator Scott Wiener's contentious housing bill, SB 50, failed to attain the 21 votes it needed in the State Senate on Wednesday. It would upzone “job-rich” and transit-connected areas of the state and incentivize private developers to build more dense housing on this land, mostly at market rate. Critics say it would accelerate gentrification in the most vulnerable communities in California, and result in more vacant luxury housing which residents can't afford. We host a roundtable with three guests on the bill, and on California's housing and homelessness crisis. Darrell Owens is a co-executive of East Bay for Everyone, a nonprofit housing group supporting SB 50, and a policy analyst for California YIMBY, which is lobbying heavily for the bill. Norma Paz Garcia is the director of policy and advocacy at the Mission Economic Development Agency, which is an affordable housing developer and has taken a stance of “oppose unless amended” on SB 50. Leslie Dreyer is a Bay Area artist and an anti-eviction organizer with the Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco, who co-wrote a letter signed by 46 tenant rights & housing justice groups who oppose SB 50. She also runs the Stolen Belonging project with houseless members of the Coalition on Homelessness, highlighting the impact of San Francisco's anti-homeless sweeps. 1:34 – Philip Jacobson, a journalist with environmental news outlet Mongabay, was arrested by Indonesian authorities and held in jail this month. We speak with Mongabay's founder and CEO Rhett Butler (@rhett_butler) about the arrest and the outlet's concerns over press freedom. 1:41 – Mitch Jeserich (@MitchJeserich), host of Letters and Politics, gives an update on impeachment. KPFA is broadcasting impeachment proceedings every day live from 10 a.m. until the evening. The post Andrea Bernstein on the crooked machinations of the Trumps and Kushners; Plus, a roundtable on contentious California upzoning bill SB 50 appeared first on KPFA.
Bernstein discusses her new book about the Trumps and Kushners, and David Zucchino talks about “Wilmington’s Lie.”
For generations, the Trump family has used government and politicians as a path to profit. As president, Donald Trump has taken things even further. “This guy is a state capitalist,” said Trump’s first biographer, reporter Wayne Barrett, in a 1992 WNYC interview, cited extensively in this episode. “[In] every single one of his major deals, he was designated to be a millionaire and subsequently a billionaire by the government officials that he co-opted and compromised.” “The Trump family is not shy on transforming their wealth into power in a very crude and brutal way,” says economist Gabriel Zucman, co-author of the book “The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay.” “But that's the nature of extreme wealth. When you're extremely wealthy what do you do? You spend your wealth and your time trying to defend your established position.” This episode is based on reporting from host Andrea Bernstein’s new book “American Oligarchs: the Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power.” Read about the history of a 40-year tax break Trump negotiated for his Grand Hyatt hotel at ProPublica.
A pre-debate news drop from CNN threatened the relative peace between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. On this week's On the Media, why the feud is more distracting than illuminating. Plus, why paying close attention to political news is no substitute for civic participation. And, the origins of two oligarchic dynasties: the Trumps and the Kushners. 1. Rebecca Traister [@rtraister], writer for New York Magazine, on the inevitability of the questions facing women in politics. Listen. 2. Eitan Hersh [@eitanhersh], political scientist at Tufts University, on the political hobbyism and news consumption. Listen. 3. Andrea Bernstein [@AndreaWNYC], co-host of WNYC's Trump, Inc. podcast, on the corruption, improbabilities, and ironies of the Trump and Kushner family histories. Listen. On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.
A pre-debate news drop from CNN threatened the relative peace between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. On this week’s On the Media, why the feud is more distracting than illuminating. Plus, why paying close attention to political news is no substitute for civic participation. And, the origins of two oligarchic dynasties: the Trumps and the Kushners. 1. Rebecca Traister [@rtraister], writer for New York Magazine, on the inevitability of the questions facing women in politics. Listen. 2. Eitan Hersh [@eitanhersh], political scientist at Tufts University, on the political hobbyism and news consumption. Listen. 3. Andrea Bernstein [@AndreaWNYC], co-host of WNYC's Trump, Inc. podcast, on the corruption, improbabilities, and ironies of the Trump and Kushner family histories. Listen.
In 1996, an 83-year-old Holocaust survivor and refugee to America sat down with an interviewer from the USC Shoah Foundation to recount what she had experienced. “If we’re not going to tell now, in 20 years I don’t know who’s going to be to tell,” Rae Kushner said in her Yiddish-accented English. “And now we have still the strength and we have the power to do this and to warn the rest of the world to be careful who is coming up on top of your government.” Rae’s grandson Jared is now one of the most powerful people in the U.S. government. President Trump’s son-in-law and a senior White House adviser, he is an influential voice on some of the nation’s most pressing issues, including immigration across the southern border. And to understand him, you need to understand his family story. This episode is based on reporting from host Andrea Bernstein’s new book “American Oligarchs: the Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power.” Read more about the Kushner family at ProPublica and find an excerpt of Bernstein’s book at The New Yorker.
A new year has begun but the mess is in full force! This week I recap 90 day Fiance and Love After Lockup, and am joined by Mani of the Mixing with Mani podcast to discuss the racism on Real Housewives of Dallas, Vicki's reunion freak out, and more!
Direktsänt aktuellt magasin. Framtidens migrationspolitik. Järvaveckan. Kushners stora plan för fred i Mellanöstern. Plast i haven. Pentagon presenterar "bevis" för att Iran låg bakom attack mot oljetankers. Hyresrätter som brinner. West Pride i Göteborg. Judiska snubbelstenar sätts upp i Stockholm. Ebola i Kongo.
