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I found this article on Kushner to be very interesting and learned a number of things about him that I hadn't known before.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/08/how-jared-kushner-became-trumps-most-dangerous-enabler/615169/

A particularly intriguing snippet:

In a White House where everything eventually leaks, there are no known accounts of Kushner disparaging the president. To create such distance would be inimical to him. At the very center of his identity, Kushner is a Good Son. Hes run the country in a spirit of filial devotion to an implacable father. Its a role that he thrives at playing, because hes spent his whole life rehearsing for it.

Theres one significant instance of Jared Kushner staking his own path, a moment when he set out to bend the White House and the Republican Party to his own desires. He devoted himself to the passage of the First Step Act, a bill reforming the federal criminal-justice system. He willed the bill into existence despite the reluctance of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the objections of other Senate Republicans, who said it was too lenient on violent criminals. It was a process that required him to assuage the anxieties of Trump, who, more than a year after the bills passage, still grumbles about having acceded to his son-in-laws passion project.

His father spent 14 months in jail for... tax evasion, witness tampering, and making illegal campaign donations.

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~Peaf~