White House Adviser Jared Kushner Discussed Possible Concession with Trump: Report
Source: Newsweek
Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and one of his most trusted advisers, has reportedly approached Donald Trump to discuss his conceding to President-elect Joe Biden, according to CNN, which cited two anonymous sources.
The Democrat has been deemed the victor with calls having seen him cross the threshold for an Electoral College vote majority, though Trump intends to pursue legal challenges over the counting of ballots as he persists he has been truly victorious.
Late Saturday evening, CNN White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins told her 722,000 Twitter followers: "Some news Jared Kushner has approached President Trump about conceding the election" based on two anonymous sources. CNN.com included the report in its Live Updates blog 10 hours later, on Sunday morning.
Collins has previously reported that discussions were being had in the White House over who should "bring the president to terms with reality," suggesting Kushner as well as Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter and also an adviser, were being considered as the person to do so.
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/jared-kushner-donald-trump-concede-election-1545824
groundloop
(11,518 posts)If nothing else this could potentially ease the chance of election related violence by trumpsters.
Autumn
(45,055 posts)in and the Feds can drag his ass out and dump him in the street. That will show the world what he really is.
BlueNProud
(1,048 posts)Autumn
(45,055 posts)leave the White House after being voted out of office by a historic number of votes? I say let him sit in there and rot in his insanity.
I'm hoping that he continues to deny reality, and attempts to remain in the White House. I want him to experience the full humiliation of his historic defeat.
Autumn
(45,055 posts)hiding in his penthouse never to be seen again.
H2O Man
(73,534 posts)We need him to be utterly disgraced. Losing the election in the manner that he did brings him half way there. His refusal to accept defeat will complete this journey.
smb
(3,471 posts)thecrow
(5,519 posts)might be fitting.
Siwsan
(26,259 posts)And is it even possible? He hasn't really been grounded in reality, from day one.
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)No wonder he isn't showing his face. It would be pretty embarrassing for people to see him sucking his thumb.
bucolic_frolic
(43,128 posts)Also, glad to see the media weaving the term Democrat into written and verbal communication on TV. It will no longer be the epithet it had become, a trend which to my memory began with GHWB.
groundloop
(11,518 posts)For so long they've gotten away with using 'liberal' as an insult instead of acknowledging it as a set of values. That alone has been a hugely successful attack strategy for GOPers, we really need something counter it with.
Wicked Blue
(5,831 posts)traitors
turncoats
Quislings
Clearly fogged in
(1,896 posts)aliberal - use it like amoral or asymmetric
The aliberal king's court of McConnell, Graham, and ...
2naSalit
(86,534 posts)Groping
Old
Perverts.
TheRickles
(2,057 posts)Calling a particular person a Democrat has always been legit, but the R's have tried to make "the Democrat Party" into an epithet. And more recently than GHWB, IIRC. But you're right - "Trump coming to terms with reality" is an oxymoron, it ain't happenin'.
cheezmaka
(737 posts)He may have already known HE LOST... However, he'll contest "every" swing state so he can tell everyone from now on that the Election was STOLEN from him. And his followers will believe his dramatic "reality show narrative"...smh
groundloop
(11,518 posts)It's probably going to get ugly between now and Jan 20th.
cheezmaka
(737 posts)If nothing else hopefully someone in his administration will take the Nuclear Football and "hide it" from him...
DENVERPOPS
(8,810 posts)I couldn't agree more with you........He has to have the final say and he would certainly try to punish the voters for having denied him his most major grift of all time, the U.S. Presidency.....I would worry about him doing all kinds of things, and not just him but the entire RepubliCON party. A Scorched Earth farewell present to us and to President Biden.......
Jared and Ivanka have probably tried negotiating a concession. Deposit 100 Billion in an off shore account and we will go peacefully.
LOL
Ligyron
(7,627 posts)I have no idea myself but if he did some stuff truly injurious to the country and it could be established he did so knowingly and purposely, kinda like Hitler attempted to do maybe?
The office can't temporarily make one a God responsible to no one.
Or can it?
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)That's why he ginned up the mail in ballots being fake BS and got his ass hat buddy DeJoy to help out too. This defeat is no surprise to that POS.
