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Donald Trump Names Son-in-Law Jared Kushner as Senior Adviser

mbig said:
Divesting/selling everything has two problems I think.
1. He's emotionally involved in his lifelong pursuit. Though by the time he leaves office even after a single term, he'd have to think about it.
2. Hiring a trustee to liquidate would show that trustee, and eventually the planet, Trump's real Net worth. Which I suspect is not even half of the $10 Billion he claims. So on this second reason alone.. no way.
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I don't really think liquidating his holdings is a fair expectation. I didn't vote for him, but the country did and they knew all that. I do think he should get rid of some problem entities, like the DC hotel, because the conflicts there are just blinding - a Trump hotel in D.C. practically begs lobbyists, etc. to use the f'ing POTUS's hotel - and there is no way to mitigate them short of divesting of the asset. Same goes to at least some of his foreign holdings. AT LEAST he could stop doing new deals while POTUS and avoid crap like what happened with Argentina.

But I suspect it will be window dressing, his kids the close advisors will 'run' the business, we'll never see any tax returns, and the GOP will not give a crap about conflicts of interest until a democrat sits in the WH again, same as their concern over the awful deficit we're about to see them blow up with some huuuggge tax cuts with budget savings to be named later.
 
tres borrachos said:
Jared Kushner, the guy who's been a Democrat for his entire adult life, who donated dozens of thousands of dollars to Democratic candidates, who counts uber-Liberal Cory Booker as one of his closest friends. Yup, sounds about right.
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Just like his father in law. Nepotism seems to be cool these days.:confused:
 
Isn't there a law that says a wife does not have to testify against her husband?

I wonder what Trump has up his sleeve. What angle/loophole is he trying to work around now?
 
tres borrachos said:
Do lifelong Democrats tend to crush their fellow pathetic, whiny, snowflakey, mean spirited fellow Democrats?
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At this stage of the game, I don't think the Trump Administration cares. Erections have consequences.
 
Quazimodo said:
At this stage of the game, I don't think the Trump Administration cares. Erections have consequences.
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...and there is a certain political party that is going to feel the Johnson.....
 
Fletch said:
Trump probably has figured out that the left will be outraged no matter what he does or who he picks, so he might as well do what he wants.
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no worse than Slick Willy placing Hillary in charge of health care reform. This guy is far smarter than Hillary BTW
 
Hatuey said:
Here, let me help you:

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What positions has Mr. Kushner held that allow him to be a top adviser to a president?

Don't worry, I'll wait to hear about your VAST knowledge on a guy who you hadn't heard of a few months ago.
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What qualified Rahm Emanuel to be a senior advisor to a president?
 
TurtleDude said:
I suspect Janet Reno, Donna Shalala and Rachel Madcow will agree.
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Dem some ugly bitches yo.

Why you gotta go make a mental imprint like that on my brain right before I hit the hay? I'm gonna have freakin' nightmares now.
 
Captain America said:
Dem some ugly bitches yo.

Why you gotta go make a mental imprint like that on my brain right before I hit the hay? I'm gonna have freakin' nightmares now.
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Look at the good side-you won't wake up with sheets needing laundering-assuming you don't puke over the thought of Hillary and Madcow doing the nasty!
 
TurtleDude said:
Look at the good side-you won't wake up with sheets needing laundering-assuming you don't puke over the thought of Hillary and Madcow doing the nasty!
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I wonder if it's possible that all the democrap chicks on all those other lefty web sites are as fugly as Janet Reno and Hillary Clintoooon? At least Jared Kushner is "a fine, upstanding young man."
 
Quazimodo said:
I wonder if it's possible that all the democrap chicks on all those other lefty web sites are as fugly as Janet Reno and Hillary Clintoooon? At least Jared Kushner is "a fine, upstanding young man."
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I loved listening to the HIllaryHateful claiming Trump was ANTI SEMITIC!!
 
TurtleDude said:
I loved listening to the HIllaryHateful claiming Trump was ANTI SEMITIC!!
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More and more, it's looking like the "HillaryHateful" are just a bunch of fetid poltroons. They'd rather climb a tree and tell a lie than stand on the ground and tell the truth.
 
Grand Mal said:
Trump doesn't have to do any figuring at all to do what he wants. And whether the left is outraged or not doesn't matter. But why does the right condone this blatant nepotism? Why do you? What's that trust-fund baby bringing to the table that counters the perception of graft?
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I'm starting to think that what's more important to the Trumpeteers is "getting" the left. I hope that Trump someday decides that governing is more important than being a real life internet troll.
 
Quazimodo said:
I wonder if it's possible that all the democrap chicks on all those other lefty web sites are as fugly as Janet Reno and Hillary Clintoooon? At least Jared Kushner is "a fine, upstanding young man."
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Unlike conservatives (it would appear), the left doesn't judge everyone by looks. How you guys decided that orange looked good is beyond me.
 
rocket88 said:
I'm starting to think that what's more important to the Trumpeteers is "getting" the left. I hope that Trump someday decides that governing is more important than being a real life internet troll.
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Dreamer.
 
Quazimodo said:
Don't.......Stop!.....don't.......stop......don't stop, don't stop, don't stop, YES, YES, YES, YESSSSSSS!
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We all know that you have homoerotic fantasies about Obama. Geez...
 
rocket88 said:
I'm starting to think that what's more important to the Trumpeteers is "getting" the left. I hope that Trump someday decides that governing is more important than being a real life internet troll.
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I'm hoping that his leash is so short there's a new acronym to describe him- PINO. He might well succeed in turning the presidency into a figurehead position.
 
JasperL said:
Right, he's incredibly wealthy, and can work for "free." And I don't know about the legal issues, but whether he gets $100k or nothing doesn't affect the practical problems of conficts of interest or nepotism at all. Might be a loophole to get around them but the issues are still there. I can't imagine many up and coming business types would turn down a couple of years in the WH for no pay if they got to keep their companies and turn over management for a little while. What better way to push policies that advance YOUR economic interests can there be, really?

And that informal or even formal advice from family or outsiders doesn't come with security clearance and being able sit in on meeting with world leaders, etc. But as I have said, I'm indifferent about him being named advisor. We will see what a government run by $billionaires, comes up with, I guess. It'll be a pretty close to a real life experiment in plutocracy.
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It's an experiment to be sure and I mostly agree. I don't think the security clearance makes that great a difference to be honest - especially with family. Presumably a President knows what's in his family's best interest whether he has family acting as informal advisors or not.

As a side note I wonder how much the lack of a security clearance stops a President from talking shop with his wife or adult kids.
 
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