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Nepotism and corruption: the handmaidens of Trump's presidency | Jill Abramson

Having Jared Kushner and his wife, Ivanka, Trump’s daughter, working in the White House is a case study of nepotism gone nuts
‘We’ve seen this same playbook before – in places like Uganda, the Philippines and other countries where rulers and their families loot the public.’ Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo

Despite its fame, The Apprentice is not the reality television show that best explains Donald Trump’s presidency. To understand what’s going on in the White House, tune into a popular show that had its premiere at about the same time: American Greed.

We last week that Jared Kushner met with big-time financial executives in the White House and then hit them up for $ to his family’s troubled real estate empire, a business in which he maintains an active stake. This truly tops most of the financial chicanery featured on

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