Critics Lash Jared Kushner For Saying Bolton, Kelly, Mattis Didn't 'Have What It Took'

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Critics Lash Jared Kushner For Saying Bolton, Kelly, Mattis Didn’t ‘Have What It Took’
Like a wife who’s the president’s daughter.

News watchers’ jaws dropped when CNN reported Saturday that Donald Trump’s son-in-law and political neophyte Jared Kushner claimed that former national security adviser John Bolton, booted defense secretary Jim Mattis and John Kelly, former White House chief of staff, simply “didn’t have what it took” to work in the Trump administration.

The comments are part of a CNN interview with Fareed Zakaria that will air Sunday. Kushner, referring to the heavyweights, claimed they left the administration because Trump “cycled out a lot of the people who didn’t have what it took to be successful ” in the White House.

Kushner was head of his family’s real estate business with absolutely no political experience when he was named senior White House adviser by his father-in-law as soon as Trump took office.

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Critics on Twitter wondered what a guy like Bolton, whose government work stretches back some 40 years, might need to have what it takes. They had some ideas:


Walter Shaub
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@waltshaub
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a relative in a high place


Natives&ImmigrantsAreUS
@LillianRodrigu6
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A marriage to a Trump and no morals?