Saturday 20 August 2022

Jared Kushner memoir chronicles frustrations of negotiating trade deal with Canada

 
 
 

Jared Kushner memoir chronicles frustrations of negotiating trade deal with Canada

Trump son-in-law offers peek into historic talks. As for Jan. 6, that's another matter

The Americans insisted those trade talks be allowed to unfold discreetly at the negotiating table. They avoided news conferences, rarely spoke to reporters and let Donald Trump's occasional ill-tempered tweets speak for the U.S.

A new memoir lays out the U.S. perspective on those closed-door talks.

The book by presidential son-in-law and senior-staffer Jared Kushner earned the literary equivalent of a ritualized execution in a vividly unflattering New York Times book review that mocked its wooden writing and wilful blindness to the seedier aspects of the Trump legacy.

The book does fill in some gaps on a significant historical event for Canada: it describes the false-starts in the trade talks; frustrations with the Canadians; and how the deal wound up with two tongue-twisting acronyms for a name. 

Breaking History, Kushner's book, describes a method to Trump's madness, crediting the president's sporadic threats to cancel NAFTA with creating valuable pressure on Canada and Mexico.

It also acknowledges the madness in the method.

An angry tweet from Trump stalled talks before they even began. In early 2017, the North American countries planned an amicable announcement of new trade negotiations at a three-country event at the White House.

When Kushner called Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's chief of staff to confirm plans, Katie Telford asked whether it was still on: "Didn't you see his tweets this morning?"

In fact, Kushner had not seen his father-in-law's public threat to cancel meetings with the Mexican leader unless Mexico paid for a new border wall; the meeting was cancelled.

Later in the day he said Trump realized that might have been a mistake and half-jokingly told Kushner: "I can't make this too easy for you."

Kushner and his wife Ivanka Trump both held senior White House jobs despite being newcomers to politics. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)

The tweets, then the drama

Months later, there was another bumpy launch. Trump asked staff to draw up documents to terminate the original NAFTA.

Trump was actually undecided about whether to go through with it when someone — Kushner suspects it was White House trade skeptic Peter Navarro — leaked the news to the Politico website, hoping to pressure the president to do it. 

Aspects of what happened next are already public knowledge: Trudeau and his Mexican counterpart Enrique Peña Nieto called Trump, pleading with him not to, warning it would cause chaos, and after a frantic few hours everyone agreed to launch renegotiation talks.

What's less well-known is that Trump engineered those calls, according to the book.

What had happened was the pro-trade Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue had already persuaded Trump not to cancel NAFTA; he showed Trump a large map and explained it would crush farmers in the rural areas that support him.

Trump needed a face-saving way to back down from his threat.

The solution? Get those foreign leaders on the phone to plead with him; Kushner called Telford and a Mexican colleague and said their bosses should urgently phone Trump.

"Sensing that Trump was looking for a solution, I [said]: 'What if I get President Peña Nieto and Prime Minister Trudeau to call right now and ask you not to cancel NAFTA, and then you can put out a statement that says you will give them time to negotiate,'" Kushner wrote. 

"The immediate crisis abated."

That was in April 2017. Formal talks began later that summer. After months of negotiations, the Americans grew increasingly annoyed at Canada 's alleged unwillingess to budge on key issues.

Kushner said he enlisted billionaire businessman Steve Schwarzman to call Trudeau and tell him the Canadians were taking a serious risk: "They are playing chicken with the wrong guy," he said he told Schwarzman.

He said the businessman called him back a few hours later: "Trudeau, he said, 'Got the message loud and clear.'" 

A Canadian team flew down to Washington and Telford says there were three impediments to a deal: U.S. steel tariffs on Canada, the need for a dispute mechanism, and dairy.

Chrystia Freeland, seen here speaking to reporters outside the U.S. trade office in 2018. U.S. officials fumed at Canada for stalling talks and leaking confidential negotiating details to reporters. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

U.S. team erupts at Freeland

The book describes how U.S. officials grew annoyed in the final bargaining sessions with Canada's lead politician in the talks, Chrystia Freeland.

It's been reported that one American erupted up at Freeland for slow-walking during those sessions, losing his patience when she started discussing whaling rights for Inuit people.

The book places the U.S. narrative on the public record.

"An increasingly frustrating series of negotiations," is how Kushner described it. He said Freeland would read notes scribbled in ink on her hand, then let her officials spar with U.S. trade chief Robert Lighthizer over the technical details.

"All the while [she was] refusing to commit to any substantive changes," Kushner wrote.

