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How Jared Kushner Replaced Michael Cohen as Trumps National Enquirer Connection
The presidents son-in-law grew tight with David Pecker during the early months of the administration.
Asawin Suebsaeng,
Maxwell Tani,
Lloyd Grove
12.14.18 5:04 AM ET
Shortly after the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trumps son-in-law Jared Kushner was handed a task considered critical to the presidents operations. In addition to serving as a senior adviser in the White House, he would also be playing the role of the main conduit between Trump and his friend David Pecker, the National Enquirer publisher and chief executive of AMI, which prosecutors said on Wednesday admitted to making a $150,000 hush-money payment in concert with the Trump campaign.
During the early months of the Trump era, Kushner performed the task admirably, discussing with Pecker various issues over the phone, including everything from international relations to media gossip, according to four sources familiar with the situation. Pecker, for his part, bragged to people that he was speaking to the presidents son-in-law and, more generally, about the level of access he had to the upper echelons of the West Wing, two sources with knowledge of the relationship recounted.
The relationship underscored both the wide breadth of responsibilities that Kushner was given in the White Housea portfolio that saw him serve as a point person on some of the most critical government functions and as a chief protector of the Trump family imageas well as the degree to which Trump continued to value the relationships hed built up with key media figures during his time in New York real estate and reality TV.
Pecker, after all, was no bit player. He has been a valuable asset within Trumps orbit, at least until federal investigators came knocking. His ties to Trump began well before the president was elected into office. But before Kushner was his main conduit, that role was played by Michael Cohen, the presidents former attorney and fixer.
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How Jared Kushner Replaced Michael Cohen as Trump's National Enquirer Connection (Original Post)
babylonsister
Dec 2018
OP
The republican skuzz does not ooze far from the bigly republican skuzzbucket*
Achilleaze
Dec 2018
#1
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)1. The republican skuzz does not ooze far from the bigly republican skuzzbucket*
* metaphorical reference to the deceitful & ignoble
republican Draft-dodger-in-Chief
republican Draft-dodger-in-Chief
Maeve
(42,305 posts)2. I want to see Jared brought down with the rest of his chosen crime family
Then are dirtier than a pigpen (or Pigpen from Peanuts, take your pick)
Initech
(100,128 posts)3. What I find more disturbing is how much power that tabloid trash wields in this administration.
I don't know why we aren't exploring that angle more.
llmart
(15,565 posts)4. I really, really want to see this pinheaded jackass indicted.
We all know he's up to his eyeballs in corruption. "Senior Adviser" was just a title. The job he was given was to cover up the tracks leading to his corrupt father-in-law and to be head grifter for the family.
dalton99a
(81,671 posts)5. Jared Kushner belongs in prison.