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May 8, 2020 at 8:48 a.m. CDTJared Kushners coronavirus response team, we learned this week, is fumbling because its largely staffed with inexperienced volunteers. Of course it is. Its being run by one.
Kushners lack of experience and expertise has not been remedied in any way during his now three-plus years in the White House. After bungling many high-profile efforts to address various problems and often making them worse (see, Middle East, peace in), he keeps being handed more responsibilities with higher stakes. He has wasted taxpayer resources and endangered lives trying on policy roles usually reserved for the countrys top experts with the sophistication of a child playing dress-up, cavalierly discarding them when he cant fit into them.
There have been no consequences. In any normal administration, an adviser with Kushners string of failures would be fired, but Kushner, like his father-in-law, keeps crediting himself with imaginary successes. Most recently, he declared the administrations coronavirus response a great success story, a mind-boggling assertion that raises the question of what, if anything, Kushner thinks failure looks like. He has also continued to bash the actual experts, disputing their assessments and implying that they, not he, are the amateurs, and he is here to clean up their mess.
This is basically Kushners modus operandi, and its painfully familiar to me because he was my boss when I was the editor in chief of the New York Observer, which he had bought when he was 25. (Ive written before about what he was like as a businessman.) One of the more memorable instances of this I witnessed was at a memorial service for a beloved longtime Observer staffer, Tyler Rush, whod joined the paper well before Kushner bought it. When it came time for Kushner to say a few words, he launched into a supercilious monologue crediting himself with finally getting the paper published on time after what he described as chaos when he arrived. He also told an anecdote about Rush approaching him when he bought the paper to note that his staff was underpaid, which was true at the time, and true when I took the editor job years later. Kushner congratulated himself during the memorial for giving Rush and his production team the only raise that year because unlike everyone else, Rush hadnt been lying to Kushner.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/05/08/jared-kushner-coronavirus-failure/
nykym
(3,063 posts)If jarhead gets it right then tRUMP claims credit.
If Jarhead gets it wrong tRUMP has someone to blame.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)Thank you for posting this.
-Laelth
underpants
(182,949 posts)Especially a sniveling little wisp ass vacant half bag of shit like Jared.
smb
(3,475 posts)...I don't think there are going to be many kids named "Jared" for the next few decades.
underpants
(182,949 posts)Revanchist
(1,375 posts)I've had plenty of young officers as department heads.
underpants
(182,949 posts)but we had little contact with the Lt.s other than the field. I cant say I ever met one anywhere near Jared-esque.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)That is priceless! It should really go on his tombstone!
mitch96
(13,929 posts)But tell us how you REALLY feel
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GeorgeGist
(25,324 posts)demmiblue
(36,903 posts)crickets
(25,987 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,234 posts)That's why.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)It's amazing how money can protect the most incompetent, worthless, unlikeable people from the consequences of their failures.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)of the most incompetent people that I have seen in my life. I was really young, I think around 24 at the time. Through the grapevine I found out that his dad was a powerful corporate President and had gotten sonny the job leading the department that I worked in.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)dull-witted and incompetent, they are extremely confident. Growing up privileged kind of makes one that way. Other people often mistake that confidence for capability and intelligence and that is how they get ahead.