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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJared Kushner Not Sure Why You Chickenshits Are So "Hysterical" About a Virus That's Killed 195,000
AmericansBack in April, as the U.S. coronavirus death toll surpassed 58,000, first son-in-law Jared Kushner took to the airwaves to address the crisis. While it was widely acknowledged that the administrations shambolic response to COVID-19which included dubbing it fake news and then putting a dog breeder in charge of the Health and Human Services task forcehad allowed the disease to gain a foothold in the country, the Boy Prince of New Jersey had a slightly different take on the situation. Claiming that America was on the other side of the medical aspect of this, Kushner told Fox News: The federal government rose to the challenge and this is a great success story. And I think that thats what really needs to be told. Of course, in reality, that wasnt true at all: In the time since young Jared claimed that the public health aspect of the pandemic was in the rearview, almost 140,000 more people have died in the U.S. Nearly five months and close to 200,000 dead people later, what does Kushner think of his father-in-laws handling of the whole thing? Hes glad you asked!
Appearing on the Today show on Tuesday morning, Kushner told Savannah Guthrie that people should be thanking their lucky stars that a guy like Donald Trump is in charge right now. All the different challenges that people were hysterical about, whether it was governors or the media, we worked with them very closely, and again, it was very good to have an entrepreneurial president who doesnt do things in a bureaucratic way. He ran to all the different problems He confronted them seriously. Asked why Trump actively lied to the public about the severity of the disease, which he fully admitted to last week, Kushner, also lying, insisted that the president was very forthcoming with the American people about what he knew and when he knew it.
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While that may be what Jared and Ivanka Trump tell themselves while discussing what its like to survive on less than $500,000 a year, it actually bears no resemblance to the truth. Trump knew how deadly COVID-19 was in February and told Bob Woodward he was downplaying the viruss severity. He then proceeded to spend the spring claiming to the American people that they had nothing to worry about, along with a cornucopia of other lies. If Kushner missed the first audio recording of the president copping to as much, the good news is Woodward just released another one:
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On top of actively deceiving people about the threat of the virus for months, Trump has also done his part to help spread it far and wide by holding multiple indoor rallies at which masks and social distancing have been mostly nonexistent. What does the Kush think of that? That the media should stop imposing its freaky-ass rules on Americansrules that, checks notes, have also been emphasized by both the World Health Organization and Trumps own CDC.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/09/jared-kushner-covid-19-hysterical
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Jared Kushner Not Sure Why You Chickenshits Are So "Hysterical" About a Virus That's Killed 195,000 (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Sep 2020
OP
If I can just survive the virus until Nov 4...On that day America will need patriots.
Eliot Rosewater
Sep 2020
#1
You leave that horse alone! Jared on the other hand... what an evil little shit. nt
crickets
Sep 2020
#7
Eliot Rosewater
(31,106 posts)1. If I can just survive the virus until Nov 4...On that day America will need patriots.
underpants
(182,632 posts)2. Another Vanity Fair article on Jared
Yes!!!
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)3. Would anyone be unduly upset if I said
FUCK JARED AND THE HORSE HE RODE IN ON???
crickets
(25,952 posts)7. You leave that horse alone! Jared on the other hand... what an evil little shit. nt
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)8. He reminds me of nothing so much as that unidentifiable slime that you
peel off the bottom of your shoe after leaving the New York subway.
Solly Mack
(90,758 posts)4. I'd really like to see that fucker ruined.
Professionally, socially, in any and all ways possible.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)5. +1000
He is such a lying, gaslighting little weasel. He is certainly learning how to become a Trump. Not one word he said was true. I so want to see him taken down. I want to see him humiliated, crying and whining like a little baby. I hate that motherf***er.
2naSalit
(86,336 posts)6. It's the only cure for affluenza.
underpants
(182,632 posts)9. an entrepreneurial president who doesn't do things in a bureaucratic way
Basically thats what this (another Vanity Fair article by Katherine Evan) says is exactly how Jared and this douchebag Boehler screwed up so tragically
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214092206