President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> announced on Saturday evening that he has nominated Charles Kushner to serve as his U.S. Ambassador to France after he is sworn into office in January.
&#8220;He is a tremendous business leader, philanthropist, &amp; dealmaker, who will be a strong advocate representing our Country &amp; its interests,&#8221; Trump wrote on social media. &#8220;Charlie is the Founder &amp; Chairman of Kushner Companies, one of the largest &amp; most successful privately held Real Estate firms in the Nation.&#8221;
&#8220;He was recognized as New Jersey Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst &amp; Young, appointed to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, &amp; served as a Commissioner, &amp; Chairman, of the Port Authority of New York &amp; New Jersey, as well as on the Boards of our top institutions, including NYU,&#8221; Trump added.
Trump noted that Charlie&#8217;s son Jared, who is married to Trump&#8217;s eldest daughter Ivanka, was a key player during his first term in office on multiple initiatives, including Operation Warp Speed, Criminal Justice Reform, &amp; the Abraham Accords.
&#8220;Together, we will strengthen America’s partnership with France, our oldest Ally, &amp; one of our greatest!&#8221; Trump concluded.
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Trump has already nominated or appointed dozens of people to serve in his new administration, including Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) for Secretary of State; financier Scott Bessent for Secretary of the Treasury; former Army veteran Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense; former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi for U.S. Attorney General; North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum for Secretary of the Interior; Former Acting Director of the Domestic Policy Council Brooke Rollins for Secretary of Agriculture; CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald Howard Lutnick for Secretary of Commerce; Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR) for Secretary of Labor; former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Secretary of Health and Human Services; former Trump official Scott Turner for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; former Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) for Secretary of Transportation; CEO of Liberty Energy Chris Wright for Secretary of Energy; former Small Business Administration Administrator Linda McMahon for Secretary of Education; Former Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) for Secretary of Veterans Affairs; South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem for Secretary of Homeland Security; former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe for CIA Director; former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) for Director of National Intelligence; former Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) for Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) for Ambassador to the United Nations; former Trump official Kash Patel for FBI Director; and others.

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Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> said during an interview this week that his family will not play any role in his administration if he becomes the Republican Party nominee and wins the 2024 general election.
Trump, 77, told Fox News anchor Bret Baier in an interview that aired Monday evening that being president was &#8220;too painful for the family&#8221; and that they will not be involved in his administration if he gets back to the White House.
Trump made the remarks when Baier asked him if he wanted his oldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, and her husband, Jared Kushner, with him again politically in the future.
&#8220;No,&#8221; Trump responded. “I said, that’s enough for the family. You know why? It’s too painful for the family.&#8221;
“My family’s been through hell,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I mean, they have — Eric, my son, who’s a fine boy. You know him very well. He’s a fine young man, good student, good everything, comes in. We’re doing beautifully. Then I decide to run for president. I mean, I don’t think anybody in the world in history has ever had more subpoenas sent to him,” the 2024 GOP presidential front-runner claimed.
The former president said that no other family has been through what his family has been through.
“Ivanka had a really successful line of clothing, I mean, making a fortune. When I did this, she was really — she closed it up,&#8221; he said. &#8220;She sort of felt she had to, but she closed it up.&#8221;
Ivanka Trump announced in November 2022 that she would play no part in her father’s 2024 presidential campaign, and she skipped the former president’s campaign launch at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
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Ivanka Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ivanka-trump-releases-statement-on-why-she-did-not-attend-fathers-presidential-announcement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> after her father announced his third presidential campaign that she did not want to be part of it because she wanted to focus on her children.
“I love my father very much,” Ivanka said. “This time around, I am choosing to prioritize my young children and the private life we are creating as a family. I do not plan to be involved in politics.”
“While I will always love and support my father, going forward I will do so outside the political arena,” she continued. “I am grateful to have had the honor of serving the American people and I will always be proud of many of our Administration’s accomplishments.”

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Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump&#8217;s</a> daughter and son-in-law have reportedly been subpoenaed in one of the federal criminal investigations into the former president.
