Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner: Rising Powers at the White House (source: 'she is all powerful')

The speculation began almost immediately after Donald Trump was elected: Who would have the ear of the famously unpredictable 45th president?

Two months into Trump's presidency, it's becoming clear that blood and family have trumped ambition on Pennsylvania Avenue with First Daughter Ivanka Trump emerging as a powerbroker in her own right, along with her husband Jared Kushner.

"Ivanka Trump is all powerful," a source familiar with the inner workings of the White House told NBC News.

Empowering women is not her father's issue, it's Ivanka's. And she's making the most of her opportunity.

"She has these issues that she's passionate about and has been for a long time, even before her dad started running for president, and she's excited about the opportunity to advocate for these issues," an administration official close to Ivanka told NBC News. "She is nothing but a positive influence on both the president, but also on the issue-set."

"She is not unlike her father in that she's a great negotiator," the official said. But she brings to the table a "certain finesse."

Ivanka has also taken on some of the ceremonial duties typically filled by the First Lady. She often serves as Trump's "consigliere" and, in a White House filling with infighting, is "there to protect her father's interest," a source told NBC News.

Now with a West Wing office, she also has also been called on to serve as an adviser on issues not on her radar, most recently when the Trump-backed plan to replace Obamacare crashed and burned.

Meanwhile, the profile of Trump's son-in-law is also on the rise. On Monday, it was announced that Kushner was tapped to oversee a new office called the White House Office of American Administration, whose mission is to make the federal government run more like a business.

"We should have excellence in government," Kushner told The Washington Post, which broke the story on Sunday. "The government should be run like a great American company."

Not lost on White House watchers was this — Bannon has no formal role in the new, high-profile entity. Neither does Pence, or Priebus, or Miller.

Once fixtures on the Manhattan social scene, Ivanka and Jared have transformed themselves into a Washington "power couple" and they are using their clout and charm to push their own social but fiscally conservative agendas.

Trump took the unprecedented step of seeking top-secret clearance for Kushner so he could attend Presidential Daily Briefings, Ivanka began testing the Washington waters.

One administration official close to her describes the First Daughter's first weeks as a sort of listening tour around the nation's capital, "meeting with people, listening, and just kind of getting a sense of what role she could play."

I reluctantly forward this Pastor Chuck Baldwin rant and fully expect to catch unholy hell from fellow Trump supporters (of which I am still one). You will find it at the link at the very bottom.

There are a number of Chuck’s comments with which I take issue — SERIOUS issue (one being Israel v. Zionism) — BUT much of what he writes squares with points I attempted to make in the 7 minute video I produced over 7 years ago here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkyEtw8lBtI

And, of course, there is the MAJOR ISSUE that the dissembling, divisive criminal Hillary Clinton would have been much, much worse.

As is true of ALL elections, 2016 was a choice between two flawed human beings by equally flawed human voters who had grown weary and angry about the country’s slide into the abyss. Trump, who was not just another Beltway insider and had no track record, won the day.
It MAY be too early to know just where Mr. Trump is taking us, but I BEG you to read this piece with an open mind so that you can be alert to further signs that Baldwin MAY be right.

And, of course, there’s the distinct possibility that the world has become so screwed up by the Deep State apparatchiks, intelligence “spooks” and Globalists that NOTHING can be done to right our course. As I reread that, a small tear came forth for my children, grand children and great grand children. Consider cremation as they might dig many of us just to spit in our faces for the mess we left behind!

And before I sign off, here’s something ALL thoughtful Americans should consider. We need MORE folks like Rand and his father up there if there is to be ANY hope that the denizens of Capitol Hill again recognize WHY the Founders put the legislative branch in ARTICLE ONE of the Constitution.

To avoid reelection “problems”, most of the current crop (or is that crap) of Reps and Senators, have simply abdicated their mandate to exercise control over the government (causing their possibly pissed off constituents to throw them out of the cushiest job they’ve ever had) by shipping damn near all their enumerated powers to 1600 and so they can shrug their shoulders, point fingers when the SHTF and blame 1600 for the mess. THAT, my friends, is a recipe for a DICTATORSHIP, precisely what the Founders sought to avoid. It’s WHY the executive is in ARTICLE TWO!

Now, it’s off to my underground bunker to brace for what I anticipate will be a firestorm of incoming! (Some of it, sadly, from otherwise good folks who declare they detest the current PC goal of shutting down dissenting viewpoints.)

http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/Articles/tabid/109/ID/3581/This-Is-Not-Going-To-End-Well.aspx

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