So what do you really know about President Kushner anyway?

[Silver]

Obama was/is a homosexual golfer who did very little as a US senator or as president. Jarrett and others took care of the day-to-day business of destroying America. Kushner and his billionaire/criminal class pals will do the same for Trump.

You are giving the young man (Kushner) too much credit. There are too many other people in and around Trump with more power. I do think, however, that Kushner is going to play a very substantial role in the brokering of a peace deal in the Middle East which will enable Israel to feel protected enough for a while to rebuild their temple. I also think Trump is grooming his son-in-law for a future in politics.

Then you don't understand the religious organization to which Kushner belongs.

[Matchmaker]

Obama was/is a homosexual golfer who did very little as a US senator or as president. Jarrett and others took care of the day-to-day business of destroying America. Kushner and his billionaire/criminal class pals will do the same for Trump.

You are giving the young man (Kushner) too much credit. There are too many other people in and around Trump with more power. I do think, however, that Kushner is going to play a very substantial role in the brokering of a peace deal in the Middle East which will enable Israel to feel protected enough for a while to rebuild their temple. I also think Trump is grooming his son-in-law for a future in politics.

Then you don't understand the religious organization to which Kushner belongs.

I know he is Jewish.

[Silver]

Obama was/is a homosexual golfer who did very little as a US senator or as president. Jarrett and others took care of the day-to-day business of destroying America. Kushner and his billionaire/criminal class pals will do the same for Trump.

You are giving the young man (Kushner) too much credit. There are too many other people in and around Trump with more power. I do think, however, that Kushner is going to play a very substantial role in the brokering of a peace deal in the Middle East which will enable Israel to feel protected enough for a while to rebuild their temple. I also think Trump is grooming his son-in-law for a future in politics.

Then you don't understand the religious organization to which Kushner belongs.

I know he is Jewish.

That's like calling your neighbor Christian. Are they Presbyterian or Episcopalian or Southern Baptist or LDS?

[Matchmaker]

You are giving the young man (Kushner) too much credit. There are too many other people in and around Trump with more power. I do think, however, that Kushner is going to play a very substantial role in the brokering of a peace deal in the Middle East which will enable Israel to feel protected enough for a while to rebuild their temple. I also think Trump is grooming his son-in-law for a future in politics.

Then you don't understand the religious organization to which Kushner belongs.

I know he is Jewish.

That's like calling your neighbor Christian. Are they Presbyterian or Episcopalian or Southern Baptist or LDS?

He was raised Orthodox. What's that got to do with anything?

[Silver]

Then you don't understand the religious organization to which Kushner belongs.

I know he is Jewish.

That's like calling your neighbor Christian. Are they Presbyterian or Episcopalian or Southern Baptist or LDS?

He was raised Orthodox. What's that got to do with anything?

You're getting warmer...

[Matchmaker]

I know he is Jewish.

That's like calling your neighbor Christian. Are they Presbyterian or Episcopalian or Southern Baptist or LDS?

He was raised Orthodox. What's that got to do with anything?

You're getting warmer...

I've started listening to Dr. Pieczenik recently. He has some interesting things to say about Jared Kushner. He thinks Jared means well but is just inexperienced.

[Silver]

That's like calling your neighbor Christian. Are they Presbyterian or Episcopalian or Southern Baptist or LDS?

He was raised Orthodox. What's that got to do with anything?

You're getting warmer...

I've started listening to Dr. Pieczenik recently. He has some interesting things to say about Jared Kushner. He thinks Jared means well but is just inexperienced.

Final hint:
See Larsen's post earlier in this thread.

[ajax]

According to some, Kush is the next Alexander Hamilton (which isn't necessarily a good thing):
http://www.targetliberty.com/2017/04/tr ... er-to.html

Trump Adviser Compares Kushner to Alexander Hamilton; Does He Really Want to Go There?

Anthony Scaramucci, an informal adviser to President Trump, compared White House senior adviser Jared Kushner on Tuesday to Alexander Hamilton, the first Treasury secretary and one of the nation's Founding Fathers.