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/us/politics/jared-kushner-ivanka-trump-jan-6.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that special counsel Jack Smith subpoenaed Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner to testify before a federal grand jury about Trump&#8217;s efforts to stay in office after losing the 2020 presidential election.
The report said that it was unclear whether Trump would try to block them from testifying by claiming executive privilege. Trump did not stop either of them from testifying in front of the special House Select Committee on the January 6 riot.
The report noted that one clip from the January 6 hearing showed that Ivanka Trump said she &#8220;accepted&#8221; then-U.S. Attorney General William Barr&#8217;s conclusion that there was not widespread fraud during the election.
Smith has also subpoenaed former Vice President Mike Pence and former national security adviser Robert O’Brien in his criminal investigations into the former president. The FBI and DOJ also recorded a four-hour interview under oath with former acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf as part of the investigations.
Other top former Trump administration officials who have reportedly testified in the criminal investigations into Trump include Wolf’s former deputy, Ken Cuccinelli, former White House counsel Pat Cipollone and his deputy Patrick Philbin, former adviser Stephen Miller, and former White House aide John McEntee.

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More than a month after Ivanka Trump was a no-show at her father&#8217;s announcement that he would seek the presidency again, Donald Trump says he actually asked her and her husband Jared Kushner not to join his campaign.
Ivanka, who bore the title of senior presidential adviser during her father&#8217;s term in the White House, said in a November 15 statement that she decided not to participate, contradicting Trump&#8217;s new statement.
&#8220;Contrary to Fake News reporting, I never asked Jared or Ivanka to be part of the 2024 Campaign for President and, in fact, specifically asked them not to do it — too mean and nasty with the Fake &amp; Corrupt News and having to deal with some absolutely horrendous SleazeBags in the world of politics, and beyond,&#8221; Trump wrote on the Truth Social platform.
&#8220;There has never been anything like this &#8216;ride&#8217; before, and they should not be further subjected to it. I ran twice, getting millions more Votes the second time (RIGGED), &amp; am doing it again!&#8221; he added.
But The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/11/14/trump-begging-jared-ivanka-to-join-him-for-campaign-launch-sources/">reported</a> in November that Trump had &#8220;begged&#8221; both Ivanka and Kushner to join his campaign team while they were all at Tiffany Trump’s Mar-a-Lago wedding.
“Trump thought he could convince Ivanka this weekend to come back and campaign for him as she was the most requested speaker after the president himself last time around,&#8221; The Post quoted an &#8220;insider&#8221; as saying.
&#8220;But so far she’s resisting his entreaties and holding firm, as is Jared. They both feel they got burned in Washington and don’t want to go back and expose themselves and their children to another bitter campaign.”
For her part, Ivanka was clear as to why she was not joining the campaign.
“I love my father very much,” Ivanka said, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ivanka-trump-releases-statement-on-why-she-did-not-attend-fathers-presidential-announcement">reported</a> in November. “This time around, I am choosing to prioritize my young children and the private life we are creating as a family. I do not plan to be involved in politics.”
“While I will always love and support my father, going forward I will do so outside the political arena,” she continued. “I am grateful to have had the honor of serving the American people and I will always be proud of many of our Administration’s accomplishments.”
Ivanka insisted she is close to her father and that “hasn’t changed and will never change.”
“I’ve had many roles over the years but that of daughter is one of the most elemental and consequential,” she said. “I am loving this time with my kids, loving life in Miami and the freedom and privacy with having returned to the private sector. This has been one of the greatest times of my life.”
While talking about her three children — Arabella, 11, Joseph, 9, and Theodore, 6 — she said that they were at “critical ages” and that she wanted to be there to enjoy “these moments with them.”
“We’re happy where we are right now, and we will continue to support my father — as his kids,” Ivanka added.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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Former President Donald Trump Claims He Asked Ivanka, Husband Jared Kushner Not To Be Part Of '24 Campaign

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ivanka-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ivanka Trump</a>, former President Donald Trump&#8217;s oldest daughter, said in a statement Tuesday evening that she decided not to attend her father&#8217;s presidential announcement at Mar-a-Lago because she does not want to be involved in politics anymore.
