Had Kushner not been Trump’s son-in-law, he would have never been considered for an advisory role, given his lack of qualifications, history of financial disasters and fraud schemes, and ties to gangsters, oligarchs, and dictators. The same can be said of Donald Trump, and he is the president. Unlike Trump, however, Kushner was not elected. He was appointed by a relative, another blight in a society increasingly based on nepotism. Kushner is like a hellspawn incubated in the “iron triangle” of state corruption, corporate corruption, and organized crime that Mueller warned of in his 2011
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