Nathan Guttman, staff writer, was the Forward’s Washington bureau chief. He joined the staff in 2006 after serving for five years as Washington correspondent for the Israeli dailies Haaretz and The Jerusalem Post. In Israel, he was the features editor for Ha’aretz and chief editor of Channel 1 TV evening news. He was born in Canada and grew up in Israel. He is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Is President Trump’s son-in-law and top adviser trying to scapegoat an unnamed assistant? In his written testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee Friday, Kushner had a lengthy explanation about omitting his meeting with Russian officials from White House disclosure forms. Kushner’s defense line, in short, was: “It wasn’t me, it was my assistant.” Kushner claims…
President Trump sought to educate Boy Scouts at their national jamboree about gathering health care votes, Hillary Clinton, the electoral college, and the tricks to keeping a real estate business afloat. He also had a surprising religious message to the thousands of Scouts gathered in West Virginia Monday night: “Under the Trump administration,” the president…
The tightening Russian investigation is quickly evolving into a potential Trump family feud. Analyzing Jared Kushner’s written testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee, The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent noted how Kushner, “with scalpel-like precision,” sought to shift his responsibility for a controversial meeting with a Russian lawyer to his brother-in-law Donald Trump Jr. — and…
Everyone now knows Jared Kushner met with a Russian lawyer promising dirt on Hillary Clinton. Less known is that Kushner received a bag full of real dirt from another Russian he had met with. This dirt came from the the village of Nvgorod in Belarus, the hometown of Kushner’s grandparents. In his written statement to…
At 31, Ezra Cohen-Watnick is one of the most powerful people in the National Security Council. Just how powerful is he? According to a wide ranging profile published in the Atlantic, Cohen-Watnick’s standing is so strong that an attempt by national security adviser H. R. McMaster to fire the young analyst was blocked by President…
In June, Missouri’s state legislators were called back to Jefferson City for a special session. Such a move is rare, and Gov. Eric Greitens did it to try to push through legislation significantly limiting access of women in the state to abortions. Other red states have passed similar laws. But the one Greitens wants, which…
An art collection worth anywhere between $5-25 million. A huge loan from Deutsche Bank. $250,000 in Israel Bonds. All of these constitute part of the previously undisclosed fortune of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, who filed a revised financial report to the Office of Government Ethics last week that included more than 70 items “inadvertently”…
Did Jared Kushner score a victory in the White House turf wars with the hiring of Anthony Scaramucci and the ouster of press secretary Sean Spicer? Scaramucci, according to NBC met Thursday with Ivanka Trump, Kushner’s wife and Trump’s daughter, to discuss his joining the president’s press shop — and was reportedly opposed strongly by…
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