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It depends upon the distribution of that growth.Prior to 1980 in the United Kingdom and the USA, the major recipient of the gains from economic growth were the workers - the wage and salary earners - who usually received up to about 65% of the GDP growth.After the formation of the Thatcher (1979) and Reagan (1980) administrations, Thatcher announced that she was fed up with “That wimpish political consensus” that had created the welfare state and Reagan announced the USA would “No longer be Mr Nice Guy” when it came to helping other countries.Both leaders attacked the unions and were very successful in communicating the message to business leaders that if they acted illegally, by not recognising or negotiating with Unions, despite the laws that required them to do so, their governments would not prosecute their failure to obey the law.The share of wages and salaries in national incomes reduced from the 1945–79 average of up to 65% to less than 50% in some countries.Both countries switched over from being genuine representative democracies acting in favour of the majority of their people into crypto-plutocracies, managing the economy to provide an increasing share of the annual economic growth to the already rich.And because economic development rates are maximised when three conditions are met: whenthe majority of the people are involved in economic activity andthe government acts to increase the incomes of the majority of its people andlocal banks support local businesses by loansThe USA and the UK moved into a long period of relative economic decline with a reduced influence in the world and increasing social conflict withmuch higher unemployment and more informal poorer-paid (even zero hours) “jobs”the emergence of greater than ever income inequality with the large decline in the incomes of poorest paid workersCredit crunch crises because large bankers lost their gambles with national savings and creditThis are not statements based on any theory but are historic realities based on observation and historical events.Britain’s TUC estimates in one study that the average British worker is now paid £7,000 a year less - That’s about £140 as week less, or $200 a week less - than would have been if the 1975 share in economic growth had been maintained. Seehttps://www.tuc.org.uk/sites/default/files/tucfiles/TheGreatWagesGrab.pdfThe data and tables in a very interesting speech by Andrew G Haldane, the Chief Economist at the BoE indicates that the Labour Share has historically fallen during depressions and risen during periods of dispersed economic development. That has immense implications which are far too vast to be fully explored here. But seehttp://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/speeches/2015/speech864.pdfSo in a depression the major beneficiaries of economic growth are the already rich and in a high-growth period based on prospering SMEs growth is more fully dispersed and general prosperity more assured.The Washington Consensus creates long-lasting depressions which benefit the already rich but nobody else. The macroeconomics of the Tokyo Consensus Zone benefits the majority of the people until the Princes of the Central Banks get their independence and act in the interests of their rich by causing a depression.Much more later!

There’s a certain point where we, as a society, lose the right to clutch our pearls and cry out about what we perceive as protesters “going too far”.Don’t get me wrong, I’m a peaceful guy. I detest violence in all of its forms (unless I’m fighting with siblings; that shit gets real quickly!). If there were a violent protest taking place for bisexual rights in Scotland, I know that I would not take part in it. I can’t be bothered with such displays personally, and I’d be much happier taking on another role in the protests. I’m an introvert, after all! Perhaps I could do something else, like contributing towards the bail funds, or raising awareness on the issues on social media as the others burned everything to the ground in an attempt to be heard?But I’ll be absolutely clear. I do not give a shit about all the pearl-clutching in our comments about the “justification” of the protests. Not when we’re faced with systematic racism that shows no signs of letting up, will not show signs of letting up on its own, and against which all peaceful demonstrations have proved fruitless. There’s evil here, folks, and it ain’t property damage.Take Colin Kaepernick, for example. He knelt for the national anthem at his football games to protest the brutalisation of minorities by the police and state. In turn, he was told to stop disrespecting America, because America is the happiest place on Earth and the anthem should be worshipped. Never mind his right to speak, the freedoms that Americans love so dearly! He was ridiculed and demonised for daring to speak against the injustices perpetuated against his friends and family.Even now, he’s chimed in with words of wisdom:When civility leads to death, revolting is the only logical reaction.The cries for peace will rain down, and when they do, they will land on deaf ears, because your violence has brought this resistance.We have the right to fight back!Rest in Power George Floyd— Colin Kaepernick (@Kaepernick7) May 28, 2020How about Martin Luther King Jr? He was assassinated on the 4th April, 1968, in Memphis. The most peaceful man, who would be the first to tell you that love gets things done much better than hate. Beautiful sentiments, spoken to create a united world where the colour of one’s skin did not matter, where one could live their life in peace. He fought for what he believed in, and he was gunned down by a monster for the pleasure.Breonna Taylor, a beloved EMT who served during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, was murdered by plainclothes police officers operating on a drugs warrant in Kentucky. The officers shot her eight times after her boyfriend fired a shot at them believing them to be burglars, having been woken up by the sudden intrusion without warning. No drugs were found (indeed, the cops in question had entered the wrong house, with the real criminal having been arrested earlier that day), but the incident cost her her life.