Impeachable meddling
Charles Kushner, father to Donald Trump's son-in-law and U.S. Ambassador to France, brazenly persists in interfering in France’s domestic affairs.
Charles Kushner, the U.S. Ambassador to France, presented his credentials on July 11. He was personally summoned on Sept. 25 by the French Foreign Ministry after signing and publicizing an open letter accusing French authorities of failing to do enough to combat antisemitism.
Ambassador Kushner did not comply with the summons and sent the embassy’s first counselor in his place. The diplomatic protocol would typically call for France to recall its ambassador to the United States and for Kushner be on a plane back to New Jersey. Yet, this would require France to have a president, a prime minister, and a foreign minister with the backbone to act.
Charles Kushner continues to meddle in France’s domestic affairs, issuing directives to the French state while treating DILCRAH1—an agency ripe for elimination, a brilliant cost-saving idea—as a tool of American policy. As for “private organizations,” they, especially foreign ones, have no business interfering in France’s internal matters either.
We strongly advise His Excellency Ambassador Kushner to focus on his Reuben sandwich back across the Atlantic, in his own country, where over 63% of Americans aged 18–39 are ignorant of the industrial genocide of six million European Jews during World War II, perpetrated by other Europeans—Germans, Austrians, Balts, and Ukrainians chief among them. Twenty-three percent of Americans in this demographics believe the Holocaust is a myth that never happened.
Should we suggest that France’s ambassador to the United States pen an open letter, published in the American press, urging Donald J. Trump to “tackle the pernicious roots of antisemitism” and demand the reinstatement of a federal education department to address it?