C Moon
(12,212 posts)When you know you're going to win. Then "how" someone votes shouldn't matter....
magicarpet
(14,144 posts)If he is left to stew about this Biden win and his loss he will eventually cook up some kind of diversion to obscure his resounding loss at the ballot box.
What form this diversion will assume is unknown,... entirely dependent of the whims and mood of his sick, vindictive, and vicious mind.
Team trDump had better harness his worse instincts before he lashes out incoherently and irresponsibly and makes matters exponentially worse and possibly causing irreversible damage to the country.
Until January 2021, this is a precarious time for our country until trDumpie is officially gone and made his final exit from his perch of lame and insane duck of pResidential power. We have a quack at the levers of power who is less and less stable as days go by and his end is near.
May the Gods and Goddesses Bless America for the days that this country's throat remains in this tyrant's death grip.
Wicked Blue
(5,831 posts)I wonder if there is some way for us to divert and distract HIM without riling him up further.
birdographer
(1,323 posts)that this was an election and the other guy got more votes and therefore he won.
Maybe he would understand better if told "it is what it is."
groundloop
(11,518 posts)But yeah, IT IS WHAT IT IS sounds plenty good.
birdographer
(1,323 posts)but the EC votes Donnie was so proud of last time. He's probably waving that map around as we speak.
groundloop
(11,518 posts)It's a GREAT VICTORY, the GREATEST VICTORY, HUUUUUGE, in fact a LANDSLIDE. Joe has a MANDATE from the voters.
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)This fucker is insane and no telling what he'll do in the coming weeks.
magicarpet
(14,144 posts)Just go away !
C_U_L8R
(44,997 posts)These 'stories' don't just 'happen'. They are clearly concerned with their own public image.
0nirevets
(391 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,624 posts)At least not yet. Let these final weeks be the legacy that history remembers him for. Kicking and crying like a spoiled 6 year old before being tossed out on his ear. That is the real Donald Trump, not someone who exhibits grace.
paleotn
(17,911 posts)His concession in meaningless and just face saving. I hope he goes down screaming and rolling around in his own "mess".
PatrickforO
(14,570 posts)When he loses an election, he has to be gently 'brought to terms with reality,' and everyone around him is afraid to begin that 'process.'
electric_blue68
(14,869 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)Mike Nelson
(9,951 posts)... Biden should release a statement about conceding: "Don't bother. We don't need a concession."
Marthe48
(16,935 posts)Supposedly, he pulled a knife on trump toi get him to stop a news conference:
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/keith-richards-knife-donald-trump/
At the time I read this, a couple years ago, I thought I read that trump had to be escorted off a television set, but can't find it.
Anyway, he can go nice. Or, he can go rough. (Thank you Tina Turner!)
PSPS
(13,590 posts)Yup, that's admirable "presidenting" right there! What a disgrace.
Botany
(70,489 posts)The 2 things he does by not conceding is:
1) Gets his Trumper fans upset and to buy his it was rigged shit.
b) Makes him look bad to America and the rest of the world.
rocktivity
(44,576 posts)Not conceding won't end the race. Is he going to have to be removed by force?
rocktivity
Texin
(2,594 posts)Texin
(2,594 posts)I think we may have arrived at that point with the tRump crime family.
newdayneeded
(1,955 posts)I really believe he'll concede today or tomorrow latest. I think his advisers will use the 2024 angle, tell him it'll help his reelection chances if he accepts with no controversy. But then, he is a dumbshit who doesn't listen to anybody. We'll see if my hunch is right.
rockfordfile
(8,702 posts)elleng
(130,865 posts)usaf-vet
(6,181 posts)amcgrath
(397 posts)Have to have secret, whispered discussions about who is going to to break it to the president that he has to concede after losing an election, I think we are well into the territory of invoking the 25th. This is a farce
onetexan
(13,036 posts)options
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,338 posts)And the weather in VA should be conducive to more golf tomorrow, maybe Tue and Wed as well. Between his courses in VA and FL, he should be able to golf every day until Jan 20.
After that, he can continue playing golf, but he won't have AF1 to fly in.
Concede a loss? That would be like admitting his ball went into the pond. No. Never.