President-elect Donald Trump tapped his son-in-law Jared Kushner’s dad, Charles Kushner, as the incoming ambassador to France on Saturday—a key role in managing the fraught relationship between Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron. Kushner, an infamous figure in New Jersey, is a wealthy real estate executive who was convicted and imprisoned in 2005 after pleading … Read more
Billionaire venture capitalist and Trump in-law Josh Kushner slapped down online criticism of a tech executive who visited Israel and posted an image of the Tel Aviv beachfront on social media. Kushner, the brother of President-elect Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, took to the social media platform X on Wednesday to defend Patrick Collison, the … Read more
Donald Trump’s imminent return to the White House was not the surprise it was when he won his first term, Chinese officials have said, and this time, policy strategy and contingencies have been planned well in advance. When Trump won the 2016 US presidential election, Beijing, like the rest of world, was caught off guard … Read more
Jared Kushner, son-in-law of former US President Donald Trump, has discussed US-Saudi diplomatic negotiations involving Israel with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman multiple times since leaving the Trump White House, said a source familiar with the discussions. The source did not identify when the talks took place and whether they occurred before … Read more
Ivanka Trump’s daughter Arabella’s heart-shaped 13th birthday cake had four layers, but from a cultural anthropologist’s point of view, the questions and conversation it raises are so much more layered than that, involving Taylor Swift, Kim Kardashian, and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Ivanka, daughter of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, shared photos of the sweet … Read more
Ivanka Trump is set to return to the national stage. According to her spokesperson and two sources close to the Trump campaign, Donald Trump’s eldest daughter is planning to attend next week’s 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee to personally show support for her father. The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for … Read more
Journalists were not granted access to the official signing of the document between Vesić and Asher Abehsera, a longtime Kushner associate who represented Affinity Partners in Belgrade. Instead, a press release and one photograph of the signing were published on the ministry website. This was despite promises from Vesić before the signing that the process … Read more
After Donald Trump incited a bloody insurrection in an attempt to stay in power, Jared Kushner let it be known that he totally had not supported such efforts,* that he knew Trump had lost, and that he and Ivanka were “washing their hands of the Trump presidency” before it had even been officially called for … Read more
Since leaving the White House in 2021, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have gone to great lengths to rehab their images, which were literally in the toilet at the time of their departure. They’ve done so by generally pretending the previous four years never happened and specifically keeping their distance from Donald Trump—both on the … Read more
In 2017, on the eve of his inauguration, Donald Trump made a bold and unintentionally hilarious prediction: His son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was going to bring peace to the Middle East. “If [Jared] can’t produce peace in the Middle East, nobody can,” Trump said, adding, “All my life, I’ve been hearing that’s the toughest deal to make, … Read more
