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Trump's son-in-law under fire from family
« on: July 07, 2016, 03:21:09 pm »
Trump's son-in-law under fire from family
Jared Kushner's family denounces his use of their Holocaust history to defend the GOP nominee against charges of anti-Semitism.


By ELI STOKOLS
07/07/16 10:45 AM EDT

Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s Jewish son-in-law and increasingly a power player atop his presidential campaign, was an obvious choice to publicly defend the candidate this week amidst a firestorm over a tweet that many viewed as anti-Semitic. But now he's under fire from his own relatives, who are angry he invoked their grandparents' story of survival during the Holocaust in an attempt to defend Trump.

The tweet, which Trump heartily defended during a rally in Cincinnati Wednesday night even after Kushner’s efforts to quell the uproar, featured an image of Hillary Clinton over a backdrop of dollar bills. Inside a red six-pointed Star of David, white text labeled Clinton the “most corrupt candidate ever.”


Kushner, Ivanka Trump's husband, attempted to defend his father-in-law from what the campaign says is a journalistic mob driven by political correctness. In a piece published Wednesday, Kushner revealed his grandparents' story of survival during World War II because, he wrote, “it’s important to me that people understand where I’m coming from when I report that I know the difference between actual, dangerous intolerance versus these labels that get tossed around in an effort to score political points.”

But Kushner’s relatives are angry about his decision to invoke their grandparents’ story as Holocaust survivors.

“I have a different take­away from my Grandparents' experience in the war,” Marc Kushner, a New York City-based architect and first cousin, wrote in a Facebook post Thursday morning with a link to his cousin’s Op-Ed. “It is our responsibility as the next generation to speak up against hate. [Sic] Anti­semitism or otherwise.”

He had also posted a link to another piece by Dana Schwartz, a Jewish woman who works for Jared Kushner at the New York Observer and who asked him point blank: “[H]ow do you allow this?”

Jacob Schulder, another cousin, went even further in a comment on Marc Kushner’s post, writing: “When an out of touch with reality nominee hires an out of touch with reality campaign manager, who is also a son­-in-­law, you get the BS Jared wrote. I don't think Trump is an anti­Semite; I think he's a lying idiot (among other things) with little to no experiences outside his teetering fiefdom of failed development projects, divorces, bankrupted sports leagues, fraudulent "Universities" and golf courses (and the list keeps going). The very first thing a responsible campaign manager should do, I'd think, and I mean the very first thing, would be to take away his father-­in­-law's Twitter account. Even Joseph Kushner would've had the street smarts to figure that one out while living on boiled potatoes in the forest.”

He continued: “That my grandparents have been dragged into this is a shame. Thank you Jared for using something sacred and special to the descendants of Joe and Rae Kushner to validate the sloppy manner in which you've handled this campaign. From the references to "Palestine" at the AIPAC conference (which got Donald jeered) to the justification of the itchy Twitter fingers your father­in­law has, you've managed to further prove what so many of us have known for many years. Kudos to you for having gone this far; no one expected this. But for the sake of the family name, which may have no meaning to you but still has meaning to others, please don't invoke our grandparents in vain just so you can sleep better at night. It is self serving and disgusting.”

This family spat is part of an ongoing family feud that dates back to the case that put Jared Kushner's father in jail, according to multiple sources.

Jared Kushner and the Trump campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/jared-kushner-family-trump-holocaust-225210#ixzz4Djj0aZn5
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« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2016, 03:22:19 pm »
Everyone Trump touches he turns into white trash.
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Re: Trump's son-in-law under fire from family
« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2016, 03:24:15 pm »
AS he he enters the halls of Putzdom.........
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« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2016, 03:32:10 pm »
http://observer.com/2016/07/an-open-letter-to-jared-kushner-from-one-of-your-jewish-employees/

An Open Letter to Jared Kushner, From One of Your Jewish Employees

By Dana Schwartz • 07/05/16 1:58pm

Dear Mr. Kushner,

My name is Dana Schwartz and I’m an entertainment writer at the Observer, the paper owned by your publishing company. On July 2, as I’m sure you’re aware (and have probably been wringing your hands about for the last three days), your father-in-law Donald Trump tweeted out an image of Hillary Clinton in front of raining money with a six-sided star declaring she’s the “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!."

I responded to the meme, calling out its blatant anti-Semitic imagery because people can play ignorant, blame the corrupt liberal media for trying to “get” Trump, but it takes only a basic knowledge of world history or an understanding of how symbols work to see a wall of cash, a Star of David, and the accusation of corruption and not see the subtext.

