This F*cking Guy: Jared Kushner
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🗓️ 7 June 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In our 41st episode of This F*cking Guy, Erin and Alyssa dive deep into the past of the Dumb-a** Daddy’s Boy, Jared Kushner. From slithering into the top Ivy League with help from his corrupt father, to being one of NYC’s most soulless slumlords, to his abhorrent handling of COVID and his Middle East meddling under his father-in-law, this may be one of our more notorious nepo-baby guys yet.
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For Kushner, Israel Policy May Be Shaped by the Personal (NYT)
Jared Kushner’s Mysterious Role in the Trump Administration (The Atlantic)
Epstein Files (DOJ)
Jim McGreevey and His Main Man (NY Mag)
Jared Kushner May Profit From Expanded Israeli Settlements (Jacobin)
Jared Kushner says Gaza’s ‘waterfront property could be very valuable’ (The Guardian)
Jared Kushner’s Psychopathic Incompetence (The New Republic)
“That’s Their Problem”: How Jared Kushner Let the Markets Decide America’s COVID-19 Fate (Vanity Fair)
Five Reasons Why the Abraham Accords Are Ceding Ground to Arab-Iranian De-escalation (Baker Institute)
Jared Kushner’s Grandmother Bemoaned the “Closed Doors” That Faced Refugees to America (Pro Publica)
Jared Kushner’s ‘Breaking History’ Is a Soulless and Very Selective Memoir (NYT)
Why Did Cory Booker Vote to Confirm Jared Kushner’s Dad? (The New Republican)
I worked for Jared Kushner. He’s the wrong businessman to reinvent government. (The Washington Post)
Ivanka Trump Marries Jared Kushner in Lavish Ceremony (People)
Kushner properties accused of illegally inflating rent (CBS News)
AP Report: Kushner Companies regularly filed false documents with NYC (KSL)
Kushner Companies Lied About Rent Stabilized Tenants on 30th Ave, 38th St Properties (QNS)
The group of Kushner Villages tenants says the properties’ fire sprinklers don’t even work. (Legal Reader)
Kushner Cos. fined $210K by New York for false documents (AP News)
Port’s New Head, Sued by Brother, Faces an Inquiry (Observer)
How Jared Kushner’s Bold Bets In The Middle East Made Him A Billionaire (Forbes)
Jared Kushner’s Net Worth Surges as He Joins Exclusive Club With Trump (Newsweek)
Jared Kushner is back – and so are big questions about his financial ties (The Guardian)
Jared Kushner Solicits Funds for His Firm While Working as Mideast Envoy (The New York Times)
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner walked into the White House with troubled finances but left with millions (INews)
Newly Released Transcript Shows Jared Kushner Misled Congress About a Contact Involving Russia (Mother Jones)
The Hill: Dem rep: Kushner ‘lied’, should be investigated (lieu.house)
Kushner ties to Russia questioned as Trump blasts media lies (MPRnews)
Did Jared Kushner Help Russia Hack the Election With Fake News? Trump Son-in-Law’s Digital Operation Under Investigation (Newsweek)
Jared Kushner lied to NYC because he could get away with it (cityandstateny)
Jared Kushner’s Firm to Pay $3.25M for Deceiving & Cheating Tenants in Baltimore’s “Kushnerville” (Democracy Now)
People Are Talking (Again) About How Jared Kushner Got Into Harvard (Vogue)
Trump White House had a secret crypto booster in Jared Kushner, new Mnuchin file dump shows (CNBC)
Report: Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Made Their Secret Service Detail Go to Extreme Lengths “to Find a Bathroom” (Vanity Fair)
Secret Service spent more than $16,000 on Kushner’s UAE and Qatar trip. Both countries invested in his firm (Citizens For Ethics)
What Secret Service spent on Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump's Whistler trip (CBS News)
Kushner Deal in Serbia Follows Earlier Interest by Trump (The New York Times)
Jared Kushner 'admitted Donald Trump lies to his base because he thinks they're stupid' (Independent)
Jared Kushner once wanted Kanye West to lead a ‘healing church service’ at the White House (Forward)
Political Contributor and Developer Charles Kushner Sentenced to Maximum 24 Months for Witness Retaliation and Other Crimes (Justice.gov)
Trump Pardons Jared Kushner’s Dad, Who Paid a Prostitute to Seduce His Brother-in-Law (People)
Trump chooses Jared Kushner's father for ambassador to France (BBC)
U.S. Ambassador Charles Kushner banned from meeting with French government over summons no-show (NBC News)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of This Fucking Guy, the show where we spotlight one fucking guy making America worse and explain why they suck. |
| 0:07.1 | I'm Aaron Ryan, host of Crooked Media's hysteria podcast. |
| 0:10.5 | And I'm Alyssa Master Monaco, the other host of Crooked Media's hysteria podcast. |
| 0:14.8 | Alyssa, have you ever wondered what would happen if a haunted doll were put in charge of the Middle Eastern peace process? |
| 0:20.7 | No, I can't say that I have. |
| 0:22.7 | Well, wonder no more. |
| 0:24.0 | I literally haven't been wondering. |
| 0:26.1 | Well, the answer is this episode's subject, Jared Kushner. |
| 0:29.3 | Okay. |
| 0:30.2 | In order to get the full Jared, we need to go back a bit further in his family history |
| 0:34.0 | than we normally do with fucking guys to two Jewish kids living in Eastern Poland |
| 0:38.4 | during World War II named Yoselle Berkowitz and Ray Kushner. |
| 0:42.6 | Eastern Poland was a bad place to be during World War II for pretty much everybody, but |
| 0:47.3 | especially for Jewish people. |
| 0:49.0 | Ray Kushner and her family escaped the Nazis by hand-digging tunnels from their occupied |
| 0:53.5 | village into the woods where there |
| 0:55.6 | was a larger group of Jews living in holes to evade detection. One of the others was a young man named |
| 1:00.3 | Yoselle Berkowitz. Ray and Yoselle were married and Yoselle took his wife's last name because she came from a |
| 1:05.2 | higher status family than he did. How very modern. Yes, Jared Kushner's grandpa, the original feminist. |
| 1:11.7 | After Soviet troops liberated their village, Ray and Yoselle lived in a refugee camp while they waited to find out if any countries would let them in. |
| 1:18.7 | Writing for ProPublica, Alan Sloan dug up an interesting excerpt from an interview Ray Kushner gave in 1982, where she recalled how miserable the ordeal was for her family. |
| 1:29.0 | Quote, the day after we got married in Budapest, Hungary, we smuggled ourselves over the border |
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