Mike Pence deferred to Jared Kushner like a 'supplicant' during meetings on the COVID crisis

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

While former Vice President Mike Pence was the one officially tapped to lead America's COVID response, it was Jared Kushner who was really in charge behind the scenes, says a new book.

An excerpt from "I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year" by Washington Post journalists Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker said Pence "sounded like a supplicant" to Kushner, the former president's son-in-law.

In the book, the authors said in one COVID task force meeting, it was "awkwardly clear" to those sitting in that Kushner was the one calling the shots, not Pence.

The authors wrote that the former vice president asked during the meeting: "Jared, what do you think?" and "Jared, what would you do?"

https://www.yahoo.com/news/book-details-mike-pence-deferred-041032928.html

Didn't want to offend the big orange master.

[Blue Owl]

1. Sufferin' Supplicant...

[underpants]

3. Spit take

[underpants]

2. And yet they failed miserably

Hard to imagine really

[smirkymonkey]

4. Because Jared the Wonder Boy did such a bang-up job at everything

he was tasked with. God, that entire administration was just a symphony of incompetence and stupidity.

[Danmel]

5. That was my nickname for him too!

[dalton99a]

6. Jared Kushner was the second most powerful person in the United States

by all accounts

[bahboo]

7. pathetic piece of shit....

and he wants to be prez? Spare me...

[UTUSN]

8. Well, the Jareds saved PENCE from oblivion by getting him into the veep Supplicant slot!

PENCE knew his own STOOGE place, went at it for the whole 5 years.

[comradebillyboy]

9. Q tip still hasn't found his spine.

[Pepsidog]

10. I have never seen someone in politics with worse political instincts than Kushner.