Culture Society, Identity and Belonging
They don’t take kindly to tax evasion in France, but now they’ll have to make nice with a convicted tax evader and jailbird whom Donald Trump has proposed as US ambassador to Paris.
Charles Kushner is also Trump’s son-in-law’s father and “a tremendous business leader, philanthropist and dealmaker,” the next president claimed on Truth Social.
The first holder of the Paris job, Benjamin Franklin, was a great thinker who took up vegetarianism to save money for books.
Kushner served two years in federal prison for witness tampering and illegal campaign contributions (as well as tax fraud). Trump later gave him a presidential pardon, so Kushner owes him.
It is possible but rare for a host country to decline to approve another country’s ambassadorial nomination. Test case?
