Why Are Jared and Ivanka Partying in the Hamptons With Chuck Schumer?
Amy Wilentz on the international jet-setting class that transcends partisan politics.
By Jon Wiener
Jon Wiener: Jared Kushner has serious legal problems stemming from the Russia investigations, but they have not prevented him from going out.
Amy Wilentz: Jared and Ivanka went to a party given by Lally Weymouth on July 4th weekend in the Hamptons. Lally Weymouth is a socialite, but shes also the senior associate editor of The Washington Post, because of nepotism. Her mother was the editor and publisher of The Washington Post: Katherine Graham. Republicans were there: In addition to Ivanka and Jared, Kellyanne Conway, and David Koch of the Koch brothers. Also Dina Powell, the deputy national-security adviser in the Trump White House. On the other hand, Chuck Schumer was also there, along with top Democratic funders George Soros and Stephen Spielberg. Various members of the global financial community were also thereall at this party, sipping champagne together, side by sidemaking you wonder whos running the world.
JW: But we are told that the Democrats and Republicans have never been farther apart, that we have the most polarizing president in history, that theres been a complete breakdown of bipartisanship in Washington, DC.
AW: I call this sort of event biparty-san. This is the supra-national elite at work. I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist, and Im not one, but they do what they do because its in their interest. And their interests transcend the divisions in Congress. Theyre beyond patriotism and nationalism; theyre functioning in another world, a bigger world. The Trumps are a part of this because they run a real-estate conglomerate that has global interests. The Russian oligarchs are also part of this. Theyve known each other for a long time. A person like Natalia Veselnitskaya, the lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. and the rest of the crew, is attached to many of these influential supra-national figures in Russia. I think thats why Don Jr., having grown up in that kind of world, doesnt even understand what it means to have Russians offer you a thing of value like information on Hillary Clinton.
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Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)still_one
(91,963 posts)teaches journalism at UCI, so she now wants to engage in National Enquirer bullshit.
You know I have heard that both Democrats and republicans actually frequent the same places when they are in Washington
Aghast!!!
I am sure glad that there isn't anything else going on that concerns folks as important as this
The Wielding Truth
(11,411 posts)Seems to be fair minded in her editing. Although this group all partying together does hit a nerve.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/02/playbook-lally-weymouth-party-spotted-240194
Brother Don Graham did a big tribute to toast Lally (whose birthday is tomorrow) and shouted out Steven Spielberg's upcoming film about how Ben Bradlee and Katharine Graham challenged the government for the right to publish the Pentagon Papers in 1971
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Whole year because they knew exactly what it means.
But report whatever you want to sow division I guess. Pretend that being a sanctimonious prick who never gets out into the world is helpful somehow. Now publish lots of funeral and charity event pics to prove how evil everyone is. Print pics of Bernie hugging Mc Caine.