Jared Kushner

Jared Kushner Will Be Questioned By The Senate Intel Committee As Part Of Its Trump-russia Probe

... undisclosed meeting he had in December with the head of Russia's state-owned Vnesheconombank, which was sanctioned by Obama after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014. The White House did not immediately respond to request for comment, but White House spokesperson Hope Hicks confirmed Kushner's meetings to the Times. Kushner's meeting with Vnesheconombank's chief, Sergey N. Gorkov, came at the request of Sergey Kislyak, Hicks said. Kushner is the closest person to Trump to be caught up in the Senate Intel Committee's probe so far, but there is no evidence that he is a subject of the investigation. The news that he will be interviewed comes three days after Trump associates Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, and Carter Page sent letters to the House Intelligence Committee volunteering to be interviewed as part of the committee's investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election. While Stone, Manafort, and Page - Trump's former campaign adviser, chairman, and foreign policy adviser, respectively - all have ties to Russia, they have all denied that they ...

Jared Kushner Struck Out In His First Foray Into Middle East Diplomacy

... and transition headquarters in New York, to smooth things over with Kushner and Steve Bannon. Trump’s advisors were alarmed by French plans to host a high-level Middle East meeting the next week in Paris, which would have reinforced international opposition to settlements. Johnson declined to go to Paris, sending a lower level British official in his place. British officials subsequently blocked the adoption of European Union statements in Brussels and the U. N. Security Council endorsing the Paris communique, which had reinforced international denunciation of Israel’s settlements. Thomas Barrack Jr., a Lebanese-American fundraiser and advisor to Trump, praised Kushner’s role in trying to block the settlements resolution. His “instinct of sensing a moment in time in which this president might put his fingerprints on a ...

Is Ivanka's Husband Jared A Sketchy Dude? Here's What You Need To Know

... his father pledged to donate $2.5 million. Ivanka and Jared enjoy a romantic stroll during Aspen vacation. To view this video please enable Java Script, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML 5 video. This one’s pretty simple. Good ol’ Charles Kushner pledged $2.5 million to Harvard  in 1998. Then, Jared got in. A former official at Kushner’s high school said. There was no way anybody in the administrative office of the school thought he would on the merits get into Harvard. His GPA did not warrant it, his SAT scores did not warrant it. We thought for sure, there was no way this was going to happen. Then, lo and behold, Jared was accepted. LO AND BEHOLD, INDEED. Sketchy Meter: 3/10 (for being a teenager at the time). Kushner is known to be very polite and is a good father and husband by all accounts. But as for everything else in his life? Sketchy. Subscribe to Elite Daily's official newsletter, The Edge , for more ...

Nunes Admits Meeting With Source Of Trump Surveillance Documents On White House Grounds

... said he met the source on the White House grounds. The House Intelligence Committee is authorized to handle classified information and routinely meets with officials — including whistleblowers — from U. S. spy agencies. Nunes spokesman Jack Langer said that because of limitations on House computer systems, Nunes could not have used secure facilities at the Capitol to review the files. He added that “the White House grounds was the best location to safeguard the proper chain of custody and classification of these documents.”. Nunes has said that the documents include references to Trump advisers and associates but do not pertain to Russia. In the past few days, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former campaign advisers Carter Page and Roger Stone volunteered to make themselves available for interviews with the Senate and House Intelligence committees. On Monday, officials from the White House ...

Jared Kushner Agrees To Speak To Senate Panel About Russia

... Images. Associated Press. Sign-Up for our News & Politics Newsletter  Sign-Up. WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s son-in-law has volunteered to answer questions before the Senate Intelligence Committee about arranging meetings with the Russian ambassador and other officials, the White House confirmed Monday. Jared Kushner has agreed to speak to the committee, which is conducting an investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, including whether there are any ties between Trump associates and the Kremlin, the White House said. Kushner is the fourth Trump associate to offer to be interviewed by the congressional committees looking into the murky Russia ties. Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, Trump adviser Carter Page and Trump associate Roger Stone last week volunteered to speak to the committee as well. The White House noted that throughout the 2016 presidential campaign and transition Kushner served as the main contact with foreign governments and officials. Trump associates’ ...

Here's Why The Kushner's Tower Needs A Savior

... filings by LNR Partners, the loan managers, show. This is well below 91 percent for the New York metro area reported at year’s end by Reis, the market-data firm, said Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Jeffrey Langbaum. “It is an understatement to say this building is not doing well,” said Joshua Stein, a New York real estate lawyer, after reviewing its financials and the refinancing agreement. “People forget that not all real estate investments succeed. But people also forget that failing real estate investments are sometimes successfully turned around.”. Ethicists Weigh In. Details of talks with Anbang Insurance Group Co. were first. reported by Bloomberg last week. Some ethicists expressed concern about whether the Chinese company was seeking improper influence in the White House. Anbang ...

Documents Show Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump To Divest Some Assets

... Proliferation Partners LLC, which operates under the name Wired Score. The firm rates the internet connectivity of commercial buildings, and participates in Wired NYC, a New York City initiative to improve its high-tech infrastructure. It’s active in more than 30 other cities, according to the company’s website. A spokesman for Kushner Cos. didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Documents Released. The disclosures were contained in documents called certificates of divestiture that were released by the federal Office of Government Ethics in response to a request under the federal Freedom of Information Act. The certificates don’t constitute full financial disclosures. Presidential appointees request them to defer capital gains taxes on assets they have to sell to avoid conflicts of interest while in government service. OGE must approve the deferrals before the sales occur. The documents indicate that they were approved on Jan. 26. The ethics agency also released similar disclosures for Gary Cohn, whom Trump appointed to serve as director of the National Economic Council. Cohn, the former president and chief operating officer ...

With The White House In Crisis, Jared Kushner Spring Breaks In Aspen

... to Congress that there was no evidence to support the president’s claim that Barack Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower and confirmed that the agency is investigating the campaign’s ties to Russia. Trump’s approval rating fell to 37 percent just as the House is set to hold a critical vote Thursday on his deeply unpopular health-care bill, which is still hemorrhaging support among conservatives and moderates alike. It is all hands on deck, with the administration working phones and putting pressure on lawmakers to fall in line behind his first and most critical deal as president, which could prove dead on arrival in the Senate. All this comes as the stock market’s recent tear came to a screeching halt on Tuesday as Wall Street begins to lose faith that Trump’s promises to overhaul the tax code won’t suffer the same fate. Meanwhile, Jared Kushner , Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, who is among the most powerful voices in the West Wing, is the first line to the White House for many foreign ...