"Following this theater, she would walk to the steps of the USTR [U.S. Trade Representative] building and hold an outdoor press conference, uttering platitudes like 'I get paid in Canadian dollars, not U.S. dollars.'"

At this point the U.S. prepared for two outcomes: a Mexico-U.S. deal or a three-country one. Kushner says Peña Nieto also told Trudeau his representatives were moving too slowly and that Mexico would sign.

Then, on Sept. 26, Trump trashed Freeland at a press conference and threatened to punish Canadian autos with tariffs.

Kushner writes: "Less than an hour later, the Canadians gave us an offer in writing. After 16 months of stalling, they were finally ready to talk specifics."

Yet when he showed the Canadian offer to Lighthizer, the U.S. trade chief said: "This is all rubbish! They don't want to make a deal." Kushner said he suggested calling Telford to explain why it was unworkable: "'No,' Lighthizer shot back."

After a deal finally came together, the North American leaders officially signed it at a G20 meeting in Argentina in late 2018. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

'I want it to be called the USMCA'

After meetings the next morning, however, Kushner called Telford, and they settled some longstanding irritants. Trudeau's chief of staff called back an hour later and said: "The prime minister is going to take the deal." 

With the deal done, Trump made one final request. 

"I want it to be called the USMCA, like [the] U.S. Marine Corps."

Freeland and the rest of the Canadian government have refused to use that name, continuing to call it, "the new NAFTA," or by the acronym, CUSMA.

Kushner credits the president's style for producing a better deal for the U.S.: the new agreement sets caps on low-wage auto production in Mexico; lets slightly more U.S. dairy into Canada; and forces once-a-decade reviews of the pact.

"Negotiating a trade deal is like a game of chicken, with real consequences. The other side has to believe you are going to jump off a cliff. We succeeded because Trump was absolutely prepared to terminate NAFTA — and Mexico and Canada knew it," he writes. "His style made many people uncomfortable, including his allies in Congress, foreign leaders and his own advisers, but it led to unprecedented results."

One Canadian official involved in the talks said Ottawa knew exactly what it was doing by stalling: Canada was aware the U.S. wanted a deal quickly, before late 2018.

Canadian official: We intentionally drained the clock 

Trump's team hoped to conclude talks while Republicans still controlled Congress before the 2018 midterms, and before a new Mexican president took office.

"The truth is we were draining the clock," said one Canadian involved. "Trudeau never instructed us to make a final deal. He always said [get] the right deal or no deal."

The Canadian government was more circumspect when asked for an on-the-record comment about Kushner's book: in an emailed statement, a spokeswoman for Freeland said the Canadian team worked hard for a good deal and was vindicated by its firm approach.

The juicier parts of Kushner's book include chronicles of rampant back-stabbing and turf wars in the Trump White House.

Office enemies: Steve Bannon, left; Kushner, right. The book chronicles the backstabbing and infighting that were rampant in the Trump White House. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

In particular, he portrays ex-aide Steve Bannon as a volatile schemer who set out to get Kushner fired by leaking unflattering half-truths about him to the press.

He writes that Bannon dishonestly brands himself as the keeper of the Trumpian ideological flame, and Kushner as a liberal interloper, when, in reality, Bannon joined the Trump team late in the 2016 campaign, long after his policies were set.

Sidestepping Jan. 6

The historic events of Jan. 6, 2021, barely merit a mention. Kushner says he was travelling back from the Middle East and didn't realize until late in the day the seriousness of the storming of the Capitol.

Key parts of the Trump legacy are virtually ignored in the book. Like his attempt to overturn the 2020 election which culminated in the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the U.S. Capitol, seen here. (Leah Millis/Reuters)

The New York Times review assailed Kushner's book as self-servingly selective, its prose soulless, sidestepping the key unflattering details of Trump's political epitaph.

"Kushner almost entirely ignores the chaos, the alienation of allies, the breaking of laws and norms, the flirtations with dictators, the comprehensive loss of America's moral leadership, and so on," said the review.

"This book is like a tour of a once majestic 18th-century wooden house, now burned to its foundations, that focuses solely on, and rejoices in, what's left amid the ashes: the two singed bathtubs, the gravel driveway and the mailbox. Kushner's fealty to Trump remains absolute."

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Alexander Panetta is a Washington-based correspondent for CBC News who has covered American politics and Canada-U.S. issues since 2013. He previously worked in Ottawa, Quebec City and internationally, reporting on politics, conflict, disaster and the Montreal Expos.

