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Apr 30Liked by Greg Olear

"The tactics of acquiring unseemly kompromat on rivals, it should be noted, is well known to Kushner, as this was ultimately one of the reasons his father, Charles Kushner, was sent to prison." Follow the Kushner sex scandal, connections with Netanyahu and how Trump pardoned Charles Kushner with this interactive map.

https://embed.kumu.io/912eedcb04bb170d0a39f586a01580bf

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Thanks, Deepak!

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Apr 30Liked by Greg Olear

Someone I know well who worked for the Observer when Kushner took over said that Jared is the single stupidest person he has ever met in his life. Like Trump, he is a walking talking mediocrity kept afloat by connections to people who know a useful idiot when they see one. And that includes Trump himself, when he needed a replacement for the toxic Michael Cohen, who better than the Boy Blunder?

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I mean, we're talking about a guy who bombed his SATs and whose old man subsequently wrote a check for $4m so he could go to Harvard anyway...SATs aren't the end all be all, by any means, but why would you WANT to go to a school you know you only got into because of money?

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I have heard, literally for decades, that while Harvard is difficult to get into, it is almost impossible to flunk out of. Even for a dim bulb like Jared (who likely paid others to take his exams and write his papers anyway) the path to a degree is assured once enrolled. To what end? The value of a Harvard degree is the degree itself and the doors it opens, not to mention the cachet of being a Harvard grad. And for Jared that is all that mattered. And for a guy with no ethics, why would he care if he only got in because of Daddy's money? After all, Daddy bought him an NYU law degree and The Observer. Probably Ivanka as well.

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Apr 30Liked by Greg Olear

Seems Slender Man's turn in the barrel might be at hand. He can hide but maybe not run. Fingers crossed

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Right after Godot arrives, they will come for Jared.

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F.A.R.T. They richly stink up a room. Billserle.com.

*im working on what FART might signify. 🤨

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Apr 30Liked by Greg Olear

Found Around Rotten Turds?

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Friends, Associates & Republicans of Trump?

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Nice one!

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Not being a member of the have-it-all club, I can't understand why these people think whatever they have is never enough.

Thanks, Greg.

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No kidding!!

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Me neither, but I think it has something to do with the fact that their entire sense of self worth hinges on net worth.

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Apr 30Liked by Greg Olear

Greg, thanks. This reminds me of a school ground cast of characters. There is the coward bully egging cohorts to pick on others but the first to point the "he did it" finger, 45. Jared is the whiny little bitch, never liked and always moaning about something. There is the guy who follows blindly the coward bully, Mikey C. and pushes the targets around and generally at the other end of pointed finger. There is the one spreading the bullshit gossip, Pecker, typically a person nobody really likes but somehow gets heard for no other reason than entertainment value. Apart from the retinue of the coward bully the remainder of the school ground population goes about their days ignoring the slimeballs.

In 2014 we need to gain the attention of the remainder. Theirs is a simple task, vote Biden and Democrats such that for at least two years abortion rights, gun, voting and tax legislation are passed. If they squander those two years, course correction can occur in the 2026 mid terms.

As Colin Jost remarked, "How can Biden and 45 be tied?" Given their track records going back many years, 2024 should be a slam dunk year for Dems. It is so perplexing and very scary that it is not.

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This is brilliant, Old Man. We could make a movie about exactly this happening, but set it in a high school!

The polls are indeed scary. Nationwide police crackdowns on protests on college campuses, whether or not one thinks such responses are justified, ain't helping Joe's cause.

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How do we work into the school ground shooting puppies and goat. Adds some zing.

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I cannot hear Peckers name without seeing LB doing her impression of him 🤣

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I'm still laughing about that. I almost did a spit-take!

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Now you made me laugh uncontrollably all over again, Sally!

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Apr 30Liked by Greg Olear

Excellent reporting.

Thank you

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Thanks, Cal!

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It’s TUESDAY🎉

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: )

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Apr 30Liked by Greg Olear

Once a peckerhead always a peckerhead.

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That, too.

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Apr 30Liked by Greg Olear

MAGA ‘Basket of Deplorables’ for dam sure. Lock them up 🗣

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Apropos of nothing, is puppy murder deplorable? I kind of thought it maybe was, but that's just me.

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Most human abusers start with animal abuse and it’s truly deplorable.

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The headline: I’m still laughing 🤣 😆 🤭! But / And Excellent ‼️ ✊🏼

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Thanks! There's a "Bushel and a Peck" with "Kushner and a Peck," but I couldn't get that one to work...

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This is some real fucked up shit! Jared gives us nice honest Jews a bad name and our lives are already being challenged with these pro-

Palestinian uprisings at college campuses. These people simply have closed themselves up in their high towers as they have never experienced (and they don’t want to) life as a struggling normal adult. Ivory towers is all they’ve known but they simply aren’t a civilized bunch. They are abhorrent, obnoxious, bitches!

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As an Italian (lapsed) Catholic from New Jersey, just like Alito and Leo, I have some inkling of what you mean.

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Aha! My mother and grandmother used to sing that to me. 🥳

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This just keeps getting better. When Vicky Ward wrote that Javanka came out as winners of the past, I couldn’t buy it. Your piece makes it all make sense. While MSM had tried to downplay the significance of the ‘hush money’ election interference, your essay is a reminder how the crime spree started.

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So sorry I missed this ten days ago. It plugs so many holes that other sources leave gaping. “The National Fucking Enquirer! in the bag for Trump.” My sentiments exactly. Why didn’t that fact alone bury him in slime up to his straw hair. And when I heard about Pecker and his front pages about HRC, I had no doubt. They pulled out the big guns (or peckers) to appeal to the lowest of the low. The base of the cult. Sorry that Jared’s paws on the whole operation should have stayed under the radar. Thank you for shining the light on the most unsavory aspects of our politics.

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