#BlackLivesMatter had to get hijacked to encompass #AllLivesMatter, just because some pathetic whiners couldn’t handle the exclusion that black people have dealt with all their lives. Never mind that the BAME communities are the ones getting wiped out like George Floyd, their careers being dismantled like Colin Kaepernick’s was, their integrity in political office being called into question like President Obama’s was (he did leave behind a legacy of enhanced foreign intervention, but President Trump’s so-called birther movement was wholly based on his and his supporters’ racist attitudes):Entitled white college students like Kaitlin Bennett have brought AR-10s to their graduations to protest their right to bear arms. If a black student had done the same, they would not have made it through the day alive.Charlottesville saw white supremacists descend on the streets, and President Trump decided to call them “very fine people”. They look it, right? The flaming Tiki torches really complete the aesthetic, I think.Angry white men, armed to the teeth, have recently swarmed legislatures because of the COVID-19 quarantine measures. President Trump again called them “good people” and he asked that governors make a deal with them. He would have had the complete opposite reaction if a black man had screamed into the faces of the Michigan police like Baldie in the picture below is doing:Amy Cooper called the cops on Christian Cooper, a black birdwatcher, for the crime of asking her to leash her dog. She claimed that Mr Cooper (no relation to her, despite the surname!) was threatening her life in a public park, which could have ended up with him dead at the hands of a trigger-happy American police force with a racist bent. Mr Cooper has since responded with a loving statement to the media, asking the online mob mentality to please leave her alone and to stop harassing her, but the fact remains that her mentality is as prevalent as it is dangerous.Next time, the accused might not be so lucky to escape unharmed. Amy knew what she was doing, she knew the language to use to strike fear into Mr Cooper’s heart. “I'm going to tell them there's an African American man threatening my life.” Those exact words. That wasn’t an accident, it was verbal surgery. She knew exactly how to win: by weaponising her unearned whiteness in the United States of America.And now, George Floyd has been murdered by a cop kneeling on his neck for nine minutes. Nine minutes. Actually, let’s make that more accurate; eight minutes and forty-six seconds. He deserves the truth to be told. George screamed, he begged the cop to get off of him, he called out for his mother. Claims that he was resisting arrest were bullshit. His alleged crime was dealing in counterfeit money; even if he had been dealing like that, asphyxiation is a completely disproportionate measure, one that I doubt would have been employed against a white man.George Floyd was not a criminal; he had a criminal record, one which he worked hard to overcome after being released from a prison in Texas in 2014. He was heavily involved in ministry work. He had the nickname “Big Floyd” among his friends, owing to his height.The officer responsible for the murder, Derek Chauvin, walked consequence-free for a disturbing length of time before anyone did anything to take him to task for murder in broad daylight. Here’s Chauvin’s face, complete with the murder of George Floyd. I don’t particularly care if you feel uncomfortable seeing it, just look:And this isn’t even the tip of the iceberg.Why do you need to know the history? Because the murder of George Floyd is not a one-off, isolated incident. There have been so many George Floyds. He’s the latest in a long line of George Floyds, dying on the tarmac while screaming for mercy and family, and the bigots and racists want to make this all about him. By doing that, they can centre the entire narrative on one man, and depict their opponents as getting irrationally violent over one silly little instance of police assault.I wish with all my heart that these stories were one-offs. But they’re not. Lives are being lost, and the majority would rather insulate themselves in a ball of cotton wool and pretend that property damage is the true victim of this macabre tale. But these are real lives, and the George Floyds cannot be allowed to have died in vain.As I’m typing this out, someone in the world is hurting. Be they black, Asian, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, gay, aromantic, transgender, Latinx. Take a second. Stop reading and think about who might be suffering right now in the world, due to biases and phobias and fears and institutionalised barbarity being perpetuated at the highest societal echelons.Domestic violence. Hangings and ‘therapy’ on the basis of sexual orientation. Forced homelessness. Female genital mutilation. Religious conversions. North Korean labour camps. The Hong Kong protests. The 1-O Catalonia