How Jared Kushner Won Trump The

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Jared Kushner 

pull off the biggest upset(n.)

If you pull off something very difficult, you succeed in achieving it.

The National League for Democracy pulled off a landslide victory...

barricade

n.barrier hastily built as a defence or an obstacle 匆匆设置的壁垒或路障:

The soldiers stormed the barricades erected by the rioting crowd.士兵们向暴乱分子设置的街垒发起了猛攻.

Armies of journalists and selfie-seeking tourists stalk Trump Tower’s pink marble lobby, hoping to snap the next political power player who steps into view.

an army of (people, animals, or things is a large number of them, especially when they are regarded as a force of some kind.)

...data collected by an army of volunteers.

washed-up celebrities 过气明星

derail

v. to derail a plan or a series of negotiations means to prevent it from continuing as planned. (JOURNALISM)

The present wave of political killings is the work of people trying to derail peace talks.

 impeccably adv.perfect, with no problems or bad parts:

dress in an impeccably tailored gray suit

well-founded adj.based on facts and can therefore be justified.

If the reports are well founded, the incident could seriously aggravate relations between the

two nations...

well-earned adj.to indicate that you think something is deserved, usually because the person who gets it has been working very hard.

tampering charges 贿赂罪

plunge the dagger into sb. 刺伤某人

If you plunge an object into something, you push it quickly or violently into it.

A soldier plunged a bayonet into his body...

He plunged the dagger into Christie as a revenge.

all hands on deck :everyone available to help with a problem, or a call for those people to help.

Your grandmother arrives tomorrow and the house is still a mess—I need all hands on deck to help me clean!

conduit  n.conduit is a person or country that links two or more other people or countries

Pakistan became a conduit for drugs produced in Afghanistan.

a trusted conduit

A power vacuum

If someone or something creates a vacuum, they leave a place or position which then needs to be filled by another person or thing.

His presence should fill the power vacuum which has been developing over the past few

days.

a beta test * β 测试（外部对公司新产品的测试）a test on a new product, done by sb who does not work for the company that is developing the product

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“If Trump was the CEO, Jared was effectively the chief operating officer.”

"The Trump campaign, meanwhile, delved into message tailoring, sentiment manipulation and machine learning."

Whereas Trump’s office is wall-to-wall Donald, a memorabilia-stuffed shrine to ego, the headquarters for the Kushner Companies is sparse and sober.