The Golden Couple (Ivanka and Jared)

[laPapessaGiovanna]

23 hours ago, 47of74 said:

Ooopsie.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/25/ivanka-trump-giorgio-chinaglia-saint-lazio-striker

To be fair to her, football players and Saints are just about the same thing over there in Italy.

Not exactly, but it depends with whom you are talking I guess.

Here you can find the picture she misinterpreted. Her mistake is understandable for a non Catholic foreigner, imho. 

[fraurosena]

More and more republicans are criticizing Jared. 

McCain weighs in on Kushner's reported request for Russia back channel

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Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, is uneasy with a report that Trump son-in-law and top adviser Jared Kushner attempted to set up a secret communications channel with the Kremlin during the transition, before Mr. Trump was inaugurated.

"I don't like it, I just don't," McCain told Australia's ABC News.

"I know some administration officials are saying this is standard procedure," he said. "I don't think it's standard procedure prior to the inauguration of the president of the United States by someone who is not in an appointed position."

Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly on Sunday defended Kushner during an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press."

"[T]here's a lot of different ways to communicate, back channel, publicly with other countries," Kelly said.  And he dismissed the idea that any importance should be attached to Kushner's alleged efforts. [...]

In McCain's view, Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, have grown into a greater threat to the U.S. than ISIS.

"I think [Putin] is the premier and most important threat," McCain said, adding, "more so than ISIS." 

ISIS can do "terrible things," McCain continued, "but it's the Russians who tried to destroy the very fundamental of democracy, and that is to change the outcome of an American election."

"I've seen no evidence that they succeeded, but they tried," he went on. "And they're still trying."

I like the fact that he's openly standing up against Russia and especially Putin. Let's hope McCain's voice invites other republicans to speak out as well. 

 

[AmazonGrace]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/29/jared-kushner-charmed-life-screeching-halt?CMP=share_btn_tw

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Perhaps Jared Kushner really believed that his New York real-estate skills set him up to bring peace to the Middle East, solve the opioid crisis, run a government SWAT team of business experts and protect his father-in-law from disloyal White House advisers. And that he could do it all while observing the Jewish Sabbath and reserving enough time for family ski vacations with Ivanka and their three children.

Or maybe Kushner just calculated that all the hype surrounding his White House role was a not-to-be-missed family branding opportunity. After all, the Washington Post recently watched as his sister, Nicole Kushner Meyer, hawked American visas in Beijing to would-be Chinese investors in a troubled Kushner New Jersey real-estate development.

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/people-arent-happy-with-ivanka-trumps-memorial-day-popsicles_us_592c27c5e4b0065b20b781fd
 

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Ivanka Trump cooked up some controversy after her “Team Ivanka” business account tweeted about one way to celebrate Memorial Day weekend. 

 

 

I mean, dead soldiers, party time! 

[47of74]

2 minutes ago, AmazonGrace said:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/29/jared-kushner-charmed-life-screeching-halt?CMP=share_btn_tw

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/people-arent-happy-with-ivanka-trumps-memorial-day-popsicles_us_592c27c5e4b0065b20b781fd
 

 

I mean, dead soldiers, party time! 

Ugh.   It's not that kind of holiday Ivanka.  It's a day to remember friends and family who have gone before, especially if they served in the military and especially if they are MIA like my great uncle.

[fraurosena]

1 minute ago, 47of74 said:

Ugh.   It's not that kind of holiday Ivanka.  It's a day to remember friends and family who have gone before, especially if they served in the military and especially if they are MIA like my great uncle.

But... they don't think about other people! Sheesh.

 

(Gosh, @47of74, that must be really horrible, having a family member MIA... )

[HeathenBlondie]

19 minutes ago, AmazonGrace said:

I mean, dead soldiers, party time! 

I asked her how many of her followers can piss their money away on champagne and she blocked me!

[47of74]

1 hour ago, fraurosena said:

But... they don't think about other people! Sheesh.

