Ivanka Trump has been quoted as saying that her father summed up her first date with Jared Kushner in 2007 as “the best deal we ever made.” [Google, AI Overview.]

I don’t know how accurate that is, but it does sound like him.

Jared Kushner was born into a wealthy New York real estate family. His grandparents were from Poland/Belarus, and had survived and escaped the Nazi holocaust of World War II. His father, Charles Kushner — a first-generation American — inherited a thriving business from his father and continued to build it into the multi-billion dollar empire it is today.

Jared entered the family business, and apparently absorbed everything his father taught him — including a few extracurricular skills that landed him (Charles) in federal prison in 2005, convicted of making illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, and witness tampering.

But a little family scandal, and the need for Ivanka to convert to Orthodox Judaism, apparently were outweighed by the prospect of profitable deals to be made in the future, and the young couple were married in 2009.

On December 23, 2020, shortly before leaving office at the end of his first term, Donald Trump gave Charles Kushner the biggest, bestest Chanukah gift of all, in the form of a full pardon. Since then, Charles — formerly a Democratic party donor — has shown his gratitude by donating significant amounts to Trump’s campaigns.

And in 2025, Charles Kushner was nominated by Trump, and confirmed by a close vote (51-45) in the Senate, to serve as U.S. Ambassador to France and Monaco.

So it isn’t at all surprising that top Democrats on the House Oversight Committee and the Senate Finance Committee last week launched an investigation into Jared Kushner, accusing him of soliciting billions of dollars for his private investment fund while serving as special envoy for the U.S. Government in the Middle East and between Ukraine and Russia. [Sarah Ewall-Wice, The Daily Beast, March 21, 2026.]

In a letter to Kushner’s company, Affinity Partners, the legislators wrote:

“President Trump has given his son-in-law Jared Kushner an unprecedented level of control over U.S. foreign policy while remaining on the payroll of numerous foreign governments. Mr. Kushner is simultaneously being paid millions of dollars by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf monarchies while leading diplomatic negotiations with Iran and Russia.

“This corrupt arrangement is not only criminal but is endangering the lives of Americans and threatening our national security.” [Id.]

Well, why not? After all, he learned from the best . . . his own father first, and then his wife’s.

And they preach — with straight faces — about the need to overthrow other corrupt regimes?

Seriously?!!

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
3/23/26