The statement from Ivanka comes after the New York Post reported Monday that the president &#8220;spent part of daughter Tiffany’s lavish Mar-a-Lago wedding this past weekend trying to convince his much-loved elder daughter, Ivanka, and son-in-law Jared Kushner to be with him on stage&#8221; when he announced tonight.
&#8220;I love my father very much,&#8221; Ivanka said. &#8220;This time around, I am choosing to prioritize my young children and the private life we are creating as a family. I do not plan to be involved in politics.&#8221;
&#8220;While I will always love and support my father, going forward I will do so outside the political arena,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I am grateful to have had the honor of serving the American people and I will always be proud of many of our Administration&#8217;s accomplishments.&#8221;
Ivanka Trump <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ivanka-trump-says-she-loves-her-father-does-not-plan-involved-politics?intcmp=tw_fnc">told</a> Fox News that she is close to her father and that &#8220;hasn&#8217;t changed and will never change.&#8221;
&#8220;I’ve had many roles over the years but that of daughter is one of the most elemental and consequential,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I am loving this time with my kids, loving life in Miami and the freedom and privacy with having returned to the private sector. This has been one of the greatest times of my life.&#8221;
While talking about her three children — Arabella, 11, Joseph, 9, and Theodore, 6 — she said that they were at &#8220;critical ages&#8221; and that she wanted to be there to enjoy &#8220;these moments with them.&#8221;
&#8220;We’re happy where we are right now, and we will continue to support my father — as his kids,&#8221; Ivanka Trump added.
Donald Trump Jr. was also not in attendance because he was on a hunting trip and could not get a flight back due to bad weather.
Tiffany Trump, the youngest daughter, got married over the weekend and was not in attendance.
Jared Kushner, Ivanka&#8217;s husband, was in attendance at Mar-a-Lago for the announcement.
This report has been updated to include additional information.

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Ivanka Trump Releases Statement On Why She Did Not Attend Father’s Presidential Announcement

Ivanka Trump Releases Statement On Why She Did Not Attend Father's Presidential Announcement

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jared-kushner-reveals-details-of-cancer-diagnosis-treatment-report">Jared Kushner</a> claims in his forthcoming memoir that former Trump chief of staff <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-kelly">John Kelly</a> once shoved <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ivanka-trump">Ivanka Trump</a> and later offered a &#8220;meek&#8221; apology for the incident.
Kushner, former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a>’s son-in-law and a top White House adviser, said in &#8220;Breaking History: A White House Memoir,&#8221; due to release in August, that Kelly had a &#8220;Jekyll and Hyde&#8221; personality and showed his &#8220;true character&#8221; on the day he allegedly shoved his wife, Ivanka.
“One day he had just marched out of a contentious meeting in the Oval Office,” Kushner said in the memoir, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/27/kushner-kelly-shove-ivanka-trump/">according</a> to The Washington Post. “Ivanka was walking down the main hallway in the West Wing when she passed him. Unaware of his heated state of mind, she said, ‘Hello, chief.’ Kelly shoved her out of the way and stormed by. She wasn’t hurt, and didn’t make a big deal about the altercation, but in his rage Kelly had shown his true character.”
Kelly later went to Ivanka&#8217;s office to offer “a meek apology, which she accepted,&#8221; Kushner said, noting that Ivanka&#8217;s chief of staff Julie Radford witnessed the apology. “It was the first and only time that Ivanka’s staff saw Kelly visit their second-floor corner of the West Wing,” he wrote.
Ivanka through a spokesperson said the incident did take place how Kushner recalled in the memoir.
Kelly, though, strongly denied the account, telling the Post, “I don’t recall anything like you describe.”
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“It is inconceivable that I would EVER shove a woman. Inconceivable. Never happen,” the retired four-star general added. “Would never intentionally do something like that. Also, don’t remember ever apologizing to her for something I didn’t do. I’d remember that.”
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Radford told the Post that she heard Kelly apologize to Ivanka.
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Kushner added in the memoir that Kelly was dismissive of Ivanka behind closed doors, but in public showered her &#8220;with compliments to her face that she knew were insincere.”
