It’s always confusing when Black celebrities gather around to pontificate about what needs to be done for Black America, like rapper Ice Cube, CNN pundit Van Jones, and others did on Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk this week. In the U.S., we’re supposed to be interested in political and historical analyses by crafty capitalists rather than by those who are currently living under the failed […]
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On a late afternoon in March, a large military aircraft bearing the Russian Federation insignia descended into John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. Its mission: to deliver personal protective equipment and ventilators to nearby hospitals scrambling to treat patients during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic. Gov. Andrew Cuomo had pleaded for weeks with the federal government for additional resources, particularly ventilators, to […]
After running down the latest horrifying statistic about the coronavirus pandemic, Seth Meyers pointed out Monday night that all of this could have been avoided if the United States had implemented a “coordinated national testing strategy.” And as it turns out, “We almost had one, until Jared Kushner slithered out of his Westworld milk bath and fucked it up,” as the Late Night host put it. […]
Talk about family values. Disclosures obtained by a watchdog group show that White House Senior Advisor Jared Kushner raked in as much as $3,000,000 from projects benefiting from Trump administration initiatives in 2019, plus up to $1,000,000 more in rent money from firms which later received COVID-related small business loans from the government. The documents, released by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, show that […]
Former high-dollar Trump fundraiser Elliott Broidy has long maintained that the Qatari government was behind the hacking of his emails and their distribution to the press. Now, he’s implicating a former senior aide to Jared Kushner, who Broidy says advised a firm that helped orchestrate the hacking campaign while serving in the White House. Broidy’s new allegation is buried in a 112-page legal filing submitted in […]
If you found Russell Crowe particularly convincing as the late, disgraced Fox News boss Roger Ailes, that might be because he found an unlikely inside source: Jared Kushner. As Crowe told his longtime friend Nicole Kidman in a conversation for Variety, he ran into Kushner in 2018, at Hugh Jackman’s 50th birthday party in New York. Conveniently enough, Crowe recalled, “Nobody else was talking to him.” “Ivanka […]
CNN star Van Jones has a habit of upsetting his fellow Black activists, progressive policy advocates, and liberal Democrats by cozying up to the Trump White House. He did it again late last month, during the flap over a Black bird watcher in Central Park and a white Hillary Clinton voter who dialed 911 after refusing his pleas to leash her dog. Jones enraged Hillary loyalists—already […]
President Donald Trump went postal on Twitter Monday morning over the threat he claims mailed ballots pose to the integrity of U.S. elections—but his family seems to have never gotten the message. The commander in chief fired off another social media fusillade against the practice of submitting ballots through the post, which he has previously labeled “horrible,” “terrible,” and “corrupt,” as well as “dangerous,” “fraudulent,” and […]
The good news that “76 percent of Americans now say that racial and ethnic discrimination is a big problem in the United States,” according to a Monmouth poll, is bad news for Donald Trump’s adult spawn who shot to prominence on daddy’s racist lie that the first black president was born in Kenya. This sea change in the moral universe — with a majority of Americans […]
Fox News host Tucker Carlson tore into White House senior adviser and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner on Monday night, blaming him for leading the president astray and having “contempt” for Trump’s voters as violent protests rage across the country. Kicking off Tucker Carlson Tonight by raging against the increasingly chaotic demonstrations that have flared up over George Floyd’s death, Carlson first took issue with Republican leaders sympathizing […]
Comedy Central After a softball interview with Time magazine this week, news outlets breathlessly reported that Jared Kushner told the publication the presidential election may be delayed until after November 3rd provided there’s another outbreak of COVID-19. “Oh. My. God. Jared Kushner might delay the election?!” exclaimed The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah on Wednesday night. “That is not good!” He added, “And honestly, I can’t believe […]
President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, on Tuesday refused to commit to the pandemic-besieged United States holding the 2020 presidential election on its designated day, November 3. Kushner, whose father-in-law’s approval rating has been trailing presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s amid the COVID-19 pandemic that so far has killed more than 82,000 Americans, raised the possibility of a Trump-orchestrated delay in answer to Time magazine White […]
Is comedy still funny if there’s no one there to laugh? That’s the question that many comedians have been struggling to answer over these past two months—and one that was put to the test on Sunday night during the Feeding America Comedy Festival, a two-hour tour-de-force telethon to benefit that organization’s COVID-19 Response Fund. Former comic and current media mogul Byron Allen teamed up with Funny […]
A New York man who claims he’s a former White House official is accused of selling stolen COVID-19 testing kits and leaving consumers without results. Henry Sylvain Gindt II, 34, is charged with mail fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud for offering home-testing kits, which he allegedly obtained illegally from a lab employee, for $135 to $200 each. In a press […]
The president’s son-in-law and top aide, Jared Kushner, suggested having Trump’s future national security adviser use secure communications at the Russian embassy to communicate with Russian generals, according to newly released transcripts from the House Intelligence Committee. The suggestion, made during a December 2016 meeting with Michael Flynn and then-Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak, was ultimately nixed by the Russian ambassador, according to Kushner. Kushner’s proposed back-channel […]