 

(Gosh, @47of74, that must be really horrible, having a family member MIA... )

Yeah Grandma said that really bugged my Great Grandparents for the rest of their lives never knowing for sure what happened to my Great Uncle who went MIA in the Korean War, if he was alive or dead even after he was legally declared dead just to let the paperwork go on ahead.  That was one bit of comfort when Grandma passed - in addition to being with Grandpa again she finally got reunited with her brother as well that she hadn't seen since 1951.

[AmazonGrace]

According to anonymous officials, who in no way resemble Jared and Ivanka I'm sure, they are "unfazed", "proud", "focused on their work" and have a "healthy understanding" that there will be  "attention". 

Also, Trump says Jared is a good person, so everyone lay off. 

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/29/politics/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-heads-down-approach/index.html

[onekidanddone]

23 minutes ago, AmazonGrace said:

Also, Trump says Jared is a good person, so everyone lay off. 

 

No, Donnie, we will not 'lay off'. 

[formergothardite]

If Trump thinks you are a good person, well that is a huge sign you probably aren't a good person. 

[GreyhoundFan]

A good analysis: "The Daily 202: Jared Kushner represents new front in Trump's Russia tangle"

Spoiler

President Trump arrived back in Washington after his first overseas trip to find that the Russia tangle has made its way into the White House -- in the form of one of the president's closest aides: son-in-law Jared Kushner. Post reporters Ellen Nakashima, Adam Entous and Greg Miller dropped a Friday afternoon bombshell when they reported that Kushner and the seemingly omnipresent Sergey Kislyak -- Moscow's ambassador to the United States -- had talked about setting up a secret back-channel communication system with the Kremlin. According to U.S. officials briefed on intelligence reports, Kushner and Kislyak discussed using Russian diplomatic facilities to shield their conversations from our own country's intelligence apparatus. The move was unusual to say the least -- and it happened several weeks before Trump was inaugurated, so Kushner was acting as a private citizen.

The meeting was picked up by U.S. intelligence and is said to have occurred between Dec. 1 and 2 at Trump Tower. Another controversial figure was also there -- ousted Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, who is refusing to comply with a Senate subpoena demanding a list of his contacts with Russian officials between June 16, 2015, and Jan. 20, 2017. The Senate Intelligence Committee is deciding whether to hold him in contempt.

Until last week, it was Flynn and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort who seemed to be in the crosshairs of congressional investigators and the FBI, which is probing Russia's suspected meddling in the 2016 campaign and possible ties between Trump aides and Vladimir Putin. Manafort had already been sidelined before the campaign concluded, and Flynn was ousted in February after he was less than candid with Vice President Pence about his conversations with Kislyak. Manafort is taking a different approach to the congressional probes thus far, just last week he submitted 302 pages of documents related to Russia to the House and Senate intelligence panels.

But the Kushner situation is different for a number of key reasons.

First, the top White House official is Trump's son-in-law, married to the president's influential daughter Ivanka. Ivanka and Jared, and their children, moved down to Washington to help Trump run the government and the couple, who were by Trump's side during the campaign, are trusted advisers among the president's warring and competitive inner circle. Second, the report that Kushner is now a focus of the FBI probe into Russian interference in the election, brings the Justice Department investigation and recently appointed special counsel Robert Mueller into the inner sanctum of the White House.

That is dangerous territory for the president, who could more easily attribute any problems related to Russia to rogue aides like Flynn and Manafort who are no longer advising him. But severing the tie between himself and Jared -- whose broad portfolio includes Middle East peace and "innovation" -- will not be so easy.

There was a wealth of reporting on the first son-in-law over the weekend. Most of it suggested that Kushner was readying to fight the idea that he has done anything improper when it comes to Russia. John Wagner, Robert Costa and Ashley Parker reported the president was considering setting up a war room to more quickly combat the endless drip of Russia-related stories: "Kushner has played an active role in the effort to rethink and rearrange the communications team, improve the White House’s surrogate operation, and develop an internal group to respond to the influx of negative stories and revelations over the FBI’s Russia inquiry, said a person with knowledge of the coming changes." 

