Posted on 08/16/2022 6:23:12 AM PDT by Bratch
Take credit for what worked. Shift the blame for what didn’t. Run to Daddy-in-law whenever the big, bad chief of staff got in his way. That was Jared Kushner’s modus operandi during the long four years I had to serve alongside the man most responsible for the loss of the Trump White House.
Kushner came to the D.C. swamp on the coattails of his wife as nothing more than a young and rich, run-of-the-mill liberal New York Democrat with a worldview totally orthogonal to the president he was supposed to serve. Yet, within the West Wing, Kushner considered himself to be the ultimate “Trump whisperer.”
In private, Jared would boast about how he had brought the president back from whatever he considered the brink to be that day—whether it was securing the southern border, leaving NAFTA, or slapping tariffs on China. Never mind that he was derailing, deterring, and delaying Trump’s Make America Great Again agenda in real-time and at great political and economic costs.
Jared’s “neuter the boss” role quickly became a source of friction between us. He believed that I, more than anyone inside the West Wing, could “rile up” the president to take actions that were, in fact, totally consistent with Trump’s central campaign promises. But as this particular Wall Street transactionalist liked to say (and it always made me cringe): “That was the campaign. This is reality.”
In the cold light of a January West Wing day, there was simply no other explanation than nepotism to account for how this decidedly unqualified Clown Prince wound up sitting as a modern-day Rasputin at the right hand of Trump.
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It seems odd to me that with Peter under indictment, he takes this opportunity to call out the son-in-law. You are stuck with your in-laws — love ‘um, hate them, you are not going to get rid of them.
Why now?
“Don’t forget Jeff Sessions”
Aaargh! I was trying to lol. And the idiots who kept saying, “Trust Sessions!!!” should be run off FR on the rails.
One of those things was the Paris Climate Accord.
I remember back then thinking Jared and Kushner were behind the flip flopping and hesitation..Ultimately Bannon side won. People here bashed me saying no way Ivanka was causing the hesitation
Because he thinks Kushner is the mole?
And perhaps revealed stuff about Peter?
The “mole” will be a FEEB undercover as a janitor.
Trump, like Achill, had (ok, two) weaknesses.
1. Germaphobe. Allowed Fauci to bond with him over “hating the handshake.” That sawed off Rasputin destroyed our country.
2. His family. Thank God not much nasty on the family tree, but they sure used it. Ivanka, the blonde Princess, who could do no wrong. And had Trump’s ear whenever, wherever.
Oh well!
make him the ambassador to nepal in the next administration
and move the embassy to the top of mt everest
I believe he was strip searched at the airport. Put in shackles.
https://www.newsweek.com/peter-navarro-arrest-fbi-strip-search-al-qaeda-1713436
Navarro is just telling the truth - President Trump made mistakes, like any human. However, let’s be clear - Navarro’s admiration of President Trump is unsurpassed.
If President Trump gets another whack at being POTUS, and I pray he does, I’m sure that like any successful businessman, he will learn from his mistakes.
Yet like any human, he will make mistakes - probably not the same ones - but he will make them.
We need to look at the big picture and remember that at this particular time in history, President Trump represents our only hope of Making America Great Again.
News to me, too.
Another view.
Navarro has his view, Bannon has his view.
A couple of things are indisputable. For one, everyone, including Bannon, admitted that without Kush’s financial genius, they wouldn’t have won. They needed his expertise.
Second, Bannon accused Kush of leaking, but I’m as sure as I can be that Bannon was leaking (or, also leaking). Look at “Devil’s Advocate” which makes this pretty clear.
Third, I just don’t see Kush as being that disloyal. Navarro is a true believer, but like Grenell can get off the rails sometimes, thinking they are speaking for Trump when they are not.
Just because I posted it, doesn’t mean it’s my view.
He’s a creature of Wall Street, which by itself is cause for skepticism.
OTOH, he belongs to a group that’s been scapegoated for over 2000 years. More than one person in Washington would be glad to add him to the list.
What’s difficult to believe is that he’d deliberately try to undermine POTUS.
But who knows?
I second that!
Oh, I agree. Who knows? We’ve already been shocked to see the treason at the highest levels of the FascistBI, CIA, and military, so no, it wouldn’t totally surprise me.
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