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http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/jared-kushner-is-fcking-furious-about-reduced-role-and-has-lost-7-lbs-since-inauguration-day-report/President Fuckface Von Pussygrabbers son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is reportedly losing a power struggle inside a White House dominated by right-wing extremists. Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, are orthodox Jews who observe the Shabbat, and Vanity Fair reported that some of the presidents most clumsy blunders have come while the couple had stopped working or using technology from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. To me, thats not a coincidence, a source close to Kushner told the magazine.
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Kushner is seen as a calming influence on his father-in-law, but his weekly sabbatical has left the president to his own devices for a full day on the weekends. That, so far, has proven disastrous.
Kushner has been seen as the secure line so far, a source told Vanity Fair, in a White House dominated by ex-Breitbart chief Steve Bannon and political operative Stephen Miller. But Kushners influence may be waning already, the magazine reported. He spent hours last week trying to set up a meeting between his father-in-law and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to discuss Trumps proposed border wall but that all fell apart after Trump tweeted the face-off should be canceled if Mexico was unwilling to pay for the wall. Kushner was fucking furious, the source told Vanity Fair.
The source said Kushner had lost seven pounds and grown pale since Inauguration Day, and his relationship with his father-in-law appears to have changed.
Any sign of distress with this band of fools is a good thing, right?
hibbing
(10,098 posts)irisblue
(32,982 posts)LisaM
(27,813 posts)Nah, don't think that's how he rolls.
but who knows?
brush
(53,792 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)Then, about a year ago, Kushner said, he had started traveling the country with Trump, going to rallies where thousands of ordinary Americans shouted in fury about government regulations and the Common Core curriculum. (And torturing terrorists and locking up his opponent, though Kushner didnt mention those lines.) The gilded scales fell from his eyes.
As if people not willing to stoop to the level of a cretin like Trump don't have valid concerns? So, what would have happened if he had listened to other "ordinary Americans" with different concerns?
LisaM
(27,813 posts)and motivated by revenge. And he's the sane one at the moment. Yippee.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)the vengeful felon, because somehow his criminality is other people's fault.
braddy
(3,585 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)torius
(1,652 posts)for Dear Leader but between that and being left holding the bag, he dropped some.
pkdu
(3,977 posts)"left to his own devices"....very clever of the reporter.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)elleng
(130,974 posts)HECK, YES! This IS good news! Kushner v Bannon!
brush
(53,792 posts)And when has trump himself been that loyal to say . . . Christie, Giuliani and the two he just fired last night?
Oh, he's trump's son-in-law and expected better treatment.
Too bad, deal with it.
No, I take that back, but I will say this.
Get out now while you can.
BlueJac
(7,838 posts)and you get what you have coming. A GIANT bag of BULLSHIT!
underpants
(182,833 posts)Did he tell someone?
HoneyBadger
(2,297 posts)At his starting weight, 7lbs might be 2" tighter in the belt.
tblue37
(65,409 posts)delisen
(6,044 posts)without any attempt on his part to set things right?
MFM008
(19,818 posts)or tell maggot he needs to lose 270 at least.......
phylny
(8,380 posts)blood pressure has skyrocketed.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)all he has to do is call a press conference.
We just need one good whistle blower.
(but not holding out for this withering one)
trotsky
(49,533 posts)He could bring down the entire criminal enterprise.
But he won't, because he loves money. What the Trumps are going to steal from US taxpayers is going to make Dick Cheney's war profiteering look like chump change.
Coventina
(27,121 posts)Like I'm supposed to feel sorry for the guy?
dawnie51
(959 posts)I hear ya. Me too. Wake up at night almost in panic.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)reputation precedes them...this is what happens when you cry wolf, or lie all the time..credibility out the window..
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,740 posts)And even if he didn't at first, the arrival on the scene and subsequent ascendancy of Steve Bannon, noted white nationalist and anti-Semite, should have been a really big clue. Of course Kushner shouldn't have to give up his religious observances to ride herd on his deranged father-in-law, but it's become obvious that Bannon is taking advantage of that time to get Trump to do that Kushner might have been able to talk him out of. And it's also obvious that Trump doesn't have any respect for his son-in-law's (and his daughter's) religious observances - otherwise he'd have told Bannon to hold off until he had a chance to talk to Kushner. Nope, Trump doesn't roll that way - he wants what he wants.
But Kushner has been lying down with a big, nasty dog, so he shouldn't be surprised that he's got fleas.
Raster
(20,998 posts)...Bannon is a racist and an anti-Semite in the worst fucking way, and has made no bones about it. Did Kushner think things would be different just because he was married to tRump's daughter? Bannon is a scumbag and views himself truly as "the alternate President." The only reason Bannon hasn't shived Kushner in the back is because he is married to Ivanka. Of course noted, rabid, anti-Semite Bannon is working his nefarious charms during the time Kushner and Ivanka are observing Shabbat... it kills a couple of birds with one Jew-hating stone: (1) he is cagily able to slap Kushner and Ivanka in the face with his anti-Semitism; and (2) minimizes Kushner's ability to be the "saner, calmer" influence on The Orange Anus by using Kushner's religion against him (timing). This also seeks to minimize Kushner's long-term influence over tRump*. Kushner may have pictured himself as tRump's Consigliori, but I assure you, Bannon has other ideas.
Memo to Jared Kushner: You are dealing with a viscious, Jew-hating scumbag, that is using your clueless father-in-law to further his own bigoted, hateful, racist and anti-Semetic agenda. If there was an American version of Auschwitz, and Bannon could walk it past tRump, you'd be on the next rail car. LEARN IT, DUDE.
eleny
(46,166 posts)Then the other day it looked like it will be a fight between Bannon and Flynn.
I guess it'll be Bannon trying to gain top dog status over the two of them.
We'll see if blood is thicker than Bannon's breath.
Gothmog
(145,329 posts)erpowers
(9,350 posts)This is nothing more than BS meant to protect Jared Kushner and his wife. Kushner and his wife, although being advertised as a moderating force, have never been a moderating force. Trump is the same today as he was when he was on the campaign trail. Trump would have said and done what he said and did even if Jared Kushner and his wife had been in contact with him. They had contact with him on the campaign trail and he did and said the same things as he is saying now.
It is possible that Kushner and his wife did not realize how unpopular Trump would be once he got into the White House. They realize he could take them down with him and they are now trying to distance themselves from him. Is Kushner really furious, or is he just trying to get himself and his family to the lifeboats before the ship sinks? It is also possible that Kushner and his wife are playing a game of good cop bad cop with Donald as the bad cop and they as the good cops. However, I do not believe Jared Kushner is losing power in the White House. I think he and his wife just want to salvage their careers and family businesses.
wishstar
(5,270 posts)He and Ivanka have been prime enablers of the psychopath. They and Kellyanne and Bannon and the rest of the deplorables all deserve whatever blowback comes their way
tanyev
(42,572 posts)on Friday afternoon was no accident.
ecstatic
(32,712 posts)as well? He didn't divest everything, but he went further than tRumP. Only to be tossed aside for Bannon. Who wouldn't be pissed?
Crunchy Frog
(26,587 posts)vis a vis, observing the Sabbath.
Bradical79
(4,490 posts)He should know neo-nazis and Jewish people tend to not mix well.