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DTomlinson

(411 posts)
Thu May 14, 2020, 12:06 AM May 2020

Key connections re: Flynn, Pence, Kushner, Trump transition, and foreign policy...

Jared Kushner, obviously, is the architect of the “Deal of the Century” that is a gift to the Israeli Right under Trump-Kushner family friend Benjamin Netanyahu and giant middle finger to the Palestinians.

Mike Pence, for his part, is a fanatically pro-Israel fundamentalist far-right Christian and the embodiment of the Religious Right first-in-line to the Presidency.

Kushner and Ivanka were reportedly key in persuading Trump to pick Pence as his running mate. in 2016, in part because Trump was also considering Chris Christie - the man who put Jared’s father behind bars.

Nevertheless, Christie was put in charge of the transition team - but after Trump was President-elect, Christie was fired. Who replaced him? Kushner and Pence. Interesting.

We know that the transition was a period of intense ratfuckery by the incoming Trump administration of the last months of the Obama administration’s foreign policy, and that secret meetings with foreign officials were taking place. This was, after all, a big focus of the Mueller Report, and a big focus of the investigation of Michael Flynn.

We know that Flynn and others was talking to the Russians about things like, oh, lifting sanctions in exchange for not retaliating over the Obama administration’s actions in response to Russian intervention in the election on Trump’s behalf (my head hurts...), and that there was also attempts by incoming Trump officials (including Flynn) to delay or derail the UN Security Resolution (link below) criticizing Israel - since the Obama administration was not going to veto it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_2334

Given the recurring related roles of Pence and Kushner, you have to wonder (or do you really) about the role of the Republican Party’s in general - - and Trump- Kushner family’s in particular - best friend in Israel:



^^^I think he knows A LOT....

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Key connections re: Flynn, Pence, Kushner, Trump transition, and foreign policy... (Original Post) DTomlinson May 2020 OP
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