
Jared Kushner
Timeline
2003.03.05 | Jared Kushner's father is convicted of illegal campaign contributions, 18 counts of tax evasion & witness tampering. nytimes.com |
2015.02.15 | Jared Kushner’s family says it won’t buy Marlins if Jeffrey Loria, a major donor to Trump's campaign, becomes ambassador to France. washingtonpost.com (See also Conflicts of Interest, First 100 Days, Reince Priebus, Rex Tillerson) |
2016.06.26 | One month before Election Day, Jared Kushner’s real estate company finalized a $285 million loan as part of a refinancing package for its property near Times Square in Manhattan, just as the lender - Deutsche Bank - was working to settle money laundering cases against them, which then were settled shortly thereafter. washingtonpost.com (See also Conflicts of Interest, 2016 Election, Corruption) |
2016.11.18 | Trump's top adviser Jared Kushner's brother, Josh, founds the health care startup Oscar, which makes money on the state exchanges for individual insurance established by the Affordable Care Act. huffingtonpost.com (See also Affordable Care Act, Conflicts of Interest) |
2016.11.21 | Trump's kids are his closest advisors. fortune.com (See also Donald Trump Jr, Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump, Conflicts of Interest) |
2017.01.05 | Trump relatives' potential White House roles will test 1967 anti-nepotism law npr.org (See also Ivanka Trump, Nepotism) Donald Trump has suggested he may give his daughter and son-in-law a role in his administration. A law bars presidents from hiring family, but a court ruled it doesn't apply to White House staff jobs. |
2017.01.07 | As Jared Kushner prepares for a White House role, his undisclosed talks with a secretive Chinese company highlight potential conflicts of interest. nytimes.com (See also Conflicts of Interest, China) |
2017.01.09 | Jared Kushner is all but running foreign policy during Trump's transition while serving as CEO of his family business. vox.com (See also Conflicts of Interest, China, Israel) |
2017.01.09 | Trump's son-in-law and real estate investor, Jared Kushner, announces he will sell many of his assets to avoid potential conflicts of interest, but ethics lawyers question how meaningful that divestiture will be because he plans to sell them to his brother or to a family trust controlled by his mother. nytimes.com (See also Conflicts of Interest) |
2017.01.10 | Government ethics expert Kathleen Clark: Trump's plan to name son-in-law Jared Kushner as a senior advisor to his White House will test 1967 anti-nepostism law. washingtonpost.com (See also Nepotism) |
2017.01.11 | While shades of nepotism remain a real worry in the wake of Trump's announcement that his son-in-law Jared Kushner would serve as a senior White House adviser, a few moderates express hope that the president's closest advisor might be a moderating influence. csmonitor.com (See also Nepotism) |
2017.01.16 | This is the full transcript of Donald Trump’s interview with Michael Gove and Kai Diekmann, former chief editor of the German newspaper Bild. thetimes.co.uk (See also First 100 Days, Germany, United Kingdom, Trade, Syria, Afghanistan, ISIS, Russia, NATO, Iran, Israel, Ireland, European Union, Mexico, China, Central Intelligence Agency, Mike Pompeo, Ivanka Trump, Muslim Immigration Ban, Muslim Registry) |
2017.01.21 | Justice department rules Trump has special hiring authority and therefore is not violating an anti-nepotism law in hiring his daughter's husband as an advisor. washingtonpost.com (See also Conflicts of Interest, Nepotism) |
2017.01.26 | With Kushner and Spicer, The Washington Post has now identified five Trump family members or top administration appointees who were registered in two states during the fall election. washingtonpost.com (See also Voter Fraud, Sean Spicer) |
2017.01.29 | In the first week of the Trump Presidency, influence has run through a very select group of advisers—maybe as many as half a dozen, maybe as few as two. The President’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and Steve Bannon have consolidated their influence. newyorker.com (See also First 100 Days, Muslim Immigration Ban, John Kelly, Department of Homeland Security, Steve Bannon) "In normal times, an Administration this isolated and divorced from public opinion would seem to be fatally weak. The argument made by the President’s first week is that these conditions, combined with the general assent of a Republican-controlled Congress, might in fact create the opposite situation, freeing him to do whatever he wants." |
2017.01.30 | Trump’s hard-line actions have an intellectual godfather: Jeff Sessions washingtonpost.com (See also First 100 Days, Jeff Sessions, Department of Justice, Nationalism, Immigration, Trade, Rick Dearborn) "Bannon described Sessions as “the clearinghouse for policy and philosophy” in Trump’s administration, saying he and the senator are at the center of Trump’s “pro-America movement” and the global nationalist phenomenon." |
