Valerie Jarrett was born as Valerie Bowman on November 14, 1956, to American parents in Shiraz, Iran. Following is some vital information about several key, extremely radical influences in Jarrett’s life.

Jarrett’s Father

Valerie Jarrett’s father—an American-born physician named James Bowman (1923-2011)—worked as a pathologist and geneticist at a children’s hospital in Shiraz as part of a U.S. aid program to assist developing countries. He resided in Chicago from approximately 1947-53, precisely when Frank Marshall Davis, the Communist journalist who would later serve as a mentor to a young Barack Obama, launched his Communist Party-line newspaper, the Chicago Star. Bowman and Davis undoubtedly knew one another during these years. Bowman subsequently moved to Iran, where Valerie Jarrett was born, after his discharge from the Army Medical Corps in 1955.

As evidenced by his lengthy FBI file, Bowman was a Communist who often collaborated with other Chicago-based members of the Party. In 1950, for instance, he communicated with a paid Soviet agent named Alfred Stern, who: (a) later fled the U.S. to Prague after being charged with espionage in 1957, and (b) relocated to Cuba where he served as an adviser to Fidel Castro. According to a 1986 New York Times report, Mr. Stern and his wife, Martha, “were indicted in absentia on espionage charges on Sept. 9, 1957. The indictment charged them with conspiring to act as Soviet agents, receiving American military, commercial and industrial information and transmitting it to the Soviet Union. The indictment charged that they used their house in Ridgefield, Conn., for meetings with Soviet agents.”

The federal government placed Bowman under special surveillance because of his involvement with the European Recovery Program (ERP)—i.e., the Marshall Plan. Historian Paul Kengor explains: “This ERP/Marshall Plan association is very intriguing, and troubling. One of the most insidious forms of Communist Party agitation in the 1940s and 1950s was to frame the Marshall Plan as a form of vile American imperialism. It was the Kremlin line, pushed by Stalin and Molotov and mimicked by [the] Communist Party USA. One of the worst peddlers of this line was Frank Marshall Davis, who characterized the Marshall Plan in his columns as a ‘device’ to maintain ‘white imperialism.’ The plan, by Davis’s rendering, was a disgusting ‘oppression of non-white peoples everywhere,’ a slavery purchased by Secretary of State Marshall’s ‘billions of U.S. dollars … to bolster the tottering empires of England, France, Belgium, Holland and the other western exploiters of teeming millions of humans.’ … Was James Bowman [promoting the same notions about the Marshall Plan]? I cannot tell from … his FBI file, but I can say that Bowman’s work for, or position on, the Marshall Plan was the item of special concern to the FBI.”

Bowman was also a member of the Association of Internes and Medical Students, a group that, according to Bowman’s FBI file, engaged in un-American activities and “has long been a faithful follower of the Communist Party line.” This information is further buttressed by documents on Bowman from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, which show that the FBI investigated him for his membership in a group that “follows the communist party line.”

Bowman was also very active with the communist student group American Youth for Democracy as well as the International Labor Defense and the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born (ACPFB), three of Frank Marshall Davis’s favorite organizations. Paul Kengor writes the following about ACPFB:

“This group had been so extreme that the Democratic Congress’s huge ‘Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States’ (published in 1944) devoted a lengthy 15-page section just to ACPFB, atop innumerable added references elsewhere in the report. Key members included prominent African-American communists Langston Hughes and Paul Robeson, the gushing admirer of Joe Stalin, plus the usual assemblage of duped liberals/progressives, ranging from theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, to the great Orson Welles, to famed movie actor Edward G. Robinson. “As the Congressional report noted, ACPFB ‘was founded by the Communist Party in order to exploit racial divisions in the United States for its own revolutionary purposes.’ Its modus operandi was to polarize Americans along racial lines in order to advance the Soviet agenda. Closely linked to International Labor Defense, the primary (concealed) intention of ACPFB was to protect foreign communists who came to America and agitated for the Soviet Comintern. The core objective was to prevent deportation of these foreign-born communists living in America. One such figure was German communist Gerhart Eisler, who became a major CPUSA cause, and whose name was omnipresent throughout Frank Marshall Davis’s Chicago Star. “Few communist fronts so directly served Soviet interests. Quite deservedly, ACPFB was designated as a subversive group by the office of President Truman’s attorney general, Tom Clark. “It is no surprise that ACPFB remained the one group that Frank Marshall Davis embraced through his final stages of life. They were two peas in a pod. No other front so perfectly identified with Davis’s interests and public work, especially his shameless race-based political agitation on behalf of Moscow….”

