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Vicky Ward has been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 2001, specializing in investigative reporting. She has profiled, among others, Jean-Marie Messier, Carly Fiorina, CIA agent Valerie Plame, businesswoman Louise MacBain, Morgan Stanley, the late Bruce Wasserstein, counterterrorism expert mostrar mais Richard Clarke, Franois Pinault, the Getty, the Guggenheim, Fairfield Greenwich Group (a Madoff feeder fund), Brooke Astor, and Kate Moss. Ward is a columnist for the Huffington Post and a former contributor to CNBC and Bloomberg TV. She was previously the executive editor of Talk magazine. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Financial Times, the London Times, and the Daily Telegraph. A native Briton, Ward was the runner-up for the Catherine Pakenham Award in 1994, Britain's most prestigious award for young women writers. She holds a master's degree in English literature from Cambridge University and has lived in New York City since 1997. mostrar menos

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Plain and simple: Jared and Ivanka Kushner are a menace.
 
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MylesKesten | 6 outras críticas | Jan 23, 2024 |
Grifters in the White House

Well, the title pretty much says it all, and journalist Vicky Ward backs it all up in a book that exposes the American royal couple for whom they really are. As famous writer of the underbelly of American life called it: The Grifters. Ward packs a lot into this compact volume, sourcing her narrative with personal interviews and statements of record. She reminds us of stuff we’ve forgotten, understandable when dealing with people and an administration that churns out more dross in a day than most highly visible people do in a year, or maybe even a lifetime.

Ward adds expansive flesh to many critical stories about the couple, and particularly Jared’s out-of-sight dealings. For instance, Ward details extensively Jared’s and his father Charlie Kushner’s behind the scenes maneuvers to refinance their New York City trophy building, 666 Fifth Avenue. Questionable dealings involved salvation from Deutsche Bank and big money Middle Eastern investors, especially Qatar. The linkage here to the blockage of Qatar is quite disturbing and the very essence of why government officials must divest themselves of all business holdings and any involvement in their businesses, the standard practice before Trump and his family arrived in Washington. The suspicion is strong that Jared had a hand in the blockage because the Qataris turned him and his father down on 666. This action seriously disrupted interrelations in this volatile part of the world and continues to this day. Jared also worked to bollox American diplomacy by engineering the weakening and dismissal of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. (Remember him? It was just last year that Trump canned him.) It’s a sorry story, indeed.

As for Ivanka, whose efforts to insert herself into meetings here and abroad have become the brunt of jokes, has proven herself ineffectual both in moderating her father’s worst traits and instincts and in gaining support for her political agenda centered on women and families. She has been very effective, however, in pursuing her own personal business interests, the most visible of which is her accumulation of Chinese trademarks. Of the two, though, Jared has proven the most dangerous to U.S. international relations.

Ward does a good job of helping us understand why Jared and Ivanka are not only self-absorbed and completely out of touch with average American life and issues, but also why they breeze through life as if rules don’t exist, and if they might, certainly don’t apply to them. This is because of their families, how they operate, and how they inculcated the children with the chutzpah to disregard all the norms of government and society. Most don’t know much about Charlies Kushner. He is a convicted felon, very crafty, and known not only for gaming the system but for being abusive to associates and family.

Today, Trump and his associates has made it de rigueur to attack, discredit, and otherwise demonize journalists, so a little about Vicky Ward. Ward was educated at Cambridge. She’s written and edited for the likes of Vanity Fair, CNN, The New York Post, The Financial Times, The New York Times, The Sunday Times, and many others. She’s also the author of two other investigative books, one about the implosion of Lehman and the other about a devastating big time real estate deal, The Devil’s Casino and The Liar’s Ball, respectively. In other words, she’s seasoned, credible, and to be believed.
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write-review | 6 outras críticas | Nov 4, 2021 |
Grifters in the White House

Well, the title pretty much says it all, and journalist Vicky Ward backs it all up in a book that exposes the American royal couple for whom they really are. As famous writer of the underbelly of American life called it: The Grifters. Ward packs a lot into this compact volume, sourcing her narrative with personal interviews and statements of record. She reminds us of stuff we’ve forgotten, understandable when dealing with people and an administration that churns out more dross in a day than most highly visible people do in a year, or maybe even a lifetime.

Ward adds expansive flesh to many critical stories about the couple, and particularly Jared’s out-of-sight dealings. For instance, Ward details extensively Jared’s and his father Charlie Kushner’s behind the scenes maneuvers to refinance their New York City trophy building, 666 Fifth Avenue. Questionable dealings involved salvation from Deutsche Bank and big money Middle Eastern investors, especially Qatar. The linkage here to the blockage of Qatar is quite disturbing and the very essence of why government officials must divest themselves of all business holdings and any involvement in their businesses, the standard practice before Trump and his family arrived in Washington. The suspicion is strong that Jared had a hand in the blockage because the Qataris turned him and his father down on 666. This action seriously disrupted interrelations in this volatile part of the world and continues to this day. Jared also worked to bollox American diplomacy by engineering the weakening and dismissal of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. (Remember him? It was just last year that Trump canned him.) It’s a sorry story, indeed.

As for Ivanka, whose efforts to insert herself into meetings here and abroad have become the brunt of jokes, has proven herself ineffectual both in moderating her father’s worst traits and instincts and in gaining support for her political agenda centered on women and families. She has been very effective, however, in pursuing her own personal business interests, the most visible of which is her accumulation of Chinese trademarks. Of the two, though, Jared has proven the most dangerous to U.S. international relations.

Ward does a good job of helping us understand why Jared and Ivanka are not only self-absorbed and completely out of touch with average American life and issues, but also why they breeze through life as if rules don’t exist, and if they might, certainly don’t apply to them. This is because of their families, how they operate, and how they inculcated the children with the chutzpah to disregard all the norms of government and society. Most don’t know much about Charlies Kushner. He is a convicted felon, very crafty, and known not only for gaming the system but for being abusive to associates and family.

Today, Trump and his associates has made it de rigueur to attack, discredit, and otherwise demonize journalists, so a little about Vicky Ward. Ward was educated at Cambridge. She’s written and edited for the likes of Vanity Fair, CNN, The New York Post, The Financial Times, The New York Times, The Sunday Times, and many others. She’s also the author of two other investigative books, one about the implosion of Lehman and the other about a devastating big time real estate deal, The Devil’s Casino and The Liar’s Ball, respectively. In other words, she’s seasoned, credible, and to be believed.
… (mais)
 
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write-review | 6 outras críticas | Nov 4, 2021 |
See also papers in SH Archive Financial Institutions box 1.
 
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LibraryofMistakes | 4 outras críticas | May 19, 2021 |

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