Via the AP: Trump wants pardoned real estate developer Charles Kushner to become US ambassador to France. This is Jared Kushner’s father and he was pardoned by Trump. He is a man of high character, as I was reminded yesterday when I first saw the nomination.
The elder Kushner was pardoned by Trump in December 2020 after pleading guilty years earlier to tax evasion and making illegal campaign donations.
Prosecutors alleged that after Charles Kushner discovered his brother-in-law was cooperating with federal authorities in an investigation, he hatched a scheme for revenge and intimidation.
Kushner hired a prostitute to lure his brother-in-law, then arranged to have the encounter in a New Jersey motel room recorded with a hidden camera and the recording sent to his own sister, the man’s wife, prosecutors said.
You know, as one does.
Kushner eventually pleaded guilty to 18 counts including tax evasion and witness tampering. He was sentenced in 2005 to two years in prison — the most he could receive under a plea deal, but less than what Chris Christie, the U.S. attorney for New Jersey at the time and later governor and Republican presidential candidate, had sought.
Christie has blamed Jared Kushner for his firing from Trump’s transition team in 2016, and has called Charles Kushner’s offenses “one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes that I prosecuted when I was U.S. attorney.”
But, you know, family values, personal responsibility, and all that jazz.
At the rate we are going the hearings for these nominations are going to have to be held on CSPAN After Dark so that the Senators can feel free to ask about the backgrounds of the candidates without the kiddies being up to see.
It really shaping up to be a group of cronies and sycophants, just like the Founders intended.
