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Trump Baja Condo Project Goes South
Business blowhard Donald Trump has created an indelible meaning for his world-famous brand: failed real-estate ventures. The latest event to cement the Trump reputation: a failed condo project in Mexico which cost buyers $32 million. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Uncle_Billy_Slumming: "Rosarito" Dozens of these shitpiles were going up at the beach in Rosarito financed by cash out refi's, for the most... 5 Responses | Other threads
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brain trust
Do You Trust These People to Save the Economy?
That White House summit of young business leaders actually happened. We know because our new economic saviors are posting their cameraphone pics on Twitter. Here's noted thought leader Ivanka Trump and Twitter founder Ev Williams. More »
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Reporter Slugs 'The Dude' At Sundance
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner mixed well with the gay former mayor of New Jersey, while a Variety movie reviewer had a much harder time stomaching interaction with the real-life "Dude" from The Big Lebowski. More »
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Ivanka Trump Continues Her Campaign to Be a Good Jew
Have we mentioned that Ivanka Trump is converting to Judaism, presumably so she will be a better marriage match for Jared Kushner, the equally young owner of the New York Observer? We have. Ivanka is only 27, but she recently auctioned off an internship with her for Chabad, the Hasidic organization her boyfriend supports. This donation and the visibility that comes with sounds like a good way to get in with Kushner's family, because we hear that they don't like the idea of Jared marrying outside the tribe. But Ivanka just made another move in the chess game to ingratiate herself with the Kushner family. Oh, UPDATE: apparently nobody wanted to bid on the "internship," and the person who finally did won't be sending the kid to the internship anyway. More »
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By SheilaComment by iplaudius: I like how Chabad reaches out to everyone, but I’m not sure how they reconcile the very real strictures of... 14 Responses | Other threads
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Do the Trumps and Kushners Hate Each Other?
Ivanka Trump and real-estate golden boy and New York Observer owner Jared Kushner have been dating for over a year, and seem to be heading towards marriage—especially when you consider Ivanka's highly-publicized conversion to Judaism. But they keep denying that they're getting engaged, and we've heard a possible reason why: their families can't stand each other. More » -
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Michael Jackson: Secret Muslim?
- Michael Jackson is a secret Muslim who is actually called Mikaeel, meaning angel of Allah, after the pop star rejected the name "Mustafa," which means chosen one. In a few days Jackson will appear in London court, where an Arab sheikh is suing him for seriously breaching a multi-million-dollar contract. Related? Who knows. The headline? "The Way You Mecca Me Feel." [Sun]
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By Ryan TateComment by JoelTannenbaum: Seriously, who ISN'T a secret Muslim these days? It's the new gay. 22 Responses | Other threads
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Jared Kushner Gives You Permission To Ask For Anything
The upside of being in a recession is that you can score some sweet concessions on a new apartment! Assuming you have money to get an apartment. If you're lucky enough to be a buyer these days, "Don't be afraid to ask for anything." So says boy wonder Jared Kushner, the publisher of the Observer and also a real estate mogul in his own right! Want to ask the current owner to come clean your kitchen every week? Need them to throw in a hypoallergenic puppy free with your purchase? Or something a bit more kinky? Nothing's too obnoxious to ask for, according to Jared. Click through to hear some buyer's wisdom straight from the lips that regularly make out with Ivanka Trump: More »
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critical stalker
Ivanka Trump Ignores Basic Career Advice
We received a celeb-stalker sighting this morning: "Ivanka Trump—5th avenue and 57th street - Her hair was a mess. Didn't bother to dry it before leaving her place. Other than that, she looked great." Wet hair? We've got news for for 26-year-old Ivanka, whose job with her dad comes with a fancy title (Vice President of Real Estate Development and Acquisitions) and an assistant: According to Megan Hustad's newish book, How to Be Useful: A Beginner's Guide to Not Hating Work, she's just broken a cardinal rule for young twentysomethings in the workplace.
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Daily News Taking The Piss Out Of Ivanka?
At some point last night, the Daily News fed the Web address above into its RSS feed. The XML file appears to have been subsequently cleansed, but Google Reader still has the original address, attached to the much tamer headline, "Side Dish: Juliette Lewis isn't into 'Gossip'." Clicking it is a dead end, of course, but we're now way more intrigued by what the tabloid's gossip section didn't say than by anything it could have possibly printed about Jared Kushner's girlfriend. Maybe it's a clever bit of reverse psychology, hyping tomorrow's Rush & Molloy. Anyone care to clue us in?
