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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,986 posts)
Wed Apr 10, 2019, 05:42 PM Apr 2019

Miller and Kushner on a potential collision course in Trump's border crisis

In President Trump’s latest blowup over immigration, senior policy adviser Stephen Miller hovered omnipresent in the background — goading him in his threats to close the border, warning him of the dangers of looking weak and encouraging the president’s sudden purge of his homeland security team.

Another top adviser who has Trump’s ear on immigration, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, maintained a lower profile during the uproar. Shortly before joining Trump on a trip to the southern border — where the president railed that the “country is full” — Kushner met privately with the Mexican ambassador to discuss a more collaborative approach.

The contrast highlights the good cop-bad cop roles on immigration that Kushner, 38, and Miller, 33, now inhabit in Trump’s West Wing, with the latter ascendant as he pushes a frustrated president to champion draconian border policies and rhetoric.

The two political survivors from Trump’s 2016 campaign have emerged as all but untouchable because of their close relationship — and, in Kushner’s case, familial ties — with the president. But if Miller represents Trump’s id — reaffirming his hard-line immigration impulses — Kushner attempts to channel the president’s desire to be seen as a consummate dealmaker.

The differences put the two advisers on a potential collision course — adding to the swirl of confusion over how Trump intends to cope with a surge of migrants at the border, according to interviews with 21 White House aides, administration officials, lawmakers, Republican operatives and Trump confidants, many of whom requested anonymity to reveal private discussions.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/miller-and-kushner-on-a-potential-collision-course-in-trumps-border-crisis/ar-BBVNt5n?li=BBnbcA1

I don't know. I think my money's on Jared just because he's family.

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Miller and Kushner on a potential collision course in Trump's border crisis (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2019 OP
My Money Is On Kushner Too Me. Apr 2019 #1
Miller wins awesomerwb1 Apr 2019 #2

Me.

(35,454 posts)
1. My Money Is On Kushner Too
Wed Apr 10, 2019, 05:52 PM
Apr 2019

Not because he's family but because,m while Miller is overt, Kushner would sneak up behind you with a shiv and never blink. And while Kushner is described as naif because he's not such a smartie, he's ruthless.

awesomerwb1

(4,268 posts)
2. Miller wins
Wed Apr 10, 2019, 06:32 PM
Apr 2019

All Miller has to do is remind trump how much his xenophobic base LOVES hard line immigration talk and the dotard will go along with whatever he advises. It's all about the base that may keep him in power in 2020.

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