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Citizens for Ethics

26 Oct, 8 tweets, 3 min read

Jared Kushner told Black Americans that Trump was delivering for them if only they would stop “complaining.”

One thing that's clear is that Trump has delivered for Kushner. He’s delivered him wealth, political power and access to top secret intelligence.
nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/ja…

With all that power, Kushner has made decisions that have cost lives.

This summer, it was reported that Kushner ignored a plan for national coronavirus testing because the virus was hitting blue states harder than red states.
vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/h…

He also appears to have violated the law by operating his coronavirus “shadow task force” without oversight or transparency.
citizensforethics.org/news/press-rel…

But the ethics concerns go back to the very beginning: Jared Kushner needed the DOJ to reverse at least four nepotism statutes to allow him to work in the White House.
citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…

And remember how Jared Kushner needed his father-in-law to intervene to allow him to have a security clearance? nytimes.com/2019/02/28/us/…

Sure, Jared Kushner passed up a taxpayer salary for his work in the White House, but don’t worry: Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump made nearly $4 million last year from revenue related to Trump's DC hotel alone.
citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…

But Kushner doesn’t just have conflicts related to the Trump Organization. HIS family business has been profiting from Opportunity Zones.
citizensforethics.org/news/press-rel…

Opportunity Zones is the program that Trump and Kushner claim will help lift Black Americans out of poverty. Instead, it’s just making families like the Trumps and the Kushners even wealthier.
nytimes.com/2019/08/31/bus…

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Trump’s business:

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Then there was Trump’s first campaign manager, Paul Manafort, who was sentenced to 47 months in prison for hiding millions of dollars he earned for political consulting in Ukraine.
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