In Betrouwbare Bronnen aflevering 44:Michael Wolff over president Donald J. TrumpPieter Gerrit Kroeger over president Franklin Delano Roosevelt***Tijdlijn:00:00:00 - Intro met quotes Donald Trump en zang van Lady Gaga00:03:10 - Michael Wolff (part 1)00:39:58 - Michael Wolff (part 2)01:04:22 - PG (deel 1)01:47:39 - PG (deel 2)02:34:32 - Uitro02:35:35 - Einde***“Het presidentschap van Donald Trump draait uit op een politieke kernsmelting. De kans is groot dat Trump zich niet kandidaat stelt voor een tweede termijn.” Dat zegt Michael Wolff, auteur van twee boeken over Trump, in deze aflevering van Betrouwbare Bronnen.''Zijn karakter laat niet toe dat hij een nationale verkiezing verliest. Hij kan dat niet aan. Zijn hele leven heeft hij bij een ramp de complete overwinning uitgeroepen en daarna vertrok hij. Trump heeft op dit moment steun van ongeveer 40 procent van de kiezers en er komt niets meer bij. Als dat over een jaar nog zo is, is het heel goed mogelijk dat hij er vandoor gaat. Hij zal zeggen: ik heb mijn werk gedaan. Dan begint aan een nieuw media-avontuur. Als het maar lijkt of hij de winnaar is.”Trump is zelf-destructief, zegt Wolff. “En overal om hem heen zijn nog onderzoeken gaande. Hij is een oplichter, dat weet iedereen.”Volgens Wolff haat het Republikeinse partij-establishment Donald Trump. “Ze zouden er alles voor doen om van hem af te komen. Maar ze weten ook: als je hem vermoordt, dan moet-ie ook echt dood zijn. En niemand weet echt hoe je dat doet.”Trump verkeert in het Witte Huis in totale eenzaamheid, zet Wolff. Hij heeft nauwelijks medewerkers en kijkt de hele dag tv, ook in het Oval Office. “Een normaal mens zou breken. Maar hij leeft in het moment en op impulsen, blij als een mossel. Het enige succesvolle wat hij ooit heeft gedaan is: tv-persoonlijkheid zijn. Zijn presidentschap is daarvan de voortzetting.”Trump heeft geen plan. “Hij weet niet dat er een populistische agenda is. Daar moet hij altijd aan herinnerd worden. 'China slecht', heeft zijn voormalige strateeg Steve Bannon hem geleerd. En er is ‘De Muur’. Persoonlijk heeft Trump overigens niets tegen migratie.”Hij is een verkoper, zegt Wolff. “Voor een verkoper zijn er geen vijanden. Er zijn alleen kopers en niet-kopers. De enige in zijn omgeving die hij niet misbruikt voor zijn eigenbelang is zijn dochter Ivanka. De Trump Organisation is niet echt een bedrijf. het gaat om het promoten van Donald Trump. Zijn naam op gebouwen waarvan hij niet eens de eigenaar is. Dat hij echt rijk is, is fictie. Het is reality tv. Een show met elke dag een nieuw script.”Saoedi-Arabië zo goed als failliet, zegt wolff in Betrouwbare Bronnen. Trumps schoonzoon Jared Kushner helpt kroonprins Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) met het naar de beurs brengen van de nationale oliemaatschappij Saudi Aramco, zodat het koningshuis de steeds meer geld vragende Saoedische elite kan blijven betalen. Er is alleen één probleem: na 9/11 heeft Amerika een wet die slachtoffers het recht geeft Saoedische bedrijven aansprakelijk te stellen. Kushner zou MBS beloofd hebben die wet te schrappen. Zeker na de moord op Khashoggi - volgens een VN-rapport in opdracht van MBS - zal dat niet gebeuren.Als Amerika ze niet kan helpen, zijn de Saoedis gedwongen om geld aan te nemen van China, meent Wolff. Voor Kushner is steun van Bin Salman onontbeerlijk om zijn vredesplan voor het Midden-Oosten te doen slagen. “De Trumps en de Kushners leven hun leven op deze manier zolang ze ermee weg kunnen komen. Ooit zullen ze gepakt worden.”“Trump is president dankzij Steve Bannon. Het maakte ook van Steve een belangrijke stem in de wereld. Hij is nu geen marginale speler meer. De prijs daarvoor was omgaan met Donald Trump. Uiteindelijk kan Trump niet zonder hem, want in het hele Trump-universum is er maar één slimmerik en dat is Bannon. Hij is de enige met een coherente visie. En hij begrijpt Trump.”Vice-president Mike Pence is volgens Trump een 'religieuze gek', schrijft Wolff in zijn boek. “Pence maakt weinig indruk. Maar zijn vrouw Karen - die door Pence 'Moeder' genoemd wordt en dus door het hele Witte Huis - is een sterke persoonlijkheid die weet hoe ze het politieke spel moet spelen. Trump wilde de Witte Huis-dokter minister van Veteranenzaken maken. Iedereen vond die dokter een aardige vent, maar hij roddelde over een gynaecologische kwestie waarvoor hij Moeder over de vloer had gehad. Zij hoorde dat en voorkwam vervolgens dat hij minister werd. Zij is een bijzondere vrouw in het Witte Huis. Trump ziet vrouwen voornamelijk als seksueel attractief gezelschap.”“De president geeft je aandacht als je hem vleit. Doe je dat, dan zal hij jou ook loven. De reden dat hij zo'n hekel heeft aan Angela Merkel is dat zij hem niet vleit.”Leestip:Onlangs verscheen bij Prometheus Michael Wolffs boek ‘Staat van Beleg. Trump onder vuur’. Het is de opvolger van Wolffs eerste boek over Trump: ‘Vuur en Woede’.***Op Independence Day is het natuurlijk gepast in de historische rubriek eer te betonen aan de grootste president van de USA van de twintigste eeuw. Wie dat is, staat buiten kijf: Franklin Delano Roosevelt. En dat is temeer gepast nu wij de maand juni een van zijn grootste prestaties herdachten: de gewaagde en succesvolle grootste amfibische operatie in de wereldgeschiedenis, D Day. PG Kroeger zet aan de hand van een trilogie die de historicus Nigel Hamilton recent publiceerde uiteen wat FDR's strategie was toen de Verenigde Staten overvallen werden door Japan en Hitler Amerika de oorlog verklaarde in december 1941.Zijn grootse visie en weidse blik op de rol als 'Commander in Chief' leidde ertoe dat binnen vier jaar de beide militaire grootmachten gedwongen waren tot onvoorwaardelijke overgave. En de VS was de grootste macht op aarde geworden.Het was FDR en niet zijn generaals - en ook niet Churchill of Stalin - die deze strategie ontwierp en bijna zonder enige aarzeling doorzette, volhield en tot zo'n grote overwinning voerde. PG leest daarom de toast voor van Stalin bij het diner voor Churchills 69e verjaardag, waarin de Sovjet-dictator die zonder omhaal van woorden erkende.Ook vertelt hij over zijn gesprek met Lincoln Gordon, een jonge adviseur en ambtenaar van de staf van het Witte Huis, die nauw heeft samengewerkt met de president. "A brilliant man, our greatest President. But dévious, mister Kroeger....Dévious!"
Framtidens migrationspolitik. Järvaveckan. Kushners stora plan för fred i Mellanöstern. Plast i haven. Pentagon presenterar "bevis" för att Iran låg bakom attack mot oljetankers igår. Hyresrätter som brinner. West Pride i Göteborg. . Judiska snubbelstenar sätts upp i Stockholm.
From our full day of live shows at Slate Day comes Trumpcast Live! Virginia Heffernan welcomes to the stage Kushner Inc author Vicky Ward and comedian Aparna Nancherla to talk about the Kushners, the anxiety olympics, Trump’s penchant for cheating and the casino roots of the term “collusion,” and much more. Plus incredible live improv by Kate James, Ben Rameaka, and Marla Caceres, the “Trumpcast Colluders.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From our full day of live shows at Slate Day comes Trumpcast Live! Virginia Heffernan welcomes to the stage Kushner Inc author Vicky Ward and comedian Aparna Nancherla to talk about the Kushners, the anxiety olympics, Trump’s penchant for cheating and the casino roots of the term “collusion,” and much more. Plus incredible live improv by Kate James, Ben Rameaka, and Marla Caceres, the “Trumpcast Colluders.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chris Christie is a boisterous, larger-than-life politician who served two terms as governor of New Jersey and briefly ran for president in 2016 before dropping out of the primaries and being the first prominent Republican to back Donald Trump. But when Trump won, he essentially threw Christie overboard, passing him over for the two jobs in the administration he coveted: Vice-President and Attorney General. Sitting on the political bench at age 56 and now an ABC News contributor, Christie has written a book called Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics. Christie joins Tina to talk candidly about what the Mueller report means for Trump, the president’s extraordinary self-preservation instincts and why hiring family members is a very bad idea.Tweet me @tinabrownlm #TBDwithTinaBrown And if you liked this episode, please rate, review and subscribe to help spread the word.
