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Brad Parscale says he’s the embodiment of the American dream. His real story is actually more of a classic Trump tale: “a combination of hyperbole, half-truths and the occasional fiction.” propublica.org/article/the-my…
Per @peterelkind: “Like Trump, Parscale is largely unencumbered by the concerns for consistency & accuracy that are the hobgoblins of smaller minds. ‘When I give a speech, I tell it like a story,’ Parscale says when asked about embellishments and errors. ‘My story is my story.’"
I confirm the same story in #KushnerInc, sans the sneeze.
On a number of occasions, Rex Tillerson said he was blindsided by Jared Kushner’s discussions with world leaders: washingtonpost.com/world/national…
Case in point: 
While we wait for this to play out, I’ve got *plenty* on Felix Sater and his long-time association with the Trumps—and his role as Ivanka’s mentor—in my book. See Ch 4 of #KushnerInc.
Sater was the one who took Ivanka on a scouting trip to Moscow back in 2006. On a private tour of the Kremlin, he pleaded with a member of Vladimir Putin’s security detail to allow Ivanka to sit, briefly, in the Russian president’s chair.
In a 2015 email to Michael Cohen, Sater wrote, “Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it. I will get all of Putins team to buy in on this, I will manage this process.”
nytimes.com/2017/08/28/us/…
nytimes.com/2017/08/28/us/…
BREAKING: @RepDonBeyer and @tedlieu are calling for an investigation into Jared Kushner for possible Hatch Act violations.
Jared and Trump 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale have an unusually close relationship. One of my sources for #KushnerInc called Parscale "Jared's lackey."
Earlier this month, @maggieNYT and @anniekarni reported that Kushner and Parscale speak every day: nytimes.com/2019/06/03/us/…
@hunterw reported they have "multiple daily conversations" news.yahoo.com/inside-billion…
@hunterw reported they have "multiple daily conversations" news.yahoo.com/inside-billion…
One of Jared Kushner’s companies has received $90m in foreign funding from “an opaque offshore vehicle” since Kushner entered the White House, reports @jonswaine: theguardian.com/us-news/2019/j…
“The money came through a vehicle run by Goldman Sachs in the Cayman Islands, a tax haven that guarantees corporate secrecy.” Well, that certainly sounds legitimate.
Multiple Middle East sources told me in April that there would be a June payment from the Qatar Investment Authority to a Kushner vehicle through off-shore funds. Is this it?
Here @maddow unties some of the giant knot that is George Nader, Qatar, that meeting in the Seychelles, and the Mueller investigation: msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/… #Maddow
And yes, George Nader and Elliott Broidy are both in #KushnerInc. As always, “only the best people.”
For further reading: vickyward.com/books/kushner-…
The #AxiosonHBO interview @jonathanvswan did with Jared Kushner is a masterclass in journalism. It’s airing again tonight at 11:30pm ET. I suggest you tune in.
Kushner tried to play the artful dodger, but @jonathanvswan wouldn’t let up and pinned him down in numerous spots, including getting Kushner to claim publicly for the first time that he never once spoke to Trump about his security clearance.
Jared Kushner said tonight that one of the main goals of the Mideast peace process is “for the area to be investible.”
The real estate and business terminology is so misplaced here. But I guess when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
The real estate and business terminology is so misplaced here. But I guess when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
This narrative about Hope Hicks not being an “active participant” in discussions about what to do about investigations into the conduct of both Trump and his campaign is incorrect. nytimes.com/2019/05/23/us/…
Also, to cite Hicks's comments to Mueller as supporting evidence is short-sighted. Mark Corallo has already come out and said Hicks lied to Mueller about the Trump Tower meeting—and I believe him. abcnews.go.com/Politics/trans…
Corallo told me he’d said to Hicks outright, “You just made yourself a witness in a federal criminal investigation” for the false statement they’d put out from Air Force One about the Trump Tower meeting.
From Ch 17 of #KushnerInc:
From Ch 17 of #KushnerInc:
This entire article is essentially a subtweet of Jared Kushner. nytimes.com/2019/05/20/sci…
A #KushnerInc source told me, “The one thing about Jared that I think is noticeable is that he becomes quite self-confident, quite quickly—in areas that he has no experience. And that’s a dangerous thing for anybody to do.”
May we all have the confidence of a mediocre rich white man.
