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Charles Manson actually did live in Nebraska briefly at some juvenile delinquent home but I fucked up and really meant Charles Starkweather. Was Charlie the brother you don't talk about, Wiz?
(1)One, Trump was nowhere near as rich as he claimed to be when he ENTERED office, I think that much is pretty well established.
(2) Two, do you think the Saudi royal family deposited $2B in Jared Kushner's startup investment fund mere months after Trump left office because they are in the habit of tossing that amount of money on totally inexperienced hedge fund managers? If Hunter Biden bothers you than surely Kushner's ablity to raise money from foreign governments post-office should too, yes?
(3)Put aside everything about the Russia hoax and any assistance Trump may or may not have gotten, I absolutely DO believe Putin prefers the President be someone like Trump because he's a cynical transactionalist with very few governing principles. Anyone from the US "Establishment" would be hostile to Putin. Leftwing isolationist or rightwing isolationist, Putin wouldn't care. Just give him someone who cares more about making a "deal" than America's long-term interests.
1. has nothing to do with the question, and sincerely held belief by Dems, that Trump made money while in office. Trump inflated his net worth, most notably by valuing his licensing arrangements as $ 3.3 Billion. when he "disclosed" his net worth at $ 8.8 Billion. That is how much the egomaniac valued his name. But in fact, he did not make money while in office.
2. Jared Kushner ran a real estate hedge fund prior to Trump taking office. He also ran his own family's holdings, a family that gave large amounts to Dems, BTW. He is highly educated. The Saudis are ostensibly our friends. This was done after Trump left office. Evidently, Kushner impressed the Saudis when he negotiated the Abraham Accords
in contrast to
The drug-addled Hunter Biden took the same amount to "manage" from the Chinese. He has no relevant experience. He has never managed money for others. He did this while Joe was VP. He was PROVABLY paid something like $ 400,000 monthly to sit on the board of a corrupt Ukrainian oil company. He was PROVABLY paid $ 1.5 million by the wife of the mayor of Moscow for no reason.
But your nonsense comes at a propitious time. TONIGHT, TUCKER HAS AN INTERVIEW WITH TONY BOBULINSKI SCHEDULED. 8:00 EASTERN. I CHALLENGE YOU TO WATCH IT.
This is a guy who was a partner in the Biden Family's selling of influence to the Chinese. He turned over to the FBI all of his emails WHICH CAME FROM OTHERS TO HIM AND WERE NOT GENERATED BY HIM. They lay out the scam, and in writing, they reveal that Hunter was to hold 10% of the take for "the big guy", that is, Joe Biden. This is admissible evidence in any trial and not a made-up boogyman
We now have a President who sold at least 1,000,000 and up to 5,000,000 bbls from the US Strategic Oil Reserve to China. He is forcing the US to buy solar panels made by Chinese slaves, and become reliant on China for the rare earths that are necessitated by Green technology. I'm sure this is mere coincidence. This is actually relevant to America because we may well have a president who owes favors to Ukraine and China. But your media censors the whole story because it might have affected the 2020 election.
3. You make a statement like "very few governing principals" which is flagrantly untrue. Trump governed as a conservative, much to my personal surprise. He lowered taxes, built the military, cut regulations, and developed O+G reserves. He governed exactly as any mainstream Republican would govern. AND HE WAS SUCCESSFUL, as always happens when a conservative takes the Presidency. Prior to the pandemic, the US had its best economy ever. Just like JFK cut taxes and the economy boomed. Just like Reagan cut taxes and the economy boomed. Trump had rock-solid beliefs. Where was Trump a "cynical transactional"? USMCA? Use your own head and don't regurgitate the foolishness you read in the left-wing media.
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Kushner had ZERO experience running a private equity investment fund. The Saudis own advisors recommended AGAINST investing with Kushner because of inexperience and "excessive" management fees. The Royals overruled them. As of April of this year 80% of the total money invested in the fund came from the Saudi royal family -- they're practically his only significant client.
Within the Trump administration, Kushner had been a staunch defender of Saudi ruler Mohammed bin Salman.[6] In 2021, Kushner started an investment firm, Affinity Partners. He sought funds for the new company through the sovereign wealth funds of Gulf countries.[191][192] Advisers for the Public Investment Fund, the Saudi government's sovereign wealth fund, expressed several concerns about the transaction—including the inexperience of Affinity management, the degree of risk to be assumed by the Saudi kingdom, an "excessive" management fee, and a finding that Affinity's operations were "unsatisfactory in all aspects". However, PIF management overruled them and invested $2 billion in Kushner's firm, only six months after Kushner had left the White House.[6] The firm primarily depended on Saudi money, as, by April 2022, it only had $2.5 billion under its management.[6] According to ethics experts, the investment created the appearance of potential payback for Kushner.[6] The House Oversight Committee said on June 2, 2022 that it had opened an investigation into whether Kushner had traded on his government position to get the deal.[193]
Geezer loves to defend Trump as having a great Presidency but for the final year. It's a bit of a "but other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?" sort of response.