"I think he's like an Alexander Hamilton," Scaramucci said on CNN's "New Day." "He's a young man who has a tremendous amount of maturity about him."

"What do you mean he's like Alexander Hamilton?" CNN host Chris Cuomo said. "He's nothing like Alexander Hamilton."

"To you he isn't, but to me he is. I'll explain why. He's got the trust of the president. He's very, very thoughtful. He knows how to bring people in," Scaramucci said. "If you read [Ron] Chernow's book about Hamilton, that was Hamilton's great gift at a very young age. So Jared has that."

Kushner, who is also Trump's son-in-law, has emerged as one of the president's most influential aides. He has been given a sweeping policy portfolio since entering his White House post, ranging from heading a task force to reform how the government operates to exploring peace efforts in the Middle East.

If Scaramucci had read Thomas DiLorenzo's Hamilton's Curse: How Jefferson's Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution--and What It Means for Americans Today, he would realize that it is not exactly flattering to compare Kushner to Hamilton.

From the blurb to DiLorenzo's book:

Two of the most influential figures in American history. Two opposing political philosophies. Two radically different visions for America.

Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton were without question two of the most important Founding Fathers. They were also the fiercest of rivals. Of these two political titans, it is Jefferson—–the revered author of the Declaration of Independence and our third president—–who is better remembered today. But in fact it is Hamilton’s political legacy that has triumphed—–a legacy that has subverted the Constitution and transformed the federal government into the very leviathan state that our forefathers fought against in the American Revolution.

How did we go from the Jeffersonian ideal of limited government to the bloated imperialist system of Hamilton’s design? Acclaimed economic historian Thomas J. DiLorenzo provides the troubling answer in Hamilton’s Curse.

DiLorenzo reveals how Hamilton, first as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention and later as the nation’s first and most influential treasury secretary, masterfully promoted an agenda of nationalist glory and interventionist economics—–core beliefs that did not die with Hamilton in his fatal duel with Aaron Burr. Carried on through his political heirs, the Hamiltonian legacy:

• Wrested control into the hands of the federal government by inventing the myth of the Constitution’s “implied powers”
• Established the imperial presidency (Hamilton himself proposed a permanent president—–in other words, a king)
• Devised a national banking system that imposes boom-and-bust cycles on the American economy
• Saddled Americans with a massive national debt and oppressive taxation
• Inflated the role of the federal courts in order to eviscerate individual liberties and state sovereignty
• Pushed economic policies that lined the pockets of the wealthy and created a government system built on graft, spoils, and patronage
• Transformed state governments from Jeffersonian bulwarks of liberty to beggars for federal crumbs

By debunking the Hamiltonian myths perpetuated in recent admiring biographies, DiLorenzo exposes an uncomfortable truth: The American people are no longer the masters of their government but its servants. Only by restoring a system based on Jeffersonian ideals can Hamilton’s curse be lifted, at last.

So yeah, from DiLorenzo's more accurate and deeper understanding of Hamilton, Kushner is a lot like him.They are both nationalists promoting greater federal power.

[Silver]

That's a great contribution to the thread, ajax.

As an aside, it just struck me that if I divided your username into a & jax, it could become Andrew Jaxson (sp), who, by breaking up the national bank back in his day, opposed Hamilton's efforts. Of course, the Greek hero Ajax is also a cool image, too.

[Silver]

http://freebeacon.com/national-security ... ty-at-nsc/

New Front In White House Civil War as Kushner Asserts Authority at NSC
Officials say Kushner taking unprecedented role to interfere in foreign policy matters

Jared KushnerJared Kushner / Getty Images

BY: Adam Kredo
April 12, 2017 1:58 pm

White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner is leading an unprecedented effort to meddle in the White House's National Security Council, causing mayhem for senior staff who say the president's son-in-law is interfering in key foreign policy debates, according to Trump administration officials who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon.

Kushner has taken aggressive action to micro-manage the NSC, overshadowing even recently installed National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, according to sources both inside and outside the White House who described Kushner's behavior as highly unusual and damaging to the country's national security infrastructure.

Never before has a White House permitted such a figure to intervene in the NSC, which is traditionally given leeway to investigate foreign policy matters and bring advice to the president.

