For those who still believe
that Trump is his “own man,” will drain the swamp,” and “put America first,”
this article will make you think twice. Make no mistake about it, the Trump
Administration has been fully infiltrated by the members of the Tribe. They are
using America, and exploiting the Goyim there, to advance their Zionist agenda.
“Meet the Jews in the Trump Administration,” Source: timesofisrael.com
Trump’s strongly conservative
Cabinet picks also back policies on health care, the environment, abortion and
civil rights often diametrically opposed to the views of most Jewish voters.
Yet others have praised Trump’s stance on Israel and his nomination of David Friedman,
a bankruptcy lawyer who supports West Bank settlement construction and has
expressed doubts about the two-state solution, as US ambassador to Israel.
Trump won 24 percent of the
Jewish vote, with especially strong support in the Orthodox community.
Here is a look at the
president’s Jewish advisers who will be helping to shape US policy for the next
four years.
Jared Kushner
Jared
Kushner exiting Trump Tower in New York City, Dec. 7, 2016.
Trump’s Orthodox son-in law is
serving as a senior adviser to the president. Kushner, the 36-year-old scion of
a prominent real estate family from New Jersey, will not receive a salary and
will focus on the Middle East and Israel as well as partnerships with the
private sector and free trade, according to The New York Times. A day before
his appointment was announced, Kushner said he would step down from his role as
CEO of his family firm, Kushner Properties.
Kushner, who married Trump’s
daughter Ivanka in 2009, played a crucial role in the president’s campaign,
especially on Israel. He worked on Trump’s speech to the AIPAC annual policy
conference that earned the real estate mogul a standing ovation, and helped
plan a trip to Israel for his father-in-law last year. (Trump cancelled the
trip after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed his call to ban Muslim
immigration to the United States.)
Trump appears to be smitten
with Kushner, often referring to his “fantastic” son-in-law when boasting of
his pro-Israel credentials.
Kushner may have become a household
name during the campaign, but he’s no stranger to the limelight. In 2006, at
25, he bought the New York Observer newspaper. Two years later he became CEO of
Kushner Properties, four years after his father was sent to jail for tax
evasion, illegal campaign donations and witness tampering. In 2015, Fortune
named Kushner to its 40 Under 40 list, an “annual ranking of the most
influential young people in business.”
David Friedman
Donald Trump
and attorney David Friedman exit the Federal Building, following an appearance
in US Bankruptcy Court on February 25, 2010, in Camden, New Jersey.
Friedman, a bankruptcy expert
and longtime Trump attorney, was tapped as the US ambassador to Israel. A
statement by Trump’s transition team in December said Friedman, who speaks
Hebrew, would serve from Jerusalem, but White House press secretary Sean Spicer
said last week that Trump had yet to decide on moving the embassy from Tel
Aviv.
Friedman, who is in his late
50s, is the son of a Conservative rabbi with a family history of ties to
Republican presidential candidates — his family hosted Ronald Reagan for a
Shabbat lunch in 1984, the year he won re-election. He lives in Woodmere, New
York, in the largely Jewish area known as the Five Towns, and owns a home in Jerusalem’s
Talbiya neighborhood, according to Haaretz.
Friedman has expressed support
for and funded construction in Israeli settlements, and has expressed doubt
about the future of the two-state solution, traditionally a pillar of
bipartisan US policy in the region.
Some of his controversial
statements — including slamming backers of the liberal Israel advocacy group J
Street as “far worse than kapos” and charging President Barack Obama with
“blatant anti-Semitism” — have sparked outrage from liberal groups.
Jason Greenblatt
Jason Dov
Greenblatt, Donald Trump’s top real estate lawyer and an Orthodox Jew, is one
of three members on the Republican nominee’s Israel Advisory Committee.
Greenblatt, the long-time
chief legal officer for the Trump Organization, is working as special
representative for international negotiations focusing on the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, US-Cuba relations and American trade agreements
with other countries. An Orthodox Jew and Yeshiva University graduate,
Greenblatt studied at a West Bank yeshiva in the mid-1980s and did armed guard
duty there.