John, Bob and Ashley reported that Kushner's role "has emerged as a particularly sensitive topic of discussion ... Some White House aides have discreetly discussed among themselves whether Kushner should play a lesser role — or even take a leave — at least until the Russia-related issues calm." But here's the key line: "Those close to Kushner said he has no plans to take a reduced role, although people who have spoken to him say that he is increasingly weary of the nonstop frenzy."

The New York Times's Glenn Thrush, Maggie Haberman and Sharon LaFreniere reported that Kushner spent the last three days "in fretful seclusion" at his father-in-law's estate in Bedminister, N.J..: "But he emerged defiant and eager to defend his reputation in congressional hearings, according to two of his associates ... But in recent weeks, the Trump-Kushner relationship, the most stable partnership in an often unstable West Wing, is showing unmistakable signs of strain ... It has been duly noted in the White House that Mr. Trump, who feels that he has been ill served by his staff, has increasingly included Mr. Kushner when he dresses down aides and officials, a rarity earlier in his administration and during the campaign."

The NYT reports that the "most serious point of contention" was the pitch by Kushner's sister, Nicole Meyer, to Beijing investors regarding a Kushner Companies condo project in New Jersey. Meyer "dangled the availability of EB-5 visas to the United States as an enticement for Chinese financiers willing to spend $500,000 or more." In another key nugget, the reporters note that Stephen Bannon, Kushner's rival for Trump's attention, refers to Jared as "'the air,'” because he blows in and out of meetings leaving little trace, according to one senior Trump aide."

There has been lots of buzz about Trump bringing back some of his more controversial old hands. Last night, for instance:

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For some insight into how Kushner works, don't miss Michael Kranish's and Jonathan O'Connell's revealing piece on how Trump's son-in-law was playing hardball way before he moved to Washington. Michael and Jonathan explain how Jared bought the New York Observer in 2006 after his father went to prison for federal tax evasion. Some former colleagues allege he aimed to use the paper to settle scores with business rivals. Kushner also took charge -- at the age of 25 -- of his father's real-estate business, paying $1.8 billion in 2007 for the country's most expensive office building. The timing was off -- the Great Recession was underway -- and the property's value plummeted to about half of what it was worth by 2010. Kushner played hardball with the investors -- one of whom was Trump friend Thomas Barrack Jr. Kushner ultimately made a deal to lower his debt and maintain majority ownership in building. Some lenders had hard feelings "but Kushner viewed it as a hardball business deal and showed that he was a tough negotiator, according to an individual familiar with his perspective. Sources familiar with the arrangement said the Kushner family got back most of its $500 million investment."

Roll Call columnist Walter Shapiro had a blistering column in The Guardian: "Even under the benign theory that Kushner thought that a secret back channel was like a small boy’s tin-can telephone, his life in the coming months and maybe years will be a study in misery. He will probably spend more time with his personal lawyer, Clinton Justice Department veteran Jamie Gorelick, than with Ivanka or his children. Whether it is an appearance under oath on Capitol Hill or the inevitable FBI interview, every sentence Kushner utters will bring with it possible legal jeopardy."

To take his White House job, Kushner resigned from the family business but "kept stakes in about 90 percent of his real estate holdings, valued between $132 million and $407 million," which troubles some ethics experts.

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The NYT on Tuesday examined why Kushner met in mid-December with Russian banker Sergey N. Gorkov, a close Putin associate whose financial institution is under sanction by the U.S. government. U.S. officials now say the meeting "may have been part of an effort by Mr. Kushner to establish a direct line to Mr. Putin outside of established diplomatic channels," report Matthew Rosenberg, Mark Mazzetti and Maggie Haberman. More from their piece: "It is not clear whether Mr. Kushner saw the Russian banker as someone who could be repeatedly used as a go-between or whether the meeting with Mr. Gorkov was designed to establish a direct, secure communications line to Mr. Putin ... Yet one current and one former American official with knowledge of the continuing congressional and F.B.I. investigations said they were examining whether the channel was meant to remain open, and if there were other items on the meeting’s agenda, including lifting sanctions that the Obama administration had imposed on Russia in response to Moscow’s annexation of Crimea and its aggression in Ukraine."

