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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt's Friday eve and the sun has set in Washington DC
What will this Shabbat bring?
Little more than a week into the Trump presidency, the timing of the Friday sunset seems to be growing increasingly important. Jared Kushner, Trumps son-in-law and West Wing adviser, has been positioned as something of a mollifying presence upon his mercurial boss. I have a feeling that Jareds going to do a great job. Hes going to do a great job. Youll work with him, Trump recently declared at his pre-inaugural gala to assorted well-wishers and friends from the business community. In a White House split between those seemingly loyal to the Republican Party (Reince Priebus, the former chairman of the R.N.C., now Trumps chief of staff), and its rabid base (Breitbart chairman turned chief strategist Stephen Bannon), Kushner appeared to be a Valerie Jarrett typea steady familiar voice who could suss out the signal from the noise.
Kushner, along with his wife, Ivanka Trump, is also an orthodox Jew who observes Shabbat. From sundown on Friday until sundown on Saturday, the couple abstains from technology and work. And early in the incipient Trump administration, that brief period has been unusually fraught. Last week, the president personally called the Park Service on the morning after his inauguration to inquire about the size of the crowds who came to watch him take the oath of office. He subsequently delivered a widely derided speech at C.I.A. headquarters that afternoon, during which he blathered on about the medias treatment of him and his inaugural crowd size. He then sent his press secretary, Sean Spicer, into the briefing room to falsely claim that it was the largest audience for an inauguration in history. During the tumult, some noticed the conspicuous absence of Kushners allegedly calming presence. He wasnt rolling calls on Saturday when this happened, one person close to Kushner told me last week. To me, thats not a coincidence.
The timing of Trumps executive order on Friday, just moments before sundown, meant that Kushner would not be in the West Wing to absorb another cataclysmic Saturday. Indeed, Kushner observed the Sabbath as thousands of people protested outside airports across the country, children waited for their detained parents, lawyers rushed to federal court rooms, taxi drivers went on strike, and one Democratic leader broke down in tears on live television.
More at link http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/01/jared-kushner-ivanka-donald-trump-scandals
Kushner, along with his wife, Ivanka Trump, is also an orthodox Jew who observes Shabbat. From sundown on Friday until sundown on Saturday, the couple abstains from technology and work. And early in the incipient Trump administration, that brief period has been unusually fraught. Last week, the president personally called the Park Service on the morning after his inauguration to inquire about the size of the crowds who came to watch him take the oath of office. He subsequently delivered a widely derided speech at C.I.A. headquarters that afternoon, during which he blathered on about the medias treatment of him and his inaugural crowd size. He then sent his press secretary, Sean Spicer, into the briefing room to falsely claim that it was the largest audience for an inauguration in history. During the tumult, some noticed the conspicuous absence of Kushners allegedly calming presence. He wasnt rolling calls on Saturday when this happened, one person close to Kushner told me last week. To me, thats not a coincidence.
The timing of Trumps executive order on Friday, just moments before sundown, meant that Kushner would not be in the West Wing to absorb another cataclysmic Saturday. Indeed, Kushner observed the Sabbath as thousands of people protested outside airports across the country, children waited for their detained parents, lawyers rushed to federal court rooms, taxi drivers went on strike, and one Democratic leader broke down in tears on live television.
More at link http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/01/jared-kushner-ivanka-donald-trump-scandals
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It's Friday eve and the sun has set in Washington DC (Original Post)
Maru Kitteh
Feb 2017
OP
Oh HELL no. I don't feel sorry for any of them with the exception of Barron and
Maru Kitteh
Feb 2017
#2
At least they will have time to clean up that poor Oval Office over the weekend..n/t
monmouth4
Feb 2017
#4
irisblue
(32,928 posts)1. Kushner married into that mess.
Very hard to feel sympathy for him.
Maru Kitteh
(28,313 posts)2. Oh HELL no. I don't feel sorry for any of them with the exception of Barron and
maybe Tiffany, because she is the least vocal and Trump actually seems to frequently forget that she even exists.
elfin
(6,262 posts)3. Time for Bannon and Daddy to get BUSY! EOM
monmouth4
(9,686 posts)4. At least they will have time to clean up that poor Oval Office over the weekend..n/t