A father of six from Teaneck,
New Jersey, Greenblatt said he speaks with people involved in the Israeli
government but has not spoken to any Palestinians since his yeshiva studies. He
has cited the American Israel Public Affairs Committee as one of his main
sources for staying informed about the Jewish state, and helped draft Trump’s
speech at the lobbying group’s annual conference in March.
Greenblatt, who has said he
supports the two-state solution, has implied that Trump will take a
laissez-faire approach to peace building.
“He is not going to impose any
solution on Israel,” Greenblatt told Israel’s Army Radio in November. He also
said that Trump “does not view Jewish settlements as an obstacle to peace.”
Steven Mnuchin
Steven
Mnuchin arriving at the Trump Tower for meetings with US President-elect Donald
Trump, in New York.
Trump picked Mnuchin, a former
Goldman Sachs executive who worked as Trump’s national finance chairman during the
campaign, to serve as Treasury secretary.
Trump and Mnuchin have been
friends for 15 years, and prior to being in charge of Trump’s campaign
finances, Mnuchin, 54, served as an adviser. Part of what The New York Times
describes as one of Manhattan’s “most influential families,” Mnuchin and his
father — the prominent art dealer Robert Mnuchin — both became wealthy working
at Goldman Sachs. The younger Mnuchin also co-founded the entertainment company
RatPac-Dune Entertainment, which has worked on such Hollywood hits as “Avatar”
and “Black Swan.”
Some saw Trump teaming up with
Mnuchin as unusual, considering that the real-estate mogul had consistently
bashed Goldman Sachs during his campaign — but it doesn’t seem to have hindered
a good working relationship.
Stephen Miller
Stephen
Miller in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York City, Nov. 11, 2016.
Trump named Miller, who has
played a crucial role in his campaign by writing speeches and warming up crowds
at rallies, as senior adviser for policy.
Miller, who has described
himself as “a practicing Jew,” joined the Trump campaign in early 2016, quickly
rising through the ranks to become “one of the most important people in the
campaign,” as Trump’s campaign manager told The Wall Street Journal.
Previously the 31-year-old
worked for seven years as an aide to Trump’s choice for attorney general, Sen.
Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., helping the lawmaker draft materials to kill a
bipartisan Senate immigration reform bill. Some of Sessions’ arguments are
similar to the harsh and often controversial statements by Trump on the issue,
such as calling for building a wall on the Mexican border and banning Muslim
immigration to the US.
Though Miller grew up in a
liberal Jewish home in Southern California, he was drawn to conservative causes
early. As a high school student he wrote a letter to the editor of a local
paper in which he slammed his school for providing free condoms to students and
for making announcements both in English and Spanish, among other things.
Carl Icahn
Carl Icahn
participates in a panel discussion at a New York Times conference in New York
City on November 3, 2015.
Icahn, a businessman and
investor, is serving as a special adviser on regulatory reform issues. He is
working as a private citizen rather than a federal employee or special
government employee.
An early supporter of Trump’s
candidacy, Icahn, 80, is the founder of Icahn Enterprises, a diversified
conglomerate based in New York City formerly known as American Real Estate
Partners. He has also held substantial or controlling positions in numerous
American companies over the years, including RJR Nabisco, Texaco, Philips
Petroleum, Western Union, Gulf & Western, Viacom, Revlon, Time Warner,
Motorola, Chesapeake Energy, Dell, Netflix, Apple and eBay.
Icahn is a major giver to
Mount Sinai hospital in New York City, among other philanthropic endeavors. In
2012, he donated $200 million to the renamed Icahn School of Medicine there.
In addition, Icahn established
seven Icahn Charter Schools in the Bronx borough of New York.
Gary Cohn
President
and COO of Goldman Sachs Gary Cohn speaks onstage during Fortune’s Most
Powerful Women Summit at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel on October 13, 2015 in
Washington, DC.
Cohn, the outgoing president
and chief operating officer at Goldman Sachs, heads the White House National
Economic Council. At Goldman Sachs, where he had worked since 1990, Cohn
answered to CEO Lloyd Blankfein and was considered a strong candidate to lead
the bank.