Sources who spoke to the Free Beacon described wide-ranging frustration at the NSC over Kushner's influence over some of the most important foreign policy portfolios, such as Iraq, Israel, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and China, among others.

Senior NSC staff are finding their hands tied when it comes to performing even perfunctory duties, such as talking points and statements on high profile issues that must go through Kushner for approval. Sources who spoke to the Free Beacon described this level of involvement as kneecapping the NSC and contributing to its difficulties formulating policy.

"Kushner is meddling in a lot of things," according to one NSC official who spoke to the Free Beacon only on background. "Such direct control of foreign policy from the West Wing has never happened before. It just creates a lot of drama. People just don't know how to deal with it. We're respectful of his position, but it's confusing the policymaking process."

Officials working at the NSC, State Department, and Department of Defense "are not happy that Jared is so powerful in foreign policy," said one White House official. "They are expected to implement the president's agenda, but have no input or ability to get ideas in front of Jared. It's a one-man show and that's creating a lot of frustration."

The installation of Dina Powell, a confidant of Kushner's wife Ivanka, to the NSC is said to have been orchestrated by Kushner in order to solidify his power over the foreign policy organization, sources said.

This helps Kushner keep tabs on the NSC's day-to-day operations, another move that is said to be causing conflict between the NSC and the West Wing.

Kushner, in many ways, has even overshadowed McMaster, who sources described as seeking to avoid infighting in the White House. This has only minimized his power on the NSC, officials said.

On the other hand, Bannon's team is said to be more respectful and willing to defer to the organization as West Wing staffers have traditionally done under past administrations.

"Jared has been pegged as the ‘shadow secretary of state,'" said the White House official. "But in a way he's kind of also the shadow national security adviser and secretary of defense."

The situation has weakened the NSC and caused internal confusion as to what exactly the administration's policy is when it comes to a range of key issues.

The Free Beacon highlighted this issue in a report earlier this year about the Trump administration's inability to provide direction over key aspects of the Iran nuclear deal, specifically the U.S. sale of airplanes to Tehran.

"On routine issues, we still don't know what our policy is," said the NSC official. "So when we get basic requests from foreign counterparts, we can't weigh in authoritatively."

Update 4:01 p.m.: Following publication of this article, a White House spokesperson told the Free Beacon the NSC was running smoothly.

"Nothing could be further from the truth," the spokesperson said. "The NSC is running beautifully under the leadership of General McMaster who has installed an exceptional team to execute on behalf of the president."

[Silver]

http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=71043

"How Much Of Jared Kushner’s Financing Came From George Soros?
Posted on April 10, 2017 by State of the Nation

EXPOSED: George Soros’s “Long And Productive Relationship” With Jared Kushner Includes New $250 Million Investment

It turns out that George Soros is the money behind a new real estate venture called Cadre which was founded by Donald Trump’s son in law Jared Kushner and his brother Joshua Kushner.

The Real Deal has uncovered the fact that George Soros was the man who provided Cadre with a $259 million line of credit. A source told the publication, “Soros has had a long and productive relationship with the Kushner family.”

The financing was provided; even though, Soros has called President Trump a “would-be dictator.”

Cadre is an online marketplace that connects investors and operators of real estate. The company states that it enables investors to sell their interest on the secondary marketplace, thereby introducing liquidity into an antiquated industry. Cadre was founded by Ryan Williams, and Josh and Jared Kushner, and was launched in 2014.

While George Soros has provided the venture with credit, the company has so far raised $68.3 million in 2 rounds from 8 different investors, including $50 million in a series B closed just last month.

So why exactly would George Soros agree to help a new venture from Jared Kushner who is now serving as an advisor in the Donald Trump White House? After all, Soros and Trump really seem to hate one another. Well its like the famous line from “The Godfather”: Its just business, nothing personal.

Besides, George Soros offered credit to Jared Kushner and his brother Joshua Kushner and not Donald Trump." (close quote)

[SmallFarm]

[Silver]

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/ ... st-questio

Kushner Companies' Pitch To Chinese Investors Raises Conflict Of Interest Questions
May 7, 20175:50 PM ET

The sister of President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, highlighted her powerful brother as she pitched financing the family firm's real estate project in New Jersey to Chinese investors.

