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2017.12.01Jared 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)
2017.12.03Jared 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.
2017.12.04Donald 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)
2017.12.05Donald 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)
2017.12.14Donald 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)
2017.12.15A 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.
2017.12.16Special 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)
2017.12.22Federal 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)
2017.12.23The 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)
2017.12.27Special 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)
2018.01.022Jared 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)
2018.01.07Last 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)
2018.01.15U.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)
2018.01.19A 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)
2018.01.19Deutsche 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)
2018.02.08Dozens 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)
2018.02.15Nearly 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)
2018.02.27Josh 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)
2018.02.27Officials 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.
2018.02.27Presidential 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)
2018.02.28In 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.
2018.03.02Jared 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)
2018.03.07Several 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)
2018.03.12Qatari 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)
2018.04.04Planned 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)