Jared Kushner

Documents Show Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump To Divest Some Assets

... the firm raised in July of last year. Thrive has invested in messaging app Slack, online-payments company Stripe, and Oscar, which sells insurance under the Affordable Care Act. Billionaire Peter Thiel, Trump’s most vocal supporter in Silicon Valley, was an early investor. Kushner is also selling his interest in Broadband 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 ...

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

... has done less than nothing to defend himself from accusations of anti-Semitism. Instead, he uses his daughter and Kushner as his bodyguards. Ivanka converted to Judaism to marry Kushner, who was raised Orthodox and attended a Jewish high school. Netanyahu acknowledges Jared Kushner during WH press conference. To view this video please enable Java Script, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML 5 video. Ivanka has spoken out against anti-Semitic attacks. And last July, Kushner wrote a piece in The Observer to say his father-in-law  doesn’t hate Jewish people. That op-ed came right after Trump used a meme from a white supremacist website to attack Hillary Clinton. Kushner’s grandparents were Holocaust survivors, and it was reported members of his family were super pissed at him for defending Trump’s ...

Trump Son-in-law Jared Kushner To Be Questioned By Senate Intel Panel Over Russia

... Post reports will be a sort of "SWAT Team of strategic consultants. staffed by former business executives and. designed to infuse fresh thinking into Washington.". This is by no means the first time a presidential administration has attempted to rework the Washington bureaucracy. In recent history, similar efforts were undertaken at least as far back as the Reagan administration, often resulting in thick reports that, more often than not, were quietly shelved. Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit __link__/. KELLY MCEVERS, HOST. We learned today that Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and a senior adviser, will be questioned by the Senate Intelligence Committee. The committee is looking into Russian meddling in the presidential campaign and possible ties between Russian officials and the Trump campaign. NPR's Brian Naylor is with us now to get us up to date. Hey there, Brian. BRIAN NAYLOR, BYLINE: Hi. MCEVERS: What do we know about Jared Kushner's ties to Russia. NAYLOR: Well, so, ...

Jared Kushner Agrees To Speak To Senate Panel About Russia

... 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’ meetings with the Russian ambassador during the transition period have come under question, in part because those who met with him were not immediately forthcoming about the meetings. It was not immediately clear when or how the Senate questioning would take place or whether Kushner would be under oath. An official familiar with the Senate investigation said that the details of the interview have not yet been set, and the Trump associates will speak to the committee on the committee’s terms. That these Trump associates volunteered to be interviewed does not prevent the committee from issuing a subpoena for testimony. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss details of the Senate investigation. Lawmakers announced investigations into possible ...

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

... Foray Into Middle East Diplomacy. But Trump’s son-in-law succeeded in coaxing the U. K., America’s closest ally, into thwarting the Obama administration. By Colum Lynch Colum Lynch is Foreign Policy’s award-winning U. N.-based senior diplomatic reporter. He previously wrote FP’s Turtle Bay blog, for which he was awarded the 2011 National Magazine Award for best reporting in digital media. He was also the silver medal recipient of the 2013 Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Prize for a three-part series documenting the U. N.’s systemic failure to protect civilians in Darfur, Sudan. Colum’s investigations have uncovered an American spy operation in Iraq, Russia’s monopoly of the $1 billion-a-year U. N. aircraft leasing market, and a Chinese diplomatic campaign to silence U. N. investigators scrutinizing Chinese arms deals in Africa. His deep digs into the U. N. bureaucracy have exposed sexual misconduct by ...

17 Facts About Donald Trump's Adviser And Son-in-law

... has stated in the past that he admires Franklin D. Roosevelt , a Democrat, and has a framed photo of John F. Kennedy, another Democrat, by his desk. Trump has said Kushner will help broker a peace deal between Israelis and Palestinans, telling him at a pre-inauguration , "If you can't produce peace in the Middle East, nobody can.". 3. He was born into wealth. Jared's father, Charles "Charlie" Kushner, founded the real estate development organization Kushner Companies in 1985 and built it into a billion-dollar enterprise. Jared had a correspondingly privileged upbringing in New Jersey. According to the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Daniel Golden , Jared benefited from the incredible advantage of being his father's son. Though he did not perform especially well academically, Jared was accepted to Harvard, reportedly after his father gave $2.5 million to the university. While at Harvard, Jared reportedly drove a Range Rover (though ...

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

... The Senate Intelligence Committee will question President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as part of its investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election and whether any collusion occurred between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. "Mr. Kushner has volunteered to be interviewed as part of the committee's investigation into the Russian activities surrounding the 2016 election," Senators Richard Burr and Mark Warner, the intel committee's chairman and vice chairman, respectively, told the New York Times in a statement. The questions will center around Kushner's meeting with Russia's ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak, in December at Trump Tower with Gen. Michael Flynn, according to the Times. Kushner will also be asked about a previously 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 ...

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

... by more prestigious urban properties. Costing a then-record-setting $1.8 billion in early 2007, the building would later become a symbol for a period of irrational exuberance in U. S. real estate, where a belief in forever-climbing rents sent values soaring. The deal was financed with a $1.215 billion loan from Barclays Capital, which was divided and sold in commercial-mortgage bond offerings, data compiled by Bloomberg show. In New York, the enthusiasm was matched only by Macklowe Properties’ $7 billion purchase of office buildings across Manhattan and the $5.4 billion sale of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village on the East Side to Tishman Speyer and Black Rock Realty. "We are very bullish on New York real estate, and we are confident that 666 Fifth has great upside potential,” Kushner said at the time. “We identified a premier building with the highest quality office configuration and one of the best retail boxes in the world.”. Kushner’s optimism was shared by his lenders. Mortgages were granted under assumptions that now look rosy: The building ...