Bowman was also involved with the Abraham Lincoln School in Chicago, where Frank Marshall Davis taught at the time.

Jarrett’s Mother

Valerie Jarrett’s mother is the early-childhood-education author Barbara Taylor Bowman (born 1928), who in 1966 co-founded a Chicago-based graduate school in child development known as the Erikson Institute, named after the psychoanalyst Erik Erikson. (In 1950 Erikson became a hero to the left by choosing to resign from his professorship at the University of California rather than sign an anti-communist loyalty oath as the school required.) Indicative of the Erikson Institute’s radical political orientation is the fact that its board of trustees has included, in addition to Mrs. Bowman, such figures as Tom Ayers (father of the former Weather Underground terrorist and lifelong Marxist Bill Ayers) and Bernardine Dohrn (longtime wife of Bill Ayers). Bill Ayers, for his part, called Mrs. Bowman “a neighbor and friend” in his 1997 book A Kind and Just Parent, noting that his neighbors also included Louis Farrakhan and “writer Barack Obama.”

Jarrett’s Maternal Grandfather

Valerie Jarrett’s maternal grandfather was a Chicago communist named Robert Rochon Taylor, the first African-American head of the Chicago Housing Authority. In the 1940s he was involved with such Communist fronts as the American Peace Mobilization and the Chicago Civil Liberties Committee (where he was an advisory board member). Also a member of these groups was Frank Marshall Davis (the Communist journalist who in the 1970s would mentor a young Barack Obama). FBI documents show that Taylor was “in contact with [Soviet agent Alfred] Stern on a number of occasions.

Taylor also had ties to William Patterson, who was a prominent black communist and a mentor to Frank Marshall Davis. In Congress’s 1944 report titled “Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States,” Taylor was named for his participation in the “Arrangements Committee” that organized the July 1939 Chicago Conference on Race Relations, in which a number of nationally known communist figures played roles. Taylor’s FBI file shows that he was also a “member of the Sponsoring Committee for a reception of Howard Fast,” a 1944 event held in Chicago to honor the Stalin Prize-winning “journalist” who was the most frequent op-ed contributor to Frank Marshall Davis’s Chicago Star.

Jarrett’s Maternal Grandmother

Valerie Jarrett’s maternal grandmother, Dorothy Taylor, was a Berkeley, California native who was active with Planned Parenthood in its early years.

1961-1983

When Valerie Jarrett was five, her family relocated to London for one year before settling in Chicago’s elite Hyde Park neighborhood in 1963.

Jarrett earned a B.A. in psychology from Stanford University in 1978, and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Michigan Law School in 1981. From 1981-87 she practiced law at two Chicago-based private firms. In 1983 she married Dr. William Robert Jarrett, son of the Chicago Sun-Times reporter Vernon Jarrett.

Jarrett’s Father-In-Law

Vernon Jarrett (Valerie Jarrett’s father-in-law) was a pioneering black journalist in the 1940s. He freelanced at Kansas City’s The Callfrom 1954-58, then returned to Chicago to become the first nationally syndicated black columnist for the Communist-influenced Chicago Defender, where he wrote columns extolling the Communist poet Langston Hughes and lifelong Stalinists W.E.B. DuBois and Paul Robeson. Also in the 1940s, Vernon Jarrett was a leader of the Chicago chapter of American Youth for Democracy—youth wing of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). Moreover, he served on a publicity committee for the Packinghouse Workers Union, a Chicago-based entity dominated by the CPUSA. In each of these endeavors, Vernon Jarrett had close contact with the Communist Frank Marshall Davis.The government watchdog organization Judicial Watch (JW) reports that according to his FBI files, Vernon Jarrett was a leading Chicago-based Communist. “For a period of time,” says JW, “Vernon Jarrett appeared on the FBI’s Security Index and was considered a potential Communist saboteur who was to be arrested in the event of a conflict with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). His FBI file reveals that he was assigned to write propaganda for a Communist Party front group in Chicago that would ‘disseminate the Communist Party line among … the middle class.’”

