charges are falsifying business records to hide #HushMoney payments in lead up to 2016 election to #influence electorate
just one Trump supporter at the courthouse draped in a Trump flag.
#StormyDaniels's lawyer, #KeithDavidson, to return to stand. He negotiated the hush-money payment at the center of the case, & is expected to lay out details of the deal.
#HopeHicks re the email to #JaredKushner:
she said, bc of Kushner’s good relationship w/ #RupertMurdoch — who owned the WSJ— maybe he could “buy a little extra time to deal with this.” Kushner responded that “he wasn’t going to be able to reach Rupert & we should just work on responding & dealing with it.”
The first question asked in the email: “Did Mr. #Trump have an extramarital affair w/ #KarenMcDougal?”
👀👀I’m hearing the “Jaws” theme in my head. 🧵 1/...
#JaredKushner has reportedly testified recently before the #Jan6 grand jury about #Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, the NYT reports #JackSmith
#Trump’s son-in-law said he was close to finalizing real estate projects in the two #Balkan nations, an example of the Trump family’s pursuit of deals abroad as the former president seeks the White House.
"Twenty-twenty-three was a year in which the former President of the United States was indicted—not once, not twice, not thrice, but four times. This did not stop the neo-reactionary fringe from wanting to crown him king. Jared Kushner continued to face zero consequences for his catastrophic pandemic response, his new gig managing Saudi billions, or his sad attempt at Middle East diplomacy."
Exclusive: #JaredKushner pitching donors on father-in-law #Trump, sources say
Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has been making calls to encourage donors to attend a Trump fundraiser in NY, 2 sources told @Reuters, in one of the first indications of #Kushner working to help re-elect his father-in-law.
A fmr WH adviser to #Trump 🤣, Kushner stepped away from politics after Trump's term ended in 2021 & founded Miami-based private equity firm Affinity Partners.
"The essence of authoritarianism is getting away with crime, and corruption must be at the center of any analysis of how dictatorships operate. A large percentage of actions authoritarians take are about covering up corruption:"
[Gifted link. NYTimes]: Kushner Developing Deals Overseas Even as His Father-in-Law Runs for President
Donald Trump’s son-in-law, who was also a senior White House official, said he was close to finalizing real estate projects in Albania and Serbia. By Eric Lipton, Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman
This past week the Serbian authorities and Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners signed a 99-year lease deal allowing Affinity to overhaul two buildings in Belgrade which had been the headquarters of the former Yugoslav People's Army.
The deals were first reported earlier this year but the contract was just signed.
Here's my story from April on the most recent annual filing by Kushner's firm
Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners investment firm filed a disclosure with minor updates and $50 million less in assets under management than the prior year.