“This seems illegal” – Jared Kushner has a whole new problem
Here’s the truly odd part about the Trump regime. For the entire four years he was in office, Donald Trump’s approval rating and poll numbers were too low to give him a decent shot at winning or even rigging reelection. Yet most of the Trump regime’s key players bet everything on the premise that Donald Trump would win reelection, to the point of carrying out schemes that were clearly going to backfire on them if they lost.
This brings us to today’s new report that Jared Kushner helped create a shell company so he could funnel more than half a billion dollars in campaign money into the pockets of Trump family members. Congressman Ted Lieu, a former prosecutor, tweeted “This seems illegal.” He’s right. If this report is accurate, then Kushner is facing serious prison time for felony campaign finance violations among other things.
Of course Trump is reportedly talking about giving blanket federal pardons to his family, including Kushner. But that’s not a magic wand. Preemptive pardons are constitutionally flimsy. If Kushner’s pardon doesn’t hold up in court, or if it turns out he violated state law in the process of running this scam, then he’ll go to prison for it.
We’re going to end up seeing a lot of this. Team Trump bet big on the notion that they could pull off reelection, and dismantle what was left of the criminal justice system, and therefore be able to avoid facing any consequences. But now that they’ve lost, things are about to get particularly ugly for them. It’s a given that Donald Trump is going to prison in New York State. Now the only question is how many of his own people end up joining him.
