And, uh, he did this, he says, because the brother-in-law was cooperating with the prosecutor of New Jersey, whose name happened to be Chris Christie. So he was - Charlie Cushner was convicted of witness tampering, for hiring a prostitute to have sex with his brother-in-law, in a motel room, which he delivered - the tape of it - to his brother-in-law's wife, AKA. sounds good, ‘cause we all fact check each other. UMANKSY: Although maybe - maybe she was moonlighting. So that's Jared Kushner's dad and he pleaded guilty in, uh, 2004, to tax evasion and witness tampering for taping his brother-in-law having sex with a prosecutor that he had set up. I'll try to explain to you their provenance.īERNSTEIN: Charlie Kushner. Uh, is - anybody here have any questions about any of these names? Yell one out. And here's an example of what that looks like.įor people that are listening to the podcast version of this, we are looking at a slide with some names. So we put some of the names, uh, up on a wall. , is that just so often seem to be someone who was investigated, charged, or convicted of a crime. And one of the things that has been very striking to all of us as we've done Trump, Inc. And if we shine a light and focus on that very issue while trying to answer them, that itself has an aspect of public service to it.īERNSTEIN: So one way that we tried to answer these questions is that we have been tracking a lot of the president's business partners and his associates. We don't know that.” Why did you think that was a good idea? ĮRIC UMANKSY: You know, part of the story here is that there are such basic, important questions that are unanswered. and Eric.Įric, this is where you come in, because your position, for a long time, has been, “We need to find a different way to cover this situation - this administration.” Why did you think a serialized podcast where we keep saying, “We don't know! We don't know this. He handed it over to his adult sons, Don Jr. If you're here, you probably know that he didn't sell it. Our guidepost is that moment in January, 2017, when Trump announced what he was going to do with his business, the Trump Organization. we have a very particular take on things. To make sense of the Trump presidency, we at Trump, Inc. It’s hard to process all that we've lived through since Inauguration Day: the tweets, Russia, Stormy Daniels. ILYA MARRITZ: Today is day 479 of the Trump presidency. The first voice you'll hear is WNYC’s Ilya Marritz. She did, however, email us answers to some of the questions we would have asked her. One note: Masha Gessen, the New Yorker staff writer and author of The Future Is History, was supposed to join us, but unfortunately she injured her jaw and couldn't speak. is drifting towards a Russian-style relationship between business and government. ![]() He is the Investigations Editor at Buzzfeed, and he told us why he was the first to post the Russia dossier, what he's learned since about collusion, and whether he thinks the U.S. Then Eric Umansky from ProPublica and I speak with Mark Schoofs. Tony Schwartz, the coauthor with Donald Trump of The Art of the Deal talked with Ilya Marritz from WNYC and Jesse Eisinger from ProPublica about what Schwartz does and does not recognize in Donald Trump, the president. There was a gold curtain, a Trump-themed cocktail - but, even more important, some really interesting conversations about Trump the businessman and Trump the president. We had a display of Trump-branded items like Success Cologne, Trump Vodka, and Trump cufflinks. ![]() A few days ago, we held a taping at The Greene Space in New York City before a sold-out crowd. ![]() , a podcast from WNYC and ProPublica that digs deep into the secrets of the Trump family business. ANDREA BERNSTEIN: Hello, and welcome to a special episode of Trump, Inc.
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