Jared Kushner, a neophyte like his boss, chooses the best lawyer for him. Hopefully, for us all.

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First of all, isn't it amazing how much Jared Kushner resembles Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook?

Jared Kushner has turned to eminent Washington DC attorney Jamie Gorelick, whom Yahoo writer Andrew Romano says may "be his savior."

Save him from what? There's the question. Gorelick is the one who can "figure out the line" between selling out her client or selling out national interests, this article concludes. Well, it's up to Robert Mueller, and now Andrew Weissmann, who quit his current job to join the investigation, to figure out what exactly he and his boss have done.

I have written about Kushner before, and the main thing to remember is that while this is no kid-- he's a 33-year-old real estate man worth a couple hundred million when he was so unexpectedly tapped to take over a portfolio of responsibility that an experienced hand would advise against, or accept and sub-delegate like crazy-- he's just way, way over his head.

One way to look at how Gorelick will "figure out the line" is what pleas will be made for him, since the facts that everybody knows for sure now-- that he suggested the Russian Ambassador collaborate with him in setting up a secure back-channel line to the Kremlin from secure Russian facilities, before Trump was even President-- would appear to convict him of treason.

She says that Kushner is willing to cooperate in all investigations. Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions and others have got to be shaking in their boots unless regardless of a portfolio of 4 or 5 important jobs (Trump, a novice at appointments to really complex and important positions that involve more than making money, threw him in over his head) Kushner was not actually in the inner loop, because he'll be a stool pigeon.

Know what? I look at this dude and I see something decent inside him that will be testifying not just to save himself a sentence longer than Chelsea Manning got, but because he KNOWS he's in far over his head and at this point, the right thing to do is to turn state's evidence, because I presume that he really is nothing more than a catspaw for Trump.

The Israel connection: Kushner, or organizations involved with him, have raised money for Israeli settlements. Daniel Friedman, Trump's bankruptcy lawyer, has been a much larger investor in the One-State Solution.

Setting aside Friedman for a moment, and the glaring, blaring conflict of interest it is to be an ambassador in a nation in which he has direct financial interest: it would be no more illegal for private citizen Kushner (or private citizen Friedman) to raise money for Israeli settlements than the extent to which the settlements themselves are illegal.

Whatever posts Trump may have nominally put him in, we must remember that Kushner is a personal friend since childhood of Bibi Netanyahu. It would be plausible to speculate that Trump thinks of this connection as the thing that makes Kushner indispensable.

It is at least conceivable that Kushner actually, independently, on his own, said to himself, upon meeting Mr. Kislyak, "Wow, what a magnificent opportunity to do direct diplomacy! I'm actually talking to a senior Russian official who is directly in touch with Putin!" and took him aside and attempted to do direct diplomacy.

But unfortunately, he was not a diplomat, and had no idea that you can't-- don't-- actually have American officials talking over Russian consulate lines somewhere. I mean, conceivable, right?

So what will superlawyer Jamie Gorelick save him from? And will her "figur(ing) out the line" of saving him from doing really serious time be the legal downfall of the Trump Administration?

Stay tuned.

(Article changed on June 7, 2017 at 05:53)

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Authors Bio:

My name is William Perkins Homans the third, but probably more people know me as the bluesman (and artist) Watermelon Slim.



I've been in the fight against war, fascism, injustice and inhumanity for 47 years. I was at MayDay, 1971, and at the moratorium March the week before. I was one of the leaders of the Great New Jersey Turnpike Stall on my birthday, April 25, 1971.



I bear the scar on my left shin from a neoNazi jackboot, when I was one of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War who bounced the NSWPP from Flamingo Park at the Republican National Convention of 1972. My father fought the Nazis in the North Atlantic and Anzio, and I met their spawn in Miami.



My formal education has been first-rate. I wouldn't trade my degrees for Harvard ones. I was raised in the finest private Catholic and Episcopal high schools.
I earned my BA in History and Journalism from the University of Oregon/Eugene. I was also captain of the U of O bowling team, 1984-1986. High game 299. Mentors: Dr. W. Gordon Rockett, Dr. Daniell Pope
1997-2000: Oklahoma State University. M.A., History, 2000, plus the school-teaching curriculum. Mentor: Dr. Ronald Petrin

I am a world survivalist. My politics transcends right and left, perforce. I watch for signs we may transcend in some yet-unknown fashion the vectors and indicators in my environmental and geopolitical analysis.
As Tiny Tim said, "God bless us, every one!"