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Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen joins Katie Phang to discuss the guilty plea from former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisellberg, the Mar-a-Lago search, and his former client’s inability to find competent legal representation.
 

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For the Public Record I spoke to Mindless Mikey Cohen twice before he was arrested and once after he got out of jail
 
 
 

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Michael Cohen on Dumbest Lie Trump Ever Told, Matt Gaetz Coming After Him & Donald Going to Jail

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Former Donald Trump attorney Michael Cohen talks about Trump wanting Jimmy investigated for making fun of him, Rudy Giuliani losing his law license, all of the terrible people in Team Trump, Donald calling him and telling him everything was going to be OK, the dumbest lie he ever heard Trump tell, Matt Gaetz coming after him, and the possibility of Trump going to jail.
 
 
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Methinks Mikey Cohen wants to forget our conversations when he was the White House Counsel and I was embroiled in a Federal lawsuit with the Crown which began BEFORE Trump and Trudeau were elected and started arguing over NAFTA etc N'esy Pas?
 
 
---------- Original message ----------
From: Michael Cohen <mcohen@trumporg.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:15:14 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: RE FATCA ATTN Pierre-Luc.Dusseault I just
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To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>

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---------- Original message ----------
From: "Hancox, Rick  (FCNB)" <rick.hancox@fcnb.ca>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:15:22 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: RE FATCA ATTN Pierre-Luc.Dusseault I just
called and left a message for you
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>

G'Day/Bonjour,

Thanks for your e-mail. I am out of the office until 24 February. If
you need more immediate assistance, please contact France Bouchard at
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Je serai absent du bureau jusqu'au 24 fevrier  Durant mon absence,
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immédiate.
 
 

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 18:08:23 -0400
Subject: Fwd: Before Trump becomes the Prez his other lawyer Michael
Cohen should remind his proposed White House Counsel Donald McGahn,
the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal et al about a couple
emails I sent them just after Canada Day 2015 N'esy Pas PM Trudeau
"The Younger"?
To: Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, nmoore
<nmoore@bellmedia.ca>, "steve.murphy" <steve.murphy@ctv.ca>,
"macpherson.don" <macpherson.don@dailygleaner.com>, "Robert. Jones"
<Robert.Jones@cbc.ca>

---------- Original message ----------
From: "Bravin, Jess" <jess.bravin@wsj.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 13:54:49 -0800
Subject: Away from the newsroom. Re: Before Trump becomes the Prez his
other lawyer Michael Cohen should remind his proposed White House
Counsel Donald McGahn, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal
et al about a couple emails I sent them just after Canada Day 2015
N'esy Pas PM Trudeau "The Younger"?
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com

Thanks for writing. I am away until Nov. 28, so a reply may take even
longer than usual.



---------- Original message ----------
From: Pamela Palmater <ppalmater@politics.ryerson.ca>
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 21:54:55 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Before Trump becomes the Prez his other
lawyer Michael Cohen should remind his proposed White House Counsel
Donald McGahn, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal et al
about a couple emails I sent them just after Canada Day 201...
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>

Kwe, Tansi, She:kon, Hello;

I will be in and out of the office/province on business and research
travel over the coming weeks and may not be able to get to your email
right away.

It may be helpful to send a reminder if your matter is urgent and/or
put the nature of the request in the subject heading.

Welal'in, Ekosi, Nia:wen, Thank you.

Pam

Dr. Pamela D. Palmater
Chair in Indigenous Governance
Ryerson University


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Date: 25 Nov 2016 16:58:40 -0500
Subject: Message Notification
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com

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---------- Original message ----------
From: Póstur FOR <postur@for.is>
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 21:59:02 +0000
Subject: Re: Before Trump becomes the Prez his other lawyer Michael
Cohen should remind his proposed White House Counsel Donald McGahn,
the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal et al about a couple
emails I sent them just after Canada Day 2015 N'esy Pas PM Trudeau
"The Younger"?
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>