That's according to reporters from The Washington Post and The New York Times, who were attending the publicly advertised event at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Beijing on Saturday before press was removed from the room.

Questions Linger About Trump's Foreign Business Ties And The Emoluments Clause
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Questions Linger About Trump's Foreign Business Ties And The Emoluments Clause
"Speaking in a ballroom, [Nicole] Meyer said the project 'means a lot to me and my entire family,'" according to the Times. "She mentioned her brother's service as chief executive of Kushner Companies, the family business from which he resigned in January, saying he had left to serve in the Trump administration."

Trump Ethics Monitor: Has The President Kept His Promises?
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Trump Ethics Monitor: Has The President Kept His Promises?
This is the latest in a series of conflict-of-interest questions surrounding the vast business interests of top Trump administration officials.

"It's highly problematic," Noah Bookbinder, the executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, tells NPR. "It appears that Jared Kushner's family business is using his name and his official position to bring in investment."

Kushner Companies "apologizes if that mention of [Meyer's] brother was in any way interpreted as an attempt to lure investors," it said in a statement emailed to NPR, adding that it was not her intention. It said the One Journal Square project would provide millions in tax revenue and bring in thousands of construction jobs to New Jersey.

The event was organized by QWOS, a firm that helps Chinese citizens access U.S. green cards through investments. Its advertising highlights the controversial EB-5 visa program, which provides a path to a green card to foreign nationals who invest at least half a million dollars and create 10 full-time jobs.

"Invest $500,000 and immigrate to the United States," said one pamphlet for the event to raise money for the project, according to the Post.

The program is popular with some commercial real estate developers, who use it to raise funds for their projects, as NPR's Greg Allen has reported. But it has also been linked to fraud schemes and critics are uneasy about the idea of "essentially selling visas to wealthy foreigners with no proven skills, paving the way for money laundering and compromising national security, as Bloomberg reported.

Before Kushner joined the Trump administration as a senior adviser, the news agency added, his family firm raised some $50 million through the EB-5 program for a Trump-branded luxury apartment building in New Jersey.

Kushner's lawyer, Blake Roberts of WilmerHale law firm, said in an emailed statement that Kushner "will recuse from particular matters concerning the EB-5 visa program."

Bookbinder, from the watchdog group CREW, says that "at this point, it might make sense for him to consider broader-based recusals on China issues as well, as more and more business ties keep on coming up."

[Silver]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politic ... -1.3144365

Jared Kushner’s sister offers U.S. visas to Chinese investors for family’s real estate development

Jared Kushner’s sister offered wealthy investors in China a chance to score American visas if they invest in one of the family’s properties — a deal that watchdogs saw as blatant bribery.

Nicole Kushner Meyer took the stage at a Ritz-Carlton hotel in Beijing on Saturday with a pitch to a room with about 100 investors: They could get green cards if they poured money into One Journal Square, a $150 million luxury Jersey City development from her family.

The quid-pro-quo would come through the EB-5 program, which grants visas to foreigners who invest at least $500,000 in American development projects. Politicians on both sides of the aisle have often criticized the program as a golden road to citizenship for the wealthy.

According to multiple media reports from the event, parts of Meyer’s talk touted her ties to President Trump through her brother, who is married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka.

John Oliver trashes Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner
One slide in her sales pitch pictured Trump and identified him as a “key decision maker” for the EB-5 program. She also made sure to mention her brother’s role as a senior advisor to Trump.

Jared Kushner and his sister Nicole Kushner Meyer
Jared Kushner and his sister Nicole Kushner Meyer (EVAN VUCCI/AP / ASTRID STAWIARZ/GETTY IMAGES)
Meyer told the crowd the Jersey City project “means a lot to me and my entire family,” according to the New York Times. A brochure for the event told those in attendance: “Invest $500,000 and immigrate to the United States.”

Another speaker at the event told the crowd they should “invest early” to make sure they “invest under the old rules” — hinting that the visa program might soon change.