So far, Trump is sticking by his son-in-law. John Kelly, the Homeland Security Department secretary, said on the Sunday shows that opening a back-channel with Russia was a "good thing:" “It’s both normal, in my opinion, and acceptable,” Kelly said on ABC News’s “This Week.” “Any way that you can communicate with people, particularly organizations that are maybe not particularly friendly to us is a good thing.” But others disagreed -- including ranking House Intelligence Democrat Adam Schiff (Calif.) who called forf Kushner's security clearance to be reviewed.

Trump released this statement to the Times: "Jared is doing a great job for the country. I have total confidence in him. He is respected by virtually everyone and is working on programs that will save our country billions of dollars. In addition to that, and perhaps more importantly, he is a very good person.”

And Trump called out the "fake news" media in a series of tweets on Sunday, though they didn't mention Kushner by name.

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Huge eyeroll at the last bolded statement. "Very good" people don't sneak around with Russian agents.

[onekidanddone]

43 minutes ago, GreyhoundFan said:

A good analysis: "The Daily 202: Jared Kushner represents new front in Trump's Russia tangle"

Huge eyeroll at the last bolded statement. "Very good" people don't sneak around with Russian agents.

Virtually everybody.. but not everybody. So who is he leaving out?

[fraurosena]

27 minutes ago, onekidanddone said:

Virtually everybody.. but not everybody. So who is he leaving out?

Good catch! Very telling. Let me see... could it be... Steve Bannon? 

As to the rest of the statement... I distinctly remember him saying virtually the same things about Mike Flynn. 

[onekidanddone]

2 minutes ago, fraurosena said:

Good catch! Very telling. Let me see... could it be... Steve Bannon? 

As to the rest of the statement... I distinctly remember him saying virtually the same things about Mike Flynn. 

It is possible he doesn't know the meaning of 'Virtually'.

[fraurosena]

15 minutes ago, onekidanddone said:

It is possible he doesn't know the meaning of 'Virtually'.

LOL. His vocabulary is quite stunted, so you're probably right. 

[nvmbr02]

Everything this couple touches seems to be entangled with corrupt governments. 

Men probing Ivanka Trump brands in China arrested, missing

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SHANGHAI (AP) — A man investigating working conditions at a Chinese company that produces Ivanka Trump-brand shoes has been arrested and two others are missing, the arrested man’s wife and an advocacy group said Tuesday.

Hua Haifeng was accused of illegal surveillance, according to his wife, Deng Guilian, who said the police called her Tuesday afternoon. Deng said the caller told her she didn’t need to know the details, only that she would not be able to see, speak with or receive money from her husband, the family’s breadwinner.

China Labor Watch Executive Director Li Qiang said he lost contact with Hua Haifeng and the other two men, Li Zhao and Su Heng, over the weekend. By Tuesday, after dozens of unanswered calls, he had concluded: “They must be held either by the factory or the police to be unreachable.”

China Labor Watch, a New York-based nonprofit, was planning to publish a report next month alleging low pay, excessive overtime and the possible misuse of student interns. It is unclear whether the undercover investigative methods used by the advocacy group are legal in China.

For 17 years, China Labor Watch has investigated working conditions at suppliers to some of the world’s best-known companies, but Li said his work has never before attracted this level of scrutiny from China’s state security apparatus.

“Our plan was to investigate the factory to improve the labor situation,” Li said. “But now it has become more political.”

Walt Disney Co. stopped working with a toy maker in Shenzhen last year after the group exposed labor violations. China Labor Watch has also published reports on child labor at Samsung suppliers and spent years investigating Apple Inc.’s China factories. In the past, the worst thing Li feared was having investigators kicked out of a factory or face a short police detention.

That has changed.

