Kushner, Inc Greed. ambition. corruption --the extraordinary story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump

Vicky Ward

Book - 2019

"The first explosive book about Javanka and their infamous rise to power. Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are the self-styled Prince and Princess of America. Their swift, gilded rise to extraordinary power in Donald Trump's White House is unprecedented and dangerous. In Kushner, Inc., investigative journalist Vicky Ward digs beneath the myth the couple has created, depicting themselves as the voices of reason in an otherwise crazy presidency, and reveals that Jared and Ivanka are not just the President's chief enablers: they, like him, appear disdainful of rules, of laws, and of ethics. They are entitled inheritors of the worst kind; their combination of ignorance, arrogance, and an insatiable lust for power has caused havoc a...ll over the world, and may threaten the democracy of the United States. Ward follows their trajectory from New Jersey and New York City to the White House, where the couple's many forays into policy-making and national security have mocked long-standing U.S. policy and protocol. They have pursued an agenda that could increase their wealth while their actions have mostly gone unchecked. In Kushner, Inc., Ward holds Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump accountable: she unveils the couple's self-serving transactional motivations and how those have propelled them into the highest levels of the US government where no one, the President included, has been able to stop them." --

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Genres
Biographies
Published
New York, NY, St. Martin's Press 2019.
Language
English
Main Author
Vicky Ward (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
viii, 293 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-286) and index.
ISBN
9781250185945
  • Prologue: America's Prince and Princess
  • Chapter 1. Rules Are Dangerous
  • Chapter 2. The Tuesday Beatings
  • Chapter 3. Family First
  • Chapter 4. She's Got the Biggest Set of Balls in the Room
  • Chapter 5. The Tower of Debt
  • Chapter 6. The Conversion
  • Chapter 7. "They Are Like Robots"
  • Chapter 8. A Most Convenient Candidate
  • Chapter 9. Making New Friends
  • Chapter 10. Is This That Bad?
  • Chapter 11. Kushner's Disappearing Act
  • Chapter 12. The Secretary of Everything
  • Chapter 13. The Anbang Bang
  • Chapter 14. St. Rex
  • Chapter 15. He'll Take Anything
  • Chapter 16. The Shock Felt Around the World
  • Chapter 17. "That Would Be a Felony"
  • Chapter 18. First Family
  • Chapter 19. The Newspaper Industry Is Out to Get Me
  • Chapter 20. Trump Is Different and I'm Different
  • Chapter 21. The Passover Revelation
  • Chapter 22. The Double-Dipper
  • Chapter 23. Charlie Barks and Bites
  • Chapter 24. Prison Reform, Mommy grams, and NAFTA
  • Chapter 25. Mr. Bone Saw and the Real Estate Agent
  • Epilogue: The Selfie President
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

The Trump administration's premier power couple is a study in arrogance, incompetence, and corruption in this caustic exposé. Huffington Post writer Ward (The Liar's Ball) paints First Daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, both top advisers to President Trump, as poster-kids of overentitled, ethically dubious wealth. Ivanka, Ward reports, is "talented at telling self-serving bald lies" by posing as a moderate while doing little to rein in Trump's excesses; she was, he writes, neck-deep in Trump Organization deals with shady foreign investors, then exploited her presidential access to get advantages for her fashion business from foreign governments. Kushner, Ward contends, is awash in rules violations, such as failing to report meetings with Russian officials, and trades on his far-reaching government influence to get foreign investments for his family's real estate business. (Ward credits his interference in Middle East policy, motivated by a desire to wring investments from oil monarchies, with almost starting a war in the Persian Gulf.) Ward's rehash of the "Javanka" saga is well-researched but not well-presented; it's an eye-glazing maze of small-to-middling improprieties, with the thread often getting lost in the chaos of White House power plays and backstabbing. Still, Ward offers a useful, though dispiriting, guide to the ascendance of private business over the public interest in the Trump administration. (Mar.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.


Review by Kirkus Book Review

A dishy, skeptical portrait of Jared Kushner, the naive, overleveraged, and conflict-mired developer's son who has Donald Trump's ear.Intermittently, anyway. A running theme of investigative reporter Ward's (The Liar's Ball: The Extraordinary Saga of How One Building Broke the World's Toughest Tycoons, 2014, etc.) book is that the husband of Trump's daughter Ivanka is so clumsily meddling that the president keeps him at arm's length. "Get rid of my kids, get them back to New York," Trump reportedly said of "Javanka" six months into his administration, after their presence became like sticky tar in the West Wing. How did Kushner, with no political or foreign policy experience, become the White House's point person on corporate innovation and peace in the Middle East? Thereon hangs a tail of greed, incompetence, desperation, and felonious behavior. Jared's father, Charlie, was a mercurial New Jersey developer who wasn't above tax fraud and blackmail to get ahead. (He was sentenced to two years in federal prison in 2005.) Jared was key to restoring the family's good name, which entailed a role in the family real estate business, though he "was hardly ever in the office"; a job as publisher of the New York Observer, though journalism baffled him; and his marrying Ivanka, another scion of a developer with a dodgy history. When Jared doesn't seem out of his depth, he seems corrupt; much of Ward's story turns on his disreputable dealings with Saudi and Qatari leaders, perhaps pursued in hopes of covering the $1.2 billion mortgage on a Manhattan Kushner property. Many details here have been previously reported, and the author's efforts to elevate the book above a clip job rest mainly on a raft of juicy quotes delivered by anonymous sources. ("Jared is as sinister as Donald Trump," intones a "business associate.") As a portrait of Jared's character, the book's fiendish aura is hard to trust, but given the factual record, it's not out of bounds.A handy primer on a troublesome Trump in-law, even setting its gossipy parts aside. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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