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(171,059 posts) Thu Apr 30, 2020, 08:52 AM Apr 2020

Susan Rice Slams Jared Kushner's 'Ridiculous' Boast About U.S. Coronavirus Response

CORONAVIRUS 04/30/2020 03:04 am ET Updated 2 hours ago
Susan Rice Slams Jared Kushner’s ‘Ridiculous’ Boast About U.S. Coronavirus Response
The former national security adviser denounced Trump’s son-in-law for calling the Trump administration’s handling of the crisis “a great success story.”
By Josephine Harvey

Former national security adviser Susan Rice tore into Jared Kushner on Wednesday for claiming the federal government’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak has been a “great success story.”

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Rice, a former Obama White House official, told CNN host Wolf Blitzer that Kushner’s claim “would be laughable if it weren’t so deadly serious.”

“It’s ridiculous,” she said. “I don’t know how anybody with a straight face can call this a great success and declare this a mission accomplished moment when more than 60,000 Americans are dead.”

Rice also noted that according to the experts, the pandemic is far from over. Citing Dr. Anthony Fauci, whose judgment she said she trusts “implicitly,” Rice said that a second wave of infections is expected for the fall.

Fauci, who heads the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told CNN that if states ease restrictions too soon, there could be a rebound that would “get us right back in the same boat that we were a few weeks ago” and that a second wave was “inevitable.”