Jared Kushner's Rise to Power: How the Son of a Scandalous Billionaire Became Trump's Man Behind the

[FarCenter]

New Jersey real estate mogul Charles Kushner had a rule for his four children when they were growing up – no jeans unless they were boarding a plane. “They had to maintain a certain look at all times, as if they were living in Camelot across the Hudson,” says a childhood friend who requested anonymity.

Years later, Kushner’s children – most notably Jared, who was 24 at the time – would get their chance to dress down, boarding many flights to Montgomery, Alabama, where the Jewish billionaire/philanthropist, famed Democratic donor and child of Holocaust survivors would spend 14 months of a two-year sentence in a federal prison from May 2005 through July 2006. He had been convicted of 18 felony counts for tax fraud, witness tampering and illegal campaign donations.

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[MADem]

1. Creepy as hell....

“Like father, like son,” says the childhood friend. “It didn’t surprise me in the least. What is shocking is that he’s on the verge of becoming the de facto president of the United States. I never would have imagined that – not in a million years.”
Indeed, as the poker-faced Kushner segues from his multimillion-dollar Park Avenue co-op to the White House, many even in his own Upper East Side bubble are wondering who he really is.
When his wife Ivanka Trump famously underwent her conversion process to Judaism, shul goers at the Kehilath Jeshurun synagogue would gawk as the leggy glamazon, a “shiksa goddess” trophy wife for the shy son of a disgraced macher, would sashay her way into services and lessons. Jared and his wife are more social with power couples and moguls outside the school – Barry Diller and Diane Von Furstenberg, Barbara Walters, Rupert Murdoch and his ex Wendi Deng, who famously reunited them after Ivanka broke off the relationship, sore that Jared didn’t stand up to his father who insisted she convert to Judaism, according to The New Yorker.
To Deng, Ivanka was the perfect match for Kushner, another child of privilege whose father made his fortune in real estate, who withstood family scandal, in her case when she was only 8 years old, went on to graduate from an Ivy League school, rising above the fray and joining the family business, ever-loyal to her father and sporting an impervious, near flawless façade, which she’s since parlayed into a fashion label, all-too-happy to market on the campaign trail. Always measured in her words like her husband, Ivanka was dubbed “the greatest enigma of 2016” in a Huffington Post profile that gave a nod to her “marketing genius,” though one can see Jared’s influence here, too. The master strategist deployed Trump’s greatest asset – his daughter – to offset his greatest handicap: women.


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[underpants]

2. I find it hilarious that he leapfrogged the Children of the Corn to be Trump's favorite

and that includes Ivanka. Damn, their own father completely brushed them off for this guy.