ער גייט אזוי ווייט צו טענהן אז קושנערס טאטע איז גאר הינטער די קוליסן:
But when he was the federal prosecutor in New Jersey, Christie had sent
Jared’s father, Charles Kushner, to jail in 2005. Charlie Kushner, pursued by
the feds for an income tax cheat, set up a scheme with a prostitute to
blackmail his brother-in-law, who was planning to testify against him.
Various accounts, mostly offered by Christie himself, make Jared the
vengeful hatchet man in Christie’s aborted Trump administration career. It
was a kind of perfect sweet-revenge story: the son of the wronged man (or, in
this case—there’s little dispute—the guilty-as-charged man) uses his power
over the man who wronged his family. But other accounts offer a subtler and
in a way darker picture. Jared Kushner, like sons-in-law everywhere, tiptoes
around his father-in-law, carefully displacing as little air as possible: the
massive and domineering older man, the reedy and pliant younger one.
In the
revised death-of-Chris-Christie story, it is not the deferential Jared who
strikes back, but—in some sense even more satisfying for the revenge fantasy
—Charlie Kushner himself who harshly demands his due. It was his
daughter-in-law who held the real influence in the Trump circle, who
delivered the blow. Ivanka told her father that Christie’s appointment as chief
of staff or to any other high position would be extremely difficult for her and
her family, and it would be best that Christie be removed from the Trump
orbit altogether.
