Very astonishing and very disgusting story:
Washington (CNN)
– President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, boasted in
mid-April about how the President had cut out the doctors and scientists
advising him on the unfolding coronavirus pandemic – those comments came as
more than 40,000 Americans already had died from the virus, which was ravaging
New York City.
Kushner's comments were in a taped interview on April 18, when
he told legendary journalist Bob Woodward (my emphasis added): “The president was getting the country back from the doctors in
a negotiated settlement.”
Kushner then proclaimed
that the U.S. was moving swiftly through the “panic phase and pain phase of the pandemic and that the country was
at the beginning of the comeback phase.”
He then added: “That doesn't
mean there's not still a lot of pain and there won't be pain for a while, but
that basically was, we've now put out rules to get back to work. Trump's now
back in charge. It's not the doctors.”
The statement reflected a political strategy. Instead of
following the health experts' advice, Trump and Kushner were focused on what
would help the President on Election Day. By
their calculations, Trump would be the “open-up
president.”
CNN obtained audio of two separate interviews with Kushner,
which were conducted in April and May as part of Woodward's reporting for his book Rage.
In the wide-ranging conversations, Kushner described the
President's relationship with his public health advisers in adversarial terms.
Kushner was also dismissive of party politics, calling the
Republican Party: “A collection of a
bunch of tribes” than describing the GOP platform as “a document meant to, like,
piss people off, basically.”
Kushner went on to tell Woodward that Trump did a “full hostile takeover of the Republican
Party when he became its presidential nominee.”
He also told Woodward: “The
most dangerous people around the President are over-confident idiots, and the
president had replaced them with "more thoughtful people who kind of know
their place.”
Kushner's comments about the administration's handling of
the pandemic underscore the extent to which Trump and Kushner minimized the
public health crisis even as it was exploding last spring.
My 2 cents: Kushner
despite Trump
calling him “my star” to fix policing, Kushner shows frequently in
public statement and now more so in that Woodward taped interview just how much
of a dumb-ass he basically is.
He is aloof, arrogant, and
out of touch with mainstream thinking by everyone except of course those in Trump’s
tight inner circle, e.g., Trump’s family members and most of his hand-picked
lackeys.
Other than that, this
article speaks for itself.
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