In episode 90 the girls from for the Kushner family. They spend the time together breaking down how Jared Kushner was able to get Qatar to pay off 666 Fifth Avenue for his families real estate company. How you ask? Well a lot of shady stuff happened SO LISTEN TO FIND OUT MORE!! WE'RE COMING FOR YA KUSHNERS!! FOOTNOTES: 1. THE KUSHNERS ARE FINALLY GETTING THAT SWEET, SWEET QATARI CASH 2. Kushners Near Deal With Qatar-Linked Company for Troubled Tower 3. Kushners ‘Negotiating Now,’ Over Sale of Flagship Building 4. At Kushners’ Flagship Building, Mounting Debt and a Foundered Deal 5. QATAR SHOCKED, SHOCKED TO LEARN IT ACCIDENTALLY BAILED OUT JARED KUSHNER 6. SAUDI ARABIA PLANNED TO INVADE QATAR LAST SUMMER. REX TILLERSON’S EFFORTS TO STOP IT MAY HAVE COST HIM HIS JOB. 7. Kushner Companies confirms meeting with Qatar on financing 8. Rex Tillerson stopped Saudi and UAE from 'attacking' Qatar 9. SAUDI AND EMIRATI PRINCES FEUD OVER WHO HAS MORE CONTROL OF JARED KUSHNER 10. Kushner’s Financial Ties to Israel Deepen Even With Mideast Diplomatic Role 11. Ethnically Ambiguous Merch on Tee Public Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
Former NJ Governor Chris Christie sets the record straight about his tenure as a corruption-busting prosecutor and a Republican running a Democratic state, as well as what really happened on the 2016 campaign trail and inside Trump Tower. He recalls how his friendship with Donald Trump began and the nasty details of the infamous Charles Kushner case that would later come back to haunt him. He talks about why he passed on running for President in 2012, Hurricane Sandy and that notorious Obama hug (which he says wasn’t really a hug), and how the Romney campaign used it as a scapegoat for their own candidate’s shortcomings. Christie reveals that he even had to convince his own son that he had nothing to do with the George Washington Bridge closure and in the end it boiled down to stupid people doing stupid things. I ask him if he thinks the Trump-Russia collusion may turn out to be a similar situation, he says he could tell General Mike Flynn was trouble from day one, he talks about his former colleagues Bob Mueller and James Comey, and he shares the advice he gave President Trump when the whole Russia investigation began. He reveals why he believed he was going to be tapped as Trump’s running mate, how Jared Kushner tossed out the entire Trump transition plan just to get even with him, and the day he finally got fed up and said "I’m done." Plus Chris Christie on how he became the first Youtube Governor, why he unfollowed every New Jersey reporter on Twitter, and why it took him 3 months to convince Donald Trump to cash his check. Order Chris Christie's book Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics on Amazon, Audible, or wherever books are sold. Follow him on twitter at @ChrisChristie. Today's episode was sponsored by BetterHelp.com.
In this week’s “A Reagan Forum” we go back to February 9, 2019 when former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie came to the Reagan Library to discuss his brand new book, “Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face-Politics," and to set the record straight about his tenure as a corruption-fighting prosecutor and a Republican running a Democratic state, as well as his frank insights and experiences with President Trump.
Townhall Review – February 9, 2019 Hugh Hewitt talks with Senator Marco Rubio about President Trump’s State of the Union address. Kevin McCullough speaks with The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Strassel about the Democrat’s reactions during the State of the Union. Hugh Hewitt talks with John Bolton, National Security Advisor to President Trump, about the situation in Venezuela. Mike Gallagher talks about a Victor Davis Hanson article titled “The Progressive Race to the Bottom.” Hugh Hewitt talks with Chris Christie about the 2016 presidential campaign and his book Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics. Sebastian Gorka discusses the Virginia abortion law with investigative reporter Sara Carter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
SPEAKERS Chris Christie Former Governor, New Jersey (2010–2018); Author, Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics Bill Whalen Research Fellow, Hoover Institution This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on February 6th, 2019. ** This Podcast May Contain Explicit Language **
Hugh Hewitt talks with former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, for an extended interview about his book, Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
As a nation remembers George Herbert Walker Bush, Michael discusses his lasting legacy with Mona Charen and Ellis Henican and looks at new developments for Donald Trump in the Mueller investigation. Mona Charen is a syndicated columnist and a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Her most recent book is Sex Matters: How Modern Feminism Lost Touch with Science, Love, and Common Sense. Ellis Henican is a New York Times bestselling author, a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist and a popular TV news pundit. He is also the voice of Stormy on the hit Cartoon Network series Sealab 2021. His upcoming book, co-written with former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics.
From the moment during the presidential campaign that Donald Trump broke decades of precedent and declined to release his personal tax returns, the issue of Trump and the taxes he has paid (or not paid) has been the subject of widespread fascination, scrutiny and not a little controversy. That scrutiny ratcheted up significantly in recent weeks with two substantial media investigations of the tax-paying practices of Trump’s family and those of Trump in-law and White House official Jared Kushner. This week’s episode of Trump, Inc. brings clarity to a complex subject. It identifies three patterns in the president’s approach to taxes. First, it describes a history of ignoring norms (which, for presidential candidates, include releasing tax returns). Second, it delves into a recent New York Times investigation — which concluded that the president’s family committed “outright fraud” — to show a history of breaking tax rules. Finally, it examines Trump’s ability to change tax rules to benefit himself and his wealthy peers. The episode includes an interview with The New York Times’ Susanne Craig, the co-author of the expose that reported that Fred Trump passed $413 million in today’s dollars to his son Donald, who describes how she reported her article and the mysteries she and her colleagues unraveled. It also examines a second New York Times article that explored how Kushner exploited a seemingly prosaic tax technique — depreciation — to wipe out his taxable income. (Representatives of the Trumps and Kushners have denied any tax improprieties.) Finally, the episode looks at many of the ways in which Trump’s signature tax cut will redound to the benefit of the real estate industry. The bigger picture? As tax expert Jenny Johnson Ware puts it in the podcast, for taxpayers who want to be aggressive, “It’s a great time.” Correction: This story originally misattributed and misquoted a statement. Jenny Johnson Ware did not say, “It’s a good time to be wealthy in the United States if you are aggressive about your tax money.” ProPublica's Jesse Eisinger asked, “Is it a good time to be wealthy in the United States if you are aggressive about your tax planning?” Ware responded that for taxpayers who want to be aggressive, “It’s a great time.”