referendum. Uighur Muslim detentions. Diminished access to period products.Maybe there’s someone you know who’s affected, Maybe not.Who cares.The message is clear; being peaceful is doing nothing. Whenever an oppressed person protests their treatment, they’re always told to be nicer about it. Don’t disrespect the flag. Don’t exclude white/straight/cisgender people. Don’t talk back. Don’t be so sensitive. Don’t mind the slurs. Don’t burn down that building with a molotov cocktail, it’s unbecoming of you. But these people don’t really care about whether or not the protesters are being nice; it’s an excuse, a front to make sure that nothing happens that they cannot control. By painting the protesters as directionless fools, their demands can be ridiculed and rejected by the ‘normal’, upstanding folks in the majority.As a bisexual, I owe a lot of my freedom to an awareness-raising riot in and around the Stonewall Inn, June-July 1969. With Pride Month knocking on our doors, I think we need to remember this as a turning point in the civil rights movement, because you know what happened in the wake of Stonewall?The message stuck.Police tried to raid gay-friendly establishments for housing gay people, and the patrons fought back. No more coddling, hand-holding, leading the poor straights to a more accepting tomorrow. Fuck that! They fought back, and fifty-one years later, this has not been forgotten. It’s not been a complete fix, and LGBT+ Americans (along with those of us around the world) still have to tread carefully, but we owe a lot to the Stonewall riots.And I can tell you from experience, if we gays (bisexuals in my case) were (and are) sick to death of being told to play nice by the people who wanted to control us, I can only imagine the anger that the black community must be feeling about all the deaths of their own. The ones reported, the ones not reported. The innocent lives destroyed, because some bigot got a little too frisky with their gun.You talk about property devastation? Production can make more supplies. Buildings can be rebuilt. Local businesses can be insured against vandalism and riots. But lives aren’t coming back. George Floyd will never, ever come back to life. The mother he cried out for will never see her son again. Nor will Ahmaud Arbery’s family see him again, when he was gunned down by two white men who thought he was a burglar with zero proof beyond that timeless “black man bad” mentality.Or the family of Tamir Rice, who was shot in Cleveland over a toy pistol that fired harmless pellets (this kid was TWELVE YEARS OLD, people), and his cop killer was only sacked two years later over an unrelated matter.Meanwhile, Dylann Roof (the Charleston Church shooter who killed nine black churchgoers) was given a Burger King meal for free by the Shelby police when he complained about being hungry in custody.When I’m angry, like white-hot angry, I tend to laugh uncontrollably. I don’t get to that point often, but when I do, I get there. And reading some of these answers with sad platitudes about the destruction have had me in livid fits. Sure, I get that looting isn’t really all that well-connected to a protest against systematic racism, but the point is being made crystal clear to the outside world.And hey, while we’re at it, mind not calling the protesters “animals”? This is the kind of language that’s built up the response that’s taking place, you’re just proving their point! Years of degrading, insulting, condescending, diminishing language. These protesters are not “animals”; they’re very, very pissed off, with all the cause in the world to be so. We can learn from William Shakespeare’s Shylock in The Merchant of Venice: you called them “dogs” before you had reason to, but since they are “dogs”, beware their fangs.Some people just don’t want to engage with the point, and they’ll commit to any course of mental gymnastics available to them to shift the blame back onto the protesters. Colin Kaepernick is accused of having ties to the Chinese Communist Party; fine, that’s perhaps concerning, but the basis of his independent protest against institutionalised racism doesn’t change because of that! Even President Trump is doing his damned best to attack the protesters, calling for violence against them when he had nothing to say about the armed lunatics denouncing quarantine over their precious haircuts and manicures.Let’s see a side-by-side comparison of the President’s reactions based on the race factor;You don’t care about George Floyd, you orange turd.I’ll grant that no violence actually ensued during the Michigan protests, but we already know of President Trump’s racist tendencies thanks to his birther movement. And a black child was murdered over a toy pellet gun in Cleveland (Tamir Rice, in case you forgot his name, there’s been a lot in this answer so I don’t blame you!), so please don’t give me the horseshit response that there wasn’t any tangible violence in Michigan.Violence can come from gestures as well as actual physical connection (hence why we criminalise threatening communications and threats of violence). And black people have been killed for far less than what the white protesters did there, with media outrage following one race only.I wonder which one it is, gang?Let’s also not forget about ‘Umbrella Man’ in the middle of all this. I’ll be happy to retract my words if this is proved to be false (I’m a big believer in accepting where I have made errors), but a white man dressed head-to-toe in black clothing and carrying an umbrella and a hammer has been filmed smashing windows during the Minneapolis protests. If