Ex-Jared Kushner employee calls his COVID-19 bungling 'painfully familiar' in brutal op-ed

[LiberalArkie]

May 8, 2020 at 8:48 a.m. CDT

Jared Kushner’s coronavirus response team, we learned this week, is fumbling because it’s largely staffed with inexperienced volunteers. Of course it is. It’s being run by one.

Kushner’s 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 country’s top experts with the sophistication of a child playing dress-up, cavalierly discarding them when he can’t fit into them.

There have been no consequences. In any normal administration, an adviser with Kushner’s string of failures would be fired, but Kushner, like his father-in-law, keeps crediting himself with imaginary successes. Most recently, he declared the administration’s 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 Kushner’s modus operandi, and it’s 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. (I’ve 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, who’d 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 hadn’t been lying to Kushner.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/05/08/jared-kushner-coronavirus-failure/

[nykym]

1. It is really tRUMP behind all of this

If jarhead gets it right then tRUMP claims credit.
If Jarhead gets it wrong tRUMP has someone to blame.

[Laelth]

2. What a scumbucket!

Thank you for posting this.

-Laelth

[underpants]

3. God, could you imagine having to listen to a 25 year old boss

Especially a sniveling little wisp ass vacant half bag of shit like Jared.

[smb]

5. Between Kushner And The Former Subway Spokesman...

...I don't think there are going to be many kids named "Jared" for the next few decades.

[underpants]

7. No kidding.

[Revanchist]

11. Obviously you never served in the military.

I've had plenty of young officers as department heads.

[underpants]

12. Actually I did

but we had little contact with the Lt.s other than the field. I can’t say I ever met one anywhere near Jared-esque.

[smirkymonkey]

13. "sniveling little wisp ass vacant half bag of shit"

That is priceless! It should really go on his tombstone!

[mitch96]

4. "Especially a sniveling little wisp ass vacant half bag of shit like Jared."

But tell us how you REALLY feel
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[GeorgeGist]

6. He's Trump.

[demmiblue]

8. K&R

[crickets]

9. It's almost as though he were to the family born.

Relationships were primarily transactional, and this failure of empathy permeated everything he did. He could not register the grief of the people in the room that day for the same reason that he apparently can’t register the grief millions of Americans are experiencing now as their lives are upended by covid-19 and people they love become sick and die.

[no_hypocrisy]

10. I'm going to say it: BECAUSE KUSHNER IS SCREWING THE BOSS'S DAUGHTER.

That's why.

[smirkymonkey]

14. Little Lord Fauntleroy is certainly living up to his unsavory reputation.

It's amazing how money can protect the most incompetent, worthless, unlikeable people from the consequences of their failures.

[Blue_true]

15. When I started my career in corporate America, I worked for one

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]

16. I have known a lot of people like that. The thing is that even though many of them are quite

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.

[Blue_true]

17. Very true. nt