Vernon Jarrett was a member of the Communist Party from at least 1946-48 and was also one of its key fundraisers. As Paul Kengor puts it, “His [FBI] file is so filled with communist groups and activities that it makes your head hurt.”

When Vernon Jarrett died in 2004, he was saluted in the pages of People’s Weekly World, the house organ of the CPUSA.

Assessing Jarrett’s Radical & Communist Roots

In 2014, Kengor summarized the implications of Valerie Jarrett’s radical Communist lineage: “[Barack] Obama’s mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, worked with the literal relatives of Valerie Jarrett—her grandfather and future father-in-law—in Chicago’s Communist Party circles in the 1940s.” In an earlier piece, Kengor put it this way: “So, imagine where we are today: Barack Obama, Frank Marshall Davis’s political godson, and Valerie Jarrett, daughter-in-law to Vernon Jarrett and granddaughter of Robert Taylor—men with links to pro-Stalinism—are the two dominant figures in the White House, the power center that battled the USSR throughout the Cold War.”

In July 2015, Kengor elaborated that James Bowman (Valerie Jarrett’s father), Robert Rochon Taylor (Valerie Jarrett’s maternal grandfather), and Vernon Jarrett (Valerie Jarrett’s father-in-law) “were all in Chicago at the exact same time and all operating in the exact same close-knit circles of the city’s Communist Party generally and of a much smaller group of African-American communists specifically.” “Even tinier still,” Kengor added, “they were Chicago-based African-American communist writers, journalists, Party activists, and agitators. There is simply no way—no way—that James Bowman, Vernon Jarrett, Robert Rochon Taylor, and Frank Marshall Davis did not know and work together. Unimaginable.”

Judicial Watch, for its part, concludes that Valerie Jarrett’s father, maternal grandfather, and father-in-law “were hardcore Communists under investigation by the U.S. government.”

Valerie Jarrett Enters Politics

Valerie Jarrett entered Chicago politics in 1987 as Deputy Corporation Counsel for Finance and Development in the administration of Harold Washington, the city’s first African-American mayor. Jarrett’s father-in-law, whom _The Washington Post _called “a key influence in [Harold] Washington’s decision to run for the Chicago mayoralty,” may have facilitated Valerie’s rise through Chicago’s political ranks.

After Mayor Washington’s death in 1987, Valerie Jarrett served as deputy chief of staff for the next mayor, Richard M. Daley. During her tenure in that post, Jarrett met and befriended a young lawyer named Michelle Robinson, (the future Michelle Obama), who at the time was engaged to Barack Obama. In 1991 Jarrett and her colleague Susan Sher recruited Michelle to Chicago’s City Hall, and Jarrett quickly became a trusted confidante of both the Obamas.

From 1992 through 1995, Jarrett served the Daley administration as commissioner of the Department of Planning and Development. From 1995-2003, she chaired the Chicago Transit Board. Sometime in the early 1990s, Marilyn Katz, an activist/public-affairs consultant with close ties to City Hall—and a former Students for a Democratic Society radical—introduced Jarrett to Daniel Levin, a cousin of both Senator Carl Levin (D-Michigan) and Rep. Sander Levin (D-Michigan).

Slumlord Years

From 1995-2008 Jarrett worked for Daniel Levin’s real-estate firm, the Habitat Company. In 2007 Jarrett became Habitat’s president and CEO, drawing a $300,000 in salary plus $550,000 in deferred compensation.From 2001-08, the Habitat Company managed Grove Parc Plaza, a federally subsidized, 504-unit public housing complex situated in a neighborhood that Barack Obama had represented for eight years as a state senator. But under Habitat’s management, Grove Parc fell into disrepair and became largely uninhabitable, plagued by a host of unaddressed problems such as collapsed roofs, fire damage, rodent infestation, and sewage backups. According to a 2008 Boston Globe report: “In 2006, federal inspectors graded the condition of the complex an 11 on a 100-point scale—a score so bad the buildings now face demolition.” Eventually government inspectors seized control of the complex because of its horrid conditions.