my theory is correct, then he and others of his ilk are inciting violence and ruin in an attempt to discredit the George Floyd uprising. To say nothing of the tear gas and assorted escalations brought by (you guessed it) the police to shut the protesters down.Let’s add this to the fact that the protests are (generally) peaceful! That so much exacerbation is brought by the law enforcement themselves! Some people are looting for the sake of looting, and we must avoid conflating them with the genuine protesters, but the police are not interested in who is genuine and who is not. They mace children, they take photo ops and then backstab the protesters who let down their guards around them for their hope of peace, they have rubber bullets and teargas (a product that is banned from proper international warfare by the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993, but not in dealing with domestic issues such as protests, apparently) that they use liberally against anyone who dares to stand in their way.Y’know, like sadistic monsters.This is all anecdotal evidence, and my long-time followers will know how much I despise anecdotal evidence as a metric. But as the picture moves, the selfish looters seeking a new telly are seen to be in the minority, while the violent parties constitute another minority (albeit, in my eyes, one with slightly more justification). The media spin on the police and their heroism in putting down these protests is marred by their clear disregard for life, acting like brutes in the face of the pacifist majority. Asheville police even destroyed a medical stand by breaking up first-aiders, stabbing water bottles to empty them and render them useless, and ruining other vital medical supplies on offer.And let’s further add the insurrectionists. The white supremacists seeking to disrupt and delegitimise the protests with violence, like Umbrella Man in the picture above. The Ku Klux Klan, who will be loving every minute of this indulgent chance to highlight racial tensions. The Boogaloo Bois, some of whom are posing as friends to the protesters but who ultimately hold ties to racist alt-right 4-chan and 8-chan servers, and to Neo-Nazi servers like Atomwaffen and The Base. They’ll be identifiable at the protests by their balaclavas (watch out for ones with skull or clown prints, they represent toxic internet ideologies), Hawaiian shirts, and excessive weaponry.Now, the word “Boogaloo” is their slang for a sequel, named after Electric Boogaloo, and do you know what they want a sequel for?The American Civil War.In their favour, without any social justice goals attached.And these predominantly peaceful protests have been all but gift-wrapped for these far-right extremist libertarians and supremacists (not all libertarians, etc) to take advantage of, to stoke enough flames to pull the entire movement down under in their quest for carnage. A fully-fledged race war is as good an excuse as any, I suppose.It’s sly, it’s clever, and it reminds us just why these protests are happening.In light of everything, yes.Yes, the protests are absolutely justified. Property has being damaged in place of the lives that the state and their limbs have taken for so long. Blazes have been set, but no revolution has ever lacked violence. While I would have preferred for us to have moved on from these measures in the cyber age of civilised technology and information sharing, it seems that the powers that be will only listen to violence. To them, profits and property takes precedence over innocent lives. So if it’s a choice between protecting a racist, bigoted police force and the lives of black people who have to exist in fear every day of their protectors in name alone, I know where my priorities lie.And not every cop is a bad person, but every cop has the choice to be present to suppress the mostly peaceful protests. If they are being unleashed onto citizens with disproportionate weaponry, then they aren’t just “following orders” by beating the ever-loving daylights out of them. Other options are available; joining the protests, stopping the escalations, even resignation if it comes down to it. They are personally responsible. The participants of Stanley Milgam’s 1963 shock experiment were responsible for fake-electrocuting their subjects to their alleged deaths on “orders”. Nazis were responsible for perpetuating the Holocaust on “orders”.And so, the American police force is responsible too.In a social contract, the basis for trusting a government is that the citizens give up a portion of their liberties in exchange for the sovereign's protection. Without this system, as Thomas Hobbes noted in his work The Leviathan, a man becomes a wolf to other men (and that's all men, no matter their race, being depicted as animals!). But the American state has failed to honour their side of the bargain, and their great leviathans are standing by ready to side with the bigots and the bulllies. The respect that black people owe to the state is void as a result, and they are entitled to renege on their contract to claim the protection that has been denied to them.Even a black face in the highest place of the country wasn't enough to stop the killings.If you’re still worried about the property damage, the CEO of Target (Brian Cornell) issued a statement honouring the dead and promising to rebuild the stores once it was safe to do so. No bellyaching, no equivocations, just dignity and stepping aside to let the aggrieved communities do their work, all while making sure that his employees receive their benefits and pay and providing first aid to those who need