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By Ryan TateComment by ouikant: It's probably less sanitary to pee in a sink than a toilet. Not the pee part, but the genitals-on-filthy-porcelain part. 4 Responses | Other threads
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George Clooney Turns Away Sad Observer Publisher
Britain's Guardian profiled Jared Kushner, and while the Observer owner makes some positive noises about his company, the salient facts are as follows: After two years and a purported 40 percent revenue increase, the paper is still losing about $2 million per year. Kushner said he is " definitely scared about newspapers" and compared the industry to "a falling knife." And despite having Ivanka Trump on his arm, Kushner was recently turned away from fading nightclub Bungalow 8: More »
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Ivanka Trump Exasperates Yet Another Writer
What is it about Ivanka Trump that rankles journalists so? She had the Times' Ruth La Ferla all but calling her a harlot last December, and today on the Portfolio website she is irritating an openly exasperated Lloyd Grove. Theory: She's got (nearly) the looks of Paris Hilton and the mouth of a flack. Hilton is obnoxious but palatable to the media, since she acts out and constantly gives regrettable quotes. Trump was summa cum laude at Wharton (undergraduate), which makes it a touch harder to hate her for her privileged life. Grove seems to be trying, at least: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by BigMaybelle: I love her. She's really smart and tough. Unlike all the other socialites who speak in this squeaky voice, Ivanka's... 6 Responses | Other threads
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Ivanka's Shiksa-to-Jewess Transformation Update
How's that going? They're grooming the Trump daughter to marry boy-mensch and 27-year-old New York Observer owner Jared Kushner. But first they've got to beat the Gentile out of her! Of course the YNet's Jewish World has something to say about it, declaring Kushner the "perfect match" and informing us that " following her husband-to-be's request, Ivanka has begun the conversion process at the Kehilath Jeshurun Synagogue in Manhattan's Upper East Side." Has she been turned away by a rabbi three times, as is the custom? Update: But Kushner & Trump are not engaged as this article suggests, says Robert Sommer, Observer Media Group President. Apparently, they're just really seriously going steady.[YNet]
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By SheilaComment by Seriously: Interesting that she chose an Orthodox conversion. It's a very strict difficult project to undertake - they make you really... 17 Responses | Other threads
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Ivanka Trump Picks A Rabbi
- Shiksa Ivanka Trump and Observer-owning Jewish beau Jared Kushner have the rabbi for her conversion all picked out. It was important to both of them that he hate the Times. [P6]
- OK, so Madonna has reportedly been calling soon-to-be-ex husband Guy Ritchie a gold digger, but she's the one who made him sign a contract to "enrich" his wife and "devote time to our sexual expressiveness." [Sun]
- The View denied that Elizabeth Hasselbeck gets into screaming matches with Joy Behar, as the Chicago Sun-Times reported. But she does get the lion's share of death threats from people outside the show, according to Whoopi Goldberg.
