Posted on 01/11/2017 4:21:31 AM PST by Kaslin
More than a few of my Washington allies noticed a seemingly unremarkable bit of news in a Monday Washington Post article that they thought I ought to see. The article concerned Jared Kushner’s appointment as adviser to his father-in-law Donald Trump.
The appointment did not trouble my friends. What troubled them was the Post’s casual mention that Kushner’s attorney was none other than Jamie Gorelick, deputy attorney general under President Bill Clinton. Observed the Post, Gorelick “is confident that the anti-nepotism statute does not cover Trump's appointment of Kushner.”
Nepotism was the thrust of the article. The Post made no allusion to the concerns my friends and I have about this relationship. I assured them that Kushner probably does not know Gorelick’s history. I write this to make him aware of why bloggers have taken to calling Gorelick, "The Mistress of Disaster."
Some recent highlights. In 2014, it was revealed that the George Soros-funded Urban Institute had an officially sanctioned role in the vetting of non-profits that seek tax-exempt status through the IRS. Gorelick was the vice-chairman of the Urban Institute board.
In 2011, she represented Duke University in its attempt to squash a suit by lacrosse team members whose lives had been turned upside down by false rape accusations that the university aided and abetted. In 2010, Gorelick represented BP in the Deepwater Horizon oil mess. It gets worse, much worse.
In 1993, as deputy attorney general under President Clinton, Gorelick served as “field commander” for the horrific government assault on a religious community in Waco, Texas, that left more than eighty dead, twenty of them children.
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Ah, like Governor Roy Cooper. See, I knew there would be something.
There are a lot of people here on this website who would call Trump "brilliant" for naming Hillary Clinton to his cabinet.
Oops, I did misread. Thanks for the correction.
I doubt it. Certainly, I wouldn’t.
This is an appointment that the Democrats will want to make into a big issue. The best way to remove it is to put the imprimatur of a “respected” Democrat lawyer on the choice.
Cabinet secretaries make independent decisions, even when following the agenda of the President. All Gorelick is asked to do is to ratify a choice that the President-Elect wants to make, and supply legal authority for that choice. It is better to take an opponent lawyer to validate a controversial decision. She is not being asked to advise anyone in the Trump administration, simply to state the legal basis for a decision made.
Jamie Gorelick belongs in prison.
She set up the Intel wall in the FBI disallowing Intel from talking w law enforcement.
Many mistakenly believe the wall was between CIA and FBI.
Later she and Franklin Reigns profited from packaging bad loans and selling them through Fannie Mae.
This raised my eyebrows as well. Ethics means, not hiring an attorney connected like gorelick just because she may be "connected" as she is unethical. Kushner made a mistake, this is a red flag.
Why would the Democrats do anything to obstruct the appointment of a guy with no political track record who comes from a family of major Democratic donors/fundraisers?
Even if he weren’t the husband of the president elect’s liberal daughter, as this story indicates, simply being only 35 years old is sufficient reason not to put him in such a senior position in what is to him a new industry.
You are severely lacking in understanding the situation.
Trump is President precisely because the Kushner son in law came in and effectively took the campaign organization reins.From offices he established in distant San Antonio staffed with about 100 people, created cyber techniques that allowed extremely low costs but inordinately effective campaign.
He is first and foremost a superb businessman.
Kushner is now the premier focus of political scientists. He and his methods will be the principle study for decades. He changed the political world
Knee jerk reaction in this case is blatently wrong
Because he is brilliant and has been Trump’s successful strategist.
I think you are just being contrary. You are too smart to be that obtuse.
Wow. Yet another strike against Jared. What will it take for people wake up?
2. I am not just being contrary.
As a long-time resident of New Jersey who has seen how both of these families operate, I have had concerns about this guy for months.
There's a huge difference between being a successful strategist during a political campaign and being a competent (and non-conflicted) advisor to the President of the United States. Hiring the lawyer who was immersed in the worst conflict of interest in my lifetime (appointed to the 9/11 commission to investigate U.S. security measures, preparedness and response that she had previously put in place) is a giant red flag for me.
Word on the street is that he was a pretty ordinary student who got into Harvard only after his billionaire father had donated $2.5 million to the school.
Look -- I have nothing personal against the guy. The optics here are terrible, and I know this entire website would be up in arms if Hillary Clinton had won the election and had the husband of that dingbat daughter of hers named to a role like this.
I didn’t say he shouldn’t have accelerated the campaign’s move to modern techniques. I strongly question Ivanka’s liberal pet projects and thus their influence on Trump’s presidency.
No
You are 100% correct.
Any Soprano fans here? Remember when Tony was to get divorced and did discovery with so many attorneys, Carmela couldn't get a lawyer?
Maybe Jared chose this firm as it was to be the attack dog mechanism by the left in the coming year or years against him?
If so, why not hire them, they can't work both sides of the table! Brilliant if so...
Gorelick was BP’s lawyer. BP was hit with many mega-fines after the gulf oil spill. My question is did she keep BP’s fines as low as she could, or did she help the 0 administration get the highest fines they could?
Among Gorelick’s other claims to fame is being the Deputy Atty Gen under Janet Reno. She was known as “field general” for the deadly attack on the Branch Davidian complex at Waco, TX.
Gorelick squelched any accurate investigation of Flight TWA 800’s crash off Long Island in July ‘96—two days before the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and a week before the Dem convention.The truth would have been very inconvenient.
After this, Gorelick was appointed to Vice Chairman of Fannie May, where she hauled in $25 million of salary and bonuses in six years.
She should be in jail, not anywhere close to Kirchner or the Trump team.
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