2017.02.01 | Distrust in Trump’s White House, as well as power consolidation in separate spheres by Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus, and Jared Kushner spurs leaks, confusion. politico.com (See also First 100 Days, Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus) ‘Trying to nail down who the leakers are is like trying to count the cockroaches under the couch,’ one longtime Trump adviser says. |
2017.02.03 | Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner talk Trump out of drafting an executive order that would have overturned enforcement of LGBT rights in the workplace. lgbtqnation.com (See also Ivanka Trump, First 100 Days, Homophobia, LGBTQIA) |
2017.02.03 | Will Eric Schneiderman, New York's Attorney General, take down Trump? politico.com (See also Lawsuits, Trump University, Scott Pruitt, Rex Tillerson, Steven Mnuchin) |
2017.02.09 | Jared Kushner proves to be a shadow diplomat on U.S.-Mexico talks regarding NAFTA and border wall negotiations. washingtonpost.com (See also First 100 Days, Mexico, NAFTA, Mexico Wall) |
2017.02.15 | Trump assigns Stephen K. Bannon, Jared Kushner, and billionaire private equity executive Stephen A. Feinberg to conduct a review of intelligence agencies. nytimes.com (See also First 100 Days, Steve Bannon, Assaults on Government) |
2017.02.16 | Deutsche Bank looks for evidence of whether loans to Trump were underpinned by guarantees from Moscow after Trump declares his intent to run for President. theguardian.com (See also Conflicts of Interest, Department of Justice, Ivanka Trump, Russia, The Trump Organization) |
2017.02.24 | Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner publicly silent as White House rolls back transgender protections after previously advocating for LGBT workplace rights. politico.com (See also Ivanka Trump, LGBTQIA) |
2017.03.02 | White House confirms that Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law and now a senior adviser, also participated in the meeting at Trump Tower with Mr. Flynn and Sergey I. Kislyak, the Russian ambassador, in December. nytimes.com (See also First 100 Days, Russia, Russian Meddling in Election, Michael Flynn) |
2017.03.08 | Senators Warren, Carper and Cummings write to the White House Counsel asking for clarification on Jared Kushner’s compliance with conflict-of-interest laws. medium.com (See also First 100 Days, Conflicts of Interest) |
2017.03.13 | Jared Kushner set to get $400 Million from Chinese Firm investing in tower. bloomberg.com (See also China, Conflicts of Interest) |
2017.06.08 | Philip Allen Lacovara, a former U.S. deputy solicitor general in the Justice Department, says James B. Comey placed President Trump in the sights of a federal criminal investigation, laying out evidence sufficient for a case of obstruction of justice. washingtonpost.com (See also Legal Activity, Unpresidential Behavior, Corruption, Jeff Sessions, Russian Meddling in Election) |
2017.06.15 | Special counsel Bob Mueller is investigating the finances and business dealings of Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, as part of the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. washingtonpost.com (See also Russian Meddling in Election, Michael Flynn, Legal Activity) |
2017.07.09 | Donald Trump Jr. was promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton before agreeing to meet with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign. nytimes.com (See also Russia, Donald Trump Jr, 2016 Campaign, Russian Meddling in Election, Corruption) The meeting was also attended by Paul J. Manafort and Jared Kushner, who only recently disclosed the meeting. |
2017.07.10 | A few months before Trump encouraged Saudi Arabia and others to blockade Qatar, the real estate business owned by the family of his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, sought, and failed to get, a substantial investment from one of the Gulf State country’s wealthiest and most politically influential figures. bloomberg.com (See also Conflicts of Interest, Qatar, Saudi Arabia) |
2017.07.10 | Trump’s advisers recruited two businessmen who profited from military contracting to devise alternatives to the Pentagon’s plan to send thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan. nytimes.com (See also Conflicts of Interest, Steve Bannon, James Mattis, Department of Defense, Afghanistan, H.R. McMaster) |
2017.07.12 | Congress and the Justice Department are examining whether the Trump campaign’s digital operation – overseen by Jared Kushner – helped guide Russia’s sophisticated voter targeting and fake news attacks on Hillary Clinton in 2016. mcclatchydc.com (See also 2016 Campaign, Russian Meddling in Election, Corruption) |
2017.07.13 | Donald Trump lied today about how Natalia Veselnitskaya entered the United States to meet with his son, campaign manager, and son-in-law. buzzfeed.com (See also Russian Meddling in Election, Trump Relationship with Russia, Donald Trump Jr, Assaults on Facts) |
2017.07.14 | The Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. and others on the Trump team after a promise of compromising material on Hillary Clinton was accompanied by a Russian-American lobbyist — a former Soviet counterintelligence officer who is suspected by U.S. officials of having ongoing ties to Russian intelligence. nbcnews.com (See also Russian Meddling in Election, Donald Trump Jr, Corruption) |
