Scoop: Jared Kushner tells donors ex-prisoners are joining the GOP

[riversedge]

Source: axios



Jonathan Swan 33 mins ago



Jared Kushner told Republican donors that felons are coming out of jail and registering as Republicans, according to sources who attended a donor retreat in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, last week.

Behind the scenes: "I guess climate change is not their No. 1 issue," Kushner joked of the former prisoners, according to sources who attended the dinner where Kushner spoke. The audience of Republican donors burst out laughing at this comment, these sources said. ...............................................................

Through his remarks, Kushner was trying to solidify Republican support for prison reform, 1 of 4 sources who attended the dinner said. ..........................................................

Kushner said that if one of his predecessors had cared as much as he does about prison reform then "it would have changed my family." He was referring to his father, Charles Kushner, who went to jail in the mid-2000s after pleading guilty to tax evasion, illegal campaign donations and witness tampering.

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And Kushner said the president cares less about the politics of a China deal and more about "doing the right thing" with respect to pushing back against China in what has become a global problem, another source familiar with his remarks added.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/jared-kushner-republican-donors-prisoners-370ce6f2-9b05-4ff7-a4e7-88aee0c370bd.html

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[madaboutharry]

1. Pompous little twit.

After 2020 he can go back to being a slumlord.

[paleotn]

11. If he's not in jail.

That nut didn't fall fair from the family tree.

[Roy Rolling]

17. Republican?

Who will he support when he and the family gets out of jail? Republicans still?

[Cirque du So-What]

2. That may be true

if he's referring only to members of Aryan Brotherhood.

[Progressive Jones]

14. Exactly what I was thinking. nt

[Farmer-Rick]

31. Of course...

It's definitely NOT African Americans signing up to support the party of racism.

It's those violent Nazis and white supremacists coming out of jail and signing up for the party of Hitler.

[dawg day]

3. He seems pretty incoherent thought-wise.

Why was that climate change comment funny?

[JudyM]

10. Cheap way to get an easy laugh is mocking Dem issues, even if as a nonsequitor.

[paleotn]

12. His audience...

aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer. Money doesn't correlate all that well with intelligence. IQ45 is an example. So are his spawn and son in law.

[riversedge]

23. I suspect only Repugs would laugh at it. IMHO

[Maxheader]

4. ex-prisoners are joining the GOP...

Birds of a feather....

[dhol82]

5. Sorry, don't understand what he is saying.

Are ex-felons ok or are they they scum of the earth?
Did not get a hint from the quotes.

[GeorgeGist]

35. Well, his dad's an ex-con ...

and scum of the earth.

[tanyev]

6. All the grifters and con artists, sure.

It’s a natural fit.

[Control-Z]

7. That's what I thought he was saying. eom

[Freethinker65]

8. The same clueless SIL that thought pardoning Blagojevich would be a great idea??

The same idiot that thought peace between the Israel and the Palestinians could be solved by foreign property development investors?

The same idiot that married a vacuous Daddy's little girl?

The same idiot that was not elected to do anything and should not be anywhere near the WH except for family birthdays and holidays?

[Marcuse]

33. The same idiot who thought Dems would provide cover for the firing of Comey?

[underpants]

9. We have LANDSLIDE problem

First, it's a well worn and effective strategy to declare victory as a means of bringing people onto the bandwagon. Nothing attracts a crowd like a crowd.

Second, MOST IMPORTANTLY, they are convinced it will be a landslide. No question. Games already over. I see this all over the place on Facebook. They are just sure it is so.
The problem is that WHEN Trump loses they are going to lose their minds worse then when a black guy was President.

I expect horrible things.

[yardwork]

13. The Kochs and other wealthy conservatives are pouring money into prison reform.

I think they do hope that former prisoners will vote Republican.

[Mr.Bill]

15. In how many states are ex felons allowed to vote?

https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/felony-disenfranchisement-laws-in-the-united-states/

[WinstonSmith4740]

29. That was my immediate thought!

Great link...thanks. I didn't realize some states had already restored the right to vote to some felons.

My second thought was, "Of course they're registering Republican...they're felons." Their mistake was using a gun when they committed their crimes.

“The lawyer with the briefcase can steal more money than the man with the gun.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

And lawyers comprise 43% of Congress.

But with all that being said, I'll bet Jared's lying through his teeth.

[SeattleVet]

16. Looks like former prisoners are joining up with future prisoners.

They will make excellent advisors to those who will be entering the penal system.

[BlueIdaho]

18. Felons or Trump!

I can see the signs already...

[cstanleytech]

19. Why would that concern him? After all there are plenty of criminals that are already members.

Granted, not all of them have been convicted.............yet............. but they are still members.

[aeromanKC]

20. Of course, they want the gun show loopholes to continue

[FakeNoose]

26. That's what I inferred from this

He's saying that the former prisoners (convicts) are mostly POC who are more concerned about gun availability than anything else, including the environment. Well OK that may be true. If that's where they want to recruit their new members then so be it. It doesn't mean the GOP is suddenly race or class-neutral, it just means they're desperate to sign up anybody they can get.

[RockRaven]

21. He's got it backwards... it's "Ex-GOP are joining prisoners"

in federal lock-ups around the country.

[WinstonSmith4740]

30. True that!

[applegrove]

22. Well many black kids know they too can be president after obama.. So now

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people of questionable character think they too could be in politics after Trump and his administration and the republican party have presented their particulat talents. The ex convicts think that the republican party will hire them and give them money to sketchy things. They may even make political office with republicans. Cabinet Secretery. The possibilities are endless. There are tons of idiotic republican billionaires running around will to spend $$$ on any illicit caper or trolling. That's where the easy money is. They'll fit right into the star wars bar scene.

[lark]

24. Gee, racist criminals supporting other racist criminals - who would have guessed? n/t

[Grins]

25. Some very kind wording in this post...

"Charles Kushner, who went to jail...after pleading guilty to tax evasion, illegal campaign donations and witness tampering."


"Witness tampering" just doesn't get to the real blackened heart of what Charlie did: He hired a prostitute to fuck HIS SISTER'S husband, get it all on tape, and send that tape to - HIS OWN SISTER!

"Republican Family Values" is a phrase that will never not be hilarious.

[Grins]

27. 'Cuz they have made such progress on that?

Yeah, former felons can't wait to register as Republicans so they can do what...? Not vote?

November 2018:

Floridians approved Amendment 4, which restored voting rights to former felons who have served their sentence, excluding those convicted of murder and sex felonies, by a landslide 30-point margin.

25 June 2019

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis kneecapped Florida’s groundbreaking effort to expand voter rights on Friday when he blocked former felons from registering (Republican or otherwise) for the upcoming election if they can’t pay past fines.

Let's hear from the Master:

"I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people...our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down." - Paul Weyrich, to the 15,000 conservative preachers at the "Religious Roundtable", Dallas, Texas, August 1980.

[IronLionZion]

28. It should go the other way too, many GOP should become prisoners

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

32. It's kind of a revolving door, isn't it?

One GOP enters prison and one prospective Republican leaves it.

I thought Repugs are the ones who are fighting allowing prisoners who have served their time to vote again. Their latest scheme is to require former prisoners to pay all kinds of fees and compensation -- essentially an unaffordable poll tax -- before being allowed to vote again.

[Marcuse]

34. The NRA will pay their poll tax.

[McCamy Taylor]

36. GOP is the party of grifters and conmen