it. That’s morality.It’s like Alexander Hamilton says when he is leading a violent revolution against the British in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s fabulous play of the same name: chaos and violence already haunt us! The bishop Samuel Seabury tries to take a naive view on the British Empire, thinking that the peaceful way is the best, but Hamilton raps and destroys his argument in Farmer Refuted. People are dying anyway, mate! Look around you! Look at the cost and all that we’ve lost, and you talk about Congress? If it takes a war or a riot to right an unending wrong, with few to no alternatives left open to the oppressed, then it’s foolish to deny reality. We should be Hamiltons here, not Seaburys.MLK might have said that only love can drive out hate, but we can quote him till we're blue in the face and it still won't solve the real isssues. Even Niccolò Machiavelli, the grand master of political subterfuge, advises rulers to become feared in a way that will not cause them to be hated; the taking of life by a ruler (or their executioners, in this case the police), according to Chapter Seventeen of The Prince, must only be done with due cause and for a just reason, lest the ruler incur hatred and lose their crown. These bases for taking life are sparse and lapse with time; if slippery old Machiavelli can understand the political value of life, then President Trump the US police force would do well to pick up his writings.The Prince is a short book, perfect for their attention spans.Machiavelli also reminded us that people will sooner forget the death of their fathers than the loss of their property; he was really on a roll with these protests!To say nothing of the father of capitalism, Adam Smith (a Scot like me!), who told his readers in no uncertain terms that, when a government is designed around the security of property over lives, then that government has made the choice to serve the rich over the poor. Now, both the left and the right have claimed this quote for themselves, saying that Smith was either a secret socialistic revolutionary or a fervent supporter of the status quo of property determining one’s protection from the state. I’m not economically-minded enough to care to trawl through all of his writings to find the correct context. But I am clued up enough to know that, thanks to redlining and Jim Crow laws, black Americans have had a devil of a time trying to get on the property ladder, and so they are heavily disadvantaged by the government that protects property over life.The same property that people are valuing over all else in the current equation.Ask yourself: even if Adam Smith was in favour of such segregation by wealth, how is such a system just and fair in our democratic nations that should protect everyone regardless of income and property?I mean, a fucking Civil War had to be fought to free black people from slavery! Do NOT highroad this matter with appeals for black people to behave “better”, because it doesn’t work against racist institutions. Not when the issues under the spotlight are so entrenched, when the powerful want to keep the racial divide intact; even the War on Drugs was targeted primarily towards race!The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying. We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.(John Ehrlichman, President Nixon’s domestic policy advisor)And even now, in light of all the evidence and recordings, George Floyd is getting blamed for his own death in what might be the most subtle spin I’ve ever seen (and I’m a law graduate who knows a spin when he sees it);The black populace tried it your way, with the kneeling and the pacifism and the speeches and the online petitions asking for their lives in writing. Now, we’re in for what happens when we white people ignore the pleas of George Floyd. Ahmaud Arbery. Colin Kaepernick. Christian Cooper. Tamir Rice. Breonna Taylor. The countless named and unnamed, who get skirted over by the media and forgotten by the majority, who are sick and bloody tired of playing nice to appease the unappeasable. In Britain, the dance group Diversity did a performance to highlight the issues surrounding George Floyd’s murder, and it received 23,000 complaints!What do you want from a protest!Tell them, and they’ll do it!The decades and centuries of holding down the gays, the transgendered people, the ethnic minorities, the Jews, the Latinx, have all stacked up. Some (not all, but some) conservative Americans claim that the deaths of children in school shootings are justified because guns should be used against tyrannical government, but the second that a violent protest begins (with the President gassing his own citizens to get a photo-op in the middle of it) they start orating lofty claims of moral good and pacifism at the protesters. Put your money where your mouth is, you spineless, half-assed, racist cowards!George Floyd is the straw that broke the camel’s back, and it’s long overdue. The protests might come to nothing (in fact, it’s very likely that they’ll achieve nothing in the long term), but everything else has been tried. This is the last resort, and we let it get to this point by doing nothing. So why don’t you all pull up a chair, grab a bag of marshmallows, and watch as the world the bigots fought so hard to keep intact burns around us?I know I want front row seats to such a spectacle.Now, if you believe like me that the George Floyds of the world deserve justice and a clear path to seek it, I must urge you now more than ever to get yourself up to speed on the current issues unfolding in the wake of his