2017.07.14 | The former Soviet intelligence officer who attended the now-infamous meeting with Donald Trump Jr. and other top campaign officials last June was previously accused in federal and state courts of orchestrating an international hacking conspiracy. thedailybeast.com (See also Donald Trump Jr, Russian Meddling in Election, 2016 Campaign) |
2017.07.15 | A prominent Russian-American lobbyist and former Soviet military officer attended the meeting with Donald Trump’s son, son-in-law and campaign chairman last year, adding a new wrinkle to the Trump team’s evolving explanations about the June 2016 session, as this wasn't previously disclosed. apnews.com (See also Donald Trump Jr, Russian Meddling in Election, Corruption, 2016 Campaign) |
2017.07.21 | Jared Kushner's status as a top aide to President Donald Trump was used to lure Chinese investors to his family's New Jersey development, even after his family's company apologized for mentioning his name during a sales pitch in May. cnn.com (See also China, Conflicts of Interest) |
2017.07.21 | The Russian lawyer who met Donald Trump Jr. after his father won the Republican nomination for the 2016 U.S. presidential election counted Russia's FSB security service among her clients for years. reuters.com (See also Russia, Trump Relationship with Russia, Russian Meddling in Election, Donald Trump Jr) |
2017.07.24 | In his first public defense of his meetings with Russian officials during Donald Trump’s campaign and transition, Jared Kushner on Monday presented his encounters with those operatives as innocent interactions, saying "I did not collude." politico.com (See also 2016 Campaign, Russian Meddling in Election, Jeff Sessions) |
2017.07.24 | Jared Kushner secured a multimillion-dollar Manhattan real estate deal with a Soviet-born oligarch whose company was cited in a major New York money laundering case now being investigated by members of Congress. theguardian.com (See also Legal Activity, Russia) |
2017.08.02 | Kushner Cos., the New York property development business owned by the family of White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, has been subpoenaed by New York federal prosecutors regarding its use of an investment-for-immigration program, according to people familiar with the matter. wsj.com (See also Legal Activity, Conflicts of Interest) |
2017.08.31 | Jared Kushner's family’s real estate business, Kushner Cos., owes hundreds of millions of dollars on a 41-story office building on Fifth Avenue, failing to secure foreign investors, despite an extensive search, and its resources are more limited than generally understood. bloomberg.com |
2017.09.01 | The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has a copy of a letter Donald Trump wanted to send to James B. Comey explaining the rationale for firing him, which had previously been blocked by White House counsel, seeing it as problematic. nytimes.com (See also Corruption, Legal Issues, Mike Pence) |
2017.09.24 | Jared Kushner used a private email account to conduct and discuss official White House business dozens of times, according to his lawyer. washingtonpost.com (See also Hypocrisy, Ivanka Trump) Kushner used the private account through his first nine months in government service, even as the president continued to criticize his opponent in the 2016 presidential election, Democrat Hillary Clinton, for her use of a private email account for government business. |
2017.09.25 | At least six of Donald Trump’s closest advisers used private email addresses to discuss White House matters, including Jared Kushner, Stephen K. Bannon, Reince Priebus, Gary Cohn, Stephen Miller, and Ivanka Trump. nytimes.com (See also Hypocrisy, Ivanka Trump, Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus, Stephen Miller) |
2017.09.28 | In his closed interview with the staff of the Senate intelligence committee, White House senior adviser and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner did not share the existence of his personal email account, which he has used for official business. cnn.com (See also Hypocrisy) |
2017.10.03 | In January, the Justice Department cleared the way for Donald Trump to hire Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, by declaring earlier opinions erroneous or obsolete. politico.com (See also Ivanka Trump, Nepotism, Department of Justice) |
2017.10.03 | White House officials have begun examining emails associated with a third and previously unreported email account on Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s private domain, where hundreds of emails have been sent and received since January. politico.com (See also Hypocrisy, Ivanka Trump, Corruption) |
2017.10.13 | The head of a government bureau responsible for clearing background checks told lawmakers Wednesday he has "never seen that level of mistakes" when asked about numerous omissions in Jared Kushner's security clearance application. cnn.com (See also False Statements) |
