It has been claimed that Jared Kushner masterminded the success of a seemingly impossible campaign. He was the rational voice behind an irrational man and sanitised Donald Trump so effectively, it has become almost fashionable to support him. His reward is a seat at the President’s right hand: senior White House adviser in the Trump administration. His first job included welcoming Boris Johnson and Shinzo Abe on recent visits to the US.
Back in 2003, Jared Kushner was still at Harvard. His billionaire father Charles Kushner had oiled the wheels, gifting the university $2.5 million, before being convicted on multiple counts of tax fraud, election violations and witness tampering. And this was all re-reported when the twenty five-year-old Kushner bought the New York Observer in 2006 from maverick publisher and financier Arthur Carter. He apparently financed the purchase from Charles Kushner-backed property deals, conducted on the side while he was at Harvard.
The Observer, published weekly in salmon pink, was the paper of New York’s power elite.
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