murder in Minneapolis.Support black people throughout this; they need your help fighting against an out of control police force and a shameless, dictatorial President who enables their cruelty from the safety of his Twitter account and White House bunker.Donate to bail funds if you can spare the cash: How to support the Black Lives Matter movement even if you can’t attend the protestsIf you can’t, look for some petitions to lend a voice: Ways To HelpYou can watch streams of royalty-free music without spending a penny of your own, and the ad revenue will go towards bail funds, funeral expenses, and advocacy (just don’t spam rewatches, apparently there’s some issue in doing that, and maybe watch them on YouTube itself in case there’s some loopholes I don’t know about!). They’re easy to find, just have a look on YouTube and check them out.Educate yourselves on instances of police brutality against minorities, both in the States and where you are yourself if that’s a different place (Sheku Bayoh died in police custody in Scotland after being brutally restrained with disproportionate force; we Scots are nowhere near innocent in matters of police brutality!):People shot to death by U.S. police, by race 2020 | StatistaFresh questions over police custody deathWe cannot allow this to continue. Call out your own country for abuses against minorities, and keep an eye on the USA; that’s the epicentre of this revolution, and thus constitutes Ground Zero. However you choose to help, stay as safe as you can.I hope you’ll join me.

Here are some concise highlights I have found on Wikipedia,Trump was reported to have requested the top-secret security clearance for him to attend the presidential daily intelligence briefings as his staff-level companion,Kushner was reportedly an influential factor behind the firing of New Jersey governor Chris Christie as head of the transition team, as well as the dismissal from the Donald Trump transition team of anyone connected to Christie.An anonymous source familiar with the transition told Politico, "Jared doesn't like Christie... He's always held [the prosecution of his father] against Christie."Kushner told Forbes that the reports that he was involved in Christie's dismissal were false: "Six months ago, Governor Christie and I decided this election was much bigger than any differences we may have had in the past, and we worked very well together... I was not behind pushing out him or his people."Senior Advisor to the PresidentOn January 9, 2017, Kushner was named Senior Advisor to the President](formally, "Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor"He consequently resigned as CEO of Kushner Companies, and as publisher of the Observer.Kushner's appointment was questioned on the basis of a 1967 anti-nepotism law.On January 20, 2017, the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel issued an opinion stating, "The President may appoint relatives to his immediate staff of advisors."Kushner was sworn in on January 22, 2017.Kushner operated on a temporary security clearance for more than a year with access to classified information, until he was granted permanent access in May 2018On February 27, 2018, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly downgraded Kushner's interim security clearance to "secret" status, along with other White House staffers working with interim security clearancesHe worked in the White House based on an interim security clearanceuntil May 2018, when he passed a comprehensive background investigation.The New York Times reported in February 2019 that in May 2018 Trump ordered Kelly to grant Kushner a top-secret clearance, which Kelly contemporaneously documented in an internal memo. Trump had asserted in January 2019 that he had no role in directing officials to grant Kushner the clearance.Kushner's office is physically the closest to the Oval Office.Furthermore, after Donald Trump became President-elect, Kushner and his wife met with Japanese Prime Minister and other Japanese officials, while his wife was conducting a licensing deal between her namesake clothing brand and a Japanese government-owned company.His wife sat in on a meeting between her father, then-president-elect Donald Trump, and Japan's prime minister, Shinzō Abe.Kushner with President Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in March 2017In late March 2017, Jared Kushner was also given the new role of leading the "White House Office of American Innovation",where Kushner reportedly has been focusing on improving governmental efforts with regard to Veterans Affairs, information-technology contracting, and the opioid crisis.Kushner was involved in the sale of $100+ billion of arms to Saudi Arabia, and during a meeting with Saudi officials at the White House, he called Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson to ask for a lower price on a radar system to detect ballistic missiles.Kushner's business activities in China have drawn scrutiny for mixing government with business.Kushner's investments in real estate and financial services have also drawn controversy for conflicts of interest.In May, the Wall Street Journal reported that he had failed to disclose all required financial information in his security clearance applications, including that he owes $1 billion in loansDuring 2017, Kushner and his wife Ivanka Trump made $82 million in outside income at the same time that they served as senior White House adviser's.In March 2020, the Associated Press reported that Kushner had sold stakes in a firm that had benefited from the same Opportunity Zone tax breaks that Kushner pushed for