Posted on 01/04/2017 11:03:40 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
As Donald Trump prepares to disentangle himself from his sprawling business interests he'll have at least two key allies by his side in Washington: Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. The couple has secured a property... Trump's team is confident that, at a minimum, his daughter and son-in-law can act as informal advisers once he's in the WH. -snip-
Ivanka Trump has made clear that if she's advising her father in Washington, she will step back from her personal business... It's not clear how Jared Kushner will navigate his own real estate business....Trump is expected to shed some light on the new management structure for his private business -- and the roles of his children -- at a news conference on January 11, Trump tweeted Tuesday. I will be having a general news conference on JANUARY ELEVENTH in N.Y.C. Thank you.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 3, 2017 The President-elect has vowed via Twitter that his company won't execute any new deals while he's in office -- a step to guard against conflict of interest concerns. But sources said it's unlikely that Trump will go even further and fully divest from his company.
One option ... bringing in an outside trustee to help guard against conflicts of interest,... For Trump, the commitment to his enterprise goes beyond financial ties and includes a sentimental component as well. "President-elect Trump has always stated how much he loves what he does.
Anyone who spends more than four decades building a 10 billion dollar empire would clearly be sentimental about relinquishing control," said Michael Cohen, an executive vice president for the Trump Organization.
"However, President-elect Trump has also stated that there is nothing more important to him than fixing the mistakes made by the previous administration and Making America Great Again!"
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Yes Dear, lets investigate all the advisers that contributed to the 0bamadishu administration. I’m sure that all sold off their assets or put them in a blind trust to help ‘44 destroy America the past 8.
So anybody who doesn’t think these folks are wonderful has a secret evil agenda?
Even folks who profess not to have heard of them previously?
You can just pop them into the picture and demand everyone love them?
What the hell kind of mess is that?
I don’t trust them, either. They’re NY liberals. When I learned that her good friends are Chelsea Clinton and Caroline Kennedy, I figured that discernment is not her strong suit. Also, she wants to get the government involved in childcare. The best thing that can be done for the childcare issue is to have jobs that pay enough so only one parent must work — like the pre-femi-nazi days of the ‘50s
Oh, palease .... stop the sainted nonsense and madness!!
They should stay the heck in New York. We don't need them to help the Trump administration.
Donald J. Trump is not an anti-Semite. His acceptance of her family disappoints you.
That’s what this is all about, scared of da joooooos.
Why did you deliberately misquote me, specifically with regard to the bold item?
I have seen plenty of objective, intelligent posts on this thread. Unfortunately, yours have taken on content and tone that borders on infantile derangement.
I'm sure discernment is Ivanka Trump's strong suit. There's a reason why those people are her good friends. It's the same reason why people like me here on FreeRepublic harbor a deep distrust of Ivanka Trump and her husband in this new administration.
Not only are they NY liberals ... they bring a whole world of potential conflict of interest hurt with them.
I didn’t spend 18 months working and supporting Donald Trump for Ivanka. I believed him when he said his kids would run his business ... now Ivanka should go and do that.
I’m really now happy with how this Ivanka bs is unfolding.
Whether she likes it or not, everyone needs to a needs to understand this is not The Apprentice.
I want them to stay in NY and away from the President’s administration.
All quotes from this thread:
I trust the Kushners less than anyone....never liked what I’ve seen....stay out of the Trump administration.
...I hope Jared starting acting like he is America first.... worried that he is a closet Democrat....too close to Israel.....I just don’t trust him enough to put him in any position of responsibility in my government....He definitely has an agenda.. Whether it’s the one we voted for remains to be seen....
I can pretty much guarantee you that “his agenda” has nothing in common with the working-class voters...Mr. Trump would do well to eliminate anyone from his circle of confidants whose agenda ...voted overwhelmingly for Clinton....send Jared and Ivanka back to run the businesses in NY...Kushner’s father is a convicted criminal...fabricated ex-post-facto information...Mr. and Mrs. Jared Kushner appear to be cling-ons. ........
That ^agenda? What is it besides garbage? Why would the Kushner’s have a negative agenda they plan to impose on her father, our President. Why should we believe that Trump is weak-minded and will accept the Kushners’ hidden agenda?
In a perfect world, Ivanka would have converted Jared to Christianity, it didn’t work out that way.
Being associated with Trump does not make anyone magically wonderful. However, they have been much more than associated to her father and the success of his campaign. They have rightfully earned some trust for the work that they have done.
Many women that hard a problem with DJT’s language were drawn to Trump’s side by Ivanka. Jared’s contribution was not the Jewish vote, but his work with the software targeting and as an advisor. They both helped a great deal and have yet to do anything negative against his campaign to MAGA.
