As we hear that Jared Kushner is of course, under investigation, lets talk about how he ended up here. This is about FAR more than what we think it is, with roots that go back years. I encourage you to read up on Charles Kushner. I will do this point by point. There are answers for many of these questions, but what I have NOT seen is a connection between them all. Lets break this down. Please add your thoughts in the comments. But its becoming very clear that this 35 year old, son of convicted political criminal and real estate tycoon, an owner of newspapers, with no record of his own achievements, is a mystery that is unraveling, yet is elusive. MOTIVATIONS. WHAT are they.
1) Jared grew up in a family that controlled a real estate empire in NYC, with a father who used money to do everything from getting his son into Harvard with a massive donation to massive political donations to US Politicians to giving money to politicians around the world, to hiring prostitutes to try and set up his own family. Even when his father was convicted and sent to jail, he was unapologetic about it, visited him in jail weekly and took over the family business. At age 25. He has been the middleman to corruption for his entire life. Or, at least the observer OF watching what true, deep corruption IS. He is a well schooled machine to the proceedings at hand. Its all he knows.
2) He married into the Trump family, or should I say, his wife married into his (its like an old school royal power center) bringing together two of the most powerful families in the country, with insane amounts of real estate, insane amounts of debt, in need of massive amounts of loans, with deep and ugly political ties. Jared IS the person who sits at this precipice. He has his entire life.
3) After his father, Charles Kushner, was convicted and put in prison, as head of the family business, purchased a building at 666 5th Ave in NYC for 1.8 Billion dollars in 2007, at the moment of the real estate crash. One of the largest purchases ever. For context: If ALL tenants paid their rent, that would have amounted to only 65% of the COST of the loan. On a skyscraper. Not including maintenance. Not utilities. Not tax. Not staff. JUST the loan. He sold 49% of the building to the ever mysterious Carlyle Group. They sought other solutions. Am I wrong to see mystery here?
Yet when Kushner Co. bought 666 5th Avenue for $1.8 billion in 2007, it was the largest transaction for a commercial real estate building in Manhattan's history. Had the financing gone south, as it nearly did, it probably would have destroyed the family's fortune. The building is heavily in debt now and in need of new investors to let Vornado, a real estate firm that owns 49.5 percent of the building, get out; a tentative arrangement with Chinese insurance giant Anbang fell apart this week.
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2017/03/i_worked_for_jared_kushner_hes.html
The Kushner Companies’ purchase in 2007 of 666 Fifth Avenue, an aluminum-clad office tower in Midtown Manhattan, for a record price of $1.8 billion is considered a classic example of reckless underwriting. The transaction was so highly leveraged that the cash flow from rents amounted to only 65 percent of the debt service.
As many real estate specialists predicted, the deal ran into trouble. Instead of rising, rents declined as the recession took hold, and new leases were scarce. In 2010, the loan was transferred to a special servicer on the assumption that a default would occur once reserve funds being used to subsidize the shortfall were bled dry.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/18/realestate/commercial/the-kushner-companies-deal-for-666-fifth-avenue-avoids-foreclosure.html
4) When his deal with the Chinese fell apart recently fell apart, he had meetings in Russia, with the head of a Russian Bank. This was during the election, then afterwards. Why? Did his father in law, aware of his need for MONEY set this up? Did the Russians involved HELP? How is Jared Kushner involved with the motivations…… of the Russians? Is his need for money one of the points of weakness used to get to Trump?
5) In reading many things to ask these questions, a term came up that struck me: Consigliere. en.wikipedia.org/… Which of course, for any fans of The Godfather, brings up the character that is at the head of this post. The person who has silent power. The person who is loyal to death. Thats the movie version of course. Jared? First off, the resemblance to the movie character is rather striking, not that it matters. But he certainly is out of “central casting” as they say in Hollywood. He certainly was loyal to his criminal father, who is by the way, back in the real estate business himself, now that he is out of jail. And as we can see, he is now loyal to his father in law, who despite the character he portrays, as a loyal and religious man, supports, despite the fact that he represents everything that this religion teaches against. Both are family businesses. Private. How could he live on this razor?
