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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Nov 28, 2016, 02:16 PM Nov 2016

For Trump son-in-law and confidant Jared Kushner, a long history of fierce loyalty

Jared Kushner was just an undergrad at Harvard when politicians began receiving big-dollar campaign donations bearing his name.

In reality, the money was sent by his father, a powerful New Jersey real estate mogul. Over the course of several years, Charles Kushner pumped half a million dollars into political campaigns, avoiding legal limits by attributing checks to family members and business associates without their knowledge. The scheme sent the elder Kushner to prison and engulfed the family in scandal.

It was a defining and pivotal episode for Jared Kushner, now 35, who is poised to become one of the most trusted advisers to his father-in-law, President-elect Donald Trump.

The donation scandal provides a glimpse of the privilege and influence that marked Kushner’s upbringing in a prominent family. But friends say it also reveals in Kushner a fundamental trait that Trump prizes and has strengthened their bond: unflinching loyalty.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-fathers-scandal-the-genesis-of-jared-kushners-unflinching-loyalty/2016/11/27/1e9497ba-b378-11e6-840f-e3ebab6bcdd3_story.html?wpisrc=al_alert-COMBO-politics%252Bnation

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For Trump son-in-law and confidant Jared Kushner, a long history of fierce loyalty (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2016 OP
I think it's hilarious that Jared leapfrogged the Children of the Corn underpants Nov 2016 #1
the golden rule: he who has the gold rules all supplicants nt msongs Nov 2016 #2

underpants

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1. I think it's hilarious that Jared leapfrogged the Children of the Corn
Mon Nov 28, 2016, 03:36 PM
Nov 2016

in his influence on Trump. That includes Ivanka too. Trump openly sides with Jared - whose only talent appears to be being rich - over his own sons.

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