2017.11.05 | Leaked files show that a state-controlled bank in Moscow helped to fuel Yuri Milner’s ascent in Silicon Valley, including a real estate venture founded and partly owned by Jared Kushner. nytimes.com (See also Russia, Trump Relationship with Russia) |
2017.11.16 | Donald Trump’s adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner received and forwarded emails about WikiLeaks and a “Russian backdoor overture and dinner invite” that he kept from Senate Judiciary Committee investigators, according to panel leaders demanding that he produce the missing records. washingtonpost.com (See also Russia, russ, Trump Relationship with Russia) |
2017.11.17 | A senior Russian official who claimed to be acting at the behest of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia tried in May 2016 to arrange a meeting between Mr. Putin and Donald J. Trump nytimes.com (See also Trump Relationship with Russia, Russia) |
2017.11.18 | Earlier this year, a Russian-American lobbyist and another businessman discussed over coffee in Moscow an extraordinary meeting they had attended 12 months earlier: a gathering at Trump Tower with President Donald Trump’s son, his son-in-law and his then-campaign chairman. apnews.com (See also Trump Relationship with Russia, Donald Trump Jr, 2016 Campaign) |
2017.11.18 | White House senior adviser Jared Kushner told congressional Russia investigators that he did not communicate with WikiLeaks and did not recall anyone on the Trump campaign who had, but Kushner did receive and forward an email from Donald Trump Jr. about contact Trump Jr. had with WikiLeaks. cnn.com (See also Legal Issues, Donald Trump Jr, Russian Meddling in Election) |
2017.12.01 | Documents released as part of Mr. Flynn’s plea agreement show that his pre-inauguration discussions with Sergey I. Kislyak, the Russian ambassador, about foreign policy were part of a coordinated effort by aides running Mr. Trump’s transition into the White House, as Mr. Flynn was directed by a “very senior member” of Mr. Trump’s presidential transition team. nytimes.com (See also Michael Flynn, Trump Relationship with Russia, Russian Meddling in Election, Mike Pence, Reince Priebus) |
2017.12.01 | Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, called Michael Flynn in December 2016 and told him to call members of the UN Security Council in an effort to stop a vote on a resolution critical of Israeli settlement policy. buzzfeed.com (See also Trump Relationship with Russia, Michael Flynn, Legal Issues, Israel) |
2017.12.03 | Jared Kushner failed to disclose his role as a co-director of the Charles and Seryl Kushner Foundation from 2006 to 2015, a time when the group funded an Israeli settlement considered to be illegal under international law, on financial records he filed with the Office of Government Ethics earlier this year. newsweek.com (See also Israel, Unprecedented Actions, False Statements) Yet another omission was discovered on Jared Kushner’s financial disclosure forms Friday, as news broke of his reported involvement in attempting to sway a U.N. Security Council vote before Donald Trump became president. |
2017.12.04 | Donald Trump and his senior aides are preparing to announce that the United States recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel politico.com (See also Israel, Foreign Policy) |
2017.12.05 | Donald Trump plans to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the American Embassy there, upending nearly seven decades of American foreign policy and potentially destroying his efforts to broker peace between Israel and the Palestinians. nytimes.com (See also Unprecedented Actions, Israel, Muslims) |
2017.12.14 | Donald Trump continues to reject the evidence that Russia supported his run for the White House as part of an unprecedented assault on a pillar of U.S. democracy. washingtonpost.com (See also Russia, Trump Relationship with Russia, Reince Priebus, H.R. McMaster, John Kelly, 2016 Campaign, 2016 Election) |
2017.12.15 | A new provision not in the tax bill passed by the House or the Senate was inserted into the final bill during reconciliation negotiations between Republicans from both chambers. designed to offer a special tax cut to LLCs with few employees and large amounts of depreciable property assets, namely buildings: rent generating apartment and office buildings. ibtimes.com (See also Trump Taxes, Trump Business, Ivanka Trump, Conflicts of Interest) The Trump organization and the Kushners, and top GOP lawmakers writing the tax bill collectively have tens of millions of dollars of ownership stakes in real-estate-related LLCs. |
2017.12.16 | Special Counsel Robert Mueller has obtained “many tens of thousands" of Trump transition emails, including emails of Jared Kushner. axios.com (See also Trump Relationship with Russia, Legal Issues, 2016 Campaign) |
2017.12.22 | Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn have sought bank records about entities associated with the family company of Jared Kushner, as they have subpoenaed records from Deutsche Bank, the giant German financial institution that has lent hundreds of millions of dollars to the Kushner family real estate business. nytimes.com (See also Corruption) |
