Donald Trumps Son-in-Law, Jared Kushner, Could Get Key White House Role

[JonLP24]

Source: Wall Street Journal

The real-estate developer and husband of Ivanka Trump mulls prospect of being senior adviser or special counsel

Donald Trump’s son-in-law, who became a close adviser in the presidential campaign, is likely to take a top White House job, people familiar with the presidential transition say.

Jared Kushner, who has emerged as a lightning rod as departures have mounted in recent days from the team vetting possible appointees, is being pushed to join the president’s inner circle by new White House chief of staff Reince Priebus and presidential counselor Stephen Bannon, these people say.

Mr. Kushner is regarded as Mr. Trump’s eyes and ears inside the evolving presidential transition. He is weighing formally joining his father-in-law in the White House, people familiar with the transition say. The 35-year-old Mr. Kushner would have a role in the White House along the lines of senior adviser or special counsel.

He also is weighing the option of maintaining an influential role informally, without an official White House post, according to people familiar with his thinking.

Read more: http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trumps-son-in-law-could-get-key-white-house-role-1479343696

[bhikkhu]

1. So the great outsider, the "drainer of the swamp", prefers textbook cronyism

Something to run against four very long years from now.

[cstanleytech]

5. Are you surprised? I'm not.

But on the brightside if he should follow through it should make excellent canon fodder to use against Trump and the majority of Republicans in the next election.

[Skittles]

18. two years from now

[bench scientist]

2. FFS, the grift is on.

These incompetent asswipes are going to rob this country blind. The part of the country they don't absolutely destroy first.

[pandr32]

20. Absolutely!

[Ford_Prefect]

3. According to US law he cannot have an official advisory role.

Kushner's options for a White House job are limited given his family ties to the president, according to Richard Painter, who served as President George W. Bush's White House ethics lawyer. Congress passed an anti-nepotism law in 1967 that prohibits the president from appointing a family member — including a son-in-law — to work in the office or agency they oversee. The measure was passed after President John F. Kennedy appointed his brother, Robert Kennedy, as attorney general.
But the law does not appear to prevent Kushner from serving as an unpaid adviser. Painter said that arrangement would allow Kushner to both advise Trump and sidestep ethics rules requiring federal employees to comply with conflict of interest laws.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-14/in-trump-s-orbit-kushner-expected-to-stay-a-power-center

[JonLP24]

4. It will probably be informal

If it's legal and thanks for citing the law.

He also is weighing the option of maintaining an influential role informally, without an official White House post, according to people familiar with his thinking.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

6. Since when does that prick Trump feel constrained by the law?!

[woodsprite]

14. Well, he's one of the "kids" that Trump wants to have top security clearance. n/t

[patricia92243]

7. Kushner's father was a Democrat, is he? That would be a huge help.

Let's face it, Trumps is the figurehead. Ivanka and husband are the real president/s of the USA.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. But that family has a sordid history

and the father donated to a Trump PAC. It was bizarre reading this story -

http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/u-s-election-2016/1.706420

[elehhhhna]

11. Let's be careful here and remember the Chelsea's father-in-law also went to federal prison

[BumRushDaShow]

16. Don't have to tell me (as a PA person)!

But Chelsea's mother-in-law (and Ed's ex-) turned the 13th Congressional District in Montgomery County blue!

[Jim__]

8. Trump is surrounding himself with advisers just as inexperienced as he is.

What could possibly go wrong?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

17. It's the Saddam Hussein system of government.

Uday and Qusay were loyal. That's all that counts.

[secondwind]

10. Trump wants Kushner to have security clearance because he doesn't want to be alone at the top,

and he knows Kushner is way smarter than he is.. Trump is WAY IN over his head, he never expected to win, and now he is getting intelligence briefings on a daily basis and he has no idea what to do with all of this information

[Sunlei]

15. I agree with you. It's obvious the r transition team has not 'worked for a year' on any positions

No one with experience wants to work for an unfit 'boss'.

[Dustlawyer]

12. Trump is draining one swamp and taking us into another, more backwoods swamp!!!

The new swamp has bigger, hungrier alligators!

[wisteria]

13. Surprise, surprise.

And The Don through his henchman, Bannon, will make sure no one mentions the idea of nepotism.

[wishstar]

19. Kushner is thick as thieves with the billionaire Mercers and their faves Kellyanne Conway and Bannon

Kushner must be motivated primarily due to all the money from the Mercers who are pulling strings to manipulate Trump and Clan to do their bidding with influence of Kellyanne and Bannon.

[jpak]

21. But at least he's not a scion of the Donald