The arrest and disappearances come amid a crackdown on perceived threats to the stability of China’s ruling Communist Party, particularly from sources with foreign ties such as China Labor Watch. Faced with rising labor unrest and a slowing economy, Beijing has also taken a stern approach to activism in southern China’s manufacturing belt and to human rights advocates generally, sparking a wave of critical reports about disappearances, public confessions, forced repatriation and torture in custody.

Another difference is the target of China Labor Watch’s investigation: a brand owned by the daughter of the president of the United States.

 

[onekidanddone]

44 minutes ago, nvmbr02 said:

Everything this couple touches seems to be entangled with corrupt governments. 

Men probing Ivanka Trump brands in China arrested, missing

 

Would not be at all surprised if TT people had a hand in this.  Maybe not TT himself, but his network of thugs probably casts a wide net.

[GreyhoundFan]

"Is Jared Kushner doomed?"

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The great thing about hiring family members: You can usually trust them more than others.

The really awful thing about hiring family members: You can’t fire them. Unless, of course, you’re Michael Corleone. Poor Fredo.

It’s no mere coincidence that “The Godfather” comes to mind when considering the nation’s first family and challenges therein. President Trump, like Vito Corleone, has surrounded himself with family members, especially daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, and for essentially the same reasons.

If you’re Donald Trump, whom can you really trust?

When you’re a real estate mogul from Queens and Manhattan, with enough questionable paper to keep a cadre of lawyers in chauffeured vehicles for life, you need the blood that binds as your innermost circle.

Hence, Ivanka and Jared, the latter of whom turns out to be the latest person of interest in the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign.

Thus far, it’s been reported that Kushner sought a back channel for communication with Russia, which isn’t unusual in itself, though generally the president would work through the State Department or U.S. intelligence agencies.

Kushner, who, despite rumors to the contrary, is actually not the president, supposedly discussed the back channel with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. This meeting reportedly took place at Trump Tower in early December last year, which means that Donald Trump wasn’t actually the president either.

Thus, Kushner was acting as a private citizen. Stranger still, Kushner and Kislyak apparently discussed using Russian diplomatic facilities so that even our own intelligence agencies would remain in the dark. Might we remind dear readers that U.S. intelligence agencies are the ones on our team? Russian operatives, decidedly, are not.

What was so sensitive that Kushner would need a private line to the Kremlin? Surely there’s a reasonable explanation; I just can’t think of one. The idea that Kushner is that naive is naive in itself. Besides, we’ve also learned that Michael Flynn, the now-ousted national security adviser, was also present in the meeting. Wouldn’t a retired three-star general have enough experience to know better — unless he endorsed the idea for purposes that remain unclear?

Another Kushner meeting — with a Russian banker and close friend of Russian President Vladi­mir Putin — has also raised flags. Meanwhile, millions are wondering: Who is that masked man, Jared Kushner — or “the air,” as Stephen K. Bannon reportedly refers to him because of his way of breezing in and out of meetings? And what are Kushner’s qualifications for negotiating with our greatest geopolitical foe?

Often called the shadow secretary of state, Kushner has been a shadow in nearly every way. This is to say, we know little about him other than that he seems savvy in the ways of the paparazzi. In photographs, he cuts a rather James-Bondian figure — invariably looking slightly askance, somewhat amused and ever-knowing.

He seems determined to remain an enigma even as he appears to be in charge of everything from the Nile to the Volga. Not only does he have security clearance, but he also receives his own private security briefings each morning.

There’s no question the young man is bright, maybe brilliant, though he did manage to buy the nation’s most expensive building just before the 2008 recession hit. On balance, he took over his family’s real estate business when he was just 25 and reportedly has been able to recoup most of the $500 million invested in the building, which plummeted to half its value during the financial crisis.

In my shallow moments, I confess to the guilty pleasure of watching Jared and Ivanka as one would Prince William and Duchess Kate. But then I remind myself that the United States is not currently a monarchy, though this might be preferable to, say, a thugocracy. Or worse.