2017.12.23 | The Trump administration moved to renew leases for a copper and nickel mining operation on the border of Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, reversing a decision made by Barack Obama, marking a win for the Chilean mining firm belonging to the family of billionaire Andrónico Luksic, who rents a home to Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, in Washington. washingtonpost.com (See also Conflicts of Interest, Department of the Interior, Ryan Zinke, Reversals, Ivanka Trump, Corruption) |
2017.12.27 | Special counsel Robert Mueller has begun to question Republican National Committee staffers about the party's 2016 campaign data operation, which helped President Donald Trump's campaign team target voters in critical swing states. businessinsider.com (See also Russian Meddling in Election, Trump Relationship with Russia, 2016 Campaign, Legal Issues) |
2018.01.022 | Jared Kushner, the President’s son-in-law, despite his inexperience in diplomacy, has become Beijing’s primary point of interest. newyorker.com (See also China) |
2018.01.07 | Last May, Jared Kushner accompanied President Trump, his father-in-law, on the pair’s first diplomatic trip to Israel, part of Mr. Kushner’s White House assignment to achieve peace in the Middle East, just after his family real estate company received a roughly $30 million investment from Menora Mivtachim, an insurer that is one of Israel’s largest financial institutions, according to a Menora executive. nytimes.com (See also Conflicts of Interest, Corruption, Ivanka Trump, Israel) |
2018.01.15 | U.S. counterintelligence officials in early 2017 warned Jared Kushner that Wendi Deng Murdoch, a prominent Chinese-American businesswoman, could be using her close friendship with Mr. Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, to further the interests of the Chinese government. wsj.com (See also China, Ivanka Trump) |
2018.01.19 | A year into Donald Trump’s presidency, records show five of his top staffers still have not secured final approval of their financial reports — disclosures that are required by law to ensure Americans that these senior officials aren’t personally benefiting from their White House jobs. mcclatchydc.com (See also Conflicts of Interest, Administration Errors, Ivanka Trump) |
2018.01.19 | Deutsche Bank, the German financial giant which is a major lender to both President Donald Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, identified “suspicious transactions” related to Kushner family accounts, and has reported them to German banking regulators, while they are also reportedly willing to provide the information to special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s team of investigators. motherjones.com (See also Corruption, Legal Issues) |
2018.02.08 | Dozens of White House employees are awaiting permanent security clearances and have been working for months with temporary approvals to handle sensitive information while the FBI continues to probe their backgrounds, including Jared Kushner. washingtonpost.com (See also Administration Errors, Legal Issues) |
2018.02.15 | Nearly a year into Donald Trump's administration, senior-level staffers -- including Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and Rob Porter -- remained on interim clearances, along with more than 100 staffers in the Executive Office, even as other senior advisers were granted full security access. cnn.com (See also Trump Cabinet, Ivanka Trump, Administration Errors) |
2018.02.27 | Josh Raffel, a senior communications official in the White House who has been a go-to crisis manager and who has worked closely with Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, is leaving the administration. washingtonpost.com (See also Resignations and Dismissals, Ivanka Trump) |
2018.02.27 | Officials in at least four countries have privately discussed ways they can manipulate Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, by taking advantage of his complex business arrangements, financial difficulties and lack of foreign policy experience, according to current and former U.S. officials familiar with intelligence reports on the matter. washingtonpost.com (See also Nepotism, Corruption, Foreign Policy, China, Israel, Mexico) Among those nations discussing ways to influence Kushner to their advantage were the United Arab Emirates, China, Israel and Mexico, the current and former officials said. |
2018.02.27 | Presidential son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner has had his security clearance downgraded — a move that will prevent him from viewing many of the sensitive documents to which he once had unfettered access. politico.com (See also John Kelly, Nepotism) |
2018.02.28 | In 2017, Jared Kushner met multiple times in the White House with leaders of at least two financial institutions that subsequently made large loans to Mr. Kushner’s family real estate business, in which Mr. Kushner retains an interest. nytimes.com (See also Conflicts of Interest, Corruption) Apollo, the private equity firm, and Citigroup made large loans last year to the family real estate business of Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s senior adviser. |
