I think that he knows:
How does one use civil disobedience when the feedback loop that is required for the Emperor’s New Clothes is disrupted ? What if he laughs about being naked and calls you a pussy for having clothes ?
If true, his new nickame is going to be CNN
Why the %&#$* does any governor need a 2nd palace like that? On the beach? This isn’t Saddam’s Iraq.
(quite yet)
That pegged my Sleaze-O-Meter so fast it bent the needle. If he were any sleazier we would need a new word for it.
Let’s remember it’s not just the optics. It’s the facts. It’s using the state’s resources as his entitlement. Yes, I like to think I would have known how bad that would look. But I like to think even more that I wouldn’t have even considered doing it.
oh man, they totally need to do a fictional (hopefully, gulp…) sequel to Gunner Palace where the final reveal is that it was Trump’s palace: “You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!”
If a New Jersey citizen (or anyone, really) had used this beach in exactly the same way, the authorities would have removed them.
Not as long as Jared Kushner has anything to say about it. Jared kicked Christie out of the White House staff because when Chris Christie was a federal prosecutor, he sent Jared Kushner’s dad to jail.
And why did he send Charles Kushner to prison? Well, besides tax evasion and tax fraud, he also hired a prostitute to lure his sister’s husband to a hotel and sent videotape of the encounter to his sister as revenge for being a witness in the tax fraud case.
That is an incredible reply. Thank you for the insight.
The Aristocrats!
Christie’s sister, or his own?
His own. Lovely family, the Kushners.
Oh, not anyone. New Jersey Sheriffs, for just one example, Do What They Want ®
I used to get a New Jersey “Get Out Of Jail Free” card for Xmas every year. I only ever used one of them, and I admit it made me feel kind of dirty. But Jersey is like that.
Can you spell this one out a bit? (I want to know which he did what, so I can despise Kushner and Christie for the right stuff.)
For this all the vitriol rightfully belongs to Kushner, father and son. Jared’s father was prosecuted by Christie, Jared’s brother-in-law testified, Jared took revenge.
I.e.,
the bolded ‘he’* refers to Jared.
ETA: After reading @nungesser’s answer, i think i got father and son partially confused. And i definitely misunderstood who testified.
* This is the part of @nungesser’s sentence that confused me leading me to assume that’s what confused everyone.
Sorry, I know that was a bit of a convoluted paragraph.
Charles Kushner was up for charges of tax fraud and tax evasion – he falsified hundreds of thousands of dollars in contributions to the Democratic Party as well as falsified office expenses at an apartment building he owned. He suspected his sister of being a key witness in the case against him.
So in a case of pure petty revenge, he hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, had a private investigator take photos and video of the encounter at a motel, and then sent the video to his own sister. He pled guilty in federal court to doing this, as well as tax fraud, and the prosecutor at the time just happened to be Chris Christie.
So even though his dad is clearly just a corrupt asshole, and admitted to it in court, Jared Kushner still blames Chris Christie for sending him to prison.
Thank you. So this Kushner bunch…