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“Then the four-star general would call her staff to his office and berate and intimidate them over trivial procedural issues that his rigid system often created,” Kushner wrote. “He would frequently refer to her initiatives like paid family leave and the child tax credit as ‘Ivanka’s pet projects.’”
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As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jared-kushner-reveals-details-of-cancer-diagnosis-treatment-report">reported</a> earlier this week, the memoir also details Kushner&#8217;s thyroid cancer diagnosis and treatment, which he has never spoken about publicly.
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“On the morning that I traveled to Texas to attend the opening of a Louis Vuitton factory, White House physician Sean Conley pulled me into the medical cabin on Air Force One,” Kushner said, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/25/us/politics/jared-kushner-thyroid-cancer.html">according</a> to The New York Times. “‘Your test results came back from Walter Reed,’ he said. ‘It looks like you have cancer. We need to schedule a surgery right away.’”
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Jared Kushner, former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and one of his most trusted advisers, revealed in an upcoming memoir that he was diagnosed with cancer while working in the White House.
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/25/us/politics/jared-kushner-thyroid-cancer.html">obtained</a> an excerpt of Kushner&#8217;s new book &#8220;Breaking History: A White House Memoir,&#8221; which is set to be released in late August.
“On the morning that I traveled to Texas to attend the opening of a Louis Vuitton factory, White House physician Sean Conley pulled me into the medical cabin on Air Force One,” Kushner wrote.
Kushner wrote that Conley told him,  “‘Your test results came back from Walter Reed. It looks like you have cancer. We need to schedule a surgery right away.’”
Kushner told Conley to not tell anyone about the diagnosis, &#8220;especially my wife or my father-in-law,&#8221; presumably because it could cause issues with his role serving the administration.
Kushner said that the cancer was caught early but a large portion of his thyroid still had to be removed.
A doctor “concluded that I needed surgery to remove an unusual growth in my thyroid, and we scheduled the operation for the Friday before Thanksgiving,” Kushner wrote. “That way, I would miss the least amount of time in the office. My absence might even go unnoticed. That’s how I wanted it.”
“This was a personal problem and not for public consumption,” he continued. “With the exception of Ivanka, Avi, Cassidy and Mulvaney, I didn’t tell anyone at the White House — including the president.”
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Jared Kushner is reportedly planning on exiting politics and launching an investment firm to be headquartered in Miami.
Kushner is the son-in-law of former President Donald Trump and is a close adviser to the former president. Kushner also served Trump during his administration as a senior adviser in the White House.
The investment firm, now in the final stages of its creation, will be called Affinity Partners. Kushner plans to open a branch of the firm in Israel to seek partners and bolster economic ties between Israel and India, North Africa, and the Gulf, according to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/jared-kushner-leave-politics-launch-investment-firm-sources-2021-07-28/">Reuters</a>.
While in the White House, Kushner was the mastermind of a string of groundbreaking peace deals in the Middle East between Israel and several Arab nations known as the Abraham Accords. The Trump administration helped negotiate deals between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco before Trump left office in January.
Kushner also took the lead on a number of other Trump administration accomplishments, and he remains close to the president as an adviser and a neighbor at the former president’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
Since leaving the White House, Kushner has spent much of his time writing a book on his time in the White House. The book is expected to be published in 2022 by Broadside Books.
“His book will be the definitive, thorough recounting of the administration — and the truth about what happened behind closed doors,” Broadside <a href="https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-jared-kushner-middle-east-entertainment-business-c339b8a137e126f76ad6aef346f85007">said</a> in a June announcement.
Israel has remained supportive of the Abraham Accords and critical of the Biden administration’s attempts to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with Iran. The Abraham Accords were agreed to in part to resist Iranian aggression in the Middle East.
President Joe Biden has sought to renegotiate the JCPOA, or Iran deal, after Trump abandoned the deal in 2018. Trump said that the deal was more likely to lead to a nuclear Iran than contain the Middle Eastern terror state. In a change of tune for the U.S., Biden has sought to re-enter the Iran deal, claiming the agreement, first negotiated under former President Barack Obama, would prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons.
