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Trump's Bad Girl Jared Kushner and other stories - Michael Novakhov - SharedNewsLinks℠ - 9:09 AM 6/3/2019

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Beyond that, by early 2018 Wolff had captured the centrality of Robert Mueller in Trump’s life, and nailed Trump’s and Kushner’s insatiable cravings for cash.  Fire and Fury records Bannon as saying:  “This is all about  money laundering  …  It goes through Deutsche Bank and Kushner and all that shit.”  Talk about getting the big picture right.  Wolff also has Bannon calling the Trump Organization a criminal enterprise and  predicting its downfall :  “This is where it isn’t a witch-hunt – even for the hardcore, this is where he turns into just a crooked business guy … Not the billionaire he said he was, just another scumbag.” Allow that to sink in, too. The author reports a Trump fantasy concerning Allen Weisselberg, an Orthodox Jew and the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer. Weisselberg has reportedly cooperated with law enforcement. In turn, Wolff writes, Trump has “developed a riff on the horrors that an Orthodox Jew would probably encounter in jail, one tha