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Scandals Swirl Around Jared Kushner
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Jared Kushner is President Trump’s senior advisor, his son-in-law, and up until a little more than a year ago, he was the public face of Kushner Companies, his family business.
Since being named to his White House post last January, Kushner stepped down from his official role at Kushner Companies. But he hasn’t completely cut ties with his family’s real estate projects, and that’s caught the attention not only of the media, but of Special Counsel Robert Mueller and federal prosecutors and state regulators.
President Trump defended Kushner in a press conference last week.
"Jared has done an outstanding job," said Trump. "I think he has been treated very unfairly. He's a high quality person. He works for nothing, nobody ever reports that but he gets zero."
President Trump went on to describe Kushner's role as "working on peace in the Middle East and some other small and very easy deals."
But just this week, The New York Times reported that Kushner had a series of meetings last year with lenders Apollo Global Management and Citigroup, and the companies eventually made huge loans to his family business, totaling more than $500 million. Kushner Companies is currently in the process of trying to raise money in order to pay a $600 million debt on a Manhattan property that is fully due in one year.
Kushner's meeting with lenders follows a handful of other high profile trips to places like Israel and Saudi Arabia, that coincided with deals secured by Kushner Companies around the same period.
Also this week, The Washington Post reported that officials in the United Arab Emirates, China, Israel, and Mexico have discussed ways they can “manipulate” Kushner. Both reports emerged as news broke that Kushner's security clearance had been downgraded, resulting in a cut-off in access to information determined to be "top-secret."
Andrea Bernstein, senior editor for politics and policy for WNYC News, has been following Kushner’s business dealings for months. She’s also host of the new podcast Trump, Inc. from WNYC and ProPublica, and brings us up to speed on the many scandals facing Jared Kushner.
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