Late on a Thursday evening in February 2017, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s plane landed at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland for his first visit with President Donald Trump. A few hours earlier, the casino magnate Sheldon Adelson’s Boeing 737, which is so large it can seat 149 people, touched down at Reagan National Airport after a flight from Las Vegas. Adelson dined that night at the White House with Trump, Jared Kushner and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Adelson and his wife, Miriam, were among Trump’s biggest benefactors, writing checks for $20 million in the campaign and pitching in an additional $5 million for the inaugural festivities. Adelson was in town to see the Japanese prime minister about a much greater sum of money. Japan, after years of acrimonious public debate, has legalized casinos. For more than a decade, Adelson and his company, Las Vegas Sands, have sought to build a multibillion-dollar casino resort there. He has called expanding to the country, one of the world’s last major untapped markets, the “holy grail.” Nearly every major casino company in the world is competing to secure one of a limited number of licenses to enter a market worth up to $25 billion per year. “This opportunity won’t come along again, potentially ever,” said Kahlil Philander, an academic who studies the industry. The morning after his White House dinner, Adelson attended a breakfast in Washington with Abe and a small group of American CEOs, including two others from the casino industry. Adelson and the other executives raised the casino issue with Abe, according to an attendee. Adelson had a potent ally in his quest: the new president of the United States. Following the business breakfast, Abe had a meeting with Trump before boarding Air Force One for a weekend at Mar-a-Lago. The two heads of state dined with Patriots owner Bob Kraft and golfed at Trump National Jupiter Golf Club with the South African golfer Ernie Els. During a meeting at Mar-a-Lago that weekend, Trump raised Adelson’s casino bid to Abe, according to two people briefed on the meeting. The Japanese side was surprised. “It was totally brought up out of the blue,” according to one of the people briefed on the exchange. “They were a little incredulous that he would be so brazen.” After Trump told Abe he should strongly consider Las Vegas Sands for a license, “Abe didn’t really respond, and said thank you for the information,” this person said. Trump also mentioned at least one other casino operator. Accounts differ on whether it was MGM or Wynn Resorts, then run by Trump donor and then-Republican National Committee finance chairman Steve Wynn. The Japanese newspaper Nikkei reported the president also mentioned MGM and Abe instructed an aide who was present to jot down the names of both companies. Questioned about the meeting, Abe said in remarks before the Japanese legislature in July that Trump had not passed on requests from casino companies but did not deny that the topic had come up. The president raising a top donor’s personal business interests directly with a foreign head of state would violate longstanding norms. “That should be nowhere near the agenda of senior officials,” said Brian Harding, a Japan expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “U.S.-Japan relations is about the security of the Asia-Pacific, China and economic issues.” Adelson has told his shareholders to expect good news. On a recent earnings call, Adelson cited unnamed insiders as saying Sands’ efforts to win a place in the Japanese market will pay off. “The estimates by people who know, say they know, whom we believe they know, say that we're in the No. 1 pole position,” he said. After decades as a major Republican donor, Adelson is known as an ideological figure, motivated by his desire to influence U.S. policy to help Israel. “I’m a one-issue person. That issue is Israel,” he said last year. On that issue — Israel — Trump has delivered. The administration has slashed funding for aid to Palestinian refugees and scrapped the Iran nuclear deal. Attending the recent opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, Adelson seemed to almost weep with joy, according to an attendee. But his reputation as an Israel advocate has obscured a through-line in his career: He has used his political access to push his financial self-interest. Not only has Trump touted Sands’ interests in Japan, but his administration also installed an executive from the casino industry in a top position in the U.S. embassy in Tokyo. Adelson’s influence reverberates through this administration. Cabinet-level officials jump when he calls. One who displeased him was replaced. He has helped a friend’s company get a research deal with the Environmental Protection Agency. And Adelson has already received a windfall from Trump’s new tax law, which particularly favored companies like Las Vegas Sands. The company estimated the benefit of the law at $1.2 billion. Adelson’s influence is not absolute: His company’s casinos in Macau are vulnerable in Trump’s trade war with China, which controls the former Portuguese colony near Hong Kong. If the Chinese government chose to retaliate by targeting Macau, where Sands has several large properties, it could hurt Adelson’s bottom line. So far, there’s no evidence that has happened. The White House declined to comment on Adelson. The Japanese Embassy in Washington declined to comment. Sands spokesman Ron Reese declined to answer detailed questions but said in a statement: “The gaming industry has long sought the opportunity to enter the Japan market. Gaming companies have spent significant resources there on that effort and Las Vegas Sands is no exception.” Reese added: “If our company has any advantage it would be because of our significant Asian operating experience and our unique convention-based business model. Any suggestion we are favored for some other reason is not based on the reality of the process in Japan or the integrity of the officials involved in it.” With a fortune estimated at $35 billion, Adelson is the 21st-richest person in the world, according to Forbes. In August, when he celebrated his 85th birthday in Las Vegas, the party stretched over four days. Adelson covered guests’ expenses. A 92-year-old Tony Bennett and the Israeli winner of Eurovision performed for the festivities. He is slowing down physically; stricken by neuropathy, he uses a motorized scooter to get around and often stands up with the help of a bodyguard. He fell and broke three ribs while on a ferry from Macau to Hong Kong last November. Yet Adelson has spent the Trump era hustling to expand his gambling empire. With Trump occupying the White House, Adelson has found the greatest political ally he’s ever had. “I would put Adelson at the very top of the list of both access and influence in the Trump administration,” said Craig Holman of the watchdog group Public Citizen. “I’ve never seen anything like it before, and I’ve been studying money in politics for 40 years.” ***** Adelson grew up poor in Boston, the son of a cabdriver with a sixth-grade education. According to his wife, Adelson was beaten up as a kid for being Jewish. A serial entrepreneur who has started or acquired more than 50 different businesses, he had already made and lost his first fortune by the late 1960s, when he was in his mid-30s. It took him until the mid-1990s to become extraordinarily rich. In 1995, he sold the pioneering computer trade show Comdex to the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank for $800 million. He entered the gambling business in earnest when his Venetian casino resort opened in 1999 in Las Vegas. With its gondola rides on faux canals, it was inspired by his honeymoon to Venice with Miriam, who is 12 years younger than Adelson. It’s been said that Trump is a poor person’s idea of a rich person. Adelson could be thought of as Trump’s idea of a rich person. A family friend recalls Sheldon and Miriam’s two sons, who are now in college, getting picked up from school in stretch Hummer limousines and his home being so large it was stocked with Segway transporters to get around. A Las Vegas TV station found a few years ago that, amid a drought, Adelson’s palatial home a short drive from the Vegas Strip had used nearly 8 million gallons of water in a year, enough for 55 average homes. Adelson will rattle off his precise wealth based on the fluctuation of Las Vegas Sands’ share price, said his friend the New York investor Michael Steinhardt. “He’s very sensitive to his net worth,” Steinhardt said. Trump entered the casino business several years before Adelson. In the early 1990s, both eyed Eilat in southern Israel as a potential casino site. Neither built there. Adelson “didn’t have a whole lot of respect for Trump when Trump was operating casinos. He was dismissive of Trump,” recalled one former Las Vegas Sands official. In an interview in the late ’90s, Adelson lumped Trump with Wynn: “Both of these gentlemen have very big egos,” Adelson said. “Well, the world doesn't really care about their egos.” Today, in his rare public appearances, Adelson has a grandfatherly affect. He likes to refer to himself as “Self” (“I said to myself, ‘Self …’”). He makes Borscht Belt jokes about his short stature: “A friend of mine says, ‘You’re the tallest guy in the world.’ I said, ‘How do you figure that?’ He says, ‘When you stand on your wallet.’” By the early 2000s, Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands had surpassed Trump’s casino operations. While Trump was getting bogged down in Atlantic City, Adelson’s properties thrived. When Macau opened up a local gambling monopoly, Adelson bested a crowded field that included Trump to win a license. Today, Macau accounts for more than half of Las Vegas Sands’ roughly $13 billion in annual revenue. Trump’s casinos went bankrupt, and now he is out of the industry entirely. By the mid-2000s, Trump was playing the role of business tycoon on his reality show, “The Apprentice.” Meanwhile, Adelson aggressively expanded his empire in Macau and later in Singapore. His company’s Moshe Safdie-designed Marina Bay Sands property there, with its rooftop infinity pool, featured prominently in the recent hit movie “Crazy Rich Asians.” While their business trajectories diverged, Adelson and Trump have long shared a willingness to sue critics, enemies and business associates. Multiple people said they were too afraid of lawsuits to speak on the record for this story. In 1989, after the Nevada Gaming Control Board conducted a background investigation of Adelson, it found he had already been personally involved in around 100 civil lawsuits, according to the book “License to Steal,” a history of the agency. That included matters as small as a $600 contractual dispute with a Boston hospital. The lawsuits have continued even as Adelson became so rich the amounts of money at stake hardly mattered. In one case, Adelson was unhappy with the quality of construction on one of his beachfront Malibu, California, properties and pursued a legal dispute with the contractor for more than seven years, going through a lengthy series of appeals and cases in different courts. Adelson sued a Wall Street Journal reporter for libel over a single phrase — a description of him as “foul-mouthed” — and fought the case for four years before it was settled, with the story unchanged. In a particularly bitter case in Massachusetts Superior Court in the 1990s, his sons from his first marriage accused him of cheating them out of money. Adelson prevailed. Adelson rarely speaks to the media any more, with occasional exceptions for friendly business journalists or on stage at conferences, usually interviewed by people to whom he has given a great deal of money. “He keeps a very tight inner circle,” said a casino industry executive who has known Adelson for decades. Adelson declined to comment for this story. ******* Adelson once told a reporter of entering the casino business late in life, “I loved being an outsider.” For nearly a decade he played that role in presidential politics, bankrolling the opposition to the Obama administration. As with some of his early entrepreneurial forays, he dumped money for little return, his political picks going bust. In 2008, he backed Rudy Giuliani. As America’s Mayor faded, he came on board late with the John McCain campaign. In 2012, he almost single-handedly funded Newt Gingrich’s candidacy. Gingrich spent a few weeks atop the polls before his candidacy collapsed. Adelson became a late adopter of Mitt Romney. In 2016, the Adelsons didn’t officially endorse a candidate for months. Trump used Adelson as a foil, an example of the well-heeled donors who wielded outsized influence in Washington. “Sheldon or whoever — you could say Koch. I could name them all. They’re all friends of mine, every one of them. I know all of them. They have pretty much total control over the candidate,” Trump said on Fox News in October 2015. “Nobody controls me but the American public.” In a pointed tweet that month, Trump said: “Sheldon Adelson is looking to give big dollars to [Marco] Rubio because he feels he can mold him into his perfect little puppet. I agree!” Despite Trump’s barbs, Adelson had grown curious about the candidate and called his friend Steinhardt, who founded the Birthright program that sends young Jews on free trips to Israel. Adelson is now the program’s largest funder. “I called Kushner and I said Sheldon would like to meet your father-in-law,” Steinhardt recalled. “Kushner was excited.” Trump got on a plane to Las Vegas. “Sheldon has strong views when it comes to the Jewish people; Trump recognized that, and a marriage was formed.” Trump and his son-in-law Kushner courted Adelson privately, meeting several times in New York and Las Vegas. “Having Orthodox Jews like Jared and Ivanka next to him and so many common people in interest gave a level of comfort to Sheldon,” said Ronn Torossian, a New York public relations executive who knows both men. “Someone who lets their kid marry an Orthodox Jew and then become Orthodox is probably going to stand pretty damn close to Israel.” Miriam Adelson, a physician born and raised in what became Israel, is said to be an equal partner in Sheldon Adelson’s political decisions. He has said the interests of the Jewish state are at the center of his worldview, and his views align with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-of-center approach to Iran and Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories. Adelson suggested in 2014 that Israel doesn’t need to be a democracy. “I think God didn’t say anything about democracy,” Adelson said. “He didn’t talk about Israel remaining as a democratic state.” On a trip to the country several years ago, on the eve of his young son’s bar mitzvah, Adelson said, “Hopefully he’ll come back; his hobby is shooting. He’ll come back and be a sniper for the IDF,” referring to the Israel Defense Forces. On domestic issues, Adelson is more Chamber of Commerce Republican than movement conservative or Trumpian populist. He is pro-choice and has called for work permits and a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, a position sharply at odds with Trump’s. While the Koch brothers, his fellow Republican megadonors, have evinced concern over trade policy and distaste for Trump, Adelson has proved flexible, putting aside any qualms about Trump’s business acumen or ideological misgivings. In May 2016, he declared in a Washington Post op-ed that he was endorsing Trump. He wrote that Trump represented “a CEO success story that exemplifies the American spirit of determination, commitment to cause and business stewardship.” The Adelsons came through with $20 million in donations to the pro-Trump super PAC, part of at least $83 million in donations to Republicans. By the time of the October 2016 release of the Access Hollywood tape featuring Trump bragging about sexual assault, Adelson was among his staunchest supporters. “Sheldon Adelson had Donald Trump's back,” said Steve Bannon in a speech last year, speaking of the time after the scandal broke. “He was there.” In December 2016, Adelson donated $5 million to the Trump inaugural festivities. The Adelsons had better seats at Trump’s inauguration than many Cabinet secretaries. The whole family, including their two college-age sons, came to Washington for the celebration. One of his sons posted a picture on Instagram of the event with the hashtag #HuckFillary. The investment paid off in access and in financial returns. Adelson has met with Trump or visited the White House at least six times since Trump’s election victory. The two speak regularly. Adelson has also had access to others in the White House. He met privately with Vice President Mike Pence before Pence gave a speech at Adelson’s Venetian resort in Las Vegas last year. “He just calls the president all the time. Donald Trump takes Sheldon Adelson’s calls,” said Alan Dershowitz, who has done legal work for Adelson and advised Trump. Adelson’s tens of millions in donations to Trump have already been paid back many times over by the new tax law. While all corporations benefited from the lower tax rate in the new law, many incurred an extra bill in the transition because profits overseas were hit with a one-time tax. But not Sands. Adelson’s company hired lobbyists to press Trump’s Treasury Department and Congress on provisions that would help companies like Sands that paid high taxes abroad, according to public filings and tax experts. The lobbying effort appears to have worked. After Trump signed the tax overhaul into law in December, Las Vegas Sands recorded a benefit from the new law the company estimated at $1.2 billion. The Adelson family owns 55 percent of Las Vegas Sands, which is publicly traded, according to filings. The Treasury Department didn’t respond to requests for comment. Now as Trump and the Republican Party face a reckoning in the midterm elections in November, they have once again turned to Adelson. He has given at least $55 million so far. ***** In 2014, Adelson told an interviewer he was not interested in building a dynasty. “I want my legacy to be that I helped out humankind,” he said, underscoring his family’s considerable donations to medical research. But he gives no indication of sticking to a quiet life of philanthropy. In the last four years, he has used the Sands’ fleet of private jets, assiduously meeting with world leaders and seeking to build new casinos in Japan, Korea and Brazil. He is closest in Japan. Japan has been considering lifting its ban on casinos for years, in spite of majority opposition in polls from a public that is wary of the social problems that might result. A huge de facto gambling industry of the pinball-like game pachinko has long existed in the country, historically associated with organized crime and seedy parlors filled with cigarette-smoking men. Opposition to allowing casinos is so heated that a brawl broke out in the Japanese legislature this summer. But lawmakers have moved forward on legalizing casinos and crafted regulations that hew to Adelson’s wishes. “Japan is considered the next big market. Sheldon looks at it that way,” said a former Sands official. Adelson envisions building a $10 billion “integrated resort,” which in industry parlance refers to a large complex featuring a casino with hotels, entertainment venues, restaurants and shopping malls. The new Japanese law allows for just three licenses to build casinos in cities around the country, effectively granting valuable local monopolies. At least 13 companies, including giants like MGM and Genting, are vying for a license. Even though Sands is already a strong contender because of its size and its successful resort in Singapore, some observers in Japan believe Adelson’s relationship with Trump has helped move Las Vegas Sands closer to the multibillion-dollar prize. Just a week after the U.S. election, Prime Minister Abe arrived at Trump Tower, becoming the first foreign leader to meet with the president-elect. Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner were also there. Abe presented Trump with a gilded $3,800 golf driver. Few know the details of what the Trumps and Abe discussed at the meeting. In a break with protocol, Trump’s transition team sidelined the State Department, whose Japan experts were never briefed on what was said. “There was a great deal of frustration,” said one State Department official. “There was zero communication from anyone on Trump’s team.” In another sign of Adelson’s direct access to the incoming president and ties with Japan, he secured a coveted Trump Tower meeting a few weeks later for an old friend, the Japanese billionaire businessman Masayoshi Son. Son’s company, SoftBank, had bought Adelson’s computer trade show business in the 1990s. A few years ago, Adelson named Son as a potential partner in his casino resort plans in Japan. Son’s SoftBank, for its part, owns Sprint, which has long wanted to merge with T-Mobile but needs a green light from the Trump administration. A beaming Son emerged from the meeting in the lobby of Trump Tower with the president-elect and promised $50 billion in investments in the U.S. When Trump won the election in November 2016, the casino bill had been stalled in the Japanese Diet. One month after the Trump-Abe meeting, in an unexpected move in mid-December, Abe’s ruling coalition pushed through landmark legislation authorizing casinos, with specific regulations to be ironed out later. There was minimal debate on the controversial bill, and it passed at the very end of an extraordinary session of the legislature. “That was a surprise to a lot of stakeholders,” said one former Sands executive who still works in the industry. Some observers suspect the timing was not a coincidence. “After Trump won the election in 2016, the Abe government’s efforts to pass the casino bill shifted into high gear,” said Yoichi Torihata, a professor at Shizuoka University and opponent of the casino law. On a Las Vegas Sands earnings call a few days after Trump’s inauguration, Adelson touted that Abe had visited the company’s casino resort complex in Singapore. “He was very impressed with it,” Adelson said. Days later, Adelson attended the February breakfast with Abe in Washington, after which the prime minister went on to Mar-a-Lago, where the president raised Las Vegas Sands. A week after that, Adelson flew to Japan and met with the secretary general of Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party in Tokyo. The casino business is one of the most regulated industries in the world, and Adelson has always sought political allies. To enter the business in 1989, he hired the former governor of Nevada to represent him before the state’s gaming commission. In 2001, according to court testimony reported in the New Yorker, Adelson intervened with then-House Majority Whip Rep. Tom DeLay, to whom he was a major donor, at the behest of a Chinese official over a proposed House resolution that was critical of the country’s human rights record. At the time, Las Vegas Sands was seeking entry into the Macau market. The resolution died, which Adelson attributed to factors other than his intervention, according to the magazine. In 2015, he purchased the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the state’s largest newspaper, which then published a lengthy investigative series on one of Adelson’s longtime rivals, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, which runs a convention center that competes with Adelson’s. (The paper said Adelson had no influence over its coverage.) In Japan, Las Vegas Sands’ efforts have accelerated in the last year. Adelson returned to the country in September 2017, visiting top officials in Osaka, a possible casino site. In a show of star power in October, Sands flew in David Beckham and the Eagles’ Joe Walsh for a press conference at the Palace Hotel Tokyo. Beckham waxed enthusiastic about his love of sea urchin and declared, "Las Vegas Sands is creating fabulous resorts all around the world, and their scale and vision are impressive.” Adelson appears emboldened. When he was in Osaka last fall, he publicly criticized a proposal under consideration to cap the total amount of floor space devoted to casinos in the resorts that have been legalized. In July, the Japanese Diet passed a bill with more details on what casinos will look like and laying out the bidding process. The absolute limit on casino floor area had been dropped from the legislation. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has made an unusual personnel move that could help advance pro-gambling interests. The new U.S. ambassador, an early Trump campaign supporter and Tennessee businessman named William Hagerty, hired as his senior adviser an American executive working on casino issues for the Japanese company SEGA Sammy. Joseph Schmelzeis left his role as senior adviser on global government and industry affairs for the company in February to join the U.S. Embassy. (He has not worked for Sands.) A State Department spokesperson said that embassy officials had communicated with Sands as part of “routine” meetings and advice provided to members of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan. The spokesperson said that “Schmelzeis is not participating in any matter related to integrated resorts or Las Vegas Sands.” Japanese opposition politicians have seized on the Adelson-Trump-Abe nexus. One, Tetsuya Shiokawa, said this year that he believes Trump has been the unseen force behind why Abe’s party has “tailor-made the [casino] bill to suit foreign investors like Adelson.” In the next stage of the process, casino companies will complete their bids with Japanese localities. ****** Adelson’s influence has spread across the Trump administration. In August 2017, the Zionist Organization of America, to which the Adelsons are major donors, launched a campaign against National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster. ZOA chief Mort Klein charged McMaster “clearly has animus toward Israel.” Adelson said he was convinced to support the attack on McMaster after Adelson spoke with Safra Catz, the Israeli-born CEO of Oracle, who “enlightened me quite a bit” about McMaster, according to an email Klein later released to the media. Adelson pressed Trump to appoint the hawkish John Bolton to a high position, The New York Times reported. In March, Trump fired McMaster and replaced him with Bolton. The president and other cabinet officials also clashed with McMaster on policy and style issues. For Scott Pruitt, the former EPA administrator known as an ally of industry, courting Adelson meant developing a keen interest in an unlikely topic: technology that generates clean water from air. An obscure Israeli startup called Watergen makes machines that resemble air conditioners and, with enough electricity, can pull potable water from the air. Adelson doesn’t have a stake in the company, but he is old friends with the Israeli-Georgian billionaire who owns the firm, Mikhael Mirilashvili, according to the head of Watergen’s U.S. operation, Yehuda Kaploun. Adelson first encountered the technology on a trip to Israel, Kaploun said. Dershowitz is also on the company’s board. Just weeks after being confirmed, Pruitt met with Watergen executives at Adelson’s request. Pruitt promptly mobilized dozens of EPA officials to ink a research deal under which the agency would study Watergen’s technology. EPA officials immediately began voicing concerns about the request, according to hundreds of previously unreported emails obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. They argued that the then-EPA chief was violating regular procedures. Pruitt, according to one email, asked that staffers explore “on an expedited time frame” whether a deal could be done “without the typical contracting requirements.” Other emails described the matter as “very time sensitive” and having “high Administrator interest.” A veteran scientist at the agency warned that the “technology has been around for decades,” adding that the agency should not be “focusing on a single vendor, in this case