Start with the Guy on the Left
(Son-in-law Jared Kushner)
Possibly Four More for the New Swamp
Original Story: Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and possible conflicts and this related link within that story.
This Recent Update here on Jared Kushner and his influence:
The Observer, a news site
owned by President-elect Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, posted an
op-ed calling for an FBI investigation into the “political thuggery” of
anti-Trump protests taking place in the wake of the presidential election.
Throughout the 2016
presidential campaign, Donald Trump threatened and criticized protesters during
campaign events, saying
of one that he’d like to “punch him in the face” and reminiscing of the “good
old days” when protesters would be “carried out on a stretcher.”
Trump even threatened
to “start pressing charges” against protesters after demonstrations during a
Chicago campaign rally caused the event to be postponed after fights broke out
between demonstrators and Trump supporters. Now Trump supporters want an FBI
investigation of anti-Trump protests.
Now, on December 2, the Observer posted an op-ed written by
University of Texas in Austin adjunct professor Austin Bay, which called for FBI Director James Comey to conduct a
“detailed investigation” into the anti-Trump protests taking place across the
country.
To make his point, Bay invokes “Kristallnacht,” a
1938 incident in which Nazis burned synagogues, vandalized Jewish-owned
businesses and homes, and resulted in 30,000 Jewish men being sent to concentration
camps.
Bay even cites notorious conspiracy theorist Jim Hoft’s blog post claiming
anti-Trump protesters were paid to protest, a claim that gained traction based on a fake news story.
The posting of the op-ed is
extremely concerning given the influence Kushner has on his father-in-law. In
July, The New York Times reported
that Kushner had “become involved in virtually every facet of the Trump
presidential operation” and wrote that many viewed him as the “de facto
campaign manager.”
Following the election,
Kushner also explored legal loopholes that would allow him to bypass federal
nepotism laws and join the Trump administration in an
official capacity:
Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of President-elect Donald J. Trump, has
spoken to a lawyer about the possibility of joining the new administration, a
move that could violate federal anti-nepotism law and risk legal challenges and
political backlash.
[…]
Mr. Trump is urging his son-in-law to
join him [I insert: which could
violate the following part of the law highlighted in small (b) below] in the White House, according to one of the
people briefed. The president-elect’s sentiment is shared by Stephen K. Bannon,
the chief strategist for the White House, and Reince Priebus, who was named
chief of staff. Mr. Kushner accompanied Mr. Trump to the White House on
Thursday, when the president-elect held his first in-person meeting with
President Obama.
Anti-nepotism law (passed and added: December
16. 1967)
5 U. S. Code § 3110 -
Employment of relatives; restrictions
(2) “Public official” means an officer (including the President and a Member of
Congress), a member of the uniformed service, an employee and any
other individual, in whom is vested the authority by law, rule, or regulation,
or to whom the authority has been delegated, to appoint, employ, promote, or
advance individuals, or to recommend individuals for appointment, employment,
promotion, or advancement in connection with employment in an agency.
(3) “Relative” means, with respect to a public
official, an individual who is related to the public official as father,
mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, first cousin, nephew,
niece, husband, wife, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law,
brother-in-law, sister-in-law, stepfather, stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter,
stepbrother, stepsister, half-brother, or half-sister.
(b) A public official may
not appoint, employ, promote,
advance, or advocate for appointment,
employment, promotion, or
advancement, in or to a civilian position in the agency in which he is serving
or over which he exercises jurisdiction or control any individual who is a
relative of the public official. An individual may not be appointed, employed,
promoted, or advanced in or to a civilian position in an agency if such
appointment, employment, promotion, or advancement has been advocated by a
public official, serving in or exercising jurisdiction or control over the
agency, who is a relative of the individual.
(c) An individual appointed, employed, promoted, or
advanced in violation of this section is not entitled to pay, and money may not
be paid from the Treasury as pay to an individual so appointed, employed,
promoted, or advanced.
(d) The Office of Personnel Management may prescribe regulations authorizing the
temporary employment in the event of emergencies resulting from natural
disasters or similar unforeseen events or circumstances, of individuals whose employment would
otherwise be prohibited by this section.
(e) This section shall not be construed to prohibit
the appointment of an individual who is a preference eligible in any case in
which the passing over of that individual on a certificate of those eligible
furnished under section 3317(a) of this title will result in the selection for appointment of
an individual who is not a preference eligible.
This is getting very serious folks … but you know what the Trump
loyalists just do not care – they got who they wanted in the White House and
now their fingers are crossed for the goodies they expect him to deliver to
them.
Stay tuned… this stickiness won’t dry out soon – bet on it. Thanks for stopping by.
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