Israel has slammed the Biden administration for trying to strike the deal again with Iran, asserting that the last treaty gave Iran too much room to create nuclear material and did not allow other countries to effectively oversee Iran’s nuclear program.
Israel foreign minister Yair Lapid bashed the deal in a discussion with his U.S. counterpart, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in June.
“We have to work together as we face a new Iran deal. This is a bad deal and we are going to work with the prime minister. Israel will use every option at its disposal in order to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon,” Lapid said.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-israeli-government-blasts-bad-iran-deal-remains-committed-to-trump-peace-plan-after-netanyahus-ouster">New Israeli Government Blasts ‘Bad’ Iran Deal, Remains Committed To Trump Peace Plan After Netanyahu’s Ouster</a>

Report: Jared Kushner Plans To Reenter Private Sector, Launch Investment Firm After Leaving Politics

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Attorneys for Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have sent a letter to the Lincoln Project, an organization made up of former Republicans who are virulently anti-Trump, after the group put up billboards in Times Square featuring images of the couple.
“I am writing concerning the false, malicious and defamatory ads that the Lincoln Project is displaying on billboards in Times Square,” attorney Mark Kasowitz wrote in the letter. “If these billboards are not immediately removed, we will sue you for what will doubtless be enormous compensatory and punitive damages.”
As The Hill reported, the attorneys mentioned two billboards that appeared in Times Square:
The attorneys in a letter to The Lincoln Project complained about one billboard showing Trump, a senior adviser to her father, smiling and gesturing next to figures showing over 33,000 New Yorkers and 221,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus. The lawyers also cited a billboard featuring Kushner, another senior White House adviser, next to body bags and an unrelated 2019 quote from before the pandemic in which he said New Yorkers would “suffer.”
The Lincoln Project responded to the attorneys’ letter in a statement.
“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 their reckless mismanagement of COVID-19 is comical. While we truly enjoy living rent free in their heads, their empty threats will not be taken any more seriously than we take Ivanka and Jared,” the organization said.
“It is unsurprising that an administration that has never had any regard or understanding of our Constitution would try to trample on our first amendment rights, but we fully intend on making this civics lesson as painful as possible,&#8221; the Lincoln Project added.
The Lincoln Project has worked with Democrats to support Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and oppose President Donald Trump.
In July, The Daily Wire’s Tim Pearce <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anti-trump-lincoln-project-plans-to-push-biden-agenda-if-hes-elected-co-founder-says">reported</a> that one of the co-founders of the Lincoln Project said that not only are they working to defeat Trump, but they would push Biden’s agenda if he’s elected.
“He will have a mandate to clean up the mess that Trump has created with the help of his enablers,” co-founder John Weaver <a href="https://t.co/mhdzK2AAqf?amp=1">told</a> Washington Post columnist Greg Sargent. “That shouldn’t be held up. We intend to do all we can to make sure that doesn’t happen.”
In addition to campaigning against Trump, the Lincoln Project has also spent money trying to take down GOP senators, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Susan Collings (R-ME), and Cory Gardner (R-CO).
The Lincoln Project has made numerous missteps in its anti-Republican campaign, including falling for <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/reddit-troll-dupes-project-lincoln-into-believing-ben-shapiro-set-up-an-antifa-website">a hoax</a> from an online troll. The troll, Adam Rahuba, created a fake website to allegedly recruit people for the violent left-wing group Antifa, and put Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro’s name and company email address in the source code to make it look as though Shapiro created the website, which he didn’t.
Full disclosure: I wrote for the New York Observer while Kushner was the publisher.

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I have noted before that I grew up in Dubai, one of the United Arab Emirates. From 1980-1990, my family lived in an ungated community in the middle of the city down the street from the Iranian Hospital with the Jumeirah American School just one long block up the road. We walked to school every day.
The school changed its name to the American School of Dubai the year after I graduated. It moved locations. The current school at the old location is the Jumeirah Baccalaureate School. My old house is all that remains of my neighborhood. The whole place got leveled and rebuilt, except my house on the corner at 27 Sheikh Rashid Villas, which is now No. 39 on 32b Street, Dubai, UAE. The only reason my house remained is because it became a doctor&#8217;s office some time after we moved home in the run up to the first Gulf War.
