Jared Kushner and his family were very active Democrats. Now that Trump is running as a Republican (just like Bloomberg in NYC, because it's easier for salesmen to bamboozle the people who are often impressed by and associate and confuse the personal riches and BS / "Business Success" with "conservatism" and economic and political knowledge and acumen, i.e., "more money = more blind unquestionable respect with many aspects of personal, financial and political history") he has no choice but to [pretend to] be a "Republican" (whatever it is or may mean today). Generally, I would say that the Trump family is only in the Trump Party (T-NY,FL,CA,...).
From The son-in-law also rises: For Jared Kushner, championing Trump marks break with Democratic past - Kushner Cos. CEO was an active donor to liberal politicians in NJ, NY - TRD, by Konrad Putzier, 2016 March 11 :
..... Whether out of political conviction or family obligation, the CEO of development firm Kushner Cos. is now a high-profile supporter of the Republican Party's front-runner. But until 2014, Jared, who is married to Trump's daughter Ivanka, was a reliable and influential patron of the Democratic Party. His paper, the New York Observer, was the first in the city to endorse Barack Obama for president in 2008. "It was hard for me to do," said Jared in an interview for a book about the Observer, "because I really like Hillary a lot and respect her, and she's as stand-up as they come as a person. But I felt that Obama would be a great president for the country at the time." And he has a long history of financially supporting Democrats: In 2014, he donated $10,000 each to the New Jersey Democratic State Committee and the New York State Democratic Committee, according to data from watchdog site OpenSecrets. In 2013, he donated a combined $20,800 to the U.S. Senate campaign of then-Newark mayor Cory Booker and $5,200 to Sean Eldridge's unsuccessful congressional campaign. Jared declined to comment for this article. ..... < snip > ..... In 2005, his father Charles Kushner pleaded guilty to charges of making illegal campaign contributions (among other things). According to news reports, he avoided contribution limits in part by donating through different entities and under the names of relatives. Charles, whom Jared succeeded as CEO of the family firm after his 2005 incarceration, is known as a long-time supporter of the Democratic Party in New Jersey. According to New York magazine, he gave more than $1.5 million to Jim McGreevey in his 1997 and 2001 New Jersey gubernatorial campaigns. Jared's brother Joshua, a co-founder of health insurance startup Oscar and venture capital firm Thrive Capital, which is a significant investor in the real estate technology space, is also no stranger to the Democratic Party. In October 2013, he donated $4,950, the maximum amount permitted, to Bill de Blasio's mayoral campaign, according to New York City campaign finance records. ..... < snip > ..... His father also appears to be in the Trump camp: In August, Charles hosted a fundraiser for Trump in his New Jersey home and also gave $100,000 to a Super PAC supporting him, according to Politico. And in one of the many ironies of the Trump campaign, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who prosecuted the case against Charles, is now Trump's most important cheerleader. ..... < snip > These days, political observers may recognize Jared Kushner as the man who stands on stage at some campaign events next to his father-in-law, Donald Trump. ..... < snip >
More on Kushners, from Is the Media Protecting Donald Trump? (Trump Tower Funded by Rich Chinese Who Invest Cash for Visas) - FR, post #37
"They've taken our jobs, they've taken our money, they've taken everything," he said of China in a speech late last month. He has called for a revamping, even a freezing, of the immigration system, but says he would make an exception for the highly skilled. Yet no skills are required of the wealthy Chinese being courted by a Chinese-subtitled video to help finance a huge Trump-branded tower in New Jersey. ..... < snip > ..... The video was produced to help raise tens of millions of dollars through a controversial government program that offers expedited visas to foreign investors overwhelmingly from China. ..... < snip > ..... Trump Bay Street is a 50-story luxury rental apartment building being built by Kushner Companies, whose chief executive officer, Jared Kushner, is married to Trump's daughter Ivanka. ..... < snip > ..... The Jersey City project has raised $50 million, about a quarter of its funding, from loans obtained through EB-5, according to a slide presentation by US Immigration Fund. Mark Giresi, general counsel of US Immigration Fund, said he believed nearly all of the EB-5 investors in the Trump project were from China. ..... < snip > ..... Department of Homeland Security Inspector General found politically connected participants may have received favorable treatment, citing projects involving Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe and Hillary Clinton's brother, Tony Rodham. ..... < snip > ..... Kushner Companies is a New Jersey-based real estate firm built by Kushner's father Charles, a former rainmaker in New Jersey Democratic politics who pleaded guilty to a federal campaign finance violation, filing false tax returns as well as attempts to silence a witness. Charles was sentenced in 2005 to a prison term of two years. He remains active in the company. ..... < snip > Throughout his presidential campaign, Donald Trump has attacked China and warned about the dangers of deficient immigrant screening.
