Kellyanne Conway: Jared Kushner ‘Benefitted in the Billions’ from Trump Presidency
Fox News contributor and former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway said Thursday on FNC’s “The Story” that former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner “benefitted in the billions” from the Trump presidency.
The panel was discussing the House Oversight Committee press release stating that relatives of President Joe Biden received $1.3 million between 2015 and 2017 from an associate with ties to China.
Anchor Martha MacCallum said, “You know, there’s obviously comparisons. There was a lot of discussion during the Trump White House years that there was collusion with Russia. There were massive investigations, millions of dollars spent, and always the question, you know, what are they getting in return? So, do you have the same question for the Biden family when you look at this money transaction? What was China getting in return? Is that something Americans must know?”
Fox News contributor Juan Williams said, “Well, we haven’t established Congresswoman Mace when asked did you establish a connection going to Beau Biden’s widow and the Chinese. She said we’ll continue investigating. She can’t say there’s any tie, and I can’t say there’s any tie.”
He continued, “When you mention what’s going on with the Trump administration, Jamie Raskin is on to this as well, the congressman from Maryland on the committee, he said, why aren’t we investigating the Trump accounting firms? Why don’t you look into things like Jared Kushner getting $2 billion directly from the Saudis after former President Trump bragged about protecting the Saudi prince?”
Martha MacCallum said, “Kellyanne, is that a fair question about Jared Kushner?”
Conway said, “Well, Jared, of course, is the only person I think who has benefitted in the billions – with a ‘B’ – from the Trump presidency. That’s for sure. But look, I think whataboutism isn’t going to work here.”
She added, “This happened when Joe Biden was the sitting vice president.”
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Trump could be in more danger than you think
One of the things I often have to remind people about, including lawyers who should know better, is that each state has its own unique laws and procedures. What is no big deal in most places may be a fiasco in another.
For Donald Trump, the upcoming New York "falsifying business records" charge he may be facing would be laughed out of court almost everywhere, as no money was stolen and no harm to anyone seems to have been done. Unfortunately for him, he is stuck in the Empire State. And as unfair as it sounds, I think Mr. Trump is in some real trouble.
The plan the Manhattan D.A. has is to convict him on a trivial offense, then hope a vindictive judge will throw the book at him. This happens all the time to suspected mafiosi in New York courts, and it may be what's going on here.
Start with the supposed two-year statute of limitations on misdemeanors underlying the prosecution. It is expected that D.A. Bragg's office will overcharge Mr. Trump, with several felonies, in part just to get around the two-year limit. But that may not even be necessary. Unfortunately, as many people are now discovering, the statute of limitations tolls for the time a defendant resides out of New York State, as Mr. Trump has the last six years. So the statute of limitations most likely won't come into play.
Then, thanks to the persistence of organized crime in New York, there has evolved an astonishingly wide theory of misdemeanor "intent to defraud," developed in such organized crime cases as People v. Kase. New York prosecutors, in their zeal to convict mobsters, have been able to put real teeth into the laws against business records crimes for years now, which carry substantial penalties. Thanks to this, the Manhattan D.A. has a road map of how to now get Donald Trump.
This is also where the Trump Organization convictions for fraud last year will come into play. These can used by a judge to pile on to Trump himself at sentencing, making him out to be the equivalent of an organized crime boss, to justify a harsh penalty.
I don't think Trump would get the maximum — one year in county jail — but a sixty-day term on Riker's island is possible, depending upon the judge. Even without a period of incarceration, the conditions of Trump's probation could be onerous. Just requiring that he remain in New York for a year or two would effectively end his presidential campaign.
Make no mistake: Alvin Bragg has little real criminal trial experience, but his Manhattan district attorney's office is full of effective and ruthless attorneys. They go up against the best paid criminal defense bar in the country every day. They know all the tricks. Add to that that the jury pool will be full of Trump-hating lefties. Just getting a conviction on some pathetic false records misdemeanor would be a massive win for them and might well prove to be the undoing of Mr. Trump.
Frank Friday is an attorney in Louisville, Ky.