No one here has documented anything negative about Kushner, just a lot of guilt by association, suspicion and idle, petty, envious gossip. None which came from you, obviously.
you are closer to it than I am.
I never heard of this guy until this election cycle.
And it was mostly how he had a hard on for Chris Christie.
I haven’t really been able to find out too much detail about him.
My contributions weren't as extensive as yours, but these are my sentiments exactly.
“I can pretty much guarantee you that “his agenda” (whatever it may be) has nothing in common with the working-class voters who propelled Trump to victory in places like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan.”
What does that mean? ^
I did not misquote you. ‘He’ or “his agenda” refers directly to Jared Kushner. And that is the heart of the argument. You seem assume that he is too rich to have common ground or good intentions for the working class? It sure sounds that way.
You are suspicious, distrustful and unappreciative of his contribution to DJT. I feel the accusations are completely unwarranted.
Pray tell us, what do you suspect to be “Kushner’s agenda?”
BTW, there was no ‘ex-post facto’ campaign congrats for Jared. He made the recommendations and implemented the plans sometime in October. I have posted that to you before; it’s on another ‘Ivanka’ bashing thread from November.
I don't recall having stated any of that.
I never even heard his name mentioned in any of them, and most of the people I met probably didn't even know who he was.
In terms of anything substantive related to Kushner's role in the Trump administration, this is the only thing I've heard in any recent media reports that is attributed directly to Trump himself, or anything concrete related to the campaign (this is from the NY Times article published after Trump's interview there):
In an interview with The New York Times this week, Mr. Trump pointed to Mr. Kushner as an influential player in future Middle East peace efforts. "I mean, he knows it so well," Mr. Trump said. "He knows the region, knows the people, knows the players."
...
Still, Mr. Kushner has been Mr. Trump’s intermediary with a variety of important Israeli and Jewish American players, including Mr. Netanyahu, Mr. Dermer and wealthy donors like Sheldon Adelson, the Nevada casino magnate. He brokered a meeting between Mr. Trump and Mr. Netanyahu in September and sat in on it.
So it looks to me as if his contributions could involve Israeli leadership, "Middle East peace efforts," and/or casinos. If that's the sum total of his role in the Trump administration, he may as well stay in New York and do whatever he would have done if Trump had lost the election. Nobody I met in any of my dealings with Trump's supporters in those states I listed above would have even put these among the 100 most important issues in their lives, or would have thought they were even remotely relevant to Trump's efforts to "Make America Great Again."
I don't give a sh!t if Jared Kushner is worth $350 million or $35. Nothing I've said here on this thread -- or anywhere else on FreeRepublic -- has anything to do with his financial status.
I am sorry that you don’t understand. While being supportive at rallies is great (assuming you’re someone recognizable-JK’s not) so is all the work behind the scenes. When DJT won, did you see him look Jared in the eyes and mouth “thank you.”
Kushner depicted as Trump’s ‘campaign savior’ in new profile
By Bob Fredericks November 22, 2016 - NY Post
Jared Kushner was hardly a household name outside the rarefied world of Manhattan’s moneyed elite when his father-in-law, Donald Trump, began his quixotic presidential campaign.
But by Election Day, he emerged as “Donald Trump’s campaign savior” through his connections to tech giants from Silicon Valley and savvy use of social media that they taught him, a new profile revealed Tuesday.
“And he did so in a manner that will change the way future elections will be won and lost. The traditional campaign is dead, another victim of the unfiltered democracy of the Web — and Kushner, more than anyone not named Donald Trump, killed it,” wrote Steven Bertoni in an interview with Kushner for the Dec. 20 issue of Forbes magazine.
Kushner,...immersed himself in Team Trump starting last November after witnessing a raucous, packed rally...“People really saw hope in his message,” ...“They wanted the things that wouldn’t have been obvious to a lot of people I would meet in the New York media world, the Upper East Side or at Robin Hood [Foundation] dinners.”
He headed up the campaign’s “secret data operation … like a Silicon Valley startup,” and propelled the gaffe-prone candidate to an unlikely victory, according to Forbes.
“It’s hard to overstate and hard to summarize Jared’s role in the campaign,” billionaire Peter Thiel, the only Silicon Valley big to publicly back Trump, told the magazine.
“If Trump was the CEO, Jared was effectively the chief operating officer,” Thiel added.
“Jared Kushner is the biggest surprise of the 2016 election,” said Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO. “Best I can tell, he actually ran the campaign and did it with essentially no resources.”
With Kushner on board, the Trump campaign “delved into message tailoring, sentiment manipulation and machine learning,” according to Forbes.
“I helped facilitate a lot of relationships that wouldn’t have happened otherwise,” Kushner said.
