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All That Kushner Money

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan talks to Jesse Drucker of The New York Times about the money coming into Kushner Co's hands (which Jared continues to have a significant stake in) from both foreign and domestic partners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Well, what we know is that he has been soliciting funds for this building at 666-5th Avenue

0:08.0

throughout the Middle East.

0:09.5

Jared Kushner would not have set foot in the Obama White House.

0:12.8

It's a relationship between Israel and America stronger than ever, and we really thank

0:17.4

Prime Minister Netanyahu for his leadership and his partnership.

0:24.6

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, I'm Virginia Heffernan.

0:27.4

So on Tuesday, two members of Congress, Elijah Cummings of Maryland and Roger Krishnamorthia

0:32.3

of Illinois, wrote a letter to the White House Council, Don McGann, asking for documents

0:36.9

from an internal probe into loans that the Kushner companies had received under peculiar

0:43.3

circumstances from city group and Apollo global management.

0:48.2

Those loans totaled more than $500 million.

0:52.2

That's hold on.

0:55.1

$5 billion.

0:57.0

Kushner may be doing bumpkiss for peace in the Middle East, but man, can that kid cleft?

1:02.6

David Apple, the Acting Director of the Office of Government Ethics, wrote a letter back

1:07.0

to the Congressperson saying that the White House had informed him that they had already

1:11.4

begun the process of determining whether Kushner broke any law or regulation in his interactions

1:17.3

with both firms.

1:19.2

Kushner's lawyer, Abby Loll, said on Tuesday in response that the White House had determined

1:24.8

that Kushner broke every moral and ethical and regular law known to man.

1:31.3

Oh no wait, I'm sorry, I have this wrong.

1:33.3

Abby Loll actually said Kushner, quote, did not break any rules.

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