6) If he is loyal to his father (which many of us can understand, who have had flawed parents….. that I accept) but also his father in law……. despite it all, all he has said, all he has done in direct conflict of his own proclaimed deep religions life….. what ARE his motivations? It can't be money. He was born into the greatest wealth in the world. Money has never been an issue. Is it power? Is it his wife? THIS is an important question: WHAT are Jared Kushner’s motivations. Lets not be naive. They are certainly not patriotic service of his country. He wants something out of this. What is it.
7) Revenge is a dish best served cold, as we saw in his influence in firing Chris Christie, the man who put his father in jail as a prosecutor, an act I support Mr Christie on. Did Jared have an influence on the firing of the various US Prosecutors when Trump took office? He did study law in college. What was his motivation to pursuing a different line of work? Pure revenge. Did he have knowledge that he, or his family, or the family of his wife, were under investigation, even back then, and play an immediate role in these firings? We’re they pursuing “unjust” (as he saw it) prosecutions of crimes that simply defined the life he has always known?
"My dad's arrest made me realize I didn't want to be a prosecutor anymore," he said. "The law is so nuanced. If you're convicting murderers, it's one thing. It's often fairly clear. When you get into things like white-collar crime, there are often a lot of nuances. Seeing my father's situation, I felt what happened was obviously unjust in terms of the way they pursued him. I just never wanted to be on the other side of that and cause pain to the families I was doing that to, whether right or wrong. The moral weight of that was probably a bit more than I could carry."
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/16/politics/trump-transition-jared-kushner-chris-christie/
8) Does Jared has a concept of crime AT ALL? I present a conversation he recalled, after his father hired a prostitute to set up his brother in law, only to have it blow up in his face, when the brother in law then turned on his, rather than has his balls placed in a vice by a man that was a criminal conducting criminal acts. The key phrase: “I thought your lawyers knew about that. I thought its not illegal? (reply) “Apparently they are saying that it is” WHAT!!!!????
Kushner learned of the arrest when his father called him on a July morning. Jared was on his way to an internship in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, he told New York Magazine in a 2009 interview. In the interview, he sounded more angry that the tape had been deemed illegal than he was about his father’s role in producing it. “They’re going to arrest me today,” Charles Kushner told him. “For what?” Jared Kushner recalled asking. “Is it because of the tape? I thought your lawyers knew about that. I thought it’s not illegal.” “Apparently they’re saying that it is,” his father said.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article117428818.html
9) What history does Jared have in the control of misinformation by OWNING a newspaper: The New York Observer, to be specific, which went after prosecutors going after his father in law and other competitors for the GOP nomination. What ties does JARED have to the alt right implosion of misinformation in the WORLD!!
Instead, Jared Kushner took the family business across the Hudson River into Manhattan with audacious real estate acquisitions, selling his family’s portfolio of apartments in New Jersey and, in 2007, buying an office tower on Fifth Avenue, about three blocks south of Trump Tower.
He also purchased the New York Observer, a Manhattan newspaper. Ross Barkan, a reporter there from 2013 to 2016, left the paper, he said in an interview, because the line between the Trump campaign and the paper’s editorial decisions had become “fuzzy.”
For instance, Barkan said, the Observer published two stories that appeared to target Trump’s enemies at the time – one taking on New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman after he sued Trump University, and another critical of Sen. Marco Rubio, Fla., during the Republican primary.
Kushner also made a business decision that would give him a toehold in the world of New Jersey politics that Christie was about to inhabit. He bought a successful political gossip website called PolitickerNJ.com that was run by an anonymous blogger. Later, when Christie was running for governor in 2009, he suggested that Kushner was using the website to damage him.
“It’s a Kushner-owned enterprise,” Christie said. “And I don’t think I’ll be getting Charles Kushner’s family’s vote come November.”
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article117428818.html#storylink=cpy
I don't know the answers to these questions. But there are SO many, its my opinion that the most important thing, as it is with ALL things Trump, is to see the big picture. To see the forest, not the daily implosion of trees of misinformation, or even the explosion of ongoing facts, each of them shocking to the point that we are so shocked about ONE thing, we fail to see ALL things. Lets keep our eyes on the forest that IS, the biggest political scandals, with deep roots to the highest office. I am personally, starting to view this ALL as nothing more than organized crime of the highest level, ever. I look forward to your comments. Thank you.