“People were being told in Washington that if they did any work for the Trump campaign, they would never be able to work in Republican politics again. I hired a great tax-policy expert who joined under two conditions: We couldn’t tell anybody he worked for the campaign, and he was going to charge us double.”
P.S. — You DID misquote me. Putting my comment in quotation marks and changing even a single word is a textbook definition of a misquote.
So so “sorry.” Obviously, many have no idea what Jared Kushner did or his value to Trump. Here’s one from Forbes, not the celebrity tabloid gossip bashing column.
The Son in Law Also Rises
Forbes ^ | December 20, 2016 | Steven Bertoni
Posted on December 22, 2016 to Free Republic by bert
It’s been one week since Donald Trump pulled off the biggest upset in modern political history, and his headquarters at Trump Tower in New York City is a 58-story, onyx-glassed lightning rod. —snip—
The most compelling figure in this intrigue, however, wasn’t in Trump Tower. Jared Kushner was three blocks south, high up in his own skyscraper, —snip-—
By June the GOP nomination secured, Kushner took over all data-driven efforts. Within three weeks, in a nondescript building outside San Antonio, he had built what would become a 100-person data hub designed to unify fundraising, messaging and targeting....
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
This is long article and is the definitive account of what actually happened within the Trump Campaign. It was not accomplished in Trump Tower or even New York. The task was accomplished in far away San Antonio. If you are interested in the the transformative Trump Campaign this is a must read
Jared Kushner transformed the political world with effort and off the shelf tools applied with a minimum of money. His efforts won the election in competition with the greatest hordes of campaign money in American History.
This article puts the MSM to shame describing that what you thought you knew and perhaps agonized and argued over was only a Trump Tower side show
Jared Kushner campaign role:
Donald Trump’s Campaign Targeted The Walking Dead Viewers
Posted on November 22, 2016 to Free Republic by 2ndDivisionVet
If you were watching The Walking Dead this season and thought, “I sure am seeing a lot of ads for Donald Trump,” it’s because you actually were.
Jared Kushner, head of Trump’s campaign data, explained that he created a unique program to reach certain audiences. Instead of spending money on ads for most of TV, this program found out what people in each area liked about Trump’s campaign, what TV shows they watched, and correlated the two.
Kushner’s dialogue here got fairly technical, but Forbes helped make the strategy a little easier on the eyes.
Kushner’s crew was able to tap into the RNC’s data machine, and it hired targeting partners like Cambridge Analytica to map voter universes and identify which parts of the Trump platform mattered most: trade, immigration or change.
Tools like Deep Root drove the scaled-back TV ad spending by identifying shows popular with specific voter blocks in specific regions–say, NCIS for anti-ObamaCare voters or The Walking Dead for people worried about immigration.
Kushner built a custom geo-location tool that plotted the location density of about 20 voter types over a live Google Maps interface.
Basically, this program found out that people who watched The Walking Dead, and lived in certain areas, were more likely to agree with Trump on his immigration policies. Therefore, they heavily ran immigration ads during The Walking Dead.
This strategy hadn’t been seen in politics before, but it turned out to be quite successful. When the next election rolls around, expect more candidates to adopt a similar strategy....
Jared Kushner, called by some “the savior of Trump’s campaign.”
Big data helped Trump even after he scorned it... Trump’s stealth digital campaign, thrown together hastily in the final months of the campaign, allowed the Republican billionaire to fine-tune his message and reach voters in crucial Rust Belt states that gave him an Electoral College majority.
During the primaries, Trump dismissed as “overrated” the kinds of data analytics and “micro-targeting” successfully used by President Barack Obama.
But after winning the nomination, he quietly developed a digital strategy led by a political neophyte, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, and a data company whose parent firm worked on the Brexit campaign.
In the final stages of the race, Trump relied on insights generated by Cambridge Analytica [Kushner], the US unit of British behavioral marketing firm SCL, that allowed his campaign to reach voters in the key states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin that delivered his majority over Democrat Hillary Clinton.
“We built an algorithm that generated top cities to reach the highest concentration of persuadable voters,” said Matt Oczkowski, head of the data science team for the Trump campaign at Cambridge Analytica.
“That intelligence was being updated and shared daily. This campaign had to be far more surgical because Hillary Clinton outspent this campaign by double.”
The digital efforts involved “thousands of variations” of messages that were targeted based on voter profiles to platforms such as Facebook, Snapchat or Pandora radio, Oczkowski said.
Cambridge Analytica said its 4,000 different online ads for Trump were viewed 1.5 billion times by millions of Americans.
The data science team could glean information about users to deliver pitches “based on the issues they care about,” Oczkowski said. -snip-
http://www.thedailystar.net/politics/big-data-helped-trump-even-after-he-scorned-it-1325371
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