President\u2019s son-in-law denies \u2018completely insane\u2019 claims he profited from unofficial position. Plus, the battle between psychics and AI<\/p>\n
Good morning. A book that contains incendiary claims about Jared Kushner\u2019s financial dealings during Donald Trump\u2019s first term has ignited a political and media storm<\/a>. The book, by the author Matthew Cole, drew a furious response from Kushner, who called its claims \u201ccompletely insane\u201d.<\/p>\n It contains numerous allegations about Kushner, who has served as one of Donald Trump\u2019s top diplomatic envoys in the Middle East. The most explosive are claims linking him to huge bank accounts allegedly funded by Gulf states. Kushner continues to steer US foreign policy despite having no official role. The Guardian contacted Kushner\u2019s legal counsel and received no response.<\/p>\n Barack Obama offered a closing argument<\/a> for Democrats in the final week of the campaign. <\/strong>\u201cThese are not serious people,\u201d he said of Trump and the Republican party. \u201cAnd we\u2019re all paying the price for their lack of seriousness.\u201d<\/p>\n The campaign of the Alaska Democrat <\/strong>Mary Peltola<\/strong> was behind an effort to recruit a challenger with almost the same name as the Republican US senator Dan Sullivan<\/strong>. Both men will appear on the ballot in next week\u2019s midterm elections, the New York Times reported<\/a> on Wednesday. Peltola\u2019s campaign has denied involvement with the other Dan Sullivan, who will be listed on the ballot as \u201cSullivan, Daniel J Jr\u201d.<\/p>\n Two rightwing influencers have been charged with felonies<\/a> in Minneapolis<\/strong> over attempts in the state\u2019s election primary to disguise themselves in what they called \u201cMuslim garb\u201d and claim they were local voters.<\/p>\n If you are having trouble keeping track of all the ways <\/strong>Trump and his administration have been attempting to disrupt the midterms, this four-minute video explainer<\/a> has <\/strong>you covered.<\/strong> And the Guardian\u2019s Washington bureau chief, David Smith, has this analysis piece looking at Trump\u2019s midterm rally bigotry<\/a>, with the president\u2019s repeated attacks on Muslims and his strange obsession with people\u2019s bodies.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President\u2019s son-in-law denies \u2018completely insane\u2019 claims he profited from unofficial position. Plus, the battle between psychics and AI Good morning. A book that contains incendiary claims about Jared Kushner\u2019s financial dealings during Donald Trump\u2019s first term has ignited a political and media storm. The book, by the author Matthew Cole, drew a furious response from … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}