The 56-year-old father of three
has a reputation for abrasiveness, but also for getting things done, according
to a Wall Street Journal profile last year. In a 2014 New York Times op-ed,
Goldman Sachs executive Greg Smith wrote on the day he resigned that Blankfein
and Cohn were responsible for a “decline in the firm’s moral fiber” that placed
its interests above those of its clients.
Cohn, a Cleveland native, in
2009 funded the Cohn Jewish Student Center at Kent State University named for
his parents.
Success wasn’t always obvious
for Cohn, whose struggle with dyslexia made school difficult for him. But the
Goldman Sachs banker, who was featured in a book on underdogs by writer Malcolm
Gladwell, told the author that his learning disability also taught him how to
deal with failure and that “I wouldn’t be where I am today without my
dyslexia.”
Boris Epshteyn
Boris
Epshteyn on June 30, 2015.
Epshteyn, a Republican
political strategist who appeared as a Trump surrogate on TV, is working as a
special assistant to the president. Epshteyn, who is in his mid-30s, also is
serving as assistant communications director for surrogate operations.
A New York-based investment
banker and finance attorney, Epshteyn was a communications aide for Sen. John
McCain’s presidential campaign in 2008, focusing his efforts on the Arizona
senator’s running mate, then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
He defended Trump on major TV
networks over 100 times, according to The New York Times. TV hosts have
described Epshteyn, who moved to the United States from his native Moscow in
1993, as “very combative” and “abrasive.”
In 2014, he was charged with
misdemeanor assault after being involved in a bar tussle. The charge was
dropped after Epshteyn agreed to undergo anger management training and perform
community service.
David Shulkin
David
Shulkin, the Under Secretary of Health at the Department of Veterans Affairs,
leaves a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower, Monday, Jan.
9, 2017, in New York.
Shulkin, the undersecretary
for health at the Department of Veterans Affairs, will lead the department as
secretary under Trump if confirmed by the Senate. He would be the first
holdover appointment from the Obama administration, in which he served since
2015.
Shulkin, 57, is an internist
who has had several chief executive roles, including as president of hospitals,
notably Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. He also has held numerous
physician leadership roles, including as chief medical officer for the
University of Pennsylvania Health System, and academic positions, including as
chairman of medicine and vice dean at the Drexel University School of Medicine.
As an entrepreneur, Shulkin
founded and served as the chairman and CEO of DoctorQuality, one of the first
consumer-oriented sources of information for quality and safety in health care.
Reed Cordish
Reed Cordish
attending the Celebration of Xfinity Live! Philadelphia, March 30, 2012
Trump chose Cordish, who is
friends with his son-in-law Jared Kushner, to serve as assistant to the president
for intragovernmental and technology initiatives. He will be responsible for
initiatives requiring multi-agency collaboration and also focus on
technological innovation and modernization.
Cordish is a partner at his
family’s real estate and entertainment firm, the Baltimore-based Cordish
Companies.
Cordish’s father, David, the
chairman and CEO of The Cordish Companies and an AIPAC board member, is a
friend of Trump. The two met during the mediation process of a lawsuit in which
Trump sued The Cordish Companies.
And Cordish, who is in his
early 40s, has another connection to the Trump family — he was introduced to
his now-wife Margaret by none other than Ivanka Trump, who attended the
couple’s wedding in 2010 with husband Jared Kushner. Cordish and his wife were
listed as co-hosts for a Manhattan fundraiser for Trump’s presidential campaign
in October, Jewish Insider reported.
Avrahm Berkowitz
Avi Berkowitz with NSA Gen. Mike Flynn - via Twitter
Berkowitz, 27, is serving as
special assistant to Trump and assistant to Jared Kushner. Berkowitz and
Kushner met on the basketball court of an Arizona hotel during a Passover
program, Jewish Insider reported. The two stayed in touch and Berkowitz went on
to work with Kushner in several capacities.
After graduating from Queens
College, Berkowitz worked for Kushner Companies and later went on to write for
Kushner’s paper, the New York Observer. In 2016 Berkowitz, who was then
finishing up his last semester at Harvard Law School, directed a Facebook Live
talk show for the Trump campaign. Later he worked on the presidential campaign
as assistant director of data analytics.
Berkowitz’s first cousin is
Howard Friedman, who served as AIPAC president in 2006-2010, according to
Jewish Insider.
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