But deny or play dumb as you might, when I tweeted out my response, my worst fears were realized: his message, whether purposeful or inadvertent, was met with cheers by those to whom that star’s message was certainly clear. Mr. Trump’s tweet was seen as a winking promise to this nation’s worst and most hateful individuals.

Here are just a tiny sample size of the responses I received:  (Responses at link)

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A few hours later, Trump deleted the original image and re-tweeted it out, this time with the star crudely covered by a circle (the tips of the star still visible), and a new hashtag: #AmericaFirst. Forgive me if I condescend in any way or explain what you already know, but I’m sure you’ve been busy lately so just a quick refresher: America First was a movement led primarily by White supremacist Charles Lindbergh advocating against American intervention during World War II. The Anti-Defamation League has previously asked that Trump refrain from the slogan due to its overt anti-Semitic implications.


He and his campaign deny that the image—which had been found, previous to Trump’s tweet, on a white supremacist internet forum—has any Jewish implications at all. Instead of acknowledging the obvious, he and his campaign used it as an opportunity to undermine the free media in the style of the most dangerous regimes in history, and mock those like me, who had been getting strangers on the Internet telling her to put her head in the oven for the past day and a half.

Here are some of the excuses I’ve seen, both from Trump’s camp and Trump supporters:

“It’s available on Microsoft shapes.” There are a lot of symbols you can make on Microsoft Word, and sometimes symbols SYMBOLIZE ideas, concepts, or groups. A cross for instance. I feel silly explaining this to you. This explanation is so inane that I feel so condescending refuting it to you, ostensibly my boss, that it feels insubordinate.

“It’s a sheriff star.” Because users on the white supremacist forums where this image was found were no doubt implying Hillary is in the pocket of the sheriffs. You know, sheriffs. The group stereotypically associated with greed and money.

“He didn’t make it; he’s too busy to pay attention to everything he tweets out.” This is not an excuse for racism. Trump’s twitter account is seen by millions of people, and he is responsible for the message he’s sending to his supporters. Besides, Trump is running for president. Making mistakes because he wasn’t “paying attention” isn’t an excuse that qualifies him for the highest office
in the land in any way.

“It was an accident.” Then where is the apology?

These explanations are so facile, infantile in their blatant disregard for context or logic that I can only imagine them being delivered by someone doing so while grinning and winking.

And then there’s the final explanation, the one most frequently cited by Trump’s most “reasonable” supporters on the Internet:

“Trump has a Jewish son-in-law, and granddaughter: he can’t be anti-Semitic.”

Mr. Kushner, I invite you to look through all of those images in the slideshow above, the vast majority sent in your father-in-law’s name. Right now, this hate is directed to one of your employees, but the message applies equally to your wife and daughter.

You went to Harvard, and hold two graduate degrees. Please do not condescend to me and pretend you don’t understand the imagery of a six-sided star when juxtaposed with money and accusations of financial dishonesty. I’m asking you, not as a “gotcha” journalist or as a liberal but as a human being: how do you allow this? Because, Mr. Kushner, you are allowing this. Your father-in-law’s repeated accidental winks to the white supremacist community is perhaps a savvy political strategy if the neo-Nazis are considered a sizable voting block—I confess, I haven’t done my research on that front. But when you stand silent and smiling in the background, his Jewish son-in-law, you’re giving his most hateful supporters tacit approval. Because maybe Donald Trump isn’t anti-Semitic. To be perfectly honest, I don’t think he is. But I know many of his supporters are, and they believe for whatever reason that Trump is the candidate for them.

Who is being "too sensitive" to the message, me or him?

I can’t abide another defensive blame-shift to the media or to “politically correct culture gone amok.” David Duke, outspoken and explicit white supremacist, anti-Semite, and former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, saw the image your father-in-law tweeted out, and to him the message was quite clear to him. Those aren’t stereotypical “sheriff” hands in the corner.

The worst people in this country saw your father-in-law’s message and took it as they saw fit. And yet Donald Trump in his response chose not to condemn them, the anti-Semites who, by his argument were obviously misinterpreting the image, but the media.

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And now, Mr. Kushner, I ask you: What are you going to do about this? Look at those tweets I got again, the ones calling me out for my Jewish last name, insulting my nose, evoking the holocaust, and tell me I’m being too sensitive. Read about the origins of that image and see the type of people it attracted like a flies to human waste and tell me this whole story is just the work of the “dishonest media.” Look at that image and tell me, honestly, that you just saw a “Sheriff’s Star.” I didn’t see a sheriff star, Mr. Kushner, and I’m a smart person. After all, I work for your paper.

