Posted on 04/13/2017 5:18:10 AM PDT by pabianice
Officials say Kushner taking unprecedented role to interfere in foreign policy matters
White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner is leading an unprecedented effort to meddle in the White House's National Security Council, causing mayhem for senior staff who say the president's son-in-law is interfering in key foreign policy debates, according to Trump administration officials who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon.
Kushner has taken aggressive action to micro-manage the NSC, overshadowing even recently installed National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, according to sources both inside and outside the White House who described Kushner's behavior as highly unusual and damaging to the country's national security infrastructure.
Never before has a White House permitted such a figure to intervene in the NSC, which is traditionally given leeway to investigate foreign policy matters and bring advice to the president.
Sources who spoke to the Free Beacon described wide-ranging frustration at the NSC over Kushner's influence over some of the most important foreign policy portfolios, such as Iraq, Israel, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and China, among others.
Senior NSC staff are finding their hands tied when it comes to performing even perfunctory duties, such as talking points and statements on high profile issues that must go through Kushner for approval. Sources who spoke to the Free Beacon described this level of involvement as kneecapping the NSC and contributing to its difficulties formulating policy.
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Expecting to win with a rookie QB from the Ivy League it looks like.
Don’t believe everything you read.
I looked up to see the history on this website. It is conservative.
I don’t understand the Yellen thing. He said she should be ashamed of herself during the campaign but now he likes her and is thinking about Keeping her.
Apparently the de facto power in the USA belongs to a liberal globalist with a felon father.
This isn’t what Trump’s base space voted for.
Trump obviously doesn’t trust the senior staff.
Amazing how much we are not supposed to believe every day. That line is past getting old.
Fake News. Really think anyone in the White House is talking to this to this Bill Krystal Clone at this Never Trumper website?
And Christie prosecuted the senior Kushner, right?
Free Beacon is conservative? That’s news
The “Never Trump” Movement was run by “Conservatives” in the Conservative Media DC Establishment. This guy use to work for Bill Krystal the head of the Never Trump movement. I would dismiss anything said by this website unless you have 3 sources that verify it without referencing this website.
Or maybe you should check the source and realize this is not a credible source.
Hey Donald, he may be brilliant and all, but having your son in law in the administration IS NOT a good idea.
Amazing how you still insist on accepting every lie told you by the DC Media despite their long document record of recklessly lying to you for poltical reasons
I believe the story from WAPO that there will be a centrist shift because Trump kids say that brand can’t sustain the collateral damage in 2020.
He is shifting left of his campaign promises. I got caught flat footed in the market yesterday over his dollar comment and only have myself to blame. I knew he was shifting left..but didn’t adjust my thinking enough.
I gotta regroup and figure out what other bombshells might come out..like loving Yellen and her low interest rate policy.
Or maybe you should check the source and realize this is not a credible source.
I wondered what Jared sounds like. He here is at a business conf (2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrduuwybf8w
If Bannon leaves, we’ll know there is some truth to this article.
Is it really so hard to understand?
Liberal Manhattan Democrat Jared’s right hand man is Gary Cohn, the former Goldman prez and liberal Manhattan Democrat running the president’s economic council.
“What’s good for Goldman is good for America”?
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