federal prosecutor who sent jared s father to jail. jared wasn t forgetting who had hurt him and that s chris christie. chris christie ran a real estate empire mostly what are known as garden apartments. took over the business from his parents and built it from a small construction company with a few apartments into a big, very profitable suburban business. and almost overnight, he s the garden apartment king. in business, charlie was known for being tough. he speaks softly, most of the time and i think he comes off as a pretty nice guy. but he has a reputation for being a volcanic temper. there are people all over new jersey who have been on the receiving end of having crossed him. but at home in livingston, charlie was a very different presence. he and his wife, cyril, had four children.
jared right out of the gate understood we need to weaponize that data and put it behind trump s message. he started making phone callings to friends and people he knew from around the country that had success online. he allowed me to have a crash course in some of the best marketing techniques across the country. i was ready to soak those in and jared made that possible. the team carefully mapped out which message would play in which region. right down to the level of towns, neighborhoods and even city blocks. what they were doing was next-level stuff. the technology that brad parts and jared kushner built and ran mostly out of texas was extraordinary. one of the numbers i think jared should take credit for as well as a team is hillary clinton only made 66,000 ads on line we made 5.the million. as a result of that and the technology the president raised more money online than any other republican has ever raised. but it was not enough just to
as he negotiated over the world s borders, he did not have permanent security clearance. was is the fact he could not get a clearance for a while related to contacts with the russians in 2016 and during the transition, was there something that robert mueller knew that prevented him from getting a clearance? 16 months after president trump took office, jared received permanent clearance, though, the reasons why it took so long are unknown, but throughout all the controversies, jared kushner continues to remain at the center of national power and close to the president. my wife and i feel like we ve made a difference so far, and there s more impact we have ability to make. he s already survived and thrived in white house history, and the storm s not over. i think the mueller investigation for jared is huge, and there s just no way around
didn t have a lot of time for journalists or what they do. or how they do it. according to pope, kushner had his own ideas about how to use the storied newspaper. the two clashed over a story kushner asked pope to look into. jared came to me during one of our weekly meetings and said we need to do a hit job on this banker. he kept asking me about it, i said look, jared, we re never going to do this story. don t say hit job. this is a libel issue. you can t say things like that in the news room. he became more openly critical of what i was doing. pope left in 2011 after 15 months, two more editors came and quickly left. the hit piece was not a one-time thing because the editor who came after me wrote that the same thing happened to her. but a family friend took over in 2013 and he says he had a very different experience working with kushner. jared never ordered a hit piece on anyone.
what jared and ivanka have been extremely successful at doing is convincing people is that they are influential and then that they have no influence. they had to overlook some of the boss s more questionable behaviors. one of the things that i think is astonishing about jared and ivanka is the tunnel vision that not wanting to address the the elephant in the room. and the elephant being president trump and his conduct. jared and ivanka knew better than anybody that there was no moderating their father. even as he s established a new role as public servant, kushner has defied years of white house tradition by retaining a share in his family s businesses, as well as his own ventures, although he no longer directs the investments himself. he could sold them off, holding on to nothing, did he not want to do that he chose to hold on by a calculation by the post last year of about 90% of certain holdings. if you retain your private interest, your outside business