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Putting Jared Kushner In Charge Is Utter Madness

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Putting Jared Kushner In Charge Is Utter Madness

Trump’s son-in-law has no business running the coronavirus response.

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Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner. New York real estate developer.

4/2/20
Kushner has succeeded at exactly three things in his life. He was born to the right parents, married well and learned how to influence his father-in-law. Most of his other endeavors — his biggest real estate deal, his foray into newspaper ownership, his attempt to broker a peace deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians — have been failures. Undeterred, he has now arrogated to himself a major role in fighting the epochal health crisis that’s brought America to its knees. “Behind the scenes, Kushner takes charge of coronavirus response,” said a Politico headline on Wednesday. This is dilettantism raised to the level of sociopathy. The journalist Andrea Bernstein looked closely at Kushner’s business record for her recent book “American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power.” Kushner, Bernstein told me, “really sees himself as a disrupter.” Again and again, she said, people who’d dealt with Kushner told her that whatever he did, he “believed he could do it better than anybody else, and he had supreme confidence in his own abilities and his own judgment even when he didn’t know what he was talking about.”

It’s hard to overstate the extent to which this confidence is unearned. Kushner has embedded his own people in the Federal Emergency Management Agency; a senior official described them to The Times as “a ‘frat party’ that descended from a U.F.O. and invaded the federal government.” Even if Kushner “were the most competent person in the world, which he clearly isn’t, introducing these kind of competing power centers into a crisis response structure is a guaranteed problem,” Jeremy Konyndyk, a former U.S.A.I.D. official who helped manage the response to the Ebola crisis during Barack Obama’s administration, told me. Competing power centers are a motif of this administration, and its approach to the pandemic is no exception. As The Washington Post reported, Kushner’s team added “another layer of confusion and conflicting signals within the White House’s disjointed response to the crisis.” Nor does his operation appear to be internally coherent. “Projects are so decentralized that one team often has little idea what others are doing — outside of that they all report up to Kushner,” reported Politico. On Thursday, Governor Cuomo said “Assume you are on your own in life.” If not in life, certainly in this administration.
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Sit back, close your eyes for a few moments and consider this: failed real estate developer Jared Kushner is in charge of Trumps federal coronavirus PPE/ventilator supply chain.

562 COVID deaths in New York during the last 24 hours. Trump says governors are on their own. This won't end well.

Related: How Tea Party Budget Battles Left the National Emergency Medical Stockpile Unprepared for Coronavirus
 
Rogue Valley said:
Putting Jared Kushner In Charge Is Utter Madness

Trump’s son-in-law has no business running the coronavirus response.

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Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner. New York real estate developer.



Sit back, close your eyes for a few moments and consider this: failed real estate developer Jared Kushner is in charge of Trumps federal coronavirus PPE/ventilator supply chain.

562 COVID deaths in New York during the last 24 hours. Trump says governors are on their own. This won't end well.

Related: How Tea Party Budget Battles Left the National Emergency Medical Stockpile Unprepared for Coronavirus
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You are looking at your next president! 2024 Baby!
 
He claims “The state still has a stockpile and the notion of the federal stockpile was it’s supposed to be our stockpile,” Kushner said at a briefing about the coronavirus pandemic. “It’s not supposed to be states’ stockpiles that they then use.”

Turns out, the stockpile website says it's supposed to be used for states (after all, what else is there?). So they changed the language to conform to the son-in-law's claim.

What fresh hell IS this?
 
j brown's body said:
He claims “The state still has a stockpile and the notion of the federal stockpile was it’s supposed to be our stockpile,” Kushner said at a briefing about the coronavirus pandemic. “It’s not supposed to be states’ stockpiles that they then use.”

Turns out, the stockpile website says it's supposed to be used for states (after all, what else is there?). So they changed the language to conform to the son-in-law's claim.

What fresh hell IS this?
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Yes. FEMA supports the states in what they need. The state doesn't just go up to the stockpile and take out what they wish when they wish.
 
In January of 2017, my expectations were low. I now see those low expectations as a failure of imagination.
 
I'll never forgive Ivanka for being with him.
 