Growing up, our history and geography textbooks all had pages missing or redacted. Anything that referenced Israel got taken out by censors. Maps of the Eastern Mediterranean had Israel either relabeled as Palestine or simply scribbled out with black Sharpie.
In ninth grade, my class went to Greece. At the base of the Acropolis is the Athens Agora. I remember a bunch of flags and our teacher pointing one out that was white with blue stripes and a blue star. None of knew it was the Israeli flag. That flag had either been cut out or redacted from our textbooks. The World Book Encyclopedia and Encyclopedia Britannica had pages misses and redacted in the library. Phone calls could not connect from Israel to the UAE. It was as if there were no phone lines between the two. We could not travel to Israel, and I have still never been to Israel. We could not reenter the UAE with an Israeli stamp in our passports.
It is of monumental importance that the UAE and Israel now are extending diplomatic relations to each other, recognizing each other, engaging in commerce with each other, and letting information and phone calls flow between the nations. Bahrain and Oman were similarly situated; Bahrain has also recognized Israel, and Oman will, too.
This is a huge win for the Trump administration. There is a credible argument that the nations were induced into acting together because they fear the United States will not help them in a skirmish with Iran. But the Trump administration did play a role in brokering this deal, and the president does deserve credit.
Barack Obama received the peace prize merely for showing up; President Donald Trump has exceeded that standard here. And, yes, Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize merely for showing up.
On Tuesday, after the historic meeting of the nations at the White House, most of the American media downplayed it. The websites at CNN, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and USA Today either did not mention the summit or minimized it. Reporters and pundits claimed that because Israel, Bahrain and the UAE had never been in a physical war, it was really no big deal.
The American media&#8217;s response shows an ignorance of how Arab nations have treated Israel, including redacting Israel from textbooks, barring travel between the nations, refusing aviation flyovers and blocking telecommunications channels. It reveals that many of those who cover the news and pontificate on it have not lived lives with much exposure to the real world.
Remember, the talking heads claimed moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem would spark a war. Various pundits and most experts claimed as much, including former Secretary of State John F. Kerry. On MSNBC, the loud voices opposed to Trump said Trump moving the embassy would get a lot of people killed and undermine peace in the Middle East. They were wrong and now claim there was always peace.
This is an enormous deal, and Trump and Jared Kushner do both deserve some credit — credit much of the media would prefer they not have, so they will ignore the story.
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President Trump reportedly regrets taking as much advice as he has from his son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, Axios reports.
Moving forward, the president is going to rely less on Kushner’s advice and more on instinct. Placing too much weight on Kushner’s suggestions has caused damage to Trump politically, the president believes, according to <a href="https://www.axios.com/trump-kushner-second-thoughts-408d5a33-725d-442a-88e4-d6ab6742c139.html">Axios</a>. Among his regrets, Trump now thinks he never should have allowed Kushner to spend time and political capital on criminal justice reform, an issue that Trump did not run on and that voters did not expressly support him for.
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany pushed back against the Axios report.
“President Trump is very proud of the historic work that he&#8217;s done to benefit all communities. The First Step Act made historic strides toward rectifying racial disparities in sentencing while his executive order to secure America&#8217;s streets works with our nation&#8217;s heroic police officers to ensure we have safe policing and safe communities,” McEnany said.
Kushner is one of the most influential people working in the administration besides the president himself. Trump has tapped Kushner to lead on many different initiatives, such as trade negotiations with Mexico and dispensing supplies from the national stockpile amid the coronavirus. Kushner was a key player in what became the longest government shutdown in U.S. history beginning on Dec. 21, 2018, and lasting 35 days.
Kushner has been a controversial figure in the White House, blamed for many of the administration’s missteps by people who tend to support Trump. Fox News host Tucker Carlson offered a stinging critique of the president’s son-in-law on a June 1 episode of the popular cable host’s evening show, according to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/01/tucker-carlson-trump-protest-295628">Politico</a>.