- Under a new court order, a medical team will monitor Britney Spears' career at all times to make sure it does not drive her insane. That's an actual fact. [TMZ]
- Do not speak to the Olsen twins at their book signing, do not photograph the Olsen twins at their book signing and do not ask the Olsen twins to read anything at their book signing. Why are you even at their book signing? [P6]
- Girls Gone Wild scuz Joe Francis claimed Lindsay Lohan isn't really lesbian and trashed the actress' girlfriend Samantha Ronson as a "wretched" manipulator. Because if you're going to manipulate women, you have to do it with class. Joe Francis class. [P6]
- Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie require the services of six nannies. They tried to cut down to four but that was just overwhelming. The dinner table seats 16. [Scoop]
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By Ryan TateComment by JinxyMcDeath: Ivanka Trump is converting to Judaism? Was this known previously? Also, only a New York newspaper would write that she was... 18 Responses | Other threads
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Ivanka Trump Is Interested In Hearing About Your Lunch Habits
Are you a weary office drone who chokes down a dry, overpriced sandwich from the local deli in front of your computer every day, wishing that you could take a full hour to relax and eat some quality food for once in your miserable life? Well the ConAgra corporation feels your pain! And in order to help you they've enlisted someone you, the little people, can look up to: Ivanka Trump. She is using a modern "blog" to reach all the depressed, overworked potential ConAgra lunch customers! More »
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Rupert Murdoch's Genetic Destiny Revealed
Sure, you knew Anderson Cooper was the adorable unicorn of TV news anchors, but did you know he is so incredibly magical he can roll his tongue into a "really complicated four-leaf clover?" He can! Tongue-rolling is a genetic trait, but one can't help wonder if Cooper has had some practice. He apparently shows his skills only to certain, uh, special friends, like fellow closeted media personality Barry Diller, who, no joke, compared tongue technique with Cooper at a special retreat in Idaho. Some Google people were there, and the next thing you know, the tonguing had resulted in a big genetic-testing soiree in New York! Here's what Ivanka Trump and Rupert Murdoch said about their DNA at the party:
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By Ryan TateComment by Monkeyrash: There's a tongue technique retreat in Idaho? Shouldn't all men know about this? 13 Responses | Other threads
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"It's very rarely that I open Us Weekly and see myself in it. And that's the way I like it."
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Trumped!
Ivanka Trump, Donald's 26-year-old daughter who works for his real-estate company, maybe wants to write a book. Cindy Adams says, "Doesn't know about what yet nor even who'd be her collaborator yet... it should deal with her being a role model, that the number she expects as an advance is in the neighborhood of $2 million." [NY Post] -
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Ivanka Trump Plans Conversion To Judaism For Jared Kushner
Adorable publishing tyke Jared Kushnergot got back together with girlfriend Ivanka Trump! Really, how could he not, they have so much in common: Both are attractive, both rich due to inherited real estate wealth and both have fathers who get extremely nasty while feuding with enemies. But Kushner is a Jew and Ivanka's a shiksa, and this has been a problem for Kushner's Orthodox family. In fact, the religious divide may very well have been behind the couple's mysterious breakup in April, around the time of their one-year anniversary. To get Kushner back, Ivanka has promised that, if things get more serious, she'll convert to Judaism. So sweet! And I'm sure the socialite feels a profound, authentic connection to the religion. Totes! Well, sort of. A friend tells Page Six the conversion is "a possibility, but that's way down the line." A brief recap of the Kushner-Trump romance, for those who have not been following along at home: More » -
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Dire Warnings
"We are a construction company and we have job sites, we lose people... You better treat her right, because I have a .45 and a shovel." –Donald Trump, Jr., at his mother Ivana's wedding. Then he complimented her "great boobs." This seems like yet another great argument against marrying a Trump of any kind, even Ivanka, the relatively attractive and normal one. [Gatecrasher via Daily Intel] -
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Ivanka Trump At Airport, Has "Rectangularly-Shaped" Bottom
Emailed stalker sighting: "Just saw Ivanka Trump going through security at LaGuardia. Pretty in person, with perfect skin, she has nice legs but a surprisingly rectangularly-shaped bottom. Traveling with a very inbred English-upper-class-looking public school boy."
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Kushner's Ex Loses 'Observer' Socialite Catfight
Did the Ivanka Trump/Jared Kushner breakup affect her performance in the Kushner-owned New York Observer "Socialite Slapdown"? Trump had been inexplicably placed in the "brains" bracket, not "birth," but while she fought her way to the Sweet Sixteen, she finally and suddenly lost out to #14 seed Peter Davis. The contests seem to perhaps be based on "internet voting" but there's plenty of room for mischief in that. Recount! -
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Why Did Ivanka and Jared Break Up?
Cute li'l real-estate magnate and newspaper-owner Jared Kushner broke up with oddly attractive-despite-her-family Ivanka Trump! This is according to Page Six, who note that Ivanka has gone to parties by herself, which is irrefutable proof. They've been together for almost exactly one year, which is, if you ask us, suspicious. What's Jared up to? Why is he breaking up with his hot, brand-name girlfriend? Why is he pretending he's going to buy Newsday? Is he just toying with us?? More » -
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[Ivanka Trump, daughter of Donald, outside the Waverly Inn last night; image via Splash]
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Oops, I Let My Media Diet Become Media Anorexia!
