The Kushners Add to Conflicts of Interest
By Timothy L. O'Brien
May 8, 2017, 7:00 AM EDT
On Saturday, Jared Kushners sister was in the ballroom of a Beijing hotel busily promoting her familys U.S. real estate projects to Chinese investors. She did so with aplomb: A photograph of President Trump adorned a large screen at the front of the room, noting that the president is a key decision maker on a federal program the Kushners were taking advantage of to court foreign investors ...
Guards can keep reporters at bay from time to time, but the Kushners -- and the entire Trump clan -- have done a poor job masking the raw financial conflicts of interest that have shadowed the White House and the two families business dealings. Meyers fundraising is only the latest reminder that neither family appears to be very concerned about the propriety of openly embroidering financial wheeling and dealing with nods to the significant policymaking power they also wield in Washington ...
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