Also under Jarrett’s stewardship, said the Globe, “Habitat … co-managed an even larger subsidized complex in Chicago that was seized by the federal government in 2006, after city inspectors found widespread problems.”But for Jarrett the news was not all bad. Indeed she became immensely wealthy while presiding over the aforementioned slum apartments. As of 2012 Jarrett owned an 11-percent equity interest in Kingsbury Plaza, a 46-story luxury apartment complex developed by the Habitat Company during 2005-07 at a cost exceeding $100 million. On her 2011 financial disclosure form, she valued that investment—which a Jarrett spokesman said was “a direct result of her 13 years working for Habitat”—at between $1 million and $5 million. According to a 2012 report in the Washington Free Beacon: “Cook County records show the Kingsbury property’s worth at approximately $27.2 million, but thanks to a series of legal appeals beginning in 2003, the land and building are assessed at a much lower value for tax purposes. Since 2008, the property has been designated a ‘special commercial structure’ and is taxed at a value of just $6.8 million, or 25 percent of the actual value. Asked how such a property could enjoy such a low taxable value, an official with the Cook County Assessor’s Office told the Free Beacon that the property’s owners ‘must have good attorneys.’”

Apart from her duties with the Habitat Compan, Jarrett from 2000-07 was a board member of the Chicago Stock Exchange. She also served stints as chair of the University of Chicago Medical Center’s Board of Trustees; vice chair of the University of Chicago’s Board of Trustees; a trustee of Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry; and a board of directors member of USG Corporation, a Chicago-based building-materials company.

Alliance With Barack Obama

Following Barack Obama’s victory in the 2008 presidential election, Jarrett co-chaired the Obama-Biden Transition Project. After that, she was appointed to a prominent position in the Obama administration: Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs. In this role, Jarrett was one of President Obama’s (and Mrs. Obama’s) closest and most trusted advisers. Consider the following observations, by a variety of informed sources, about Jarrett’s importance as an Obama advisor:

An Obama 2008 campaign official told the New York Times,“If you want [Barack Obama] to do something, there are two people [he’s] not going to say no to: Valerie Jarrett and Michelle Obama.”

Also in 2008, the aforementioned Susan Sher, who had helped Jarrett recruit Michelle Obama to the Chicago mayor’s office in 1991, emphasized “how incredibly instrumental [Jarrett will] be in virtually everything” in the White House.

In July 2009, President Obama himself told _New York Times _reporter Robert Draper, “I trust her [Jarrett] completely … She is family.” Obama said also that he trusted Jarrett “to speak for me, particularly when we’re dealing with delicate issues.” When asked, the President admitted that he was in the habit of soliciting Jarrett’s input on his every decision.

The New York Times described Jarrett as Obama’s “closest friend in the White House,” his “envoy,” his “emissary,” his “all-purpose ambassador,” and the “ultimate Obama insider.”

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank says that Jarrett’s connection to Obama is “deep and personal,” calling her “the real center of Obama’s inner circle.” Milbank also describes Jarrett as Obama’s “longtime mentor and friend,” and as someone in a “position of unparalleled influence over the president.”

Obama’s former White House communications director, Anita Dunn, says: “Her [Jarrett’s] role since she has been at the White House is one of the broadest and most expansive roles that I think has ever existed in the West Wing.”

Chicago tycoon Martin Nesbitt says that Jarrett establishes both Michelle and Barack Obama’s “whole notion of authenticity.” According to Nesbitt, Jarrett channels the Obamas’ inner voice, telling them, for instance: “That’s not you. You wouldn’t say that. Somebody else is saying that. Barack Obama wouldn’t say that.”

According to a November 2014 New Republic report: “Jarrett holds a key vote on Cabinet picks … and has an outsize say on ambassadorships and judgeships. She helps determine who gets invited to the First Lady’s Box for the State of the Union, who attends state dinners and bill-signing ceremonies, and who sits where at any of the above. She has placed friends and former employees in important positions across the administration—’you can be my person over there,’ is a common refrain. And Jarrett has been known to enjoy the perks of high office herself. When administration aides plan ‘bilats,’ the term of art for meetings of two countries’ top officials, they realize that whatever size meeting they negotiate—nine by nine, eight by eight, etc.—our [the U.S.] side will typically include one less foreign policy hand, because Jarrett has a standing seat at any table that includes the president.”

