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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Oct 29, 2020, 08:50 PM Oct 2020

Apparently, Jared Kushner Wants Trump To Take The Country "Back From The Doctors"

Jared Kushner, who seems adamant on beating a dead horse (the horse being his failed response to the COVID-19 pandemic), is once-again proving how wholly unqualified he is for his job. Despite the obvious nepotism that afforded him the title of senior advisor to the president, Kushner was also, for some reason, put in charge of the COVID-19 task force — despite having no medical training or expertise. And in true Trumpian fashion, he’s failed nearly every step of the way. But new audio tapes from interviews between Kushner and Bob Woodward are providing an even more damning portrait of those failings.

In the tapes, it is revealed that Kushner was actively hostile to and openly disregarding the advice of doctors when it came to how to handle the pandemic, which has so far claimed the lives of over a quarter of a million Americans. And his ultimate goal was for the Trump administration to get “the country back from the doctors.”

Kushner — a real estate executive who has handed the reins on the country’s largest public health crisis in a century— shamelessly tells Woodward about his efforts to wrest control of the response from the hands of the doctors who were advising him. In the April interview which was acquired by CNN, Kushner describes three phases of the pandemic, which was at that point still hammering New York City: “the panic phase, the pain phase and then the comeback phase.”

After Trump’s reopening plan was announced, Kushner told Woodward it was “the beginning of the comeback phase” which “doesn’t mean there’s not still a lot of pain and there won’t be pain for a while, but that basically was, we’ve now put out rules to get back to work. Trump’s now back in charge. It’s not the doctors.” It was then when Kushner referred to the guidelines for reopening the country’s economy as “Trump getting the country back from the doctors” so he could “own the open-up.”

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/apparently-jared-kushner-wants-trump-202634524.html

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Apparently, Jared Kushner Wants Trump To Take The Country "Back From The Doctors" (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2020 OP
He left out the bury many people phase The Blue Flower Oct 2020 #1
Where would he be right now if he was born into poverty Tribetime Oct 2020 #2
It really is Jared and Trump giving him the ball underpants Oct 2020 #3

Tribetime

(4,696 posts)
2. Where would he be right now if he was born into poverty
Thu Oct 29, 2020, 08:54 PM
Oct 2020

He would still be struggling paycheck to paycheck like so many of us

underpants

(182,803 posts)
3. It really is Jared and Trump giving him the ball
Thu Oct 29, 2020, 08:57 PM
Oct 2020

Jared advised Trump that this whole thing was no biggee. Treat it like bad PR. Trump did which set in motion “lost February” and Trump setting policy because he can’t process (let alone admit) that he made a mistake. He realized he’d lost the game so he tried to put it on the Governors.

Meanwhile Jared was screwing up testing then trying to dump it on blue states. They didn’t vote for Trump and it would make their Governors look bad. Then Jared screwed up on PPE because he didn’t trust government experts and thought “the market” could handle it. Vanity Fair has two fantastic articles on Jared’s complete miserable failures.

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