Bok_Tukalo said:
In January of 2017, my expectations were low. I now see those low expectations as a failure of imagination.
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You didn't imagine he would appoint his sons-in-law to roles he is utterly unqualified for? He's been doing that from the beginning.

That's why I say Trump supporters are part of a personality cult. This is simply ridiculous. Imagine if Obama appointed his uncle to handle important matters.

Again, this is an emergency. Lives are at stake.
 
Maybe he can figure out a grift of some sort.
 
Rogue Valley said:
Putting Jared Kushner In Charge Is Utter Madness

Trump’s son-in-law has no business running the coronavirus response.

02goldbergWeb-mediumThreeByTwo440.jpg

Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner. New York real estate developer.



Sit back, close your eyes for a few moments and consider this: failed real estate developer Jared Kushner is in charge of Trumps federal coronavirus PPE/ventilator supply chain.

562 COVID deaths in New York during the last 24 hours. Trump says governors are on their own. This won't end well.

Related: How Tea Party Budget Battles Left the National Emergency Medical Stockpile Unprepared for Coronavirus
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Main thing is his loyalty to Trump is beyond question.
 
j brown's body said:
He claims “The state still has a stockpile and the notion of the federal stockpile was it’s supposed to be our stockpile,” Kushner said at a briefing about the coronavirus pandemic. “It’s not supposed to be states’ stockpiles that they then use.”

Turns out, the stockpile website says it's supposed to be used for states (after all, what else is there?). So they changed the language to conform to the son-in-law's claim.

What fresh hell IS this?
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You're right.....

Strategic National Stockpile description altered online after Kushner's remarks

They changed its description after yesterday's Kushner remarks....

Jared Kushner draws backlash for 'our stockpile' comment during coronavirus briefing
 
Rogue Valley said:
Putting Jared Kushner In Charge Is Utter Madness

Trump’s son-in-law has no business running the coronavirus response.

02goldbergWeb-mediumThreeByTwo440.jpg

Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner. New York real estate developer.



Sit back, close your eyes for a few moments and consider this: failed real estate developer Jared Kushner is in charge of Trumps federal coronavirus PPE/ventilator supply chain.

562 COVID deaths in New York during the last 24 hours. Trump says governors are on their own. This won't end well.

Related: How Tea Party Budget Battles Left the National Emergency Medical Stockpile Unprepared for Coronavirus
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So we know the opinion of a NYT op-ed writer that is a known Trump hater. She doesn't think this is a good idea? I'm shocked.... I could've told you her opinion of anything Trump does before she wrote this. Most people could.
 
chuckiechan said:
You are looking at your next president! 2024 Baby!
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He'll never survive the first round of Thunderdome.

That's going to be my new one in our new future. I used to say, "you can't be my president if I can kick your ass at Jeopardy. "

Now it's gonna have to be "You can't be my president if I can kick your ass at Thunderdome."

(Trump having been eaten by his own children the second day with no food service.)
 
Athanasius68 said:
Yes. FEMA supports the states in what they need. The state doesn't just go up to the stockpile and take out what they wish when they wish.
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And I'm quite sure there are no rules anywhere that require anyone to kiss the president's ass to get them.

Way back a couple of years ago the president was an employee of ours as a nation.

Remember way back then?
 
Dude.

We put Donald Trump in charge.
 
SCrider said:
And you think that would be a good things based on......?
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Joe Kennedy bought the presidency for JFK. Maybe Trump will do the same. He get the mob to help as well.
 
Mongidig said:
I'll never forgive Ivanka for being with him.
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Don't worry, Jared fantasizes about you when they're doing it.

When he's got everything just right he'll dump her and come for you.

Just like he promised
 
What if...? said:
And I'm quite sure there are no rules anywhere that require anyone to kiss the president's ass to get them.

Way back a couple of years ago the president was an employee of ours as a nation.

Remember way back then?
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I am sure there are rules-- like demonstrating a need for the requested items.
 
PIPEWRENCH said:
Joe Kennedy bought the presidency for JFK. Maybe Trump will do the same. He get the mob to help as well.
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Does not answer why he is excited about that prospect.
 
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