Jarrett herself is wholy cognizant of the influence she wields with Obama. “We have kind of a mind meld,” she said in 2009. “And chances are, what he wants to do is what I’d want to do.” On another occasion Jarrett told Vogue magazine, “I kind of know what makes them [the Obamas] who they are.”

Jarrett is deeply concerned with racial issues. After the tape recordings of Jeremiah Wright‘s racist, anti-American diatribes threatened to sink Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, it was Jarrett who encouraged Obama to give his “race speech” at Constitution Hall. African-American administration staffers have said that without Jarrett’s patronage, “their opinions and the often-legitimate concerns voiced by black leaders like[Al] Sharpton would have been thoroughly disregarded by the white-dominated senior staff.”

When future White House press secretary Robert Gibbs tried to downplay Obama’s assertion (during the 2008 presidential campaign) that Republicans were emphasizing the fact that Obama “doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills,” Jarrett instructed white staffers: “You guys, you’re not getting this issue right.” After Jarrett’s intervention, candidate Obama told his white staffers that they were too “gun-shy on race issues.” According to a campaign source, “[M]oving forward, the candidate made it very clear to us that we were just a bunch of white people who didn’t get it—which, by the way, was true.”

After Obama’s inauguration in January 2009, Jarrett successfully pushed to loosen restrictions barring government officials from meeting with lobbyists, a rule enshrined in Obama’s executive memo on the Recovery Act [stimulus bill], for fear that other “legitimate” concerns—raised by “civil rights organizations whose directors happen to be registered lobbyists—will not be heard.”

In early 2009 Jarrett lobbied President Obama to create the office of Chief Diversity Officer within the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), a position filled soon thereafter by Mark Lloyd, an Alinskyite and a former senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.

Jarrett also helped recruit Obama’s regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein, who supports the Fairness Doctrine and has argued that Americans should “celebrate tax day.”

Without Jarrett’s patronage, the self-identified communist revolutionary Van Jones would not have gotten his appointment as the Obama administration’s green jobs czar in March 2009. A White House official told Politico that Jones “did not go through the traditional vetting process.” Instead, Jarrett interviewed Jones, a signal that she pushed for his appointment. Indeed, Jarrett gushed to the Netroots Nation conference in August 2009:

“We were so delighted to be able to recruit him [Van Jones] into the White House. We were watching him…for as long as he’s been active out in Oakland. And all the creative ideas he has. And so now, we have captured that, and we have all that energy in the White House.”

Moreover, Jarrett’s office approved the September 2009 invitation of Jameel Jaffer, the head of the ACLU‘s “national security project,” to a White House Ramadan dinner. According to The American Spectator:

“Jaffer is a cause célèbre to the far left for his career of litigating against the United States in support of terrorists and radical Islamists, and has proudly touted his awards from groups like CAIR. “’We had other names on the list for invitations, but Jarrett’s office wanted Jaffer in the room. We were told it was important,’ says a White House source. ‘It was made clear that his presence was something senior folks here wanted to happen.’ “Jaffer has filed lawsuits challenging the FBI’s ‘national security letter’ authority [and] the constitutionality of warrantless wiretaps. [He] has been a leader in pushing for the shut down of Guantánamo Bay, and providing legal rights to terrorists held by the United States overseas in such countries as Iraq and Afghanistan. His efforts enabled the leaking of ‘torture photos’ out of Iraq and Afghanistan, and some sources inside the Central Intelligence Agency believe he was one of the lawyers who provided legal advice to the Department of Justice to pursue an investigation into enhanced interrogation techniques used by the CIA.”

Collaborating with the National Endowment for the Arts to Advance the Obama Agenda

