Jared Kushner Fails Up, Again

[Eugene]

Source: New York Times

Jared Kushner Fails Up, Again

Having solved the Middle East, the president’s son-in-law tackles the border wall.

By Frank Bruni
Opinion Columnist
Nov. 26, 2019

Jared Kushner just got a promotion. Another one. At least I think we can call it that, and it’s a deliciously perfect assignment. The pallid princeling is now responsible for speeding construction of the border wall. In other words, a make-believe fixer will oversee a fairy-tale fix.

Josh Dawsey and Nick Miroff of The Washington Post broke the news, and when I read it, I realized that I hadn’t heard much about Jared — or, for that matter, Ivanka — in a good long while. They’re front and center when the administration is announcing some ostensibly sensible initiative or claiming a pittance of progress. But when its corruption is being exposed and the drizzle of subpoenas becomes a downpour, they vanish, cuddling for warmth under the gilded umbrella of their hallucinatory virtue.

We can pretty much chart the weather of the administration by the relative visibility of Donald Jr., so loud and hirsute, and Jared, so smooth-cheeked and mute. Donald Jr. thrives when it’s nastiest, stomping gleefully through the muck. Jared comes out only if his suit won’t get dirty or his hair wet.

During the impeachment inquiry, we’ve seen a lot of Donald Jr. That’s partly because he has been hawking his new book, copies of which the Republican National Committee spent nearly $100,000 on. But it’s also because he’s such a ready, eager conduit for his father’s wrath, with a talent for exaggeration and misdirection that’s clearly chromosomal.

Jared and Ivanka have been strategically scarce, though Ivanka did flutter into view, in a fashion, when President Trump boasted two weeks ago that she had created 14 million jobs since the inauguration. ...

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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/26/opinion/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner.html

[dewsgirl]

2. I just happened to be watching this, when I opened your

thread.

[dewsgirl]

5. He certainly is. I liked hearing his equipment, I believe maybe for

the live stream is being destroyed.

[5X]

3. "created 14 million jobs since the inauguration"...Schiff hasn't hired that many investigators. n/t

[Golden Raisin]

6. Where I used to work (huge corporation)

the well-placed senior management types had what we called a "FUMU" Promotion. Fuck up, Move up.

[Scarsdale]

7. Which tRump has had the most

Botox? They all look like zombies, who are afraid to smile in case their face wrinkles. Ivanka was given a $100 million grant, to promote women in business. All she does is flit around the world, gathering trademarks, and appearing in shitty outfits she thinks represent high fashion. Who is monitoring that money, I wonder? Any jobs she created were at sweatshops in 3rd world countries.