Kushner sparks controversy, praising administration response to the virus as 'a great success story

[left-of-center2012]

President Donald Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is facing backlash Thursday after praising the administration's response to the novel coronavirus pandemic as a "great success story" on the same day that the nation's official death toll from the virus surpassed 60,000.

"We're on the other side of the medical aspect of this, and I think that we've achieved all the different milestones that are needed," Kushner told "Fox and Friends" Wednesday morning. "The federal government rose to the challenge, and this is a great success story. And I think that that's really, you know, what needs to be told." Kushner said the question on testing shouldn't be why did it take so long, but, "How did we do this so quickly?"

Former national security adviser Susan Rice criticized Kushner's comments on CNN Wednesday evening, saying his claim "would be laughable if it weren't so deadly serious. It's ridiculous," said Rice, who worked in the Obama administration. "I don't know how anybody with a straight face can call this a 'great success' and declare this a mission accomplished moment when more than 60,000 Americans are dead."

"So we are far from being able to declare victory," Rice went on. "And in any event, there's no victory when the losses on the battlefield in less than two months exceed all of those through the entirety of the Vietnam War"

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jared-kushner-sparks-controversy-praising-administrations-response-coronavirus/story?id=70425560

[Turbineguy]

1. I'm surprized at his modesty.

I would think a great success to him would be at least 250,000 dead.

[spanone]

2. He's the perfect piece of shit to work with the presidential piece of shit.

[underpants]

3. 😆

[Walleye]

4. He must have made a lot of money on it. That's the only measure of success for these assholes

[left-of-center2012]

5. 'Baghdad Bob' or 'Comical Ali'

Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf

His pronouncements included claims that American soldiers were committing suicide "by the hundreds" outside the city, and denial that there were any American tanks in Baghdad, when in fact they were only several hundred meters away from the press conference where he was speaking and the combat sounds of the nearing American troops could already be heard in the background of the broadcast.

His last public appearance as Information Minister was on 8 April 2003, when he said that the Americans "are going to surrender or be burned in their tanks. They will surrender, it is they who will surrender".

When asked where he had got his information he replied, "authentic sources—many authentic sources". He pointed out that he "was a professional, doing his job"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Saeed_al-Sahhaf#Announcements

[DTomlinson]

6. What a punchable face!