On May 12, 2009, numerous employees in Jarrett’s office—and possibly Jarrett herself—helped co-host a strategy meeting organized by the Nathan Cummings Foundation. At this event, some 60 artists were—in the words of one of the meeting’s organizers—“challenged to come up with promising and attractive ideas about how artists can work for the [Obama] administration’s agenda.” For details about the meeting and its attendees, click here.The meeting was led by a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) official (Mario Garcia Durham), two representatives of First Lady Michelle Obama (Joseph Reinstein and Trooper Sanders), White House arts czar Kareem Dale (who reported to Valerie Jarrett), and three members of what was then known as the Office of Public Liason (headed by Jarrett). Those three were Buffy Wicks, Tina Tchen, and Mike Strautmanis (President Obama’s former chief counsel and a onetime paralegal at Michelle Obama’s law firm).In the meeting, Strautmanis encouraged the group to think of “ways to communicate” the Obama administration’s agenda “with people and how to motivate them culturally.” Buffy Wicks asked briefing participants to “think through how their networks and organizations can participate in areas such as the arts in education, healthcare and preventative care, energy and environment, or economic opportunity.” And Tina Tchen added, “The administration wants to sustain energy from the election process and turn it toward the agenda.”

The notes of the meeting seem to suggest that Valerie Jarrett was present at some point as well.

Other noteworthy attendees included:

Also in attendance were Maria Teresa Petersen, founding executive director of Voto Latino; Caron Atlas and Ryan Friedrichs of State Voices; Robert “Biko” Baker, executive director of the League of Young Voters; Michelle Miller, manager of popular media organizing at the SEIU; Denise Brown, executive director of the Leeway Foundation; and Michelle Coffey, senior philanthropic advisor with the Tides Foundation.

More Examples of Jarrett’s Influence on the Obama Administration

When President Obama publicly stated that Massachusetts police had acted “stupidly” in arresting Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates for disorderly conduct in July 2009 (click here for details), Jarrett urged Obama to walk back those remarks because she worried that they would be perceived as disrespectful to police.

In his book Leading From Behind, author Richard Miniter reveals that Jarrett, prior to the May 2011 U.S. killing of Osama bin Laden, repeatedly urged President Obama not to kill the al Qaeda leader, prompting Obama to cancel the mission on three separate occasions—in January, February, and March of 2011. Jarrett was concerned about the political damage that could result if the mission were to fail.

In 2010-11 Jarrett promoted the California-based solar-power company Solyndra, where one of her wealthiest Chicago connections, billionaire George Kaiser—a leading Obama bundler—held a 35% share in the company. On Jarrett’s advice, President Obama famously visited and publicly extolled Solyndra in 2010, even though auditors were already warning about the abysmal state of its finances. In September 2011 the company declared bankruptcy, but not before it had received a $535 million government-backed loan.

In September 2011, Jarrett said the following about what she viewed as the proper role of government: “We have to give people a livelihood so they can provide for their families…. His [President Obama’s] is a moral vision. It’s a vision based very deeply in values and taking care of ‘the least of these.’ And making sure that we are creating a country that’s a country for everybody, not just for the very, very wealthy. We are working hard to lift people out of poverty and give them a better life, a footing, and that’s what government is supposed to do.”

A September 2012 New York Times report identifies Jarrett as the person responsible for a number of controversial Obama Administration policy decisions, including: (a) the Affordable Care Act’s call for an insurance mandate for contraceptives, abortifacients, and sterilization procedures; (b) President Obama’s decision to sue the state of Arizona for its immigration-enforcement statute (SB-1020); and (c) the president’s decision to allow illegal immigrants to apply for work permits.

In March 2012, Jarrett was a major presenter at J Street’s Third Annual Conference.

In an interview with Walter Isaacson at the 2012 Aspen Ideas Festival, Jarrett recalled a meeting in which she had participated a year-and-a-half earlier with four “Dream Act kids”—young illegal immigrants who had walked from Miami to Washington, DC as part of the 2010 “Trail of Dreams” program sponsored by such groups as Students Working for Equal Rights and the Florida Immigrant Coalition. Said Jarrett:

“I call them kids. They’re actually young adults. They walked from Florida to Washington. Walked. And they wanted to see the president. And of course they couldn’t come into the White House because they’re here illegally, and they would have been picked up. And so I ventured across the street, across the park, to a church and I met them in the church. And I’ve now met with them four or five times. And each time I would leave in tears. Because they are exactly the kind of people we would want in this country…. They are the best that we have.”

In October 2012 it was revealed that for several months, Jarrett, who had no experience in international negotiations, had been leading secret negotiations with representatives of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, in an effort to develop normalized relations between the U.S. and Iran.

