Kushner $1.3 billion in debt.

[Cattledog]

Congressional investigators are seeking to determine whether President Trump’s son-in-law was vulnerable to Russian influence during and after the campaign because of financial stress facing his family firm’s signature real estate holding – a Manhattan skyscraper purchased at the height of the real estate boom.

And they are focused, officials told ABC News, on a December meeting Jared Kushner held with executives from a Russian bank.

“It's very peculiar that of all the people he could be talking to in a transition period where you've got lots of balls in the air, that you end up talking to a Russian banker who is under sanction and who is related to Putin and has a KGB background,” said Rep. Jackie Speier, a California Democrat who sits on the House Intelligence Committee. “I think the question has to be asked, was this about you trying to get financing for your troubled real estate that you have in New York City?”

The timing of Kushner’s December meeting with executives from VneshEconomBank, or VEB, at the suggestion of the Russian ambassador, has also raised concerns from government watchdog groups across the political spectrum.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/lawmakers-looming-debt-leave-jared-kushner-vulnerable-russian/story?id=47780422

[Achilleaze]

1. republicans selling out America for money from the evil empire* of russia

while russia perpetrates Acts of War** on the USA.

Treason. Treason most foul.

* per ronald reagan
** per dick cheney

[nocalflea]

2. Both inept and corrupt. Ivanka's ideal man.

[onetexan]

9. they're birds of a feather

people tend to gravitate towards their own kind

[nocalflea]

11. Just like daddy.

[NCjack]

3. Kush is a desperado. nt

[KG]

4. like i tell people, trumps wealth is a veneer. he's into the russians for a bunch of dough.

[Wounded Bear]

18. I've been saying this for a while...

follow the money, or in this case the debts. Trump is dirty and he's in deep.

[Iplayoneontv]

35. Oh and this guy

At minimum, Trump owes $750 million to trackable sources. We have no idea what else he owes. His net worth is maybe two billion. A nice estimate is 50 percent liability.

Krushner is paying for that building with money he's stealing from working class people helped by Chinese and Russian investment. The loan was already restructured. It's going to fail. Kushner is worth a few hundred million. That company is going to crash.

[LS_Editor]

5. He's the one who will flip on Trump.

[CrispyQ]

34. I would love that!

[canetoad]

6. Two questions:

1) Is tRump (Bannon) throwing Kushner under the bus to save his own skin?
2) Push come to shove, which one would Ivanka side with?

[Lars39]

8. 3) Why do we think Ivanka's hands are clean?

[canetoad]

10. Naaah

Ivanka black-hands.

[Lars39]

12. I think so too.

All those meetings...

[Wounded Bear]

19. I don't think any of them are clean...

It's a crime family.

[DemoTex]

23. Ivanka's hands are as clean as Lady Macbeth's.

[Lars39]

27. Yep

Shakespeare (or whoever is the current writer for him) would be having a time writing all this.

[Buckeyeblue]

7. If Kushner has this much debt

So does 45. Maybe even more...

[BumRushDaShow]

13. Yuppers

http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/05/news/wall-street-journal-trump-business/
http://fortune.com/2016/03/23/donald-trump-debt/

[Ilsa]

21. That's over half a billion dollars.

I bet there is more to less savory characters and unknown unstitutions.

[BumRushDaShow]

22. Yup

the WSJ only listed what they know about from mainly U.S. banks. And then there is Russia!

[Buckeyeblue]

25. Off the books debt

I'm not a tax expert. Should off the books debt be considered as income, much like a large gift of money? If so, could there be a tax evasion case? Or would the feds be more apt to consider this as money laundering?

[BumRushDaShow]

28. He appears to have had that too

But I think what has happened with him is that what he was doing was so obfuscated that regulators (notably in NYC) probably couldn't keep up. They would probably need a whole unit devoted to delving into his empire of financial insanity in order to pluck out the most egregious stuff.

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/10/donald-trump-financial-troubles-taxes-1990s

I suppose now with having Mueller do an investigation (who brought on a fraud specialist), maybe some of that will eventually be done.

[George II]

31. Not to mention the $600 million he owes to the Bank of China.

[BumRushDaShow]

32. And

debt apparently covered by liens on his various properties.

[Iplayoneontv]

36. Some poor guy has been trying to track that in Google drive

I gave up trying to read it. Trump seems to have a thousand LLCs. It's insane. I mean I could see a hundred or so but he's clearly passing debts around.

[BumRushDaShow]

37. He apparently has quite a bit of debt

tied up in collateralized debt obligations that investors own.

[dubyadiprecession]

14. The Trump crime family has many moving parts.

[L. Coyote]

20. and one script writer, the cabo.

[onecent]

15. So he's calling the top republican to get him off the hook.

Lock the guy up...I've tried liking him and Ivanka, but...this is a horrendous amount of money.

Guess he's not getting enough problem-solving-tips for the big orange guy.

AND i DID NOT VOTE FOR DUMP!!!

[Soxfan58]

16. I want a man, just like the man

Who married dear old mom...Then cheated on her!!!!!!!

[Barack_America]

17. More likely convo was about sanctions...

Obviously with some financial benefit to Kushner, but perhaps not through that bank.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2017/05/31/why_did_jared_kushner_meet_with_the_russians.html

[alfredo]

24. Debt is a security risk. Pull his clearance.

[underpants]

26. Make close to a BILLION DOLLARS...through it right make on the table on one bet

One building. Not several to spread out the risk. One building. And now fees are starting to kick in on top of the 6.35% rate he got.

[catbyte]

29. This just reeks. Can you imagine he uproar if Chelsea's husband had shady dealings with

a Russian bank under U.S. sanctions? By their silence, the entire Republican party is complicit in treason against the United States of America.

[DK504]

30. " ...you end up talking to a Russian banker who is under sanction ..."

That alone shows he needs to go, his security clearance stripped and the building seized.

[Warpy]

33. Not surprised. He took a major bath on that white elephant hotel/condo

complex in Toronto, letting it go to a debt holder for about half what it cost to build. He's leveraged up to his menswear mannequin eyebrows on everything he "owns" and debt holders are starting to wonder if he's ever going to cough up. He's skipping maintenance to try to raise fast cash and gaining a reputation as a slumlord in the process, even though none of his properties were slums when he bought them.

He, like his daddy in law, is in grave danger of dying broke.

[WinkyDink]

38. "...was this about you trying to get financing....?" D.U.H. Putin and Co. likely financed Trump's

ENTIRE CAMPAIGN, JUST SO THAT Trump could get his immense debt forgiven (hey, the break-up of NATO is a pretty good quo) and Kushner could pay for his white elephant of 666 5th Ave.

EVERYTHING ELSE IS DETERMINED BY RYAN, PENCE, MCCONNELL, MULVANEY, AND BANNON: the AHCA; the draconian budget; the Paris Accord decision; etc.

Trump doesn't want to govern; he's far too ignorant, indifferent, lazy, and unpatriotic to deal with being a real President.

He wants MOST to NOT DIE over the $$$$$$$$$ debt he owes Putin!

[Scurrilous]

39. K&R