Trump Son-in-Law Has Not Applied for White House Role, Campaign Manager Says

What is overwhelming, however, and has largely been underplayed by the national news media, is the size of the GOP’s nationwide election victory last week. According to CNN, Kushner is one of Trump’s top advisors but is reportedly “at the center of the ‘infighting'” inside of Trump’s transition team.

Abrams believes Trump is committing a mistake by allowing his family to figure so prominently – before he has even taken office, and before he has finished building a qualified team to surround him.

“I will admit coming here tonight wasn’t the easiest thing for me”, she said. “If there’s a way that I could be helpful, that’s meaningful, then [wife] Mary Pat and I will consider it”.

In an op-ed published last night, the paper noted how Ivanka Trump was already in hot water as her jewelry company promoted a $10,800 bracelet she wore during a “60 Minutes” interview. A grand jury handed up indictments against Kushner for a scheme to entrap his brother-in-law with a prostitute and then blackmail him by mailing the ensuing videotape to his own sister.

A plea agreement led to a two-year prison sentence.

Presidential politics as a family affair is nothing new in America, says Sam Abrams, a professor of political science at Sarah Lawrence College in NY.

Robert Torricelli, 65, a former Democratic senator from New Jersey who has know Mr Kushner since he was a boy, compares his upbringing to that of John F Kennedy, who was groomed for the presidency by his father Joseph.

The Esquire profile opens with a lengthy anecdote about a vendetta Kushner pursued using the power of the newspaper he owns (the New York Observer), which his daddy bought for him.

Christie has been clouded by scandal related to the Bridgegate controversy – the incident in which Christie advisers shut down the George Washington Bridge three years ago to retaliate against a local mayor who refused to endorse his reelection campaign.

Official snaps of the president-elect´s first meeting with a foreign leader on Thursday triggered a torrent of criticism: they show Ivanka Trump sitting in on the talks with Japan´s Shinzo Abe, while she and her businessman husband Jared Kushner can be seen chatting and laughing with the prime minister´s delegation at Trump Tower. Christie’s career was dead – d-e-a-d – if Trump had lost. The New Jersey governor is now a vice chairman. Christie would become governor. It is customary for the president to offer that same briefing to the president-elect. When Kushner joined and organized Trump’s campaign, it was more structured than it had previously been. According to journalist Daniel Golden, Kushner and his brother Joshua were admitted to Harvard after their father had made a $2.5 million donation to the university, with the director of the school’s college preparatory program describing his admission to be “an unusual choice for Harvard to make” given that he was “not anywhere near the top of his class”.

About two days passed between the election and a call between Trump and Prime Minister Theresa May of the United Kingdom, one of America’s foremost allies, the report said. The former aides have said they will appeal the jury’s verdict.

Beyond the bridge case, Christie continues to face negative headlines in the Garden State. And his relentless defense of Trump for the next eight-plus months further devalued his political stock in the eyes of Republican establishment types who were expected to re-seize control of the party following Trump’s loss.

The Kushner name had been tarnished, so Jared Kushner made a decision to rebrand. And in 2008, he assumed co-ownership, with his dad, of Kushner Companies.

Wildstein was an executive vice president for Observer Media from 2007 to 2010, even as he hid his identity.

Weeks ahead of Election Day, Christie’s loyalty to Trump was called into question when he drifted from the campaign at perhaps its lowest ebb, when the Access Hollywood tape surfaced in which Trump bragged about groping women.

As the lane closures at the Port Authority-controlled bridge came under greater scrutiny in December 2013, Wildstein was forced to resign. S. Attorney Christie in 2005, and convicted of making illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion and witness tampering. Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, a loyalist in his inner circle of advisers, was said to be on the short list for secretary of defense.