Image: Ninian Reid via Flickr, CC BY 2.0 (cropped).
Dem Rep. Raskin: GOP a Cult of ‘One-Man Crimewave’ Trump
Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Alex Wagner Tonight” that the Republican Party had “turned into a messianic cult of personality around” former President Donald Trump.
When asked about House Republicans requesting Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg testify, Raskin said, “Let’s start with this, we actually have jurisdictional authority over the Department of Justice and the House Judiciary Committee. But it’s very well-established that even there, with the DOJ, where there is real jurisdictional oversight responsibility, that we cannot intervene in an ongoing case. Then you take it from the federal level to the state and local level, where we have no jurisdictional power over the investigator and prosecutorial authorities, and this is unheard of and outrageous. It’s clearly an attempt to elevate Donald Trump completely above the law, completely above the Constitution. And that’s what’s so scary about this.”
He continued, “That is what is so scary about this. The GOP has turned into a messianic cult of personality around one guy who has proven himself to be a one-man crimewave, and they have all wrapped themselves in their careers, their destinies around Donald Trump.”
Raskin added, “The emperor has no clothes at any level. During the impeachment trial, the rhetoric of all the Republicans was, ‘Well, if there is a real problem, you don’t need to impeach and convict him. Just prosecute him when he leaves office.’ That’s fine. Now all the prosecutors are saying that there are these criminal offenses we want to investigate and they’re saying, ‘How dare you prosecute a former president. Someone that’s put himself forward to run for president again.’ They will devise any argument to try to guarantee the total immunity and impunity of one Donald Trump.”
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Dershowitz: Constitution Allows Trump to Run for President if Indicted, Convicted, Sentenced - Even ‘if He’s in Prison!’
“I have some bad news for you guys,” renowned liberal Attorney Alan Dershowitz is telling leftist prosecutors, juries and politicians who want to indict and convict former President Donald Trump on false charges, in order to keep him from running in 2024.
“The purpose behind this prosecution is to stop him from running for president and stop him from becoming president,” Dershowitz explains in Monday’s episode of “The Dershow,” examining liberal Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s determination to indict and convict Trump.
The Harvard Law professor emeritus and Constitutional scholar says he has “some bad news” for D.A. Bragg, and those like him who want to unjustly use the law as a political weapon against Trump:
“I think you’re enhancing his chances of running for president and getting the nomination and, perhaps, even winning. I don’t think it’s going to hurt his chances of becoming elected.”
What’s more, D.A. Bragg’s abuse of the law to serve his political agenda is turning America into a banana republic, Dershowitz warns:
“But, boy, I have to tell you:
“When you start indicting people who are running for president – forget about the past – people who are trying to unseat the incumbent president, you’re entering Banana Republic Land.
“That’s what they do in banana republics in some parts of South America, where one of the dictators said, ‘For my friends, everything. For my enemies: the law!’ That’s what they’re doing. They’re trying to use the law to prevent Donald Trump from successfully running for president.”
Dershowitz has even more “bad news” for D.A. Bragg and his political cohorts: even if they succeed in sending Trump to jai, he’ll still have the Constitutional right to run for president:
“Well, I have some bad news for you guys:
“He can run for president if he’s indicted, if he’s convicted, if he’s sentenced – and if he’s in prison!”
Trump meets all of the Constitution’s requirements for being president, Dershowitz says: he’s at least 35 years old, he didn’t fight for the South in the Civil War, he’s lived in America for at least 14 years, and he was born in the U.S.
D.A. Bragg is “changing real felonies into misdemeanors, when it comes to predatory crime, and then he’s changing misdemeanors into felonies when it comes to ‘Get Trump,’ Dershowitz says, warning that Bragg’s unlawful attempt to jail his political opponent “will become the newest way of trying to win an election” in America:
“It will hurt the rule of law. It will hurt precedent. It will mean that every time somebody is running for election, whether it’s for D.A. or for president, his opponent, if they’re the incumbent, will find crimes against him. It will become the newest way of trying to win an election.
“It will divide the country even more. And, the last thing we need is a more divided country.”
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