Jared Kushner Is Going to Get Us All Killed

[babylonsister]

Jared Kushner Is Going to Get Us All Killed
Trump’s son-in-law has no business running the coronavirus response.
By Michelle Goldberg
Opinion Columnist
April 2, 2020



Reporting on the White House’s herky-jerky coronavirus response, Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman has a quotation from Jared Kushner that should make all Americans, and particularly all New Yorkers, dizzy with terror.

According to Sherman, when New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, said that the state would need 30,000 ventilators at the apex of the coronavirus outbreak, Kushner decided that Cuomo was being alarmist. “I have all this data about I.C.U. capacity,” Kushner reportedly said. “I’m doing my own projections, and I’ve gotten a lot smarter about this. New York doesn’t need all the ventilators.” (Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top expert on infectious diseases, has said he trusts Cuomo’s estimate.)

Even now, it’s hard to believe that someone with as little expertise as Kushner could be so arrogant, but he said something similar on Thursday, when he made his debut at the White House’s daily coronavirus briefing: “People who have requests for different products and supplies, a lot of them are doing it based on projections which are not the realistic projections.”

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Now, in our hour of existential horror, Kushner is making life-or-death decisions for all Americans, showing all the wisdom we’ve come to expect from him.

“Mr. Kushner’s early involvement with dealing with the virus was in advising the president that the media’s coverage exaggerated the threat,” reported The Times. It was apparently at Kushner’s urging that Trump announced, falsely, that Google was about to launch a website that would link Americans with coronavirus testing. (As The Atlantic reported, a health insurance company co-founded by Kushner’s brother — which Kushner once owned a stake in — tried to build such a site, before the project was “suddenly and mysteriously scrapped.”)

The president was reportedly furious over the website debacle, but Kushner’s authority hasn’t been curbed. Politico reported that Kushner, “alongside a kitchen cabinet of outside experts including his former roommate and a suite of McKinsey consultants, has taken charge of the most important challenges facing the federal government,” including the production and distribution of medical supplies and the expansion of testing. Kushner has embedded his own people in the Federal Emergency Management Agency; a senior official described them to The Times as “a ‘frat party’ that descended from a U.F.O. and invaded the federal government.”

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/opinion/jared-kushner-coronavirus.html

[SheltieLover]

1. Kushner is grifting on ventilators!

https://www.propublica.org/article/taxpayers-paid-millions-to-design-a-low-cost-ventilator-for-a-pandemic-instead-the-company-is-selling-versions-of-it-overseas-

[dansolo]

7. This is where the Defence Production Act should be utilized

Instead of harassing GM, this company should be forced to prioritize making the less expensive ventilators promised to US over the more profitable commercial ones they are selling overseas.

[SheltieLover]

19. And that OYR tax dollars paid for!

Not to mention all the precious lives that will be cut short because of this THEFT of our property!

The untold suffering for greed!

And wth is moron harassing GM anyway? I kniw I missed something about this.

[gordianot]

2. Lamp posts are a good solution.

When enough people you care about die something has to give.

[Lindsay]

3. Sadly, the only people Trump and his toadies

care about are themselves.

[procon]

4. No doctors or scientists among Jared's consultants?

So is he "getting smarter" by reading junk he finds on the intertubes that back Trump's conspiracy theory? Or maybe he's palavering with his chums over a bottle of Chablis and a cheese platter and they're coming up with expert info about which patients need a vent.

[BlueMTexpat]

5. 45 has no business being

in the WH. Let's get him and all his rotten spawn and enablers OUT!

[struggle4progress]

6. A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:

There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.
Fired at first sight with what the Muse imparts, in fearless youth we tempt the heights of Arts
while from the bounded level of our mind, short views we take, nor see the lengths behind,
but, more advanced, behold with strange surprise new distant scenes of endless science rise!
So pleased at first the towering Alps we try, mount o’er the vales, and seem to tread the sky.
The eternal snows appear already past, and the first clouds and mountains seem the last,
but those attained, we tremble to survey the growing labours of the lengthened way.
The increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes, hills peep o’er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!

[Scarsdale]

8. Kushner is tRump

with a more varied vocabulary, and faster delivery. Large ego, little to back it up. He got into Harvard the old fashioned way - daddy's donation. Like tRump he has failed at EVERYTHING he tried. So, I guess the gop is just fine with this arrangement then?

[True Blue American]

11. Kushner said

The ventilators the FEDS have stored are ours., the states should have been prepared! Ours?

That cruddy little grifter thinks the Federal Government belongs to him!

[3Hotdogs]

15. Wrong. He brought peace to the middle east.

Since he was tasked with that, Israel has not sunk one U.S. ship. Not one more U.S. Liberty.

[Captain Zero]

9. One place I worked that was closed out And sold

down the river was absolutely crawling with McKinsey cockroaches before it happened.

[bucolic_frolic]

10. This could mean the Trump genius is contagious

These people are seriously infected

[Python boot]

12. Pandemic playbook

Maybe the wiz-kid slumlord should get a little bit smarter by reading the pandemic playbook developed by the Obama administration to pass on what was learned by completely containing Ebola outside of our borders. It is so apparent that the purchasing debacle which violates all the basic principles about combined purchasing power exists only to grift more of our tax dollars while we are blindly exposed to a horrible disease.

[Docreed2003]

13. His "data" is driving him to make a business decision

Not a decision for public health. His little press briefing yesterday was frightening, and, yes, his business approach is going to get people killed. His emotionless face tells you just how much this little psychopath cares about that though.

[oasis]

14. Jared's like a criminal robot with immense power. nt

[intrepidity]

16. Yawn

Until somebody actually DOES something about all this....

[dlk]

17. Jared Kushner is a psychopath who couldn't care less

He is completely devoid of any semblance of a conscience. This frees him to be capable of anything.

[gibraltar72]

18. Couldn't pour piss out of a boot

And he's in charge of the whole shebang. Jesus Christ.

[pazzyanne]

20. Kushner apple doesn't fall far from the family insanity tree. nt

[GeorgeGist]

21. Hope there is a trundle ...

With Jared's name on it.

[Demovictory9]

22. those damn mckinsey consultants are involved.

[IronLionZion]

23. We must all do our part during this crisis

their part is to profit as much as they can. The people's part is to die quickly.

[SammyWinstonJack]

24. Mini me tRump says what?

[Ponietz]

25. 👀

[link:http://

Link to tweet

?s=21|

[Lonestarblue]

27. Oh my God, so true! So are the Trumps.

[MarianJack]

28. NAILED it!

RESIST

[Dennis Donovan]

26. Recommended!

[thesquanderer]

29. Ivanka married her father. Check this quote from the article...

Kushner, Bernstein told me, “really sees himself as a disrupter.” Again and again, she said, people who’d dealt with Kushner told her that whatever he did, he “believed he could do it better than anybody else, and he had supreme confidence in his own abilities and his own judgment even when he didn’t know what he was talking about.”

It’s hard to overstate the extent to which this confidence is unearned. Kushner was a reportedly mediocre student whose billionaire father appears to have bought him a place at Harvard.

etc.