Showing posts with label Kushner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kushner. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

"... it’s insulting to insinuate that most African-Americans want your weak-on-crime policies."

Daniel Horowitz writes in part in Conservative Review,
...Memo to Jared Kushner and his team of Koch associates in the White House: The black vote in general is not congruent with the looting vote, and it’s insulting to insinuate that most African-Americans want your weak-on-crime policies. In fact, the opposite is true. Law-abiding black business owners want low crime and economic opportunity. Now is the time for the White House to push a tough-on-crime bill like Reagan did and seek justice for the forgotten victims of preventable crimes like David Dorn.
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Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Kushner, the dealmaker

President Trump is going to Wisconsin today with his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Are you aware of Jared's accomplishments? Paul Bedard reports in the Washington Examiner,
Fresh from a whirlwind peace mission through the Middle East, the administration’s top dealmaker, Jared Kushner, is heading to Wisconsin Wednesday with President Trump to celebrate the biggest jobs deal of his young White House career, the groundbreaking of the massive Foxconn Technology Group project.

While Trump will likely be the focus of the event to highlight the $10 billion investment from FoxConn, the Taiwanese manufacturer best known for making Apple’s iPhones, it will also be a crowning moment for Kushner who helped negotiate the deal, his biggest in the U.S. and set to create 13,000 jobs.

It joins a growing list of deals administration officials credit to Trump’s son-in-law:

The emergence of a Middle East peace outline.
Work bringing the 2028 Summer Olympics back to Los Angeles.
A $110 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia.
Securing soccer’s World Cup in North America in 2026, with an expected 75 percent of the games being played in the U.S., the rest in Canada and Mexico.
Bipartisan support for criminal justice reform.
And don’t forget his behind-the-scenes role as the Trump presidential campaign’s CEO.

As with most of the projects he runs, Kushner shunned fanfair around his FoxConn efforts. But his was the operation he runs for Trump, the Office of American Innovation, that helped nail down the job to bring TV and other technology manufacturing to Racine, Wisc.
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