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Looks like the Over-leveraged Jared will find someway to keep his All-Important Security-Exemption afterall. John Kelly, despite his sternly-worded (head-fake) memo, is now looking for a way to let Jared to keep doing his “important work” — all with-in The Trump-enterprise family …
WH trying to keep Kushner involved on sensitive issues without Trump's intervention
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Instead, aides have been searching for a solution that would allow Kushner to continue working on Middle East and China issues; not be viewed as violating Kelly's mandate that interim clearances be revoked; and avoid requiring Trump's personal intervention.
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After questions were raised whether the new clearance policy would affect Kushner, Kelly issued a statement this week saying he had "full confidence in (Kushner's) ability to continue performing his duties in his foreign policy portfolio including overseeing our Israeli-Palestinian peace effort and serving as an integral part of our relationship with Mexico."
"Everyone in the White House is grateful for these valuable contributions to furthering the President's agenda," Kelly said. "There is no truth to any suggestion otherwise."
And when it comes to “the Jared-exception”, White House Spokes-liar is fully on-board with this bait-and-switch, Security shake-up “nothing burger” too ...
Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner unaffected by security clearance crackdown, White House says
by Gregory Korte, CNBC — Feb 21, 2018
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"I can tell you that nothing that has taken place will affect the valuable work that Jared is doing," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Tuesday. "He continues, and will continue, to be a valued member of the team."
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The title of this post “How the Kushners will continue to ‘work on’ Middle East and China I$$ues,” was referring to a different Kushner, than you may have first thought of. You see like the Trumps, Jared comes from a Deep-debt Family too.
And the Kushners will go to any lengths too, to “shake-down” potential “donors” — to the tune of $400,000,000. And they are not adverse to using — a little “clout” from their Friends in High Places.
Jared Kushner-Qatar Redux: Robert Mueller Enters the Fray
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is probing senior White House aide Jared Kushner’s attempts to secure financing for a distressed Manhattan property after the 2016 election, including pitches made to investment firms from China and Qatar, several news outlets reported this week.
The attempt by Jared Kushner’s father Charles to secure funding from Qatar before and after Donald Trump’s election — up until the spring of 2017 — was first reported in July by The Intercept and later confirmed publicly by a Kushner Companies spokesperson.
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As The Intercept reported last July, Charles Kushner solicited funds from Qatar’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim, known as HBJ, who now runs the investment firm Al Mirqab Capital. The Qatari businessman pledged to provide Charles Kushner, then heading Kushner Companies in Jared’s place, with $500 million in capital provided Kushner was able to raise the rest of the multibillion-dollar refinancing elsewhere. Charles Kushner reportedly turned to China’s Anbang Insurance Group for an additional $400 million, but the holding company pulled out of the deal in March 2017 following conflict of interest claims. Left in the lurch, we now know that Jared Kushner just weeks later devised a plan with Saudi Arabia to form a coalition with the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Bahrain to jump Qatar, an unexpected move given the Qatari emir had joined Trump in Riyadh just weeks before the blockade started, where no issues were raised with Qatar about any of its policies or relationships.
Trump publicly took credit for the diplomatic attack on Qatar, and when Secretary of State Rex Tillerson tried to walk it back, Trump doubled down, issuing an additional aggressive statement that Tillerson would later say he suspected was the work of Kushner [...]
Like I said, this den of con-artists, really knows “how to work” an International room (because that’s where the Big Money Donors are). Clumsy Diplomatic Hammers on the world stage, can do wonders to get those fund-wire-transfers flowing.
Too bad for the cons though, not everyone is always ‘in on the Scam’ … as this just breaking scandal-news in China demonstrates …
China Regulator Seizes Anbang, Chairman Faces Fraud Prosecution
Bloomberg News — Feb 22, 2018
China’s government seized temporary control of Anbang Insurance Group Co. and will prosecute founder Wu Xiaohui for alleged fraud, cementing the downfall of a politically connected dealmaker whose aggressive global expansion came to symbolize the financial overreach of China’s debt-laden conglomerates.
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Then again, Anbang Insurance Group did leave the Kushners in a half-Trillion dollar “lurch” …
Perhaps this is just Payback — the result of ‘Kushners and Company’, convincing their Chinese contacts to “exact a cost” — when someone decides to go against the “Art of the Steal” ???
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How.would.we.know? ... Jared Kushner has that Top-secret-Exemption for a reason, afterall:
“To further the President's agenda ...” no matter what longtime American allies endup get stepped on and leaned on, in the process.
As dutiful Americans, we are expected to just sit back, and let the Kushners ‘wheel and deal’ (the country’s good will) away. It’s the new Trump-Kushner-Fire-Sale way …
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PS. Here is what any cursory “Background Check” should have revealed about the Kushners and their “Money Problems” — No wonder he can’t get “clearance” through normal means.
US News — Feb 18, 2018