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Turns Out Jared Kushner Was Far Worse Than Any of Us Were Left to Believe (and We Already Knew He Was Horrible)

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Jared Kushner’s ears must surely be burning now that this article by novelist and journalist Greg Olear has hit social media. Shame Cometh: The Jared Kushner Story shreds his lineage and his reputation. Olear tells a different story about Kushner’s grandparents, writing that his grandmother “was a hero of the Jewish resistance” and his grandfather was a “great builder.”

But that heroism ended with Kushner’s power-mongering, criminal father, Olear notes, per Queerty.

Then Olear lists Jared’s “accomplishments,” making it abundantly clear that he followed in dear old dad’s footsteps. He describes Kushner as an “intellectually lazy” student whose SAT scores were “subpar.” Harvard University only accepted Kushner after a donation of millions of dollars by his father.

Olear then goes on to say Kushner’s marriage to Ivanka Trump was nothing more than a power grab.

“Certainly there was no discernible passion on the part of either party, and plenty of lurid rumors. The wife would later describe their first date as ‘the best deal we ever made,'” he writes.

And when Ivanka’s father, Donald Trump, ran for President on the Republican ticket in 2016, Jared left behind whatever shallow political morals he did have, in order to help his father-in-law win. Even to the point of illegal meetings with Russians and princes from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Once Trump was in office, Kushner became the “de facto ambassador to Saudi Arabia” Olear writes.

“He (Kushner) gave the Crown Prince classified intelligence—information about who in the Saudi royal family was loyal and who was not,” Olear notes, adding “After meeting with him, the Crown Prince initiated a purge of the royal family.”

“He lobbied for Saudi Arabia to be the first country his father-in-law would visit as president,” Olear writes. “Other presidents did not visit the Kingdom, because of the grotesque human rights abuses there. He didn’t care. The Saudis had money, lots of money, and he needed money, lots of money. And so his father-in-law made a state visit to the Kingdom.”

Olear also made the connection between Kushner and the murder of a “dissident journalist,” (his name is not mentioned, but this is almost certainly a reference to Jamal Khashoggi), who was murdered on October 2, 2018.

As if that isn’t bad enough, Olear also discusses Kushner’s work on issues ranging from the opioid crisis to the pandemic, characterizing it as a “catalog of failure.”

“During the early days of the pandemic, he set up a shadow task force to devise an appropriate response,” per the article. “When that task force gave him his recommendations—masks, contact tracing, federal coordination of supplies, etc.—he ignored them. The virus, he saw, was hitting the Blue States the hardest. It would help his father-in-law politically, he came to believe, if the pandemic continued to rage in those states. This way, his father-in-law could blame the governors of those states, who were all Democrats, for the escalating public health crisis, avoiding responsibility. So he decided to scuttle the plans given him by his own task force, and let the virus run amok.”

In other words, he allowed people to die to make his father-in-law look good. That’s a level of disgusting that is unimaginably low. Even by Trump family standards.

Folks on Twitter think so too.

Megan Hamilton
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Megan has lived in California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida and she currently lives in Central America. Living in these places has informed her writing on politics, science, and history. She is currently owned by 15 cats and 3 dogs and regularly owns Trump supporters when she has the opportunity. She can be found on Twitter at https://twitter.com/GaiaLibra and Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/politicalsaurus

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