Reporters from the Times and the Washington Post attended the publicly advertised talk, but were kicked out by organizers who claimed it was a “private event.”

Walmart shopper discovers alleged note from Chinese prisoner
Kushner still holds some of his stakes in Kushner Companies even after accepting a White House role that has him involved in foreign affairs. Trump, too, has retained his leadership of his Trump Organization and allows his adult sons to run its daily operations.

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Ethics watchdogs have warned since Trump took office that he and his family are courting conflict with the emoluments clause, a provision in the Constitution that bans federal officials from accepting gifts from foreign leaders. A violation of the clause — which would require proof of a deliberate bribe — is a potentially impeachable offense.

There have been numerous incidents in Trump’s tenure that appeared to pose such conflicts — some involving China.

The Chinese government in March swiftly approved nearly 40 trademarks for Trump. One month later, the government granted trademarks to Ivanka Trump as she and Kushner dined with Chinese President Xi Jinping at President Trump’s Maro-A-Lago estate.

Dems want Jared Kushner’s security clearance revoked over Russia
Watchdogs once again warned that the family might be crossing the line with the offer in Beijing.

An ad for the Beijing event promoting the "Kushner 1" real estate project in Jersey City.
An ad for the Beijing event promoting the "Kushner 1" real estate project in Jersey City. (IQIAOWAI.COM)
Noah Bookbinder, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, called the sales pitch “highly problematic” and said Kushner should recuse himself from the EB-5 program.

A former White House ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush called the event “incredibly stupid and highly inappropriate.”

“They clearly imply that the Kushners are going to make sure you get your visa,” Richard Painter told the Post.

[Durzan]

I know that it seems you got a grudge against him.

[Ezra]

I know that it seems you got a grudge against him.

D&c 123 :

12 For there are many yet on the earth among all sects, parties, and denominations, who are blinded by the subtle craftiness of men, whereby they lie in wait to deceive, and who are only kept from the truth because they know not where to find it—

13 Therefore, that we should waste and wear out our lives in bringing to light all the hidden things of darkness, wherein we know them; and they are truly manifest from heaven—

14 These should then be attended to with great earnestness.

15 Let no man count them as small things; for there is much which lieth in futurity, pertaining to the saints, which depends upon these things.

16 You know, brethren, that a very large ship is benefited very much by a very small helm in the time of a storm, by being kept workways with the wind and the waves.

17 Therefore, dearly beloved brethren, let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power; and then may we stand still, with the utmost assurance, to see the salvation of God, and for his arm to be revealed.


Seem like you have your head deep in a hole.

[Silver]

I know that it seems you got a grudge against him.

And given his connection to Soros and the illegalities of his father's business, not to mention his distorted view of religion, you should take caution as well.

I see you did get a "thanks" for your post from Elizabeth. Now that's a badge of honor.

[Elizabeth]

The church members are far from perfect, present writer included.

[Durzan]

I know that it seems you got a grudge against him.

And given his connection to Soros and the illegalities of his father's business, not to mention his distorted view of religion, you should take caution as well.

I don't really put much faith in conspiracy theories, especially nowadays, when just about any information can be easily fabricated or manipulated to support just about any conclusion. Hence why I take everything said with a heavy dose of salt.

[Ezra]

I know that it seems you got a grudge against him.

And given his connection to Soros and the illegalities of his father's business, not to mention his distorted view of religion, you should take caution as well.

I don't really put much faith in conspiracy theories, especially nowadays, when just about any information can be easily fabricated or manipulated to support just about any conclusion. Hence why I take everything said with a heavy dose of salt.

Sounds unhealthy.
And putting a label of (conspiracy theories) doesn't make verifiable facts any less true. All that label does is bury your head deeper in the sand Or salt in your case.

[Durzan]

I know that it seems you got a grudge against him.

And given his connection to Soros and the illegalities of his father's business, not to mention his distorted view of religion, you should take caution as well.

I don't really put much faith in conspiracy theories, especially nowadays, when just about any information can be easily fabricated or manipulated to support just about any conclusion. Hence why I take everything said with a heavy dose of salt.

