5. The Late 2000s: Heirs to the Crash

0.      https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2018/11/02/new-data-adjunct-instructors; https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/it-keeps-you-nice-and-disposable-the-plight-of-adjunct-professors/2019/02/14/6cd5cbe4-024d-11e9-b5df-5d3874f1ac36_story.html.

0.      Andre Spicer, “Donald Trump’s ‘Kakistocracy’ Is Not the First, But It’s Revived an Old Word,” The Guardian, April 18 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/18/donald-trump-kakistocracy-john-brennan-us-twitter.

0.      Sam Petulla and Jennifer Hansler, “There Is a Wave of Republicans Leaving Congress, Updated Again,” CNN.com, November 10, 2017, https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/10/politics/house-retirement-tracker/index.html.

0.      Colby Hall, “‘It’s Blackmail’: Joe and Mika Reveal How White House Threatened Them with National Enquirer,” Mediaite, June 30, 2017, https://www.mediaite.com/tv/its-blackmail-joe-and-mika-reveal-how-white-house-threatened-them-with-national-enquirer/.

0.      Alex Gibney, “Meet the Leader of Eliot Spitzer’s Smear Campaign,” The Atlantic, October 13, 2010, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/10/meet-the-leader-of-eliot-spitzers-smear-campaign/64361/.

0.      Denis Slattery, “‘Manhattan Madam’ Kristin Davis Subpoenaed in Mueller Probe,” New York Daily News, July 20, 2018, https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-pol-manhattan-madam-mueller-davis-stone-20180720-story.html.

0.      Matt Zapotosky, “Why Jared Kushner Had to Update His Disclosure of Foreign Contacts More Than Once,” Washington Post, July 17, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/why-jared-kushner-has-had-to-update-his-disclosure-of-foreign-contacts-more-than-once/2017/07/17/b04e8158-6b05-11e7-96ab-5f38140b38cc_story.html?utm_term=.21f497930166.

0.      David D. Kirkpatrick, Ben Hubbard, Mark Landler, and Mark Mazzetti, “The Wooing of Jared Kushner,” New York Times, December 8, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/08/world/middleeast/saudi-mbs-jared-kushner.html.

0.      Simon Tisdall, “Trump’s Cronies Are in Secret Talks to Sell Nuclear Tech to Saudi. The Risks Are Clear,” The Guardian, February 23, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/23/trump-cronies-secret-talks-nuclear-tech-saudi-arabia.

0.    Asawin Suebsaeng, Maxwell Tani, and Lloyd Grove, “Jared Kushner Replaced Michael Cohen as Trump’s National Enquirer Connection,” Daily Beast, December 14, 2018, https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-jared-kushner-replaced-michael-cohen-as-trumps-national-enquirer-connection.

0.    Andrew Prokop, “Jared Kushner’s Many, Many Scandals, Explained,” Vox, March 2, 2018, https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/1/17053398/jared-kushner-scandals-russia-clearance-loans.

0.    Daniel Golden, “The Story Behind Jared Kushner’s Curious Acceptance Into Harvard,” ProPublica, November 18, 2016, https://www.propublica.org/article/the-story-behind-jared-kushners-curious-acceptance-into-harvard.

0.    Michael D’Antonio, “Ike Didn’t Like Donald Trump’s Dad at All,” Daily Beast, April 24, 2017, https://www.thedailybeast.com/ike-didnt-like-donald-trumps-dad-at-all; Josh Gerstein, “FBI Releases Thin File on Donald Trump’s Father, Fred,” Politico, October 8, 2016, https://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2016/10/fbi-releases-thin-file-on-fred-trump-229361.

0.    David Barstow, Susanne Craig, and Russ Buettner, “Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches from His Father,” New York Times, October 2, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html.

0.    Christina Zhao, “Chris Christie Shreds Jared Kushner’s Father,” Newsweek, January 29, 2019, https://www.newsweek.com/chris-christie-shreds-jared-kushners-father-one-most-loathsome-disgusting-1310842.

0.    Katherine Clarke, “Jared Kushner, the Accidental CEO,” Real Deal, February 1, 2014, https://therealdeal.com/issues_articles/jared-kushner-the-accidental-ceo/.

0.    Steve Cuozzo, “The Scandalous History Behind Kushner’s Ritzy Midtown Building,” New York Post, April 18, 2017, https://nypost.com/2017/04/18/the-scandalous-history-behind-kushners-ritzy-midtown-building/.

0.    Clive Irving, “The Curse of 666 Fifth Avenue, the Skyscraper That Could Sink the Kushners,” Daily Beast, March 11, 2018, https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-curse-of-666-fifth-avenue-the-skyscraper-that-could-sink-the-kushners.

0.    “Ron Lauder Praises Trump As ‘Man of Intelligence,’” Times of Israel, January 9, 2018, https://www.timesofisrael.com/ron-lauder-praises-trump-as-man-of-intelligence/.

0.    Rosalind S. Helderman and Tom Hamburger, “How Manafort’s 2016 Meeting with a Russian Employee at New York Cigar Club Goes to ‘The Heart’ of Mueller’s Probe,” Washington Post, February 12, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-manaforts-2016-meeting-with-a-russian-employee-at-new-york-cigar-club-goes-to-the-heart-of-muellers-probe/2019/02/12/655f84dc-2d67-11e9-8ad3-9a5b113ecd3c_story.html?utm_term=.b801662cf596.

0.    Julia Horowitz and Cristina Alesci, “Kushner Companies Offloads Troubled 666 Fifth Avenue Flagship,” CNN.com, August 3, 2018, https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/03/news/companies/kushner-666-fifth-avenue-brookfield/index.html.

