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struggle4progress

(118,285 posts)
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 06:38 PM Mar 2018

Kushner's future after security downgrade

... Harris: He’s working with other people in the White House and in other agencies who have top secret clearances when they're working on these projects. You literally can't be in the room discussing this information at the top secret level unless you have that clearance so unless everyone is prepared to essentially kind of downgrade the conversation when Jared's around he can't participate in those meetings ...

Finkelstein: One ought to point out here that this is following the president's own example for failing to divest himself of his own financial holdings completely when he assumed office. And so if the president had set a different example I can only assume that Kushner would have felt under constraint to more fully divest himself from his family's holdings ...

Gerstein: There's also increasing indications from financial disclosures filed by Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner about the challenges that they're facing financially and that their debts may well be increasing ...

Harris: This is not the way things normally go. And it's not the way power is normally used. ... Why did this go on for as long as it did? Because the White House decided to allow it to go on ...

http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2018/03/01/kushner-security-clearance

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Kushner's future after security downgrade (Original Post) struggle4progress Mar 2018 OP
A lifeguard who cant swim. Girard442 Mar 2018 #1

Girard442

(6,075 posts)
1. A lifeguard who cant swim.
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 07:53 PM
Mar 2018

A delivery driver who can’t get a license. A math teacher who can’t understand logarithms. A sniper who can’t hit the broad side of a barn. What is to be done with people like that?

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