Amy Goodman at Democracy Now interviews Vicky Ward, New York Times best-selling author, investigative journalist and contributor to Esquire and Huffington Post and Highline magazine on the kleptocracy metastasizing within the White House. According to Ward,

We’ve all been so consumed with the fight between the Kushner camp and the Bannon camp that this very real kind of story of horrifying kleptocracy, you know, that’s never happened to this country before—and, you know, the White House is turning into the Kushner piggy bank and the Trump piggy bank. I mean, and it’s outrageous.

She goes on to describe the myriad conflicts that entangle the President, his daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner and their families. Ward discussed the prompt issuance of intellectual property rights to Ivanka’s business after she sat in on meetings with the Chinese and Japanese leadership. More disturbing still is the story of Anbang, the Chinese company – closely linked to the Chinese government – who agreed to pay $1B more than market value for Kushner’s troubled 666 Fifth Avenue Property. It certainly raises the spectre of a potential quid pro quo within the Trump White House.

Ward concludes by saying about Kushner and Ivanka:

“[I]t seems to me it’s all about self-interest. They’re not—qualified to do anything else.”

They certainly don’t appear up to making America great again.

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