0.    Ryan Beene, “Jared Kushner Has Paid Almost No Federal Income Tax in Years: Report,” Time, October 13, 2018, http://time.com/5424109/jared-kushner-taxes-new-york-times/.

0.    Ibid.

0.    Jacob Passy, “Jared Kushner hasn’t paid federal income taxes in years: New York Times,” MarketWatch, October 13, 2018, https://www.marketwatch.com/story/jared-kushner-hasnt-paid-federal-income-taxes-in-years-new-york-times-2018-10-13.

0.    Naomi Zeveloff, “When Bibi Slept in Jared Kushner’s Bed,” The Forward, February 12, 2017, https://forward.com/fast-forward/362898/when-bibi-slept-in-jared-kushners-bed/.

0.    Judy Maltz, “Kushner Foundation Gives $342K to Chabad—Still Surprised About Jared and Ivanka’s Synagogue?” The Forward, January 9, 2017, https://forward.com/news/359482/kushner-foundation-gives-342k-to-chabad-still-surprised-about-jared-and-iva/; Chabad.org, “The Light of Truth at the UN: Excerpt of Prime Minister Netanyahu at the General Assembly, Sept 23, 2011,” https://www.chabad.org/multimedia/media_cdo/aid/1632210/jewish/The-Light-of-Truth-at-the-UN.htm.

0.    Ben Schreckinger, “The Happy-Go-Lucky Jewish Group That Connects Trump and Putin,” Politico Magazine, April 9, 2017, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/the-happy-go-lucky-jewish-group-that-connects-trump-and-putin-215007.

0.    Oliver Holmes and Kevin Rawlinson, “Roman Abramovich Granted Israeli Citizenship,” The Guardian, May 28, 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/28/roman-abramovich-granted-israeli-citizenship-tel-aviv-chelsea.

0.    Schreckinger, “The Happy-Go-Lucky Jewish Group That Connects Trump and Putin.”

0.    Ibid.

0.    Craig Unger, House of Trump, House of Putin (New York: Dutton, 2018), 116.

0.    Chris Riotta, “Jared Kushner Failed to Disclose He Led a Foundation Funding Illegal Israeli Settlements Before U.N. Vote,” Newsweek, December 3, 2017, https://www.newsweek.com/jared-kushner-disclosure-form-west-bank-settlements-israel-white-house-729290.

0.    Aiden Pink, “Jared and Ivanka Blessed by Israeli Rabbi Who Compared Black People to Monkeys,” The Forward, May 13, 2018, https://forward.com/fast-forward/400996/jared-and-ivanka-blessed-by-israeli-rabbi-who-compared-black-people-to/.

0.    Talia Lavin, “Trump Sees All Us Jews As Israelis Because His Christian Zionist Allies Do Too,” Washington Post, August 22, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/08/22/trump-sees-all-us-jews-israelis-because-his-christian-zionist-allies-do-too/; Rachel Tabachnick, “Meet Bibi’s New Tribulation-Courting, Jew-Converting, Demon-Exorcising American Allies,” Daily Beast, April 14, 2017, https://www.thedailybeast.com/meet-bibis-new-tribulation-courting-jew-converting-demon-exorcising-american-allies.

0.    Charles V. Bagli and Jesse Drucker, “Kushners Near Deal With Qatar-Linked Company for Troubled Tower,” New York Times, May 17, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/17/nyregion/kushner-deal-qatar-666-5th.html.

0.    Michelle Nichols, “Flynn, Kushner Targeted Several States in Failed U.N. Lobbying: Diplomats,” Reuters, December 1, 2017, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-un-idUSKBN1DW015.

0.    Vicky Ward, Kushner, Inc.: Greed. Ambition. Corruption. The Extraordinary Story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2019), 117.

0.    Lizzie Widdicombe, “Ivanka and Jared’s Power Play,” New Yorker, August 22, 2016, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/22/ivanka-trump-and-jared-kushners-power-play.

0.    Ibid.

0.    Emily Jane Fox, “Could It Be That Vladimir Putin and Wendi Deng Are in Love?” Vanity Fair, March 31, 2016, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/03/vladimir-putin-wendi-deng-couple; Emily Jane Fox, “Ivanka Trump Is Vacationing with Wendi Deng,” Vanity Fair, August 15, 2016, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/ivanka-trump-wendi-deng-vacation.

0.    James Warren, “Is Rupert Murdoch’s Ex a Chinese Spy?,” Vanity Fair, January 16, 2018, Jhttps://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/01/wendi-deng-rubert-murdoch-chinese-spy-jared-kushner.

0.    Jewish Telegraphic Agency, “Trump Denies Seeking Security Clearance for Ivanka, Kushner and Other Children,” November 16, 2016, https://www.jta.org/2016/11/16/politics/trump-denies-seeking-security-clearance-for-ivanka-kushner-and-other-children.

0.    Michael Sainato, “Electoral College Delusions Still Plague Clinton Partisans,” The Observer, November 21, 2016, https://observer.com/2016/11/electoral-college-delusions-still-plague-clinton-partisans/.

0.    Kyle Pope, “The Jared Bubble,” Columbia Journalism Review, Fall 2017, https://www.cjr.org/special_report/cjr-kyle-pope-jared-kushner-observer.php.

0.    Helin Jung, “Get That Life: How I Became a Political Journalist Working in the Middle of the Country,” Cosmopolitan, January 30, 2017, https://www.cosmopolitan.com/career/a8578596/sarah-kendzior-political-journalist-get-that-life/.

0.    Ibid.