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Jared Kushner's Apartment Complex A Rat Infested Shithole
Last weekend, responding to House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings's interrogation of Trump's acting head of Homeland Security, Donald Trump tweeted that the Democratic Maryland congressman should first deal with Baltimore, a "disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess," before asking questions about the administration's child detention camps.
On Monday, Trump renewed his attack on Cummings and roped in "the squad," four minority congresswomen who Trump has previously said should "go back" to their own countries. He called Cummings a "racist" and contended that Democrats always play "the race card." Then he tweeted, "If the Democrats are going to defend the Radical Left 'Squad' and King Elijah’s Baltimore Fail, it will be a long road to 2020."
Trump, of course, never applies the same kind of criticism to his own party, ignoring the fact that five of the poorest and hungriest states in the country—Arkansas, Alabama, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Mississippi—are under total Republican control, with GOP governors and GOP-dominated state houses. But the irony of Trump's use of Baltimore as a cudgel is that some of the blame for living conditions in some parts of the city can be laid at the feet of real estate developers like him. In fact, one in particular is directly related to the president: his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
According to The Baltimore Sun, the Kushner family company owned more than 9,000 rental units in 17 complexes in Maryland—many of them in Baltimore County—even before it purchased an additional 6,000 in Virginia and Maryland in February of this year. Kushner himself has temporarily divested from the company during his time as Trump's White House adviser, but he certainly stands to profit off of it when he leaves political life. As The Washington Post reports, the properties generate about $90 million a year in revenue, and in 2017 they racked up an accumulated 200 code violations in 12 months. Local officials told the Post that most repairs weren't made until the county threatened fines, and even then violations at nine properties were never addressed.
https://www.gq.com/story/jared-kushner-family-mice-infested-baltimore-apartments
On Monday, Trump renewed his attack on Cummings and roped in "the squad," four minority congresswomen who Trump has previously said should "go back" to their own countries. He called Cummings a "racist" and contended that Democrats always play "the race card." Then he tweeted, "If the Democrats are going to defend the Radical Left 'Squad' and King Elijah’s Baltimore Fail, it will be a long road to 2020."
Trump, of course, never applies the same kind of criticism to his own party, ignoring the fact that five of the poorest and hungriest states in the country—Arkansas, Alabama, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Mississippi—are under total Republican control, with GOP governors and GOP-dominated state houses. But the irony of Trump's use of Baltimore as a cudgel is that some of the blame for living conditions in some parts of the city can be laid at the feet of real estate developers like him. In fact, one in particular is directly related to the president: his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
According to The Baltimore Sun, the Kushner family company owned more than 9,000 rental units in 17 complexes in Maryland—many of them in Baltimore County—even before it purchased an additional 6,000 in Virginia and Maryland in February of this year. Kushner himself has temporarily divested from the company during his time as Trump's White House adviser, but he certainly stands to profit off of it when he leaves political life. As The Washington Post reports, the properties generate about $90 million a year in revenue, and in 2017 they racked up an accumulated 200 code violations in 12 months. Local officials told the Post that most repairs weren't made until the county threatened fines, and even then violations at nine properties were never addressed.
https://www.gq.com/story/jared-kushner-family-mice-infested-baltimore-apartments
And Chump is asking for this guy's opinion on how to handle the virus? In the words of Ed Helms from The Hangover: "we are so fucked."
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