{"id":3089,"date":"2024-11-30T20:20:26","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T20:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-selects-charles-kushner-as-ambassador-to-france\/"},"modified":"2024-11-30T20:20:26","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T20:20:26","slug":"trump-selects-charles-kushner-as-ambassador-to-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-selects-charles-kushner-as-ambassador-to-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump selects Charles Kushner as ambassador to France"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President-elect Donald Trump announced on Saturday that he has chosen New York real estate developer Charles Kushner to be his Ambassador to France, calling him \u201ca tremendous business leader, philanthropist, &amp; dealmaker\u201d in a <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/113573276988405348\" target=\"_blank\">social media post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations to Charlie, his wonderful wife Seryl, their 4 children, &amp; 14 grandchildren,\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cHis son, Jared, worked closely with me in the White House, in particular on Operation Warp Speed, Criminal Justice Reform, &amp; the Abraham Accords. Together, we will strengthen America\u2019s partnership with France, our oldest Ally, &amp; one of our greatest!<\/p>\n<p>All U.S. ambassador nominees must be confirmed by the Senate. If confirmed, Kushner would take over the role from Denise Campbell Bauer.<\/p>\n<p>The 70-year-old business mogul is the founder of private real estate firm Kushner Companies and was also an attorney. His son Jared Kushner is married to Trump\u2019s daughter Ivanka and was a senior adviser to Trump during his first term.<\/p>\n<p>In 2005, the elder Kushner was convicted by a federal jury of making illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion and witness tampering. Former New Jersey governor and federal prosecutor Chris Christie brought the charges against Kushner, calling it \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/30\/politics\/chris-christie-jared-kushner-father\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes<\/a>\u201d he ever prosecuted. Kushner served two years in prison before returning to his real estate business.<\/p>\n<p>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/12\/23\/trump-pardons-manafort-stone-kushner-450328\" target=\"_blank\">pardoned Kushner<\/a> in 2020, just one month before the end of his first term.<\/p>\n<p>France\u2019s relationship with the U.S. is particularly important on issues like trade and security, amid fears that Trump may pull the U.S. out of the NATO military alliance.<\/p>\n<p><i>Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney contributed reporting.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Donald Trump announced on Saturday that he has chosen New York real estate developer Charles Kushner to be his Ambassador to France, calling him \u201ca tremendous business leader, philanthropist, &amp; dealmaker\u201d in a social media post. \u201cCongratulations to Charlie, his wonderful wife Seryl, their 4 children, &amp; 14 grandchildren,\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cHis son, Jared, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}