2018.03.02 | Jared Kushner's firm made a direct pitch to Qatar’s minister of finance in April 2017 in an attempt to secure investment for his signature 666 Fifth Avenue property in NYC, and after being rebuffed, Kushner provided critical support to a Middle Eastern diplomatic row that culminated in a blockade of Qatar. theintercept.com (See also Conflicts of Interest, Corruption, Foreign Policy) |
2018.03.07 | Several White House staffers have been terminated or reassigned for issues related to their security clearances — with at least one individual employed in the Office of the First Lady relieved of duty. abcnews.go.com (See also Resignations and Dismissals, John Kelly, Administration Errors) |
2018.03.12 | Qatari officials gathered evidence of what they claim is illicit influence by the United Arab Emirates on Jared Kushner and other Trump associates, including details of secret meetings, but decided not to give the information to special counsel Robert Mueller for fear of harming relations with the Trump administration nbcnews.com (See also Russian Meddling in Election, Trump Relationship with Russia, Foreign Policy, Conflicts of Interest) |
2018.04.04 | Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards accused Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner of making an offer that felt like a "bribe" during a meeting back in January 2017. cnn.com (See also Women, Ivanka Trump) |
2018.05.17 | The company controlled by the family of the White House adviser Jared Kushner is close to receiving a bailout of its troubled flagship building by a company with financial ties to the government of Qatar. nytimes.com (See also Corruption, Conflicts of Interest) The deal is likely to raise further concerns about Jared Kushner’s dual role as a White House point person on the Middle East and a continuing stakeholder in the family’s company. Mr. Kushner in February lost his top-secret security clearance amid concerns that foreign governments could attempt to gain influence with the White House by doing business with his firm. In January, The Times reported that his firm last year received a $30 million investment from Menora Mivtachim, a large Israeli insurer, just a few days before Mr. Kushner flew to Israel for his first diplomatic trip to the region. |
2018.05.25 | Mark S. Inch, the man in charge of the federal prison system, has resigned, stating he was tired of the Trump administration flouting "departmental norms" and complained that Jeff Sessions and Jared Kushner had marginalized his role. nytimes.com (See also Resignations and Dismissals, Department of Justice, Jeff Sessions) |
2018.06.11 | Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, the president’s daughter and son-in-law, brought in at least $82 million in outside income while serving as senior White House advisers during 2017, according to financial disclosure forms, which ethics experts have warned could create extraordinary potential conflicts of interests. washingtonpost.com (See also Ivanka Trump, Conflicts of Interest) |
2018.10.11 | Despite the suspected murder of a prominent Saudi journalist Donald Trump declared his relations with Saudi Arabia “excellent," and that he was not in favor of stopping arms sales to Saudi Arabia. nytimes.com (See also Foreign Policy, Saudi Arabia) |
2018.10.13 | Over the past decade, Jared Kushner’s family company has spent billions of dollars buying real estate, his personal stock investments have soared. His net worth has quintupled to almost $324 million, and yet, for several years running, Mr. Kushner — President Trump’s son-in-law and a senior White House adviser — appears to have paid almost no federal income taxes. nytimes.com (See also Trump Taxes) |
2018.10.28 | Trump’s Corruption: The Definitive List: Donald Trump, his family and more than a few of his appointees are using his presidency to enrich themselves, spending taxpayer dollars for their own benefit, accepting sweetheart deals from foreigners, and they are harnessing the power of the federal government on behalf of their businesses. nytimes.com (See also Corruption, Trump Business, Donald Trump Jr, Conflicts of Interest) |
2018.11.26 | Donald Trump's reluctance to hold Saudi leadership accountable for the brutal murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi stemmed from a $14 billion arms deal between the US and Saudi Arabia, which was inflated inaccurately to $110 billion at the direction of Trump's son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner. abcnews.go.com (See also Saudi Arabia, False Statements, Conflicts of Interest) |
2018.12.09 | Thirteen damning, detailed things that we already know about Donald Trump, Russia, and the 2016 election. axios.com (See also Russian Meddling in Election, 2016 Election, Donald Trump Jr) |
2018.12.12 | Government watchdogs say that the Opportunity Zone program, pushed by Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, will benefit them both financially. apnews.com (See also Conflicts of Interest, Corruption, Ivanka Trump) |