It makes sense that a member of the Kushner family would look at ethics with a particularly jaundiced eye, but wow. Just wow.
From The Hill:
Charlie Kushner, the father of President Trump's adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner, said Friday that the ethics watchdogs scrutinizing his family's real estate business are "jerks" who "can't get a real job."
"Do you really want to know what I think about those jerks?" Charlie Kushner asked The Real Deal. "I think they're a waste of time. They're guys who can't get a real job, ethics watchdog? Who gets a job — ethics watchdog? Give me a break."
The wealthy investor dismissed concerns of ethics violations and conflicts of interest within his family business in an interview published Friday, calling recent probes into the Kushner Cos.' loans and financial records "nonsense."
"We have a lot of assets, a lot of net worth, and it’s intertangled with trusts, and kids and a lot of things. So no matter what we did, you know, no matter what we did, there would have been some kind of potential or perceived conflict," Charlie Kushner said. "We did the best we could."
This is a guy who (allegedly) leaned on Boy Kush to convince the orange Jell-O mold who thinks he’s in charge to fire James Comey — because the FBI director was getting too close to, well, God knows what.
Oh, and there was that bit about going to prison for filing false tax returns and campaign finance reports.
Oh, right. And there was that bit about trying to blackmail a witness in his trial — who just happened to be his brother-in-law — after setting him up with a prostitute and secretly videotaping the tryst. And, you know, then sending the tape to his own sister. Because why the hell wouldn’t he?
Of course he hates ethics watchdogs. How could he not? To a Kushner or a Trump, an ethical person is like an angry bee buzzing around in your car when you’re deathly allergic to bees. It has to get the f*ck out of there as soon as possible, or someone’s crashing the car into the river and drowning the rest of the country with him.
Ethics. Pffft.
They’re for us little people. You know, people with real jobs.
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