A member of the Kushner family (Jared’s sister) was in Beijing to promote investing in Kushner properties in New Jersey as a way to get an EB-5 visa. She spoke to an audience of wealthy Chinese at the Ritz-Carlton. In the past, foreign investors have received Immigration visas by investing at least $500,000 to build charter schools.
“BEIJING — The Kushner family came to the United States as refugees, worked hard and made it big — and if you invest in Kushner properties, so can you.
“That was the message delivered Saturday by White House senior adviser Jared Kushner’s sister to a ballroom full of wealthy Chinese investors, renewing questions about the Kushner family’s business ties to China.
“Over several hours of slide shows and presentations, representatives from the Kushner family business urged Chinese citizens gathered at the Ritz-Carlton hotel to consider investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in a New Jersey real estate project to secure what’s known as an investor visa.”
Conflict of interest? Or what? Ethical issues?
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The Kushner family and Trump are ethically challenged, no doubt about it, Even so, the whole pay-to-play character of the visa program for foreign investors invites these marketing ploys. This entrepeneurial funding of US real estate is a perfect example of the other meaning of “Buy America.”
sleazy.
What happened to immigration concerns?
Yeh, sure. There are no “immigration concerns” when we are talking about wealthy possible investors.
There is no end to the greed of some people. All they want is more for themselves. That is sad when 40% of the people in the world don’t have a decent place to call home. Many don’t have decent drinking water.
Glad that there is no conflict of interest. The whole family is cut throat and represents greed.
It is hypocritical that Kushner would woo Chinese investors with the promise of a green card while at the same time supporting an administration that intends to deport thousands of central Americans and Mexicans, after, of course, they have spent at least a year in one of the GEO Group’s privatized prisons. They are building a gigantic new facility in Conroe, Texas, outside Houston to house thousands of unregistered people. The company also contributed $250,000 to support Trump’s inauguration celebration. For the central Americans, it is the drug appetite of many Americans that has made their countries unlivable and unsafe as the drug lords have taken over their small, poor countries with weak central governments, and the women and children are fleeing for their lives.
Just to note, the donations to charters in exchange for immigration thing is a fully bipartisan affair.
Yes, I wrote about the EB-5 scam for charters in “Reign of Error”
Yes, and it was BILL CLINTON who started this program in the first place.
True. Did they have backers? Of course … KA-CHING.
Here’s a good one. Now federal employees are being required to watch tRump’s favorite channel. Nothing like enforcing loyalty through the media. It’s possible that some people, like me, would be outraged at the suggestion.
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Federal Employees Are Being Forced to Watch Fox News, According to Leaked Email
By Aaron Rupar, ThinkProgress
06 May 17
It cites “current administration administrative officials” as the reason for the switch from CNN to Trump’s favorite channel.
On Wednesday, a customer service representative from the FDA’s Office of Facilities sent an email to staff informing them that TVs in a Silver Spring, Maryland office will now be exclusively turned to Fox News.
The email — a screencap of which was initially obtained and shared to Twitter by journalist Paul Thacker and later by BuzzFeed’s Julia Reinstein — was sent to “let everyone know” why TVs had been changed “from CNN to FOX.” It was sent to researchers at the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, the FDA branch that oversees medical products.
“A decision from the current administration administrative officials has requested that all monitors, under our control, on the White Oak Campus, display FOX news,” it says. “Sorry for the inconvenience, but I am unable to change any of the monitors to any other news source at this time….
But the switch from CNN to Fox News mirrors Trump’s personal taste in cable news. Trump has repeatedly bashed CNN, which has broken news about his campaign’s suspect connections with Russia….
Robinhood rolls in the grave as the Trumps steamroll through government using this supposedly “drained swamp” to take from the poor and give to the rich WITHOUT A CONCERN IN THE WORLD ABOUT ABUSE OF POWER. Bribe the Chinese using your “presidential connections” to help your family and your father (the president) by suggesting the Chinese buy Trump property (implying doing so would curry favor)? Why not! Destroy public education while you put your son in a private, pricy and elite private school? Why not! Encourage a vote to get rid of Obama’s healthcare initiative without even reading the most recent draft (Congress takes the hit on that one)? Why not! This is partisan politics at its worst. Of all people to point out why we should have national health insurance… Jimmy Kimmel said it all – something to the effect of “You should not have to be rich to be able to have your newborn live because he/she needs an expensive life-saving surgery”. YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE TO BE UBER RICH TO HAVE A GOVERNMENT LOOK AFTER YOUR BEST INTERESTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very good comments!!
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Candidate Trump is much different from President Trump.
Bernie shows just how promises/speeches made by candidate Trump to help working families no longer apply. The Orange Buffoon is doing everything to divide up Americans.
Bernie stands up for Medicare for All and a minimum wage of $15 an hour, an infrastructure plan, free college tuition, paid family and medical leave, lowering cost of prescription drugs, expand Social Security, immigration reform, criminal justice reform, wealthy and large corporations pay their fair share of taxes. He wants a government that represents all of us. Time to fight back.
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Bernie Sanders BRILLIANT takedown of Trump’s First 100 Days In Office
Politics Video Channel
Published on Apr 28, 2017
Bernie Sanders reflects on the failures and broken campaign promises of Donald Trump’s first 100 days in the oval office.
Please choose the best answer below
Q: In 2017, the United States of America became a/an:
Oligarchy
Kleptocracy
Plutocracy
Kakistocracy
Illiberal democracy
All of the above
All of the above.
Yep. All of the above.
Makes America Great Again!!
Indeed and this made AMERICA GRATE, not great.
Well, these people are certainly grating on my nerves, at any rate. 😦
The swamp gets swampier.
Carol-
MAGA = PTSD
(Reuters) Reporters barred from Kushner Companies’ visa-for-investment event in China
Organizers barred journalists on Sunday from a publicly advertised event in Shanghai that offered Chinese investors the chance to get U.S. immigrant visas if they put money in a real estate project linked to the family of President Donald Trump’s son-in-law.
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I’d read about this but didn’t get the full audio of tRump’s ignorance until I watched this video. Unbelievable how ignorant he is.
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Donald Trump Bullsh*ts His Way Through Civil War History
Funny Or Die
Published on May 1, 2017
Donald Trump asks the almost certainly unanswerable question of “Why was there the Civil War?”