Erindi þitt hefur verið móttekið  / Your request has been received

Kveðja / Best regards
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Subject: Finally Trump's lawyer Donald F McGahn's law firm admits that
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 07:48:44 -0400
Subject: Yo Donnie Trump and Donnie McGahn why are Dr Jill Stein, Lori
Grace and Robert Fitrakis whining and and hustling folks for more money now?
To: DJT <DJT@trumporg.com>, dmcgahn <dmcgahn@jonesday.com>, mcohen
<mcohen@trumporg.com>, lionel <lionel@lionelmedia.com>, RT-US
<RT-US@rttv.ru>, newsroom <newsroom@globeandmail.ca>, news-tips
<news-tips@nytimes.com>, Brian Ruhe <brian@brianruhe.ca>, gopublic
<gopublic@cbc.ca>, michael@michaeltrimm.com, mike@humanistreport.com,
info@jill2016.com, Info@johnsonweld.com, david@davidswanson.org,
info@trustvote.org, robertfitrakis@gmail.com, oldmaison
<oldmaison@yahoo.com>, andre <andre@jafaust.com>, COCMoncton
<COCMoncton@gmail.com>, markandcaroline <markandcaroline@gmail.com>,
"mark.vespucci" <mark.vespucci@ci.irs.gov>, jess.bravin@wsj.com
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, premier
<premier@gnb.ca>, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>, lori@trustvote.org

Everybody and his dog know what I sent the Johnson, Clinton, the Green
Meanies and YOU two DONALD DUDES in particular long before the Yankee
bullshit on November the 8th became a matter of history.N'esy Pas
Premier Gallant and Prime Minister Trudeau "The Younger" ????

 
 
 
 

Basis Of New Cohen Lawsuit Over Trump Abuse Of Power Warrants Concern

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Rachel Maddow reports on a new lawsuit by former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen against Donald Trump for abusing his power over the Bureau of Prisons and the DOJ to send Cohen back to prison (from home confinement) because Cohen wrote a book critical of Trump, and points out the extreme peril of a president willing to abuse his power that way.
 
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This is what Bloomberg reported recently about Cohen's lawsuit


 

Trump Urges Judge to Toss Cohen Suit, Citing ‘Absolute Immunity’

  • Cohen sued over rescission of home confinement over book deal
  • Cohen lawyer calls return to prison ‘ultimate abuse of power’
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Donald Trump urged a judge to toss out a civil suit filed by his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen, who claims the former president tried to silence him before the 2020 election by extending his stint in prison for lying to Congress.

The US Justice Department, which represents former Attorney General William Barr and other government defendants in the suit, also sought dismissal of the case at a hearing Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan.

Cohen claims the former president and Barr rescinded his release to home confinement in the early days of the pandemic, forcing him to spend 16 days in solitary confinement, in retaliation for his plan to write a tell-all book.

Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba argued the former president can’t be sued because he was in office at the time of the alleged conduct.

“This is a very clean cut case where absolute immunity does apply,” Habba said.

Asked by the judge if a president would still be immune from a civil suit if he ordered his valet to kidnap a political opponent and hold them for two weeks before an election, Habba replied “absolutely not.” Immunity “doesn’t mean they can go around willy nilly committing crimes,” she said.

Trump's Former Fixer Is Unleashed, And Ready To Make MoneyMichael Cohen Photographer: Jefferson Siegel/Bloomberg

Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to tax fraud, bank fraud, violations of campaign finance laws and lying to Congress -- crimes he says he carried out in “coordination with and at the direction of defendant Trump.” In May 2020, Cohen was released to home confinement to avoid getting sick in the crowded prison. But he was abruptly returned to prison after he refused to sign an agreement to not write a book or talk to the media.

“This was the ultimate abuse of power,” Cohen’s lawyer Andrew Laufer told the judge. “It needs to be addressed.”

A few weeks later, a judge ordered the government to send Cohen back to home confinement, ruling that his transfer to prison had been done in retaliation over the lawyer’s plan “to publish a book critical of the president and to discuss the book on social media.” 

Cohen ultimately finished his sentence at home in November 2021. He sued Trump and the US a month later, citing claims of false arrest, false imprisonment and negligence against a slew of prison and probation officials. He’s seeking money damages because the confinement conditions allegedly caused high blood pressure, headaches, shortness of breath and anxiety.

After the hearing, Cohen called his treatment “torture.”

“My specific cell was possibly the worst of them, all missing pieces of glass, bathroom not working, flooding, no ventilation, etc, so I disagree with any argument” that it was legal, he said.

Justice Department lawyers argued at the hearing Tuesday that Cohen can’t sue over his treatment in solitary confinement because prison officials are protected when it comes to matters governing “discretionary functions.” The government also argued that Cohen had other means to seek justice, including filing a complaint with the bureau of prison.

Cohen said in court filings that the effort to quash his book was “one instance in a long line of retaliatory measures” taken by Trump and his associates to weaponize the government against his enemies, including attempts to stop similar books by former National Security Advisor John Bolton and Trump’s niece Mary Trump.

The case is Cohen v US, 21-cv-10774, US District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).

(Updates with Cohen comment in 11th paragraph.)
 
 
 
 

 

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