Watergen.” Officials said that Watergen’s technology was not unique, noting there were as many as 70 different suppliers on the market with products using the same concept. Notes from a meeting said the agency “does not currently have the expertise or staff to evaluate these technologies.” Agency lawyers “seemed scared” about the arrangement, according to an internal text exchange. The EPA didn’t respond to requests for comment. Watergen got its research deal. It’s not known how much money the agency has spent on the project. The technology was shipped to a lab in Cincinnati, and Watergen said the government will produce a report on its study. Pruitt planned to unveil the deal on a trip to Israel, which was also planned with the assistance of Adelson, The Washington Post reported. But amid multiple scandals, the trip never happened. Other parts of the Trump administration have also been friendly to Watergen. Over the summer, Mirilashvili attended the U.S. Embassy in Israel’s Fourth of July party, where he was photographed grinning and sipping water next to one of the company’s machines on display. Kaploun said U.S. Ambassador David Friedman’s staff assisted the company to help highlight its technology. A State Department spokesperson said Watergen was one of many private sponsors of the embassy party and was “subject to rigorous vetting.” The embassy is now considering leasing or buying a Watergen unit as part of a “routine procurement action,” the spokesperson said. A Mirilashvili spokesman said in a statement that Adelson and Mirilashvili “have no business ties with each other.” The spokesman added that Adelson had been briefed on the company’s technology by Watergen engineers and “Adelson has also expressed an interest in the ability of this Israeli technology to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans who are affected by water pollution.” ***** Even as the casino business looks promising in Japan, China has been a potential trouble spot for Adelson. Few businesses are as vulnerable to geopolitical winds as Adelson’s. The majority of Sands’ value derives from its properties in Macau. It is the world’s gambling capital, and China’s central government controls it. “Sheldon Adelson highly values direct engagement in Beijing,” a 2009 State Department cable released by WikiLeaks says, “especially given the impact of Beijing's visa policies on the company's growing mass market operations in Macau.” At times, Sands’ aggressive efforts in China crossed legal lines. On Jan. 19, 2017, the day before Trump took office, the Justice Department announced Sands was paying a nearly $7 million fine to settle a longstanding investigation into whether it violated a U.S. anti-bribery statute in China. The case revealed that Sands paid roughly $60 million to a consultant who “advertised his political connections with [People’s Republic of China] government officials” and that some of the payments “had no discernible legitimate business purpose.” Part of the work involved an effort by Sands to acquire a professional basketball team in the country to promote its casinos. The DOJ said Sands fully cooperated in the investigation and fixed its compliance problems. A year and a half into the Trump administration, Adelson has a bigger problem than the Justice Department investigation: Trump’s trade war against Beijing has put Sands’ business in Macau at risk. Sands’ right to operate expires in a few years. Beijing could throttle the flow of money and people from the mainland to Macau. Sands and the other foreign operators in Macau “now sit on a geopolitical fault line. Their Macau concessions can therefore be on the line,” said a report from the Hong Kong business consultancy Steve Vickers & Associates. A former Sands board member, George Koo, wrote a column in the Asia Times newspaper in April warning that Beijing could undercut the Macau market by legalizing casinos in the southern island province of Hainan. “A major blow in the trade war would be for China to allow Hainan to become a gambling destination and divert visitors who would otherwise be visiting Macau,” Koo wrote. “As one of Trump’s principal supporters, it’s undoubtedly a good time for Mr. Adelson to have a private conversation with the president.” It’s not clear if Adelson has had that conversation. According to The Associated Press, Adelson was present for a discussion of China policy at the dinner he attended with Trump at the White House in February 2017. In September, Trump escalated his trade war with China. He raised tariffs on $200 billion Chinese imports. China retaliated with tariffs on $60 billion of U.S. products. Adelson has said privately that if he can be helpful in any way he would volunteer himself to do whatever is asked for either side of the equation — the U.S. or China, according to a person who has spoken to him. ****** Torossian, the public relations executive, calls Adelson “this generation’s Rothschild” for his support of Israel. In early May, the Adelsons gave $30 million to the super PAC that is seeking to keep Republican control of the House for the remainder of Trump’s term. A few days later, Trump announced he was killing the Iran nuclear deal, a target of Adelson’s and the Netanyahu government’s for years. The following day, Adelson met with the president at the White House. Five days later, Adelson was in Israel for another landmark, the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. Trump’s decision to move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem marked a major shift in U.S. foreign policy, long eschewed by presidents of both parties. Besides dealing a major blow to Palestinian claims on part of the city, which are recognized by most of the world, it was the culmination of a more than 20-year project of the Adelsons. Sheldon and Miriam personally lobbied for the move on Capitol Hill as far back as 1995. In an audience dotted with yarmulkes and MAGA-red hats, the Adelsons were in the front now, next to Netanyahu and his wife, the Kushners and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin. A beaming Miriam, wearing a dress featuring an illustration of the Jerusalem skyline, filmed the event with her phone. She wrote a first-person account of the ceremony that was co-published on the front page of the two newspapers the Adelsons own, Israel Hayom and the Las Vegas Review-Journal: “The embassy opening is a crowning moment for U.S. foreign policy and for our president, Donald Trump. Just over a year into his first term, he has re-enshrined the United States as the standard-bearer of moral clarity and courage in a world that too often feels adrift.” Adelson paid for the official delegation of Guatemala, the only other country to move its embassy, to travel to Israel. “Sheldon told me that any country that wants to move its embassy to Jerusalem, he’ll fly them in — the president and everyone — for the opening,” said Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce CEO Duvi Honig, who was in attendance. Klein, the Zionist Organization of America president, was also there. The Adelsons, he said, “were glowing with a serene happiness like I’ve never seen them. Sheldon “said to me, ‘President Trump promised he would do this and he did it.’ And he almost became emotional. ‘And look, Mort, he did it.’
On The Gist, forget Stormy Daniels. The Kushners’ massive loan deals are where the real dirt is at. In the interview, the world’s growing complexity can be measured in dusty cables, useless features, and lines of code. Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik talk about the problems that snowball when even the smallest thing goes wrong. Clearfield and Tilcsik are the authors of Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It. In the Spiel, any census that asks people about their citizenship status will be pricey and inaccurate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On The Gist, forget Stormy Daniels. The Kushners’ massive loan deals are where the real dirt is at. In the interview, the world’s growing complexity can be measured in dusty cables, useless features, and lines of code. Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik talk about the problems that snowball when even the smallest thing goes wrong. Clearfield and Tilcsik are the authors of Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It. In the Spiel, any census that asks people about their citizenship status will be pricey and inaccurate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The hottest nonfiction book in publishing right now is the newly released, “Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends”) by New York Times bestselling author Peter Schweizer and he is our guest. He is the author of several other bestsellers, including “Clinton Cash” and “Throw Them All Out”, which revealed insider trading by members of Congress. His new book reveals how some of the most prominent names in national politics have earned tremendous wealth personally and for their friends and family, including the Bidens, the McConnells, the Obamas, the Kerrys and the Kushners. In this conversation, we explore the goal of the book, whether this ties into recent revelations from the Panama Papers, whether any of what he found is illegal, how this problem can be fixed and whether it will, what effect his previous books have had, what his next project is, and how his nonprofit advances its mission.