It’s not just Trump’s dealings with Deutsche Bank that are of note: Kushner Companies also received a $285M loan for retail space in the former NYT building. The loan came one month before the election and provided Kushner Co. with $74M more than it had paid for the space.
I have more information on that loan in #KushnerInc. Also see @PostKranish’s 2017 WaPo article: washingtonpost.com/national/kushn…
And, yes, Mueller’s Justice Department colleagues at the U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn are looking into this.
Trump and Kushner bring a real estate mentality to the political process—and the big loser in this deal will be the American people. nytimes.com/2019/05/19/us/…
Charlie Kushner was long the king of leverage—trying to solve big problems with other people’s money. I write about this in #KushnerInc.
“Debt was Charlie’s friend,” family friend and former colleague Alan Hammer told me in an interview. “It enabled him to buy what he bought. He paid more than other people for great properties because the other people didn’t have the nerve to pay the price and take the debt.”
Kelly says he was struck by the “intense personal ambition” of some White House staffers. It seems clear to me he means Javanka. It’s an interesting observation coming from a former Marine Corps general, as personal ambition is not seen in the military. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
There’s a reason I put that word in the subtitle of my book: Ambition is a persistent theme in #KushnerInc.
Jared Kushner is his father’s puppet, motivated by Charlie Kushner’s dynastic ambitions. Money and its trappings were never enough for Charlie. He wanted his family to be the Jewish Kennedys.
“[Y]ear after year, Mr. Trump appears to have lost more money than nearly any other individual American taxpayer.”
Really fantastic reporting by @russbuettner and @susannecraig on Trump's taxes: nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Really fantastic reporting by @russbuettner and @susannecraig on Trump's taxes: nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Trump sold himself as a master dealmaker and a corporate raider who built his empire on a “very small” $1 million loan from his father, which he had to pay back.
The facts show us this is not true—and it has not been true for a very long time. I get into this in #KushnerInc.
The facts show us this is not true—and it has not been true for a very long time. I get into this in #KushnerInc.
The Trump Organization’s shift from real estate to branded opportunities happened because, after Trump’s casinos and Plaza Hotel wound up in bankruptcy proceedings in the 1990s, the number of blue-chip lenders who would do business with the firm dwindled.
A reminder that Brad Parscale is the person who pushed for the hiring of Cambridge Analytica because he liked one of its staffers.
Parscale began as a cheap web designer who made Trump’s presidential presidential exploratory committee website for $1500. But in a field of political rookies, he kept volunteering to take on more—and soon was in charge of the entire digital outreach effort. #thebestpeople
The dynamic between Parscale and Kushner is intense. Kushner trusts him implicitly— so much so that it inspires jealousy.
Today, Michael Cohen headed to prison to start his three-year sentence. But don’t forget Jared Kushner’s role in all of this. I tell this in #KushnerInc.
It was partly Jared and Ivanka’s fault that Cohen, the most loyal of Trump’s consiglieri, turned on Trump by pleading guilty and cooperating with Mueller. Cohen had wanted a job in Washington (he’d later say this was not so); Javanka had wanted him to stay away.
Gary Cohn told colleagues he thought Jared and Ivanka were “stupid” to keep Cohen out. He had been privy to so many secrets during the decade he’d worked at the Trump Organization that it was suicidal to alienate him.
Jared Kushner spoke about the Trump administration’s Middle East peace efforts during @WashInstitute's 2019 Soref Symposium dinner last night: c-span.org/video/?460344-…
.@robsatloff began the evening’s event with Kushner by saying, “Tonight is not the big reveal.”
No one expected it to be. Note the timing: Three days before Ramadan. Kushner wants the Arab world to stew over this.
No one expected it to be. Note the timing: Three days before Ramadan. Kushner wants the Arab world to stew over this.
Kushner claims his plan is “an in-depth operational document” and that “we built a great business plan.” This is language for the real estate community, not for the world of foreign policy.
Trump, his three eldest children, and his private company filed a federal lawsuit against Deutsche Bank and Capital One to prevent the banks from responding to subpoenas: nytimes.com/2019/04/29/us/…
If Trump has done nothing wrong, then what does he have to hide?
Trump’s not the only one tied to Deutsche Bank. Right before the election, Kushner Companies received a $285 million loan as part of a refinancing package.