A few days before the November 2012 presidential election, a representative from Jarrett’s office quoted Jarrett as having told several senior staffers the following: “After we win this election, it’s our turn. Payback time. Everyone not with us is against us and they better be ready because we don’t forget. The ones who helped us will be rewarded, the ones who opposed us will get what they deserve. There is going to be hell to pay. Congress won’t be a problem for us this time. No election to worry about after this is over and we have two judges ready to go.”

Reports of Jarrett’s Role in Leaking the Information That Sparked the Hillary Clinton Email Scandal

In early March 2015, it was reported that throughout her entire four-year (2009-13) tenure as Secretary of State (SOS), Hillary Clinton — in baltant violation of government regulations — had never acquired or used a government email account, and instead had transmitted all of her official government correspondences via a personal email address that she registered on the very same day as her confirmation hearings for SOS began. The personal email address — hdr22@clintonemail.com — traced back to a private email server that was situated inside Mrs. Clinton’s home in Chappaqua, New York. (For additional details of this scandal, click here.) In mid-March, longtime author and journalist Ed Klein reported that according to his sources, Valerie Jarrett had leaked this information — embarrassing and potentially damaging to Clinton’s political aspirations — to the press. According to Klein, Jarrett “did so through people outside the ­administration, so the story couldn’t be traced to her or the White House.” Added Klein:

“In addition, at Jarrett’s behest, the State Department was ordered to launch a series of investigations into Hillary’s conduct at Foggy Bottom, including the use of her expense account, the disbursement of funds, her contact with foreign leaders and her possible collusion with the Clinton Foundation. Six separate probes into Hillary’s performance have been ­going on at the State Department. I’m told that the email scandal was timed to come out just as Hillary was on the verge of formally announcing that she was running for president — and that there’s more to come….”

“The sabotage is part of an ­ongoing feud between the two Democrat powerhouses. Last fall, during the run-up to the 2014 midterm elections, Jarrett was heard to complain bitterly that the Clintons were turning congressmen, senators, governors and grassroots party members against Obama by portraying him as an unpopular president who was an albatross around the neck of the party. Jarrett was said to be livid that most Democrats running for election refused to be seen campaigning with the president. She blamed the Clintons for marginalizing the president and for trying to wrest control of the Democratic Party away from Obama. And she vowed payback.”

“My sources say Jarrett saw an opportunity to hit back hard when Monica Lewinsky suddenly resurfaced after years of living in obscurity. Jarrett discreetly put out word to some friendly members of the press that the White House would look with favor if they gave Monica some ink and airtime.”

“Relations have gotten even frostier in the past few months. After the Democrats took a shellacking in the midterms, the White House scheduled a meeting with Hillary Clinton. When she showed up in the Oval Office, she was greeted by three people — the president, Jarrett and Michelle Obama. With his wife and Jarrett looking on, Obama made it clear that he intended to stay neutral in the presidential primary process — a clear signal that he wouldn’t mind if someone challenged Hillary for the nomination. ‘Obama and Valerie Jarrett will go to any lengths to prevent Hillary from becoming president,’ a source close to the White House told me. ‘They believe that Hillary, like her husband, is left of center, not a true-blue liberal.'”

“‘With Obama’s approval,’ this source continued, ‘Valerie has been holding secret meetings with Martin O’Malley [the Democratic former governor of Maryland] and [Massachusetts Sen.] Elizabeth Warren. She’s promised O’Malley and Warren the full support of the White House if they will challenge Hillary for the presidential nomination.'”

Alliance With the “Black Lives Matter” Movement

On September 16, 2015, Jarrett and some other administration officials met at the White House with Black Lives Matter activists Brittney Packnett, DeRay McKesson, Johnetta Elzie, Phillip Agnew, and Jamye Wooten. In a subsequent tweet directed to Miss Packnett, Jarrett wrote: “Great meeting, Brittany. Truly appreciate your leadership!!”

Jarrett Moves in to the Obamas’ Home in D.C.

On March 1, 2017, the Daily Mail reported that Jarrett had moved in to the $5.3 million, 8,200-square-foot, walled mansion in Washington’s Embassy Row that former President Obama had rented as the principal post-White House residence for himself and Michelle Obama. From there, Obama and Jarrett would oversee and guide the activities of Organizing For Action, an organization dedicated to preserving Obama’s legacy.

Additional Information

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