as a senior White House adviser.Abbe Lowell, the lawyer of Kushner, in a statement admitted that Kushner used private e-mail for official White House business. No classified or privileged information was used on this account. Kushner's father-in-law repeatedly criticized his opponent Hillary Clinton for her personal e-mail usage in her role as Secretary of State.In an HBO/Axios interview released in June 2019, Kushner denied that President Trump was a racist. When asked whether birther conspiracy theories about President Obama (which Trump pushed extensively for a number of years) were racist, Kushner did not answer, saying instead twice, "Look, I wasn’t really involved in that."In the interview, Kushner spoke about how great the United States was for accepting his grandparents as refugees, "It's a great reminder of how great this country is."In the same interview, he defended the Trump administration's decision to drastically reduce the number of refugees accepted by the United States (the lowest level in 40 years).Russia investigationKushner's contacts with Russian officials have come under scrutiny as part of the larger federal investigation into Russian interference in the election.Kushner has said he had four meetings with Russians during the 2016 campaign and presidential transition, and that none of those Russian contacts were improperIn June 2016, an agent of Emin Agalarov reportedly offered Donald Trump Jr., Kushner's brother-in-law, compromising information on Hillary Clinton from the Russian government if he met with a lawyer connected to the Kremlin.A meeting took place on June 9, 2016, and included Kushner, Trump Jr., and Paul Manafort, who was then chairman of the presidential campaign, who met with Natalia Veselnitskaya at Trump Tower.According to Rinat Akhmetshin, who was also present at the meeting, Veselnitskaya claimed to have evidence of "violations of Russian law by a Democratic donor", and that the "Russian lawyer described her findings at the meeting and left a document about them with Trump Jr. and the others".The Democratic National Committee cyber attacks were revealed later that week.Between April and November 2016, Kushner had two undisclosed phone calls with the Russian ambassador, Sergey I. Kislyak.(In May 2017, Kushner's attorney Jamie Gorelick told Reuters that Kushner had participated in "thousands of calls in this time period" and did not recall any with Kislyak.In December 2016, Kushner met with Kislyak.That month, U.S. intelligence officials who were monitoring Kislyak reportedly overheard him relaying to Moscow a request from Kushner to establish a "secret and secure communications channel" with the Kremlin using Russian diplomatic facilities. Kislyak reportedly was "taken aback by the suggestion of allowing an American to use Russian communications gear at its embassy or consulate – a proposal that would have carried security risks for Moscow as well as the Trump team".Also in December 2016, Kushner met with Sergey N. Gorkov, a trained Russian spy who then headed Vnesheconombank (VEB), a Russian state-owned bank.Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer said that Kushner met with Gorkov briefly as part of his role in the transition, and as a diplomatic conduit to the State Department.However, VEB has stated that Gorkov met with Kushner on a private matter concerning his family's real estate corporation, Kushner Companies, even though VEB has been under international sanctions since July 2014.In July 2017, Kushner appeared before both the House and Senate intelligence committees in closed session as part of their investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.He also released a public statement.In October 2017 the Senate Judiciary Committee requested numerous documents from Kushner. Kushner's attorneys gave the committee many documents on November 3, but the committee followed up on November 16 with a request for many additional documents it said had not been produced.In early November 2017, Kushner was interviewed by investigators from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office. Reportedly the interview focused on former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.On December 1, Flynn pleaded guilty to one count of lying to the FBI, as part of a plea bargain. Bloomberg reported that Kushner is most likely the "senior member of the Trump transition team," mentioned in Flynn's plea documents, who is said to have ordered Flynn to contact Russia.President Trump, joined by Kushner and Netanyahu behind, signs the proclamation recognizing Israel's 1981 annexation of the Golan Heights, March 2019Mueller is investigating meetings between Trump associates including Kushner and George Nader, an emissary representing the crown princes of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia. In August 2016, Nader offered help to the Trump presidential campaign.In December 2016, Nader attended a New York meeting between the United Arab Emirates officials and Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon.Mueller is also investigating Kushner's possible ties to Qatar, Israel and China.The transcript of Kushner's interview with FBI investigators was not publicly released in January 2020 as ordered by a federal judge, as the Justice Department stated it required a security review by an unnamed intelligence agency.The transcript was released on February 3, redacted nearly in its entirety.Kushner and Gen. Joseph Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, with Iraqi Defence Minister Erfan al-Hiyali in Baghdad on April 3, 2017On January 18, 2017, Kushner