Sounds unhealthy.
And putting a label of (conspiracy theories) doesn't make verifiable facts any less true. All that label does is bury your head deeper in the sand Or salt in your case.

Define verifiable facts in an age where literally anything and everything you hear of could be a lie.

[Silver]

The church members are far from perfect, present writer included.

Then tell us why you like Kushner.

[Silver]

Little Ms. Kushner calls Trump a key decision maker in deciding who can pay a pile of money for entry into the US. (Yeah, right, if you invest in the Kushner scheme. So how does the oligarchy feel when it's tightened around your neck?)

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles ... f-interest

May 8, 2017, 6:00 AM CDT

The Kushners Add to Trump’s Growing Conflicts of Interest

The sister of Trump's top adviser just pitched her White House connections to Chinese investors.

On Saturday, Jared Kushner’s sister was in the ballroom of a Beijing hotel busily promoting her family’s U.S. real estate projects to Chinese investors. She did so with aplomb: A photograph of President Trump adorned a large screen at the front of the room, noting that the president is a “key decision maker” on a federal program the Kushners were taking advantage of to court foreign investors.

Javier C. Hernandez, a New York Times reporter, helpfully posted a photo of the entire set-up on his Twitter feed over the weekend:

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The same photo was in a story Hernandez, along with Cao Li and Jesse Drucker, wrote for the Times over the weekend about the Kushner road show. Organizers of the Beijing event kicked out Hernandez and Li after they became uncomfortable with the reporters’ presence; the same fate befell Washington Post reporters covering the fundraiser.

Kushner has emerged as a key White House liaison to China, and his sister, Nicole Meyer, invoked her brother’s connection to her family’s business -- and his White House role -- during her presentation in Beijing.

The Kushners are trying to raise money through a controversial federal program known as EB-5, which grants foreigners a visa and possible U.S. citizenship if they invest at least $500,000 in American enterprises. The irony here is that Trump not only inveighed against China as an evil empire while on the campaign trial, he also made anti-immigration a central part of his platform and EB-5 was hatched in 1990 as a way to encourage immigration, investment and job growth in the U.S.

Meyer moved on to Shanghai on Sunday, where “burly security guards” at the Four Seasons Hotel reportedly screened attendees at another fundraiser and kept reporters safely outside in a lobby.

Guards can keep reporters at bay from time to time, but the Kushners -- and the entire Trump clan -- have done a poor job masking the raw financial conflicts of interest that have shadowed the White House and the two families’ business dealings. Meyer’s fundraising is only the latest reminder that neither family appears to be very concerned about the propriety of openly embroidering financial wheeling and dealing with nods to the significant policymaking power they also wield in Washington.

It may be tedious at this point, but here’s a short list of some other projects that have raised concerns that President Trump and his family see the Oval Office more as a personal moneymaking venture than an outlet for their deep-seated devotion to public service:

Mar-a-Lago, where the president has spent most of his weekends since being sworn in, doubled its membership fee after Trump was elected. Trump has used the property to fete foreign dignitaries and used the same taxpayer-supported visits to tour other local Trump golf courses, generating gobs of free advertising for his business.

The Trump family continues to own a hotel in Washington that sits atop federally-owned land, allowing the Trumps to lease space from the same government that they run. The hotel has also become a sought-after destination for diplomats, lobbyists and others who transact with the federal government.

The president has yet to release his tax returns, and hasn’t sufficiently distanced himself from the golf course development and licensing business he left behind at the Trump Organization. His two eldest sons and the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer oversee the business and a trust sheltering the president’s holdings, but the structure of the trust gives the president a window onto the company’s finances and leaves him with ample control over the trustees’ decisions.

Jared Kushner, the most powerful person in the White House after the president, has an equally tepid trust sheltering his holdings in his family’s business, and his mother is the trustee. Kushner has sold some of his holdings, but there is still insufficient transparency into all of his business dealings.