Per @PostKranish: washingtonpost.com/national/kushn…
Per @PostKranish: washingtonpost.com/national/kushn…
Jared Kushner may have laughed off Russian interference in our election as "a couple of Facebook ads," but as @AriMelber said last night: This is not a joke. This is a national security issue.
More from my segment on @TheBeatWithAri: youtube.com/watch?time_con… #KushnerInc
More from my segment on @TheBeatWithAri: youtube.com/watch?time_con… #KushnerInc
What we saw yesterday from Jared Kushner at the #TIME100 summit was a master class in manipulation. He is an entirely plausible liar. His polish is what makes him so dangerous. When you listen to what he is actually saying, it’s terrifying.
Jared thinks he was spared by Mueller, but one of Trump’s former legal advisers confirmed to me that Mueller’s office farmed out issues it came across and thought worthy of investigation but extraneous to the narrow question of Russian collusion.
Trust me: There’s more coming.
Trust me: There’s more coming.
The behavior that has been exhibited in this White House is beneath even what Richard Nixon did. Having said that, the practicality of the situation is that even if the House were to vote to impeach, it’s not going to pass the Senate.
With an election looming in 2020, Democrats are going to have to think long and hard about where they want to focus their attention and energy and the attention and energy of the voters.
This report, as damning as it is, doesn’t change people’s minds. The Mueller Report is a Rorschach test. People see in it what they want.
It’s not about collusion. It’s about corruption. There’s a reason I put that word in the subtitle for #KushnerInc.
A THREAD:
A THREAD:
“Whether the obstruction of justice was criminal or not, they are unquestionably dishonest, unethical, immoral, and unpatriotic and should be condemned by every American. That is how we should view the Mueller Report.” —@RepAdamSchiff
“Rather than the story of a single crime masterminded by a single actor or entity, this is the story of many hustles, most of them unsuccessful. You’d be hard-pressed to find collusion among these hustlers—each of them has his own game.” —@mashagessen newyorker.com/news/our-colum…
What I can tell from my reading thus far of the Mueller Report is that it reinforces the central theme of #KushnerInc: That Jared and Ivanka are clueless, conflicted, and careless.
Mueller notes that Jared went into the transition with “possible conflicts of interest … arising out of his company's borrowing from foreign lenders” (pg 162). THIS IS 666 FIFTH AVE.
It is clear that the Russians were very excited about Jared’s meeting with VEB chairman and Putin ally Sergey Gorkov. Mueller notes, however, that Jared’s account of it does not match with Gorkov's.
According to @JakeSherman and @apalmerdc’s THE HILL TO DIE ON, Jared Kushner called Congress “inefficient” and believed he could singlehandedly re-write the rules of government: newsweek.com/jared-kushner-…
I have example after example of this in #KushnerInc.
I have example after example of this in #KushnerInc.
Jared Kushner fundamentally doesn’t understand how government works. After a few meetings, he claimed to be close to renegotiating NAFTA, not understanding that it is a 1000+ page document and that renegotiating it would involve legal negotiations with U.S. trade representatives.
Kushner met with a Saudi delegation in May 2017 to push a $110 billion sale of U.S. defense equipment. The NYT reported him as saying “let’s get this done today.” nytimes.com/2017/05/18/wor… But arms deals like that require congressional approval.
For @cspan’s @BookTV, I spoke to @espiers about #KushnerInc, including Charlie Kushner’s dream of his family becoming the Jewish Kennedys, Ivanka’s fishy trademarks, and what really happened with the Qataris and 666 Fifth Ave: c-span.org/video/?459078-…
I’ve spent many years covering the ruthless, unregulated world of real estate. The Trump administration has simply moved that world to Washington. c-span.org/video/?c479071…
Ivanka has spun this myth that she’s the adult in the room with her father. But I show in #KushnerInc how much control Donald Trump truly has over her. Here’s one particularly cutting example of that: c-span.org/video/?c479071…
The comparison between Jared Kushner and Elizabeth Holmes is actually not that far off base.
Jared has long been known for his intellectual superficiality. In the real estate business, he would relationship-build while everyone else dug into contracts. He didn’t know his numbers cold. Steven Bannon noticed Kushner could barely read a spreadsheet.
.@espiers told me that the pair had zero intellectual curiosity. During a visit to Jared and Ivanka’s apartment, Spiers noticed there was not a book in sight.