A portion of our Young Turks Main Show from March 20, 2018. For more go to http://www.tytnetwork.com/join. Hour 1: Texas bomber. Maryland school shooting. GOPer who said “skinhead lesbian” dropped from Maine race. Fox news commentator just quit the “propaganda machine”. Cynthia Nixon running against Cuomo in NY. Cynthia Nixon for Gov. Philly DA Larry Krasner, dismisses 31 from Philly DA’s Office. Kentucky teacher strike. Gov Bevin on radio show–Teachers like greedy ppl in WWII rationing times. Gov Bevin trashing teachers as well paid, ignorant, & blind. Hour 2: Mueller, McCabe, Trump tweet storm, Hannity. Hannity on Fox&Friends, pushing morning propaganda against investigators. Hannity toes Trump Admin line that he wont fire Mueller, no one said he should. FLASHBACK Hannity suggesting Trump should fire Mueller multiple times. Lindsey Graham–Trump firing Mueller would be beginning of end of Trump. Rep Charlie Dent–Agree w/Graham, it would end Trump Presidency. Napolitano–Firing of McCabe looks pretty bad, wreckless & vindictive. Rick Tyler–Trump will fire Mueller and GOP will do nothing, Ruhle goes crazy. Trump gave CIA position to Cohn then took it back. Trump announcing Cohn leaving–Have a feeling you’ll be back. Bevin tries explaining cutting teachers pensions w/o insulting them. Kushners’ cadre startup benefited from misleading rent filings. Dem lawmaker: lets grab our guns in case of Trump. Tom Suozzi–Break out the 2nd Amendment if Trump ignores courts, rule of law. Trump campaigning in 2016–2nd Amendment ppl can stop Hillary. NYT: black men do worse than white men even if they are from same socioeconomic background. Bruno Mars accused of cultural appropriation. Interracial marriage poll: 20% think it’s wrong. Politician blames weather on Jews. Trayon White climate change. Lawmaker doesnt want to arm female teachers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A portion of our Young Turks Main Show from March 19, 2018. For more go to http://www.tytnetwork.com/join. Hour 1: Segment 1 Hillary Trump voter comments. Hillary Clinton in India–Trump voters vs her voters. Durbin–Hillary is wrong on Trump voters, and we Dems acknowledge that. Durbin–Hillary can still speak, but we have new crop of Dems for 2020. Dems pull back hard line immigration demand. Jim Carrey’s Sanders portrait. Cambridge Analytica and Facebook. Cambridge Analytica pt1. Cambridge Analytica pt2. Gov Bevin trashing teachers as well paid, ignorant, & blind. Hannity on Fox&Friends, pushing morning propaganda against investigators. FLASHBACK Hannity suggesting Trump should fire Mueller multiple times. Lindsey Graham–Trump firing Mueller would be beginning of end of Trump. Rep Charlie Dent–Agree w/Graham, it would end Trump Presidency. Napolitano–Firing of McCabe looks pretty bad, wreckless & vindictive. Rick Tyler–Trump will fire Mueller and GOP will do nothing, Ruhle goes crazy. Philly DA Larry Krasner, dismisses 31 from Philly DA’s Office. Kentucky teacher strike. McCabe, Trump tweet storm, Hannity. Kushners’ cadre startup benefited from misleading rent filings. Conservatives complaining about Jim Carrey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Bloomberg Markets with Carol Massar and Cory Johnson.u0010u0010GUESTS:u0010David Wilsonu0010Stocks Editoru0010Bloomberg Newsu0010Discussing his Chart of the Day "De-FANGing of short sellers concerns BofA Merrill Lynch." Email Dave at DWilson@bloomberg.net to sign up for the Chart.u0010u0010Caleb Melbyu0010Financial Reporteru0010Bloomberg Newsu0010Discussing an ambitious plan by Jared Kushner’s family to recast its indebted Fifth Avenue office building as a luxury architectural trophy is collapsing, setting off a chain of events that may imperil the Kushners’ ownership of a property central to their real estate empire.
Bloomberg Markets with Carol Massar and Cory Johnson.u0010u0010GUESTS:u0010David Wilsonu0010Stocks Editoru0010Bloomberg Newsu0010Discussing his Chart of the Day "De-FANGing of short sellers concerns BofA Merrill Lynch." Email Dave at DWilson@bloomberg.net to sign up for the Chart.u0010u0010Caleb Melbyu0010Financial Reporteru0010Bloomberg Newsu0010Discussing an ambitious plan by Jared Kushner's family to recast its indebted Fifth Avenue office building as a luxury architectural trophy is collapsing, setting off a chain of events that may imperil the Kushners' ownership of a property central to their real estate empire. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Bloomberg Markets with Carol Massar and Cory Johnson. GUEST: David Kocieniewski Legal and Regulation Reporter Bloomberg News Discussing his story on Kushners’ China deal flop was part of much bigger hunt for cash.
Bloomberg Markets with Carol Massar and Cory Johnson. GUEST: David Kocieniewski Legal and Regulation Reporter Bloomberg News Discussing his story on Kushners' China deal flop was part of much bigger hunt for cash. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Did you see Sally Yates ether Senators Cornyn and Cruz? It was amazing.The French elections revealed a lot for me. We discuss the idea that is being forwarded "neoliberalism leads to fascism."The Kushners are making a lot of money off of their proximity to Donald Trump through the EB-5 Visa program.New Orleans is still having a huge problem removing Confederate monuments.
Kushner's family criticised for touting cash for visas scheme in China Is this draining the swamp
Revealed, the Kushners are selling Visas to rich investors in China. And Reporters barred from the Kushner Companies' visa-for-investment event in China. In the first part of this video we will review that I covered a leading story from 6 days ago...I covered covered in a video 3 weeks ago!! http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-kushner-idUSKBN1830E7*** https://www.google.com/search?q=kushner+pay+to+play&oq=kushner+pay+to+play&aqs=chrome..69i57.6318j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&pageId=116599717119936863494****
Before landing a position as a White House senior adviser, Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, worked on making a name for himself in Manhattan real estate. And in 2007 he purchased a skyscraper on Fifth Avenue for $1.8 billion — at the time, a record deal for a single office tower. A few years after the financial crisis, 666 Fifth Ave. ran into financial problems and was eventually able to refinance its debt. After joining the president's team, Kushner sold his ownership stake in the building to a family trust and resigned as CEO of Kushner Companies. Last week, Bloomberg reported that the Chinese firm Anbang Insurance Group has been talking with Kushner Companies about a possible $4 billion investment deal in the building. Anbang has said it had not invested in the building. This week on Money Talking, David Kocieniewski with Bloomberg News and Hiten Samtani with the Real Deal review the history of the skyscraper and why Anbang might be interested in investing in it.
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