Carlson held Kushner, along with Trump, responsible for the administration’s slow response to recent violent protests, as well as the administration’s lack of ability to curb the violence. Even in Washington, D.C., violent protests took place blocks from the White House, and thieves smashed windows and looted stores.
Carlson said that Kushner, as well as other White House officials, “don&#8217;t seem to understand &#8230; the gravity of the moment.” The Fox host also said that Kushner took the president’s voters for granted.
“No one has more contempt for Donald Trump&#8217;s voters than Jared Kushner does,” Carlson said.
Despite criticisms, Trump has largely stood by Kushner. If the relationship is souring, however, the chance for police reform may sour with it. Trump has <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-calls-jared-kushner-my-star-over-policing-fix-2020-6">placed</a> Kushner in charge of the White House’s stance on police reform, thought the president himself is more in favor of taking a strong pro-police position.
“We want to make sure we don&#8217;t have any bad actors in there, and sometimes you&#8217;ll see some horrible things like we witnessed recently, but 99 — I say 99.9, but let&#8217;s go with 99% of them are great, great people, and they&#8217;ve done jobs that are record-setting — record-setting,” Trump said at a meeting with law enforcement in early June.
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Report Claims Trump Sidelining Son-In-Law Kushner, Following His Instincts

Failed 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tried to fan the flames of conspiracy Wednesday, tweeting out a warning that senior Trump White House advisor Jared Kushner was part of a team exploring the possibility of moving the November presidential elections, and now the White House is firing back.
Kushner responded to a question <a href="https://time.com/5835342/jared-kushner-time-100-talks-highlights/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=time-100-talks&amp;utm_term=politics_&amp;linkId=88486471">from a TIME Magazine reporter</a> Tuesday, asking whether the White House was exploring the possibility of delaying the November election out of concern over coronavirus. The White House, of course, has largely opposed Democrats&#8217; plans to create an entirely by-mail voting system, forcing Americans to cast their ballots and send them to state election officials, who have never processed millions of ballots at one time.
&#8220;When asked if there was a chance the presidential election could be postponed past November 3 due to the pandemic, Kushner said that isn’t his decision,&#8221; TIME Magazine reported.
“I’m not sure I can commit one way or the other, but right now that’s the plan,” Kushner replied, indicating that the White House had no current plans to ask Congress to move the election.
Although it went unreported, Kushner&#8217;s comments continued, making it clear the White House had no plans to ask for any future shutdowns, let alone of voting systems: “Hopefully by the time we get to September, October, November, we’ve done enough work with testing and with all the different things we’re trying to do to prevent a future outbreak of the magnitude that would make us shut down again.&#8221;
Leftists on social media took Kushner&#8217;s comments as a warning signal that the Trump administration was, in fact, exploring the possibility of delaying elections, and Hillary Clinton, who has been regularly suggesting that President Donald Trump is engaged in a conspiracy to keep the White House, even though there should be a 2020 presidential contest, zeroed in.
“I can’t believe I have to write this sentence, but the president&#8217;s son-in-law doesn&#8217;t get to decide when the election is,” Clinton wrote, linking an article about Kushner&#8217;s response.
Clinton was scalded on Twitter, by no less than Kushner&#8217;s own advisor, Avi Berkowitz, who fired back, &#8220;He literally said: &#8216;It&#8217;s not my decision to make.'&#8221;
Kushner clarified his own answer in a statement issued Tuesday night, even before Clinton&#8217;s tweet: “I have not been involved in, nor am I aware of, any discussions about trying to change the date of the presidential election.&#8221;
The White House, of course, has no power to move the election, regardless. The date of the presidential election &#8212; the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November &#8212; is set by Congressional edict and can only be changed by another Congressional edict. Even if President Trump wanted to postpone the election, both houses of Congress would have to agree, and there&#8217;s little chance Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) would assent to such a plan.
That hasn&#8217;t stopped Clinton and others, including former Vice President-turned-2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, from suggesting Trump is conspiring to take dictatorial control. Biden, in an interview last month said that, “Mark my words, I think [Trump] is going to try to kick back the election somehow — come up with some rationale why it can’t be held.&#8221;
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