Kushner has also drawn attention for his efforts last year to raise funds for a financially-troubled skyscraper his family owns in Manhattan, 666 Fifth Avenue. The building is saddled with stifling debt and sub-par occupancy rates. Kushner attempted to get a major Chinese insurer, Anbang, to bail him out the building but that deal apparently collapsed after Bloomberg reporters wrote about it. Kushner also met with a major Russian bank during the same time frame but it’s unclear what that discussion concerned.

On a much smaller, but telling, scale, Ivanka Trump, who recently formalized her White House role as presidential advisor, has been heavily peddling her new book on her widely-followed Twitter feed after deciding not to go on a publicity tour because she thought that was a financial conflict. Her Twitter feed includes frequent updates on her policy roles at the White House, alongside warm family moments. (The State Department recently removed its own tweet hawking Ivanka’s book, demonstrating that the agency hadn’t learned from last month’s backlash over its website’s marketing campaign for Mar-a-Lago.)

Ivanka has come under scrutiny for how she operates and markets her clothing and accessories business -- and how aggressively the White House has supported her efforts.
Now we can add this past weekend’s fundraising tour in China to this list.

China has been an attractive business destination for the Trumps and Kushners, and the government there in February approved a series of potentially lucrative trademarks for the Trump Organization. The president’s company had spent a decade trying to secure the trademarks; a wave of approvals followed his election victory.

Most business deals can be enhanced and accelerated when the White House’s residents and family members want them to be. Until Congress, currently controlled by the president’s party, or the courts, which halted one of his key immigration initiatives, decide to slow things down, the rest of us will have to hope that the Trumps and Kushners recognize that they have something to lose by being craven.

[LatterDayLizard]

I know that it seems you got a grudge against him.

D&c 123 :

12 For there are many yet on the earth among all sects, parties, and denominations, who are blinded by the subtle craftiness of men, whereby they lie in wait to deceive, and who are only kept from the truth because they know not where to find it—

13 Therefore, that we should waste and wear out our lives in bringing to light all the hidden things of darkness, wherein we know them; and they are truly manifest from heaven—

14 These should then be attended to with great earnestness.

15 Let no man count them as small things; for there is much which lieth in futurity, pertaining to the saints, which depends upon these things.

16 You know, brethren, that a very large ship is benefited very much by a very small helm in the time of a storm, by being kept workways with the wind and the waves.

17 Therefore, dearly beloved brethren, let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power; and then may we stand still, with the utmost assurance, to see the salvation of God, and for his arm to be revealed.


Seem like you have your head deep in a hole.

Only if the alleged conspiracy is 1. true, and 2. relevant.

There are a myriad of conspiracies which I'm sure are out there, which are true. Do I need to know about ALL of them to be spiritually enlightened and on the right path? No? Well then, do I need to know HALF of them? No? Where then do I draw that line wherein I've no longer got my head "deep in a hole"? I'm not issuing a challenge here, just reflecting honestly about where that line is.

Here's how I see it. Part of the responsibility that the leaders of the church have is to discern those things which are a threat to our eternal progression and to lead the church in the appropriate direction. This would naturally include those temporal things - laws, philosophies, and practices - which may interfere with that progression. They are then in a position to counsel the members and make policy decisions for the church to keep us in/return us to safe waters. Examples of this are President Monson's admonition to support prop 8, Elder Oaks many addresses on religious freedom, and Elder Holland's repeated emphasis on expanding our understanding and support of individuals with mental illness. There has been guidance given on helping refugees, becoming involved in the community, and in avoiding harmful substances (conspiring men). I could go on and on.

By contrast, my responsibility is to keep the spirit close, surrounding myself with light and truth, and to follow the counsel of the prophet and apostles. This will keep my family in safe waters. I'm also expected to learn all that I can, especially about those things which directly touch my family temporally. I've delved into issues when it pertained to my success in the home. This has led me to finding alternatives in medicine, education, who I'm voting for, and in how we run our household in general.

Looking back, those times when I was so focused on conspiracies, thinking to save myself from danger by deeply delving into "the dark arts" of corporations and governments, the effect that it has on my home environment has been a distraction at best, even at times a detractor of the light of Christ. It scratched an itch, but it did not enlighten.