Kushner had ZERO experience running a private equity investment fund. The Saudis own advisors recommended AGAINST investing with Kushner because of inexperience and "excessive" management fees. The Royals overruled them. As of April of this year 80% of the total money invested in the fund came from the Saudi royal family -- they're practically his only significant client.
Within the Trump administration, Kushner had been a staunch defender of Saudi ruler Mohammed bin Salman.[6] In 2021, Kushner started an investment firm, Affinity Partners. He sought funds for the new company through the sovereign wealth funds of Gulf countries.[191][192] Advisers for the Public Investment Fund, the Saudi government's sovereign wealth fund, expressed several concerns about the transaction—including the inexperience of Affinity management, the degree of risk to be assumed by the Saudi kingdom, an "excessive" management fee, and a finding that Affinity's operations were "unsatisfactory in all aspects". However, PIF management overruled them and invested $2 billion in Kushner's firm, only six months after Kushner had left the White House.[6] The firm primarily depended on Saudi money, as, by April 2022, it only had $2.5 billion under its management.[6] According to ethics experts, the investment created the appearance of potential payback for Kushner.[6] The House Oversight Committee said on June 2, 2022 that it had opened an investigation into whether Kushner had traded on his government position to get the deal.[193]
Well, I can play that game too, FROM THE SAME ARTICLE: and don't play word games with the phrase "private equity". We were comparing Kushner to Hunter, if you recall.
Following his father's conviction and subsequent incarceration between March 4, 2005, and August 25, 2006, Jared Kushner took a much bigger role in the family real estate business.[27] He set about expanding the business and purchased almost $7 billion in property over the next ten years, much of it in New York City.[28] As of 2019, Kushner's net worth is estimated at about $800 million.[29]
Kushner was a real-estate investor, and increased Kushner Companies' presence in the New York City real-estate market.[30]
Kushner Companies purchased 666 Fifth Avenue in 2007 for $1.8 billion, the most expensive single property purchase in US history at the time.[31]
Kushner Companies purchased the office building at 666 Fifth Avenue in 2007, for a then-record price of $1.8 billion, most of it borrowed.[31] He assumed the role of CEO in 2008.[32] Following the property crash that year, the cash flow generated by the property was insufficient to cover its debt service, and the Kushners were forced to sell a controlling stake in the retail footage to The Carlyle Group and Stanley Chera[33] and bring in Vornado Realty Trust as a 50% equity partner in the ownership of the building.[34] By that time, Kushner Companies had lost more than $90 million on its investment.[35] He was the face of the deal but his father Charles Kushner pushed him to do the deal.[36]
In 2011, Kushner purchased a 130,000 square foot office tower at 200 Lafayette Street in Manhattan for $50 million from, selling it two years later for $150 million.[37][38] On August 18, 2014, Kushner acquired a three-building apartment portfolio in Middle River, Maryland, for $38 million with Aion Partners, later selling the complex for $68 million.[39] In 2013, his company led a transaction to purchase the Jehovah’s Witnesses headquarters in Brooklyn Heights for $375 million and invested $100 million into the site, transforming it into a sprawling office park, and signing online retailer Etsy to a 10-year lease.[40][41]
In 2013, Kushner co-founded WiredScore, a global organization that provides a digital connectivity certification rating the quality and resilience of digital infrastructure in buildings.[42]
In 2013–2014, he and his company acquired more than 11,000 units throughout New York, New Jersey, and the Baltimore area.[43] In May 2015, he purchased 50.1% of the Times Square Building from Africa Israel Investments Ltd. for $295 million.[44]
In May 2015, Kushner purchased a majority stake of One Times Square for $295 million.[44]
In 2014, Kushner, with his brother Joshua and Ryan Williams, co-founded Cadre (now RealCadre LLC), an online real-estate investment platform. His business partners included Goldman Sachs and billionaire George Soros, a top Democratic Party donor.[45][46][47] In early 2015, Soros Fund Management financed the startup with a $250 million credit line.[45][48] Kushner did not identify these business relationships in his January 2017 government financial-disclosure form.[45][49] He did, however, disclose his ownership of BFPS Ventures, the company that housed his stake in Cadre.[45][50] In 2020, his ownership stake in Cadre was estimated at $25–50 million.[51]
I really don't care if you want to lock Hunter Biden up or what. Knock yourself out. Just don't pretend and lie that many of his sleazy conflicts can't be found in the deals Kushner, The Trump Org, AND other members of Kushner's family were soliciting both in and out of office. Let's go after all of them!
In early 2017 Kushner's sister quite stupidly got caught promising Chinese investors she could get any of them EB-5 green cards because she had an obvious inside with the administration. I believe they closed all future fundraising events to the press after this went public.
Geezer loves to defend Trump as having a great Presidency but for the final year. It's a bit of a "but other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?" sort of response.
The pandemic was the best thing that ever happened to the Dem party. Honest Dems admit that.
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