He now serves on Trump’s transition team alongside his wife Ivanka and the President-elect’s two other adult children, Eric and Donald Jr.
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“People can play ignorant, blame the corrupt liberal media for trying to “get” Trump”, she wrote, “but it takes only a basic knowledge of world history or an understanding of how symbols work to see a wall of cash, a Star of David, and the accusation of corruption and not see the subtext”.
They split up – reportedly when his Orthodox Jewish parents expressed reservations about Ivanka Trump’s faith.
USA nepotism law shows public officials can not “appoint, employ, promote, advance, or advocate for appointment, employment, promotion, or advancement” their relatives into an agency which they are serving in or control.
Under a 1967 law enacted after former president John F. Kennedy installed his brother Robert as attorney-general, no public official can hire a family member – including one related by marriage – to an agency or office over which he has authority.
Not only had the elder Kushner admitted filing false tax returns and campaign finance reports, he also acknowledged hiring a prostitute to seduce his sister’s husband so the encounter could be filmed by private detectives in his employ.
With Christie’s approval, Wildstein joined the Port Authority of NY and New Jersey in 2010 – where Charles Kushner had served as a commissioner under McGreevey almost a decade earlier.
When President Bill Clinton appointed his wife to chair the Task Force on National Health Care Reform, a lobbying group filed a lawsuit in the D.C. courts. Smith claimed that his goal was to crack down on nepotism at “smaller post offices” and Congress, because when he arrived on Capitol hill in the early ’60s, “there were 50 members who had their wives on the payrolls”, as he told the newspaper.
In recent days, Donald Trump’s transition chief lost his responsibilities and standing.
The complicating factor for Trump is whether he would be willing to give up the business interests that are so intrinsically tied to his personal and political brand.
Past presidents have placed their assets in blind trusts, which are managed by independent trustees.
“If you were to come into government as a government employee, including on one of those presidential commissions, he would be subject to the criminal conflict of interest statute”, Painter said. They now have three picture-perfect young children. She also asked again for patience in allowing the Trump transition team to put an administration in place. But The Guardian suggests Kushner may have bypassed the traditional selection process to get into the coveted Ivy League school.
The former prime minister was spotted with the Republican president-elect’s son-in-law Jared Kushner in NY.
Weeks ahead of Election Day, Christie’s loyalty to Trump was called into question when he drifted from the campaign at perhaps its lowest ebb, when the “Access Hollywood” tape surfaced in which Trump bragged about groping women.
“Jared was raised by his father to be a person of effect”, he says.
But another source, a longtime Christie associate, cautioned that there was no “purge” of Christie staff, the team that began the transition months ago, and that such a characterization is “overblown”.
“Of course the President-elect is going to want his Vice-President-elect helping to build what the administration is going to look like and the only person on the planet other than President-elect who knows what that is is the Vice-President-elect”, Miller said.
While Trump says his children – who all sit on his transition team – will play no official administration role, he does plan to have them continue to run his businesses, which ethics watchdogs warn would pose too many potential risks of conflict.
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