Today's Thursday Styles section has that profile of Ivanka Trump, who apparently likes looking at herself in the mirror. But that's all I know about that, because not only do I refuse to read any of the words in that part of the newspaper, it's like I actually physically cannot! I can't and haven't read any part of the Times except the front page, any other newspaper, or any magazine for more than a week now. I haven't read any blogs, including this one, either! It's a real problem, or it would be, if my last day at this website wasn't Monday. Anyway, instead of writing little jabby synopses of things and trends and people in the news for the next few days, I have no choice but to just tell you about the books I read and thoughts I had while I was on vacation. It'll be like the time I mused about how we should all stop hating and start focusing our energy and we would all own Park Slope brownstones someday—except less delusional.
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By Emily GouldComment by BrianVan: @triplethreat: Right, general meddling. That's not even enough money to pay back a quarterly subprime writeoff at a second-tier investment... more » | Other threads
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'Times' Stops Just Short Of Calling Ivanka Trump A Strumpet
To be clear, of all the Trumps, Ivanka is our favorite, Her dad has a big face and is just really horrible. Of her two brothers, Donald Jr. is a joke and Eric, well, Eric is pretty much an unknown. Hell, he might be as great at Ivanka and probably he wouldn't have been called shameless scheming Delilah by Times-lady Ruth La Ferla. No such luck for toothsome Ivanka; today's Thursday Styles piece is lady-dismissive in a complicated way. More »
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David Beckham Is No Longer Hot
- "I'm very organized and controlled, and need to go to bed at night knowing what I'm going to wear the next morning," says David Beckham. Hey, that's exactly the kind of thing that makes someone sexy not sexy suddenly. [P6] More »
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Jared Kushner, Fabiola Beracasa And Ivanka Trump
Seen here, from the Fox Business launch party at the Met last night: 1. Jason Beckman, Fabiola Beracasa's banker boy. Currently missing in action. 2. Fabiola Beracasa, socialite freshly back from Beijing. ("I could feel the oppression!") 3. New York Observer majority owner and bridge and tunnel real estate mogul Jared Kushner, desperately trying to escape being photographed with his girlfriend who is: 4. Ivanka Trump, here coquettishly looking away as to not be photographed publicly with her boyfriend, Jared Kushner. (She has such good hair!) Why they were there: Fabiola's mom, Veronica Hearst, is good friends with Rupert Murdoch; Mr. Murdoch dined chez la famille Beracasa last week. Mr. Kushner is a newer Murdoch friend, though does enjoy spending time on the big Murdoch boat. Related: Kushner is a huge Counting Crows fan! Rain King is one of his favorite songs.
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By Joshua SteinComment by oneninesevenfour: @ascot-revival: Actually Jared just announced he took a dump in his pants. He's excusing himself to deal with that. And... more » | Other threads
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Ivana Trump, The Raveonettes And Ivanka Trump
Since time immemorial, or since maybe 2004, we have received missives from a person called The Earl Grey, who is the greatest social documentarian of our time. As frequently as possible, we print these letters as a service to society.
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Oh my God. It just occurred to us. Ivanka Trump is so going to convert down the road to marry Observer publisher Jared Kushner! There will be at last a Jewish Trump! She's just like Charlotte on "Sex and the City." I am wringing my hands and maybe going to cry! -
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Jared Kushner Gets The Trump Seal Of Approval!
On the Howard Stern show yesterday, Donald Trump noted that, according to a listener, his daughter "Ivanka was dating a 'very rich guy—not as rich as me, but a very rich guy' from a 'real estate family.'" Translation: That is basically a blessing from the goyim for New York Observer publisher Jared Kushner! ("Rich"="good.") Anyway, that's exactly the kind of Trumpism that we imagine gets the hackles up on Jared's daddy, New Jersey kingpin (and good pal of gay American Jim McGreevey) Charles Kushner. But hey, the real estate union of Jersey Jared and Manhattan Ivanka is good for everyone for now—just like an arranged marriage between little empires! Though we still don't think it's remotely possible that Jared will ever marry the shiksa. Prove us wrong, you adorable lovebirds! We want to believe.
