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Mr Kushner is not only Ms Trump s husband but the senior advisor to her father, President Donald Trump. Earlier this week, it was reported that President Trump blamed Mr Kushner for his election defeat over his work coordinating the coronavirus testing effort. The New York Times quoted Mr Trump as having said to Mr Kushner before the November election: I’m going to lose - and it’s going to be your fault, because of the testing.
This article originally appeared on AlterNet.
Legal and constitutional experts have been debating President Donald Trump s ability to grant himself a preemptive pardon before he leaves office on Jan. 20, 2021. But presidential pardons only exist at the federal level, not at the state level which means that they would not affect any investigations being conducted by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr., whose office has been aggressively probing Trump s finances. And Washington Post journalists Shayna Jacobs and Jonathan O Connell are reporting that according to sources, Vance s office has retained forensic accounting specialists to aid its criminal investigation of President Trump and his business operations, as prosecutors ramp up their scrutiny of his company s real estate transactions.
The Daily 202: ‘Robbing Peter to pay Paul.’ Congress chooses checks over other relief that might help economy more. James Hohmann We must not grow numb to the human and economic carnage of the contagion. Wednesday was the deadliest day yet of the pandemic: At least 3,367 of our fellow Americans succumbed to covid-19. At least 233,651 new cases were confirmed nationwide, and the United States set another record for hospitalizations – breaking the record set the day before. As we enter what public health experts fear may be the darkest winter in American history, the Labor Department announced Thursday morning that 885,000 Americans applied for jobless benefits for the first time last week, up from 862,000 the week before. These numbers are not as bad as during the lockdowns of the spring, but they are worse than the worst jobs reports of the Great Recession. In addition, 455,037 Americans filed initial claims last week for Pandemic Unemployment Assis
The Finance 202: Fed s Powell warns Washington will remain on economic clean-up duty for foreseeable future Tory Newmyer
with Brent D. Griffiths Jerome H. Powell has spent months all but skywriting over the Capitol that lawmakers should provide more emergency economic relief. Now, with Congress moving forward with a roughly $900 billion aid package and the vaccines that should eventually end the coronavirus pandemic rolling out across the country, the Federal Reserve chair has an updated message:
This is no time for Washington to ease up. “Getting through the next four, five, six months, that is key,” Powell said at a news conference after the central bank’s last policy meeting of the year.