requested Top Secret security clearance,using "Standard Form 86 (SF86): Questionnaire for National Security Positions"The request omitted dozens of pertinent contacts with foreign officials, including the meetings with Kislyak and Gorkov.Failure to disclose pertinent contacts can cause security clearances to be declined or revoked, and an intentional failure to disclose can result in imprisonment.Kushner's lawyers said that the omissions were "an oversight", and that "a member of [Kushner's] staff had prematurely hit the 'send' button" before the form was completed.By July 2017, Kushner had resubmitted his SF86, this time disclosing contacts with foreign nationals.This was the first time that government officials were made aware of the June 2016 Trump campaign–Russian meeting and Kushner's role in it.On September 15, 2017, Carl Kline, the director of the personnel security office within the Executive Office of President Trump, recorded Kushner as having an interim Top Secret/SCI security clearance.Kushner and his wife were among at least 48 officials granted interim clearance giving them access to sensitive compartmented information (SCI): detailed accounts of intelligence sources and methodsIn February 2018, all White House staff holding interim Top Secret/SCI security clearances, including Kushner, were downgraded to Secret clearances, and Trump said that he would not intervene to grant Kushner a permanent security clearance.That day, White House sources said that part of the reason Kushner had not yet been granted permanent security clearance was that he was under investigation by Mueller.On May 23, 2018, Kushner received permanent Top Secret security clearanceIn January 2019, Trump told the New York Times that he had not intervened to grant Kushner's security clearancesOn February 8, 2019, Kushner's wife Ivanka also denied that Trump had intervened to grant her or Kushner's security clearancesHowever, on February 28, 2019, CNN (citing three anonymous sources) and The New York Times (citing four anonymous sources) reported that Trump had intervened to order the granting of those clearancesReportedly, this is the first time a U.S. President has intervened in such a way.Middle East peace planTrump put Kushner in charge of brokering peace in Israeli–Palestinian conflict, despite the fact that Kushner has no foreign experience or experience in the Middle EastOn August 24, 2017, Kushner traveled to Israel to talk to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu(with whom Kushner has longstanding personal links and family ties, causing Palestinians to distrust him). He then traveled to Palestine to meet President Mahmoud Abbas in an attempt to restart a peace process in the Middle East.Donald Trump formally unveiled a plan authored by Kushner in a White House press conference alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on January 28, 2020; Palestinian representatives were not invited.In an interview, Kushner said he had "been studying this now for three years", and that he had "read 25 books on it, I've spoken to every leader in the region, I've spoken to everyone who's been involved in this."The plan has been characterized as requiring too few concessions from the Israelis and imposing too harsh requirements on the Palestinians.Both the West Bank settlers' Yesha Council and the Palestinian leadership rejected the plan: the former because it envisaged a Palestinian state, the latter arguing it is too biased in favor of Israel.Coronavirus outbreakAmid the coronavirus pandemic, Kushner was one of many "power centers with their own fiefdoms" within the White House who sought to influence President Trump's actionsEarly on during outbreak, Kushner advised Trump that the media was exaggerating the dangers of the coronavirus outbreak.Kushner helped write the Oval Office address that President Trump gave to the nation on 11 March 2020, along with Trump's far-right advisor Stephen Miller.The Washington Post wrote that the address that Kushner, who had "zero expertise in infectious diseases and little experience marshaling the full bureaucracy behind a cause", helped write was "widely panned".During the address, Trump inaccurately said "all travel from Europe" would be prohibited, and that the travel prohibitions would apply to goods.The speech caused markets to plunge, as White House aides had to clarify what the actual policy was. European leaders said they were blindsided by the address.The speech set off panic among Americans abroad who had to scramble to learn whether they could return back to the United States and under what circumstances; this created chaos at airports in Europe and the United States.In the address, Trump blamed Europeans and the Chinese for the virus, described the virus as a "foreign virus".Kushner also helped put together a 13 March Rose Garden event where Trump falsely claimed that Google was "quickly developing" a website that could help test people for coronavirus.Trump also overstated a project intended to set up testing sites across parking lots across the United States, taking the state and federal health care workers who oversee the project by surprise.The New York Times reported that one way that Kushner was seeking advice on how to deal with the coronavirus outbreak was to ask his brother's father-in-law, a physician, for recommendations. The physician then proceeded to crowd-source advice on a Facebook group for physicians.As you can see, he’s a despicable wanna-be, a narcissist almost on Donny’s scale and an individual who has used his “office” for immense personal gain for him and Ivanka.