Officials inside and close to the White House are reportedly divided on whether President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner is wrecking Trump's agenda. Ken Kurson, the former editor of a New York newspaper when it was owned by his friend Jared Kushner, a top advisor to President Donald Trump, has been charged by federal prosecutors with interstate cyber stalking and harassment of three people. Saying the billboards would stay up, the group called Kushner and Trump “entitled, out-of-touch bullies, who have never given the slightest indication they have any regard for the American people”. The criminal complaint against Kurson says that he blamed one of the victims, whom he had been friends with for more than 20 years, "for the dissolution of his marriage." The news outlet now is published online under the name Observer. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and White House adviser appeared Monday morning on Fox News, where he argued that the administration’s policies would help Black Americans, but only if they wanted to succeed. Invest with us in the future. Kurson serves on the board of the cryptocurrency company Ripple. A Division of NBCUniversal. The idea is to get him off message again and again and again.”. It also said that in his 2018 questionnaire for a background check by the FBI for his would-be board appointment, "Kurson made multiple false statements and misrepresentations, including falsely certifying that he had never used any other names or aliases." Make a one-time contribution to Raw Story Investigates. click here to become a subscriber. In its wake, dozens of others called me with similar stories and worse". Jared Kushner’s family connections have provided him his only opportunities in life and he’s still failed miserably at every single thing he’s done, so perhaps it’s Jared who doesn’t want to be successful. The bad kind. By Sophie Lewis October 24, 2020 / 11:15 AM / CBS News The New York Times reported in July 2018 that two doctors at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York had accused Kurson of harassment, and that the FBI had been notified about their claims as that agency conducted a background check of Kurson for the board seat. Make a one-time contribution to Raw Story Investigates, or click here to become a subscriber. #metoo," Cokapen wrote in the tweet, which links to her Atlantic article. NEW! Click to learn more. While the paper's editor, Kurson advised then-presidential candidate Trump for a speech that he delivered to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in 2016. During this stage, an insurgent movement is beginning to organize: leadership is emerging, and the insurgents are establishing a grievance and a group identity, beginning to recruit and train members, and stockpiling arms and supplies.”. Jared Kushner: There is a “ground swell” of support for Pres Trump among black voters. Jared Kushner and Ken Kurson attend GalleristNY celebrates New York's Artists at The Standard on February 20, 2013 in New York City. One doctor, "who had been a longtime friend of the couple's, told hospital officials that she was concerned about what she saw as Mr. Kurson's angry, erratic behavior," the Times reported. The complaint also says FBI agents found evidence that between September 2015 and December 2015, Kurson accessed the email and social media accounts of other victims without their knowledge and installed keystroke logging spyware on one victim's computer. We need your support in this difficult time. His arrest comes two years after he withdrew his name from consideration for a Trump administration appointment to the board of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Sign up for free newsletters and get more CNBC delivered to your inbox. Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner threaten lawsuit over billboards criticizing COVID-19 response, group says. Like you, we here at Raw Story believe in the power of progressive journalism. Invest with us. A new conflict would look nothing like the first Civil War, more than 150 years ago, and instead would likely resemble an insurgency like those seen in Colombia, Ireland and Syria -- and possibly already in the U.S., reported Vice. The sexuality of Donald Trump's son-in-law is questioned by social media users following an eyebrow-raising tweet from … “Moreover, actions conducted in the open can easily be dismissed as nonviolent political activity. Copaken told The Times that FBI agents interviewed her in June 2018 as part of the background investigation of Kurson. Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump at the White House on 15 September. More than 8.4m cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in the US, according to Johns Hopkins University, with a record high of 83,757 on Friday.

", When asked for comment Friday about Kurson's arrest, Copaken told CNBC, "I'm glad he will no longer be harassing and terrorizing others. https://t.co/exYSJZ6pAp, — Hakeem Jefferson (@hakeemjefferson) October 26, 2020, Closing message of “People crying after watching a human being slowly killed on camera were faking it for likes” is another interesting move https://t.co/7h7cLqsy0K, — Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) October 26, 2020, Jared Kushner is a condescending douchebag. The long-haul effort has involved pressure from a powerful ally to President Trump, as well as tens of thousands of dollars in contributions from industry lobbyists and the casino developer — a riverboat casino mogul who has paid out millions of dollars in fraud cases. Trump is currently staging rallies at which coronavirus mitigation measures are not observed, and claiming the US is “rounding the turn” in containing the surging pandemic. Kurson had helped run the former New York mayor Giuliani's 2008 presidential campaign. — Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) October 26, 2020, Of this I am certain: The average Black person in this country puts in more work by noon than Jared Kushner puts in the whole damn day. We want to hear from you. Help us launch the Raw Story Podcast. Like you, we believe in the power of progressive journalism — and we’re investing in investigative reporting as other publications give it the ax.

Thank you. Sep 1, 2020 ; AceShowbiz - Is Jared Kushner gay? Jared Kushner is very good at making news. Got a confidential news tip? You won’t find mainstream media bias here. If these billboard ads are not immediately removed, we will sue you for what will doubtless be enormous compensatory and punitive damages.”. Kurson later sat in the Trump family box at the Republican National Convention that same year, the Times previously reported. He used the aliases "Jayden Wagner" and "Eddie Train" in making the false claims, the complaint said. — Josh Gondelman (@joshgondelman) October 26, 2020, Weird that black people don’t want to vote for someone like this, — Jaynie’s Got a Bun (@FreeGirlNowNYC) October 26, 2020. Unhinged from corporate overlords, we fight to ensure no one is forgotten. But we need your support to do what we do. … then let us make a small request. pic.twitter.com/2zL2tgQgfi, — Jason Kander (@JasonKander) October 26, 2020, This coming from the guy whose family has made a fortune in low income housing and gouging tenants with ridiculous ” service fees” and ” late rent fees ” that keep their tenants perpetually broke, And with Kushner’s so called ” oppurtunity zones”, those problems will explode, — jimmy craig (@threepeaksexp) October 26, 2020, “Why can’t they get their daddies to buy them bootstraps, the way my daddy did?”, — Texas Triffid Ranch (A Uwe Boll Film) (@txtriffidranch) October 26, 2020, “have you tried pulling yourselves up by the boot on your necks?”, — The BabaDuke Zero (@B_Sputnik) October 26, 2020, The guy who inherited his father’s business, wealth and banking connections implies that Black people may not want to be successful as Trump wants them to be.

As the virus surges, with the presidential election only 10 days away, the death toll has passed 223,000. “The level of indignant outrage Jared Kushner, and Ivanka Trump have shown towards the Lincoln Project for exposing their indifference for the more than 223,000 people who have lost their lives due to the reckless mismanagement of Covid-19 is comical,” a statement said. “You saw a lot of people who were just virtual signaling,” Kushner said. The press office of Mount Sinai did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Because every time he gets off message, spewing grievances, he’s not campaigning. Global Business and Financial News, Stock Quotes, and Market Data and Analysis. © 2020 CNBC LLC. The projects were slated to be completed in January 2020, the Corps said then. But we fully intend on making this civics lesson as painful as possible. Kurson, a political consultant, is accused of repeatedly visiting his victims at work, making false complaints with their employer and "malicious cyber activity," prosecutors said.

We’ve exposed billionaire tax evasion and uncovered White House efforts to poison our water. In the wake of devastating new reporting by Vanity Fair, a chorus of voices Friday called for the immediate resignation of Jared Kushner, a top White House advisor and the son-in-law of President Donald Trump, for disastrous—and deadly—failures by the administration that appear to have put the political desires of the president above the public health needs of the American people. The Lincoln Project’s response was typically pugnacious.