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kpete

(71,980 posts)
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 09:05 AM Mar 2020

When Jared Kushner Stepped In

Washington Post: “President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser — who has zero expertise in infectious diseases and little experience marshaling the full bureaucracy behind a cause — saw the administration floundering and inserted himself at the helm, believing he could break the logjam of internal dysfunction.”

“Kushner rushed to help write Trump’s widely panned Oval Office address to the nation. His supermodel sister-in-law’s father, Kurt Kloss, an emergency room doctor, crowdsourced suggestions from his Facebook network to pass along to Kushner. And Kushner pressed tech executives to help build a testing website and retail executives to help create mobile testing sites — but the projects were only half-baked when Trump revealed them Friday in the White House Rose Garden.”

“Kushner entered into a crisis management process that, despite the triumphant and self-congratulatory tone of public briefings, was as haphazard and helter-skelter as the chaotic early days of Trump’s presidency — turning into something of a family-and-friends pandemic response operation.”


https://politicalwire.com/2020/03/15/when-jared-kushner-stepped-in/

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When Jared Kushner Stepped In (Original Post) kpete Mar 2020 OP
With all those rats running through his properties malaise Mar 2020 #1
Nobody else was willing to say Coronavirus is NOT a hoax. Laelth Mar 2020 #2
New headline: When Jared Kushner Stepped in It greatauntoftriplets Mar 2020 #3
👍🏽 blm Mar 2020 #4
We REALLY need to get rid of these folks, NOW Joinfortmill Mar 2020 #5
Jaysus! I predicted this response! Baitball Blogger Mar 2020 #6
A quote by Rick Wilson concerning kushner: volstork Mar 2020 #7

malaise

(268,846 posts)
1. With all those rats running through his properties
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 09:07 AM
Mar 2020

he should know about infectious diseases like leptospirosis

Laelth

(32,017 posts)
2. Nobody else was willing to say Coronavirus is NOT a hoax.
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 09:10 AM
Mar 2020

Ultimately, I am glad Jared stepped in. We got a national emergency declaration out of it, if nothing else.

-Laelth

Baitball Blogger

(46,697 posts)
6. Jaysus! I predicted this response!
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 09:40 AM
Mar 2020

"What does a person do when they are coming from behind when solving a serious problem? It's very clear to me he will use his own private friends and resources, compounding his perception of profiteering from the presidency."

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213070819

volstork

(5,399 posts)
7. A quote by Rick Wilson concerning kushner:
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 10:17 AM
Mar 2020

"His ambition exceeded his abilities by orders of magnitude so vast it would take a team of advanced mathematicians generations to devise a system by which to measure the differential."

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