At the center of the storm, always, are Trump and the many still-unanswered questions about his and his aides’ relationships with Putin and possible collusion during the 2016 campaign. Pertinent to those concerns, why all the secrecy? You don’t have to be a paranoid conspiracy theorist to be justifiably skeptical, if not suspicious.

Kushner surely deserves a chance to explain his actions before he’s indicted in the public square. Reportedly, he’s angry and eager to defend his reputation, but it may not be his that’s most at risk. As a senior adviser to the president, he has become a liability without family blood to protect him.

With Trump, as with the Corleones, loyalty is all. Without blood to bind him, what’s to prevent Kushner getting the boot? Under the circumstances, he might welcome an exit ramp, but he’d best steer clear of boat ramps.

<giggle, snort> "Fredo Kushner"...

[AmazonGrace]

Trump said he had confidence in Flynn and Comey before they got the boot and he said he has confidence in Spicer and supposedly his role is diminishing,  so that means virtually little to me. 

[GreyhoundFan]

"Kushner tries to pretend everything’s normal"

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There has been no rallying the troops in the White House, and no open acknowledgment from President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, that he has transformed from behind-the-scenes West Wing power broker to its lead distracting story.

Kushner led three meetings in the West Wing on Tuesday — and never once acknowledged the stories about him that have dominated cable news since last week, when it was reported that during the campaign he discussed setting up a secret communications back channel to Moscow.

For the first five months of Trump’s administration, Kushner has managed to stay out of Trump's line of fire, even as every other top West Wing aide has taken a turn on the outs with the president. As Trump has sought input from outside advisers on whom he should keep and whom he should can, Kushner seems to operate as a faculty member with tenure in an otherwise insecure work environment.

With his wife, Ivanka Trump, according to multiple White House sources, Kushner emerged from the holiday weekend intent on dismissing his increased public scrutiny in connection with the FBI’s ongoing Russia probe as nothing more than a public relations problem that will blow over — and act like his special status in the White House has not changed.

On his first full day back after the holiday weekend, Kushner led a meeting on veterans affairs, a meeting with his Office of American Innovation and a planning meeting on a “Tech Day” at the White House next month, when he hopes to gather tech leaders in Washington to discuss modernizing government services. Kushner also conducted a series of follow-up phone calls about Trump’s just-concluded overseas trip, a White House official said.

Ivanka Trump, White House sources said, was also working out of her West Wing office on Tuesday, conducting business as usual — which includes a weekly communications meeting in her office. (Kushner and his wife, who both serve as official government employees, have chosen to run their own press shop as a separate entity from the Sean Spicer-led operation down the hall, relying on their own aides to handle queries from reporters.)

The New York Times reported Sunday that Kushner and Ivanka Trump were battened down at the Trump golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, as aides explained that Kushner has not been contacted by the FBI to discuss his role in allegedly trying to set up a back channel with the Russians. His attorney, Jamie Gorelick, reiterated her client’s interest in sharing with Congress any information he has about his meetings with Russian officials. But on Tuesday, they were back to work.

At Thrive Capital, the venture capital firm co-founded by Kushner’s younger brother, Josh, employees have sometimes, over the years, been greeted with motivational Post-It notes on their computer monitors, reminding them to keep their “heads down. Stay focused. Ignore the noise,” even when confronted with good news.

If Kushner wanted to communicate to concerned White House officials that the game plan was to tune out the noise and keep on working, he was far less explicit about it.

That left some unease in the White House about who, exactly, was in charge. Early Tuesday, after weeks of rumors about a shakeup in the White House press shop, communications director Michael Dubke made his resignation public. But staff members believe a bigger staff shakeup is looming — The Washington Post reported over the weekend that Trump associates were discussing shipping off chief of staff Reince Priebus to serve as ambassador to Greece.

In his first press briefing in over a week, press secretary Sean Spicer did not deny that Kushner had tried to set up a back channel with the Russians. “Mr. Kushner’s attorney has said that Mr. Kushner has volunteered to share with Congress what he knows about these meetings,” Spicer said. “And he will do the same if he’s contacted in or — and connected with any other inquiry.”