Edmund Burke once said, in times that are starting to seem more and more similar: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Well, here I am, and here we are. Both Jewish, both members of the media. And you might choose silence, but I’ve said my piece.

Respectfully,

Dana Schwartz


 
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« Reply #4 on: July 07, 2016, 05:44:53 pm »
FAIL.
Trump is for America First.
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« Reply #5 on: July 07, 2016, 05:55:16 pm »
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« Reply #6 on: July 07, 2016, 06:18:40 pm »
Jacob Schulder, another cousin, went even further in a comment on Marc Kushner’s post, writing: “When an out of touch with reality nominee hires an out of touch with reality campaign manager, who is also a son­-in-­law, you get the BS Jared wrote. I don't think Trump is an anti­Semite; I think he's a lying idiot (among other things) with little to no experiences outside his teetering fiefdom of failed development projects, divorces, bankrupted sports leagues, fraudulent "Universities" and golf courses (and the list keeps going). The very first thing a responsible campaign manager should do, I'd think, and I mean the very first thing, would be to take away his father-­in­-law's Twitter account. Even Joseph Kushner would've had the street smarts to figure that one out while living on boiled potatoes in the forest.”


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« Reply #7 on: July 07, 2016, 06:39:56 pm »
Jacob Schulder, another cousin, went even further in a comment on Marc Kushner’s post, writing: “When an out of touch with reality nominee hires an out of touch with reality campaign manager, who is also a son­-in-­law, you get the BS Jared wrote. I don't think Trump is an anti­Semite; I think he's a lying idiot (among other things) with little to no experiences outside his teetering fiefdom of failed development projects, divorces, bankrupted sports leagues, fraudulent "Universities" and golf courses (and the list keeps going). The very first thing a responsible campaign manager should do, I'd think, and I mean the very first thing, would be to take away his father-­in­-law's Twitter account. Even Joseph Kushner would've had the street smarts to figure that one out while living on boiled potatoes in the forest.”


whoa!! Nice!!

LOL ~ That very same paragraph is copied into my mouse. It's incredible. Guess there has been a rift in the family for a bit.
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« Reply #8 on: July 07, 2016, 07:20:05 pm »
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Marc Kushner is the son of Murray Kushner, brother of Jared’s father, Charles.

It is the latest in a series of family spats in a decades-long family feud that predates Charles Kushner’s 2005 conviction for tax evasion and attempting to discredit his brother-in-law by setting him up with a prostitute and secretly videotaping the sexual encounter.

Jacob Schulder, whose father William was targeted in the incident, commented on Marc Kushner’s post, Politico reported.
http://www.jta.org/2016/07/07/default/jared-kushner-slammed-by-relatives-for-defending-donald-trumps-star-of-david-tweet

Guess who is still mad for getting cut out of Trump's will....
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Re: Trump's son-in-law under fire from family
« Reply #9 on: July 07, 2016, 07:32:38 pm »
Everyone Trump touches he turns into white trash.

Go Jacob Schulder!!  Great comment.  Worth repeating, so I'll do it.

I think he's a lying idiot (among other things) with little to no experiences outside his teetering fiefdom of failed development projects, divorces, bankrupted sports leagues, fraudulent "Universities" and golf courses (and the list keeps going). The very first thing a responsible campaign manager should do, I'd think, and I mean the very first thing, would be to take away his father-­in­-law's Twitter account. Even Joseph Kushner would've had the street smarts to figure that one out while living on boiled potatoes in the forest.”
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« Reply #10 on: July 07, 2016, 07:36:44 pm »
LOL ~ That very same paragraph is copied into my mouse. It's incredible. Guess there has been a rift in the family for a bit.

even the in-laws are revolting

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« Reply #11 on: July 08, 2016, 04:50:09 am »


Charles Kushner, Jared’s Dad: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Published 8:28 pm EDT, July 7, 2016  Updated 8:57 pm EDT, July 7, 2016

http://heavy.com/news/2016/07/charles-kushner-jared-dad-ivanka-father-in-law-donald-trump-jail/

Meet the Kushners: The Feuding Real Estate Dynasty That Links Donald Trump and Chris Christie


"http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/u-s-election-2016/.premium-1.706420"


Weird, like All in the Family.



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« Reply #12 on: July 08, 2016, 09:01:43 am »
FAIL.

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« Reply #13 on: July 08, 2016, 09:03:09 am »
Yes, you have...

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Trump is connected to Soros.     The man who as a young boy during WWII helped the NAZIs round up fellow Jews for the camps.
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