Another "one of many ironies" is that Trumps are using "off-shoring" manufacturing of their clothing, jewelry and other "product lines" in China, Mexico and Bangladesh.
And the Trump campaign's "mysterious" PR / communications manager Hope Hicks (because she deleted and scrubbed her entire social media profile — Facebook, Twitter, even LinkedIn before starting to work for the campaign) comes with a long line of Democratic connections and worked almost exclusively in liberal PR and media sphere, where she met Ivanka Trump before coming to work for her as an employee of Trump Organization, where she is still employed simultaneously with the campaign.
Ref: Ivanka: My Dad's Feud With Megyn Kelly Was 'Sensationalized' - FR, posts #22, #24, 2015 October 15
Ivanka Trump is also a friend of Chelsea Clinton, which is not surprising, considering how much money Donald contributed to Hillary and the friendly relationship between their families. From 2006 to 2009 Chelsea was "employed" as an "associate" at the Avenue Capital Group hedge fund, co-founded and controlled by Moroccan-born Jewish liberal billionaire and big Democratic Party donor Marc Lasry, who was asked in 2009 by Donald Trump to help avert Carl Icahn's takeover bid of what remained of his twice-bankrupt THCR (Trump Hotels and Casino Reports) company.
From Trump's attacks raise eyebrows on Wall Street - CNBC / FT, by Gina Chon, 2015 December 28
The frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination has also waged a vituperative campaign against Wall Street, accusing hedge funds of "getting away with murder" — somewhat to the entertainment of the bankers who helped finance the rise of his business empire. "I have been highly amused about Trump's comments about us given he's almost one of us, at least in a business sense," said one Wall Street banker whose group has provided Mr Trump's properties with millions of dollars in financing. "He is totally comfortable around Wall Street and bankers." Mr Trump characterises himself as not beholden to special interests, ridiculing hedge funds as "guys that shift paper around and ... get lucky" and highlighting a contrast with his own record of building large construction projects. Big banks and hedge funds, however, have played a pivotal role in the growth of his real estate empire, providing his companies with loans, acquiring stakes in Trump properties and restructuring debt terms in his times of trouble — as he has acknowledged happily in the past. "Morgan Stanley is one of the finest investment banking names on Wall Street," Mr Trump said in a 2004 press release, when the bank helped during the 2004 bankruptcy of Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts, a holding company for several properties. ..... < snip > ..... A banker who has worked on Mr Trump's real estate deals said he built good relationships with Wall Street, capitalising on financial professionals' desire for his business. He was also skilled at renegotiating debt deals, taking advantage of banks and hedge funds that wanted to get at least some money back from their investments. Those skills helped Mr Trump at the time of his first corporate bankruptcy in 1991, which involved the debt-laden Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City. Although Mr Trump had personally guaranteed at least $900m in Taj Mahal debt, he avoided having to declare personal bankruptcy by convincing the banks, led by Chase Manhattan Bank, to restructure the liabilities. A year later, Mr Trump's Plaza Hotel in New York filed for bankruptcy. Citigroup stepped in, leading a handful of lenders to buy a 49 per cent stake in the property. ..... < snip > ..... Mr Trump's relations with high finance were more amicable in 2009, on the occasion of his last corporate bankruptcy. ..... < snip > ..... Mr Trump teamed up with Avenue Capital, the hedge fund founded by Marc Lasry, to beat back a takeover attempt by Beal Bank and Carl Icahn the activist investor. ..... < snip >
As Donald Trump has barnstormed his way across America in recent months stirring up the Republican heartland with populist invective, it is not just immigrants the billionaire property tycoon has had in his sights.
More details on Trump's dealings and how the Wall Street bankers saved him from personal bankruptcy are in: Who will buy New York's Plaza Hotel? Chinese or Arabs (What Donald Trump's Plaza Deal Reveals About His White House Bid) - FR / NYT / TSC / DR, posts #2, #9
Oh my dear. Cruz should turn this into a campaign ad. The Trumps are all conmen it seems
Correct. Sorry for the error.
Kushners, like Trump, are real estate people who ‘donate’ to pols that can help them out. Jared Kushner’s father seems to have gone over the line with felony convictions for illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion and witness tampering.
Ivanka and Chelsea are friends because they have so much in common.