THouse committee hearings on January 6 portrayed Donald Trump as eager to storm the Capitol. He knew that the demonstration organized in his name included armed individuals. When rioters chanted “Hang Mike Pence,” Jared Kushner’s stepfather said, “He deserved it.”
In response to a plea from Kevin McCarthy, the 45th president questioned the loyalty of the Republican leader in the House. The mob invaded Congress. Trump sat and watched.
Kushner wasn’t doing well either. In his testimony before the committee, he mocked Pat Cipollone as a “whisker” and described him as adjusting to getting out of the bathroom to receive a call from a freaked McCarthy. On screen, Kushner drips his elegance and sympathy does not exist. It’s not a good look.
Then comes Breaking History, Kushner’s White House memoir. It is located at the intersection of rotation, forgiveness and self-maximization.
“What is clear to me is that no one in the White House expected violence that day,” Kushner wrote on January 6th.
“I am confident that if my colleagues or the president had foreseen the violence, they would have prevented it,” Kushner adds. metropolitan police Tell a different story.
Kushner to reject Early pleas from Mark Short, the vice president’s chief of staff, to end Trump’s attempt to halt endorsement of Joe Biden’s victory.
“You know, I’m really focused on the Middle East right now,” Kushner replied. “I haven’t really been involved in electoral matters since Rudy Giuliani came along.”
In the aftermath of January 6, White House morale was at rock bottom, according to Kushner. A second trial loomed. Kushner asked staff to stay on the course.
“I swore to the country,” he recalls. “This is a moment when we have to do what is right and not what is popular. If the country is better off with you here, then stay. If it doesn’t matter, do what you want.”
The sales pitch appears to be canned. Those who served in the military found the talk meaningless and annoying.
In Kushner, Inc., Author Vicki Ward He described Kushner’s past efforts to persuade Mark Corallo to join the White House staff. Coralo was previously in the military and also served time in the Department of Justice.
After saying no, Kushner asked, “Don’t you want to serve your country?”
Coralo replied, “Young man, three years of my life at the end of the butt of the M-16 marked that box.”
Trump evaded conscription for Vietnam. When his brother, Fred Jr., accepted a commission in the Air National Guard, he was met with his family’s contempt. In contrast, Mike Pence’s son, Biden’s boys, Steve Bannon: They were all in uniform.
In his book Breaking History, Kushner selectively removes dirt. He seeks his father’s acquittal for recruiting a sex worker to film her experience with William Shoulder, Charlie Kushner’s son-in-law. At that time, Schulder, his wife Esther (Charlie’s sister), and Charlie fought a battle for control of the family’s real estate business.
Kushner explains, “Billy’s infidelity was an open secret around the office, and to show his sister Esther the kind of man she married, my father hired a prostitute who seduced Billy.”
Schulder and Esther were also talking to the Feds.
The names of two Trump celebrities, Stormy Daniels, an adult movie star, and Karen McDougal, a Playboy model, do not appear in Kushner’s book. Then again, as Trump once said, “When you’re a star… you can do anything.” For Trump and Kushner, the rules are for others.
Breaking history comes with conflicting creation stories. in June, New York times She reported that Kushner took an online tutorial from thriller writer James Patterson and then “ditched” his own 40,000 words.
The Guardian newspaper reported That Kushner had help from Ken Corson, a former editor of the New York Observer who was pardoned by Trump about Online stalking but then Admission of guilt After being accused of spying on his wife. On board were Avi Berkowitz, Kushner’s deputy who worked on the Abraham agreements, and Cassidy Luna, an aide married to Nick Luna, the “body man” in the Trump White House.
Breaking History says nothing about Patterson but cries out to Kurson, Luna, and Berkowitz: “From the beginning of this endeavor, Ken’s honest, brutal comments and innovative suggestions have made this book even better.”
Kushner is rightly proud of the Abraham Accords and the normalization agreements between Israel, the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco. In the process, he provides a backstory to Trump’s frustration with Benjamin Netanyahu.
The then-Israeli prime minister got “banged up” by him after he reluctantly adopted Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, seeking to extract maximum concessions without mercy or reciprocity. What Netanyahu longed for but did not get was American approval of the Israeli annexation of the West Bank. Here, Breaking History adds color to hello trump by Barak Ravid.
According to Ravid, David Friedman, the US ambassador to Israel, was close to Netanyahu. He sat in Israeli cabinet meetings until cabinet members ousted him. Ravid also calls Friedman “the flesh of the settlers’ body.”
Enter Kushner. “Friedman assured Bibi that he would persuade the White House to support annexation immediately,” he says. “He didn’t pass this on to me or anyone on my team.”
Things got hotter. “You haven’t talked to a single person from a country outside of Israel,” Kushner said. “You don’t have to deal with the British, you don’t have to deal with the Moroccans, you don’t have to deal with the Saudis or the Emiratis, who all trust my words and make statements. I have to deal with the repercussions of this. They weren’t.”
A Trump administration veteran described “Breaking History to the Guardian” as “a mere 493 pages of pure boredom”. not exactly. Kushner delivers a mixture of news and alarm. It does not extract Trump from his current predicament. On Wednesday, Kushner’s father-in-law invoked the Fifth Amendment. Only Charlie Kushner was pardoned. Loyal baby takes care of dad.