If I take on the full brunt of knowing the sordid details of EVERY evil corporate entity and political deviant out there, or even of MOST or SOME, what spirit will I carry with me? As I am in no position to stop them, how will it lead me anywhere other than extreme frustration and fear? Furthermore, where is my trust in the arm of God? If I truly believe He is fighting my battles, why would I continually wrest the binoculars away from his servants, metaphorically speaking, because they aren't giving us enough intel? Will I be ready and willing to listen to the counsel of the prophet if he doesn't warn against specific individuals and institutions that I see as most dangerous after all of my delving?

I'm not accusing anyone of anything. This has simply been my experience with wanting to know more and being told "Peace, be still. You know enough."

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I know that it seems you got a grudge against him.

D&c 123 :

12 For there are many yet on the earth among all sects, parties, and denominations, who are blinded by the subtle craftiness of men, whereby they lie in wait to deceive, and who are only kept from the truth because they know not where to find it—

13 Therefore, that we should waste and wear out our lives in bringing to light all the hidden things of darkness, wherein we know them; and they are truly manifest from heaven—

14 These should then be attended to with great earnestness.

15 Let no man count them as small things; for there is much which lieth in futurity, pertaining to the saints, which depends upon these things.

16 You know, brethren, that a very large ship is benefited very much by a very small helm in the time of a storm, by being kept workways with the wind and the waves.

17 Therefore, dearly beloved brethren, let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power; and then may we stand still, with the utmost assurance, to see the salvation of God, and for his arm to be revealed.


Seem like you have your head deep in a hole.

Only if the alleged conspiracy is 1. true, and 2. relevant.

There are a myriad of conspiracies which I'm sure are out there, which are true. Do I need to know about ALL of them to be spiritually enlightened and on the right path? No? Well then, do I need to know HALF of them? No? Where then do I draw that line wherein I've no longer got my head "deep in a hole"? I'm not issuing a challenge here, just reflecting honestly about where that line is.

Here's how I see it. Part of the responsibility that the leaders of the church have is to discern those things which are a threat to our eternal progression and to lead the church in the appropriate direction. This would naturally include those temporal things - laws, philosophies, and practices - which may interfere with that progression. They are then in a position to counsel the members and make policy decisions for the church to keep us in/return us to safe waters. Examples of this are President Monson's admonition to support prop 8, Elder Oaks many addresses on religious freedom, and Elder Holland's repeated emphasis on expanding our understanding and support of individuals with mental illness. There has been guidance given on helping refugees, becoming involved in the community, and in avoiding harmful substances (conspiring men). I could go on and on.

By contrast, my responsibility is to keep the spirit close, surrounding myself with light and truth, and to follow the counsel of the prophet and apostles. This will keep my family in safe waters. I'm also expected to learn all that I can, especially about those things which directly touch my family temporally. I've delved into issues when it pertained to my success in the home. This has led me to finding alternatives in medicine, education, who I'm voting for, and in how we run our household in general.

Looking back, those times when I was so focused on conspiracies, thinking to save myself from danger by deeply delving into "the dark arts" of corporations and governments, the effect that it has on my home environment has been a distraction at best, even at times a detractor of the light of Christ. It scratched an itch, but it did not enlighten.

If I take on the full brunt of knowing the sordid details of EVERY evil corporate entity and political deviant out there, or even of MOST or SOME, what spirit will I carry with me? As I am in no position to stop them, how will it lead me anywhere other than extreme frustration and fear? Furthermore, where is my trust in the arm of God? If I truly believe He is fighting my battles, why would I continually wrest the binoculars away from his servants, metaphorically speaking, because they aren't giving us enough intel? Will I be ready and willing to listen to the counsel of the prophet if he doesn't warn against specific individuals and institutions that I see as most dangerous after all of my delving?

I'm not accusing anyone of anything. This has simply been my experience with wanting to know more and being told "Peace, be still. You know enough."

Well-written and quite persuasive. I accept it in the tone it was written and am thankful for the things you've given me to think about. Let me simply remind you and everyone else that my attacks on Trump/Kushner/CFR/NWO/etc. are directed at those who have given the election of the Republican party candidate their unqualified support. That is truly a dangerous decision.