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By ChoireComment by City_Dater: @hypocriteoath: "The TRUMP Jerzee Vista" -- and if Jared and family say no, the wedding's off! more » | Other threads
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The New Couple Around Town
Today's Page Six stumbles when it should have scooped: "Sightings: Maxim Deputy Editor Chris Wilson howling out a Monkees song with N.Y. Observer writer George Gurley, followed by fellow Observer scribe Spencer Morgan and his girlfriend, Vanity Fair fashion editrix Alexis Stewart, belting out Heart's "Magic Man" at Sing Sing." So close! Alexis Stewart is Martha Stewart's crazy daughter. Spencer Morgan is dating Alexis Bryan. Shelby Bryan's daughter. You know, Vogue editor Anna Wintour's lover Shelby Bryan? Crazy, right? (Sort of better than Spencer's boss Jared Kushner dating Ivanka Trump even.) Please God, let them have children together and make Anna Wintour a grandmother at the same time as Colonel Potter becomes a great-grandfather! -
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Did Laurie David Change The Climate Of Her Marriage By Cheating?
- Did Laurie David leave Larry David for the caretaker of their Martha's Vineyard mansion? Signs point to "be suspicious!" [Cindy] More »
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By Emily GouldComment by lovely nigerienne: Must suck to be dumped for the help. Will Angie be playing Jeanette or will Cate Blanchett? Those are the... more » | Other threads
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Murdoch, Kushner And Trump Sail By Cannes
You know how all those long newspaper stories about Rupert Murdoch never say where he is at any given moment? It's because, like Barry Diller, he's always on a boat—and because no one who doesn't already know where they are doesn't need to know. Mr. Murdoch arrived to meet his boat on the French Riviera on the 17th, to attend the Scientology wedding of James Packer and Erica Baxter at the Hotel du Cap Eden Roc. (Actually, they had to marry off-shore, because they hadn't been in France for a month and that's the law there.) Hey, small world! You know who just got back from Nice yesterday? New York Observer publisher Jared Kushner and his friend Ivanka Trump! More »
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Jared And Ivanka Lock Lips In Bowling Alley
A tipster reports seeing blond power-couple Ivanka Trump and her current boytoy, New York Observer owner and fellow real-estate scion Jared Kushner, at Bowlmor Lanes last night. (Bowling! Together they're learning about how the poor live!) Maybe they were celebrating the fact that the Observer got out on time and actually got printed this week. Or maybe they bought a building or two! "Every now and then they sneaked a kiss," our spy reports. "They seemed to have been enjoying themselves until we made a big deal of them."
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American Apparel Was Born At Choate
American Apparel founder Dov Charney is perhaps best known for two things: masturbating on his employees and being a hugely successful entrepreneur. The alumni newsletter of the fancy boarding school that he attended for one year would like for you to focus exclusively on the latter thing!The meteoric success of Dov Charney, founder and CEO of American Apparel, is worthy of a Broadway musical. In fact, his unbridled enthusiasm and "can-do" attitude is remarkably reminiscent of Finch, the impish window washer in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Finch, who has front-office fever, aspires to work his way up to head of the company, and does just that.
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The 'New York Observer' At The Four Seasons
The significance of holding last night's party to celebrate the New York Observer and its new website at the Four Seasons restaurant was intentional, obvious, and not at all lost on anyone. Despite its recent Frank Bruni demotion to two New York Times stars, the restaurant remains the symbolic and probably actual center of New York old-guard media power. After so many years of playing gadfly to the media, politics, and real estate elite of this city, the Observer and its boy-owner and his advisers chose to make a very specific sort of statement. More »
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Jared Kushner's Diabolical Ivanka Scheme
Yesterday, we found out that New York Observer goldenboy Jared Kushner has been mucking about with none other than Trump Organization goldengirl Ivanka Trump, complete with PR-man assertions of "friendship." But! Were we just pawns in one of Kushner's maniacal games? Yesterday we were contacted by several Observer staffers, who said that about a week ago, Kushner had been parading Ms. Trump around the Observer offices, "as if he wanted one of us to tell you guys, because he knows that everything here gets leaked. So of course, we didn't." The pair reportedly entered Kushner's office, "leaving the door open," one Observer staffer said, though this staffer also remarks that the whole thing "seemed weird." We've been used, in some horrible image management co-branding scheme! Kushner, you rascal! (*Shakes fist*) We'll get you next time. More »
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