Has Booker now gone Schumer in acquiescing to Trump? Voting for a Trump nominee is not the way to fight.

[xocetaceans]

And so it seems to turn out that Sen. Booker's speech was just an ephemeral stunt to be forgotten:

Why Did Cory Booker Vote to Confirm Jared Kushner’s Dad?
Cory Booker promised to stand up to Trump. But he and convicted felon Charles Kushner go way back.
May 20, 2025/10:29 a.m. ET

Senator Cory Booker broke from the Democratic Party to confirm convicted felon Charles Kushner—father of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner—as the new U.S. ambassador to France.

Booker was the only Democrat to vote for the elder Kushner’s nomination. Kushner was convicted in 2005 for tax evasion, illegal campaign donations to the Democratic Party, and witness tampering. He even went so far as to retaliate against his sister—who was a cooperating witness against him— by paying a sex worker to seduce her husband and film it, likely for blackmail material. He was sentenced to two years in jail and was pardoned by President Trump at the end of 2020.

“Kushner admitted that he paid a private investigator $25,000 to arrange for the seduction and videotaping of the cooperating witness’ husband. Kushner admitted to personally recruiting the prostitute and instructing that the videotape be mailed to the cooperating witness,” the Department of Justice wrote in 2005. This is the man Booker bent over backward to make the new ambassador to one of our most important European allies.

Chris Christie, New Jersey’s former Republican governor, who investigated Charles Kushner as district attorney, described his case as “one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes” he’d encountered.

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https://newrepublic.com/post/195475/cory-booker-democrat-vote-confirm-jared-kushner-father-charles

[Walleye]

1. I suggested at the beginning of this term that the Democrats should oppose everything that Republicans put up.

Including apple pie and motherhood, everything. Try this, senator “no no no not gonna do it”

[SunImp]

12. Fight everything we reasonable can

[JohnSJ]

2. With Schumer it could be argued that shutting down the government would have hurt us much more than not.

In the case of voting for a crook to be ambassador to France, there is no ambiguity.

[Ponietz]

3. A simple internet search reveals this New Republic article:

Booker and the Kushners go way back. Charles Kushner helped fund Booker’s first failed mayoral campaign in 2002, and Booker came to his defense when he was convicted in 2005.

“Charlie has helped fuel my hope, as well as made me believe that even in the questionable world of New Jersey politics, there are still spirits who don’t simply act in their self-interest,” Booker wrote glowingly of Kushner before he was sentenced.

Booker maintained his relationship with the Kushners. In 2013, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner hosted Booker at their home in a fundraising event that raised $41,000 for Booker. He defended this relationship in 2017, well after their (unsurprising) conservative turn.

“Listen, I wouldn’t take a dime from them now, but this was a time when they were Democrats,” Booker said at the time. “I mean, they were supporting Hillary Clinton, uh, and the Kushner family were big New Jersey Democrats, and really helped to fight against Chris Christie and a lot of other folks.”

https://newrepublic.com/post/195475/cory-booker-democrat-vote-confirm-jared-kushner-father-charles

[choie]

8. Why wouldnt you take a dime from him, Cory?

And if you wouldn’t, why would you vote for his confirmation. That’s called a lack of integrity. What’s more, I’ll be watching to see if he does indeed refuse to take money from him for his reelection.

[Ponietz]

10. It's a club and we're not in it

[BlueTsunami2018]

4. It was a favor returned.

It doesn’t really hurt anything since he was going to be confirmed no matter what and now the slate is clean. It’s just politics.

To now dismiss the twenty-five hour holding of the floor because of this vote is, to me, ridiculous.

We’re never going to win again. Everyone on the left has purity standards that no one can ever live up to.

[betsuni]

7. Thank you.

[SunImp]

11. Well moderate Dems have their own form of purity to be fair

We’re never going to win again. Everyone on the left has purity standards that no one can ever live up to

Look at all the people angry at Beto/Pete etc for not hiding from reality. Many Democrats instantly said they wouldn't vote for them now just because they gave their honest opinions on Pres Biden. Look into the recent past where people argued against Sen Feinstein or Rep Connolly for their seats because they had age concerns & got flack for voicing those concerns by the same type of Dems that don't want to hear any criticism of Democratic leadership or Democrats that have seniority. These people constantly rallying that the left has a purity problem seem to conveniently ignore their own purity tests. You can see some now just ignoring the main topic here.

[W_HAMILTON]

13. "Democrat leadership"

[SunImp]

15. Sorry, I posted it on my phone

I didn't want to make anyone cry for something so small so I fixed it

[Cha]

17. I had read that. It's Ridiculous Piling on Sen Booker Wehn

they don't Know All the Information.

My money is on Booker.

[tritsofme]

5. The framing of this OP is absolute fucking garbage.

Fuck these ignorant little cheap shots on Schumer.

[betsuni]

9. Yes.

[Meowmee]

6. Sad to hear that

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K Senior is a true criminal and awful person. There should be a rule about people who have been convicted of something like that being able to be appointed to anything or run for office.

In my opinion, from the beginning D should not have voted to confirm anybody. They should’ve just blocked everything. I guess it could’ve caused a lot of problems though maybe.

[Ping Tung]

14. Politics vs principles. They are seldom compatible.

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