Kushner, Inc.: Greed. Ambition. Corruption. The Extraordinary Story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump

by Vicky Ward

Overview

Kushner, Inc.: The Extraordinary Rise and Dangerous Ambition of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump

In this instant New York Times bestseller, investigative journalist Vicky Ward unveils the swift, gilded rise to power of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump in Donald Trump's White House. Kushner, Inc. depicts the couple as the President's chief enablers, disdainful of rules, laws, and ethics. As entitled inheritors driven by ignorance, arrogance, and an insatiable lust for power, their actions have caused global havoc and may threaten U.S. democracy.

Ward traces their trajectory from New York City to the White House, where their forays into policy-making and national security have mocked long-standing protocols. Pursuing a self-serving agenda to increase their wealth, Jared and Ivanka have gone mostly unchecked. Kushner, Inc. holds the couple accountable, exposing their transactional motivations and the highest levels of government that have failed to stop them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250185952
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/19/2019
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Vicky Ward is a New York Times bestselling author, investigative reporter, and magazine columnist. She is the author of the bestselling books The Liar’s Ball: The Extraordinary Saga of How one Building Broke the World’s Toughest Tycoons (Wiley) and The Devil’s Casino: Friendship, Betrayal and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers (Wiley). She is an editor at large at HuffPost and HuffPost’s long-form magazine, Highline, as well as at Town&Country magazine. She was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair for eleven years, where she covered politics, finance, art, and culture.

Vicky Ward is a New York Times bestselling author, a magazine columnist and investigative reporter. The author of the bestselling books, The Liar’s Ball: The Extraordinary Saga of How one Building Broke the World’s Toughest Tycoons (Wiley) and The Devil’s Casino: Friendship, Betrayal and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers (Wiley), currently she is the editor at large at HuffPost and HuffPost’s long-form magazine, Highline.

Additionally, she was a contributor to Esquire and editor at large at Town&Country magazine. Previously, she was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair for eleven years where her articles covered politics, finance, arts and culture, and society.

Table of Contents

Prologue: America's Prince and Princess 1

Chapter 1 Rules Are Dangerous 4

Chapter 2 The Tuesday Beatings 13

Chapter 3 Family First 24

Chapter 4 She's Got the Biggest Set of Balls in the Room 32

Chapter 5 The Tower of Debt 43

Chapter 6 The Conversion 50

Chapter 7 "They Are Like Robots" 60

Chapter 8 A Most Convenient Candidate 70

Chapter 9 Making New Friends 80

Chapter 10 Is This That Bad? 89

Chapter 11 Kushner's Disappearing Act 102

Chapter 12 The Secretary of Everything 122

Chapter 13 The Anbang Bang 140

Chapter 14 St. Rex 144

Chapter 15 He'll Take Anything 157

Chapter 16 The Shock Felt Around the World 162

Chapter 17 "That Would Be a Felony" 171

Chapter 18 First Family 181

Chapter 19 The Newspaper Industry Is Out to Get Me 192

Chapter 20 Trump Is Different and I'm Different 196

Chapter 21 The Passover Revelation 207

Chapter 22 The Double-Dipper 210

Chapter 23 Charlie Barks and Bites 217

Chapter 24 Prison Reform, Mommy grams, and NAFTA 223

Chapter 25 Mr. Bone Saw and the Real Estate Agent 231

Epilogue: The Selfie President 236

Acknowledgments 241

Notes 243

Index 287

Editorial Reviews

2019-03-25
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.

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