When asked point blank whether the White House disputed the back channel reports, Spicer said that the question, posed by The Washington Post’s Phil Rucker, “presupposed facts that have not been confirmed.”

On Tuesday, Trump retweeted a Fox News story that downplayed Kushner’s relationship with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and reported that a permanent back channel was never discussed. That was the extent to which Trump himself has moved to defend his son-in-law, who was responsible for planning Trump’s successful visits to Saudi Arabia and Israel last week.

But the juxtaposition between his biggest hurdle arriving on the heels of his first measurable success in the White House isn’t new to Kushner. In his former office at 666 Fifth Avenue, the headquarters of his family real estate company, Kushner kept a framed photograph of the first page of Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities,” according to a 2008 profile of Kushner published in the now-defunct Portfolio Magazine.

“But when you think of this, you think, ‘It’s the best of times, it’s the worst of times,’” he said in the rare interview, referring to the first line of the Victorian novel. “But I love how we bought this building literally right after my father came out of prison, probably five, six months after. And the thought that I had was, ‘It’s kind of like the juxtaposition of going from the worst of times to the best of times.’”

He can keep acting like nothing is going on, but we know better.

[onekidanddone]

4 minutes ago, GreyhoundFan said:

"Kushner tries to pretend everything’s normal"

He can keep acting like nothing is going on, but we know better.

Maybe if he clicks his heals three times, crosses his fingers and wishes real hard we will go away.  Um sorry Jared, ignoring it won't make it stop. We all know you are a thug.

[GreyhoundFan]

Could Ivanka's "brand" managers be more tone deaf?  (said in Chandler Bing's voice) : "Popsicle tweet from Ivanka Trump's lifestyle brand gets icy reception". I can't copy all the tweets and images, they are worth a look.

Spoiler

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's daughter faced backlash after her lifestyle brand's Twitter account -- "IvankaTrumpHQ" -- gave what some considered an insensitive Memorial Day holiday tip.

"Make champagne popsicles this #MemorialDay," the tweet read, linking to a section on IvankaTrump.com which features a list of ideas for the holiday, described as the "Kickoff to Summer."

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Still, many mocked Trump for the popsicle tweet.

One meme, which many circulated on Twitter, featured text that reads: "Remember our sacrifice by making champagne popsicles."

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"You'd think that no one could be that utterly callous, right?" wrote one Twitter user. "But we're dealing with a Trump brat here."

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Others shared photos of their family members who served the US.

"My dad was a gunner in Vietnam and had to clean the blood of his dead friends out of the chopper. #NoChampagnePopsicles," wrote one Twitter user.

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The negative Twitter reactions come as Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, senior adviser to Trump, attempt to "keep their heads down," as CNN reported Monday, following news that the FBI is looking into the role Kushner held during the campaign and transition, including his contacts with Russian officials.

#NoChampagnePopsicles here either.

[SassyPants]

Kushner and Ivanka are currently Trump's firewall- that wall is breaking down.

[onekidanddone]

1 hour ago, GreyhoundFan said:

Could Ivanka's "brand" managers be more tone deaf?  (said in Chandler Bing's voice) : "Popsicle tweet from Ivanka Trump's lifestyle brand gets icy reception". I can't copy all the tweets and images, they are worth a look.

#NoChampagnePopsicles here either.

I agree it was tone deaf and self absorbed, but I'm thinking how is this different than all the sales for cars or lawn furniture on Memorial Day?  My answer is anything coming from that repulsive and repugnant family gets me all stabby.

[GreyhoundFan]

1 hour ago, onekidanddone said:

I agree it was tone deaf and self absorbed, but I'm thinking how is this different than all the sales for cars or lawn furniture on Memorial Day?  My answer is anything coming from that repulsive and repugnant family gets me all stabby.

Oh, I can't stand sales for Memorial Day, Veteran's Day, MLK Day, and President's Day. Unfortunately, it